Month: January 2020

The Mammon Mob

This blog has covered the Death Cult and its attendant Pop Cult in some detail. Recent interactions on social media surrounding the renewed public interest in student debt forgiveness have made me aware of a third heretical offshoot vying against Christianity for the West's soul: the cult of Mammon. And…

January 31, 202061 Comments

Mel’s Hole

Mel Waters had always flown by the seat of his pants, and in the summer of 1995 his freewheeling lifestyle was catching up to him. With his finances circling the drain and his marriage on the rocks, Mel purchased a tract of rural land west of Ellensburg,Washington where he hoped…

January 30, 202011 Comments

QAnon Unmasked

Ever since the national security insider known as QAnon first started disseminating his cryptic messages to legions of patriots online, web sleuths have scoured the deepest corners of the internet in search of his identity. Their efforts were repeatedly thwarted. But as history shows, the best-laid plans and most closely…

January 29, 20206 Comments

Corona-Chan

Fortune makes fools of us all. The impeachment show that everybody thought would dominate the news indefinitely has taken a back seat to the rapidly developing story of the Chinese coronavirus outbreak. Though nobody trusted the Chinese government's patently bogus infection numbers or the blue checks making vapid comparisons to…

January 28, 202011 Comments

The End of History

One perk of being a science fiction writer is that you get to decide how the future turns out. The oligarchical Systems Overterrestrial Coalition from my mecha thriller series Combat Frame XSeed seek to make the future the end of history, as Superversive Live Stream host Benjamin Wheeler correctly observed.…

January 27, 20208 Comments

The Inverters

The recent news that the Anglican Communion is still notionally Christian drew some sniping from Libertarian pagans on Twitter. Readers familiar with this blog's treatment on presuppositional apologetics will know where this is going. The West is currently beset by outsiders who possess the corrosive combination of beliefs antithetical to…

January 24, 202032 Comments

Someone Is Aiming for You

Author J.D. Cowan announces the launch of his latest pulp romp. SEVEN TALES OF MAYHEM IN THE MAGIC CITY! Vigilantes fight from the shadows. In Summerside, Dark Magic poisons the dying city of cultists and gangsters. This is where heroes are made. A man with a deadly touch, an ex-hitman,…

January 23, 20206 Comments

Fumes and Leftovers

Evidently our little project to reclaim Generation Y from the Madison Avenue Boomer memory hole is gaining some traction in the wild. Millennials do not remember the pre-internet, pre-9/11 world. By and large, they celebrate the cultural apocalypse of Clown World as the first generation to be fully indoctrinated at…

January 22, 202013 Comments

Tea Party Tactics

The Virginia gun rally has come and gone. Blessedly, my fears of a potential bloodbath went unrealized. Our rulers were hoping for Charlottesville, and instead they got the Joker opening. Most commentators ascribe the event's relative uneventfulness to the sheer number of protesters who showed up. Accounts vary, but we know…

January 21, 202013 Comments

The End of an Era

Jason Rennie, editor-in-chief of Superversive Press, took to Facebook to share some sad news. Jason broke onto the scene as a publisher during the Sad Puppies saga when his magazine Sci Phi Journal received a Best Semiprozine nomination. It was an honor having Jason publish my short fiction in SPJ and…

January 20, 20204 Comments