Tough Week for Fedora Tippers

Tough Week for Fedora Tippers

Many have pointed out--rightly, I believe--that the Covington Catholic fiasco has dispensed more red pills than a Seconal dealer. The tawdry spectacle of the entire #FakeNews media, Conservative, Inc, and even elements of the Catholic academy and hierarchy ganging up to throw a bunch of innocent kids in the stocks…
January 30, 201912 Comments
Gunga Din: Boomer Edition

Gunga Din: Boomer Edition

You can learn a lot from the remnants of the Buckley Right--not about effective policy or the true state of the world, but about how the neo-feudal uniparty manipulates Conservatives into thinking and acting against their own interests. Our elites' fingerprints are all over attempts to create a new controlled…
January 29, 201916 Comments
Is Allegory Always Bad?

Is Allegory Always Bad?

So asks author Alexander Hellene in this thoughtful piece on the relationship between allegory and propaganda. My question is: Is allegory always bad? Look at William Shakespeare: Why did he write plays about ancient Roman Emperors and former English kinds, if not to draw lessons for his audience to learn…
January 28, 20194 Comments

Combat Frame XSeed Is Here!

It's my sincere pleasure to make the announcement that my readers have been eagerly waiting for. The first book in my new mecha Mil-SF series Combat Frame XSeed is now live on Amazon! The future is over.  Civilization on Earth has collapsed. Oligarchs have established a new order in manmade space…
January 25, 201918 Comments
False Logical Fallacies

False Logical Fallacies

Republished versions of old posts have proven quite popular with my readers, so here's another one from the vaults. OP date 8/20/2014. Discuss: To someone with formal training in logic, the internet can be a strange place indeed. It's analogous to being a pharmacist at an Old West medicine show.…
January 24, 201910 Comments
Keyboard Warrior Tonkasaw

Keyboard Warrior Tonkasaw

Another news item that broke over the weekend, but was overshadowed by more serious events, developed when Morning Kumite host Tonkasaw chickened out of his MMA fight with fellow YouTuber Andy Warski. Mister Metokur does the postmortem [NSFW language]: From the transcript: This was a pay-per-view event that people within the…
January 23, 201910 Comments
Empire Strikes Back Revisited

Empire Strikes Back Revisited

As we watch Disney's ongoing desecration of a classic American franchise, it's comforting to know that there are fans dedicated to preserving what once was good in pop culture. Amateur British film restorer Adrian "adywan' Sayce is one such fan. Adywan's self-directed Star Wars: Revisited project caused something of a…
January 22, 20198 Comments
Brimstone, Millstones, and Stonings

Brimstone, Millstones, and Stonings

Admittedly, I paid little attention to the Covington Catholic story that broke over the weekend, judging it yet another instance of #FakeNews directed against young, white, Christian men that would be swept under the rug with the next news cycle. I was wrong. The story is becoming a watershed moment…
January 21, 201931 Comments
Combat Frame Data: XCD-001-3

Combat Frame Data: XCD-001-3

XCD-001-3 Xanthippe    Technical Data Model number: XCD-001-3 Code name: XSeed Nickname: Xanthippe Classification: energy weapon optimized Sentinel use combat frame Manufacturer: Seed Corporation Operator: [REDACTED] First deployment: CY 1 Crew: 1 pilot in cockpit in chest Height: 19 meters Weight: dry weight 65 metric tons, full weight 80.3 metric tons Armor…
January 18, 20192 Comments

The Primacy of Speculative Reason – Encore

Author's note: Here's one from the vaults. It struck me as particularly relevant now. Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should. -Dr. Ian Malcolm Americans' habitual contempt for speculative reason never fails to dismay…
January 18, 201920 Comments