Confessors Not Martyrs

Confessors Not Martyrs

If anyone still doubts my advice to stay away from protests or who insist we "Need more heroes like Kyle Rittenhouse," I refer you to the latest search term popularity data from Google Trends. Those who are convinced we should send more young men into the lions' den in order to…
September 4, 20206 Comments
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

Readers immediately asked for a follow up to yesterday's post on Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. I'd planned on watching the sequel, anyway, so happily our purposes aligned. This was only my third viewing of Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. My dad took me and a friend to see it…
September 2, 202010 Comments
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Red Letter Media's retrospective on Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequel, occasioned by the recent release of the series' long-awaited third film, put me in a mood to revisit the first movie. If you want a case study in how much Hollywood has changed in the last thirty…
September 1, 202030 Comments
Stay Away from Protests

Stay Away from Protests

Less than a week after seventeen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse was charged with first degree murder for defending himself in a Kenosha street battle, another dissident who took part in political street action, Jay Bishop, lies dead in Portland. Though police have yet to officially name a suspect, evidence from citizen journalists continues…
August 31, 202019 Comments
Boomerang

Boomerang

Multiple data points are resolving into a picture that looks bad for Joe Biden. From Zero Hedge: A Pew Research Center poll that’s already a month old (and a lot happened since) concluded that violent crime is a major issue according to 59% of voters (almost as much as coronavirus):…
August 28, 202019 Comments
The Jim Snow Era

The Jim Snow Era

Straight, white, Christian Americans who still cling to the fiction that their citizenship affords them rights and protections against the mob and the state would do well to heed the words of the Z Man: This is Jim Snow America. A white kid following the rules is guilty, no matter…
August 27, 202021 Comments
The Wild West

The Wild West

Around the country, typical GOP voters are asking themselves why the current round of race riots has been allowed to go on for almost 90 days. After all, local and state officials have no trouble shutting down Corona virus protests. They should be able to stop looters from ransacking the…
August 26, 202018 Comments
A Diabolical Heresy

A Diabolical Heresy

In case you still entertained any doubts that Liberalism--even Classical Liberalism--is a diabolical heresy fundamentally incompatible with Christianity, consider the following Twitter exchange: Behold the mental pretzel into which a self-described Christian must twist himself to accommodate the contradictory propositions that a) the true final end of human liberty is…
August 25, 202025 Comments

Deracinated Horror

Horror stories give special insight into a culture's belief system. Since they serve as cautionary tales more than any other type of story, they tend to embody their native society's moral code. Throughout the lifespan of Western civilization, nearly all horror stories incorporated Christian beliefs or were at least rooted…
August 24, 202026 Comments
The Head of the Church

The Head of the Church

For all the criticism I level at the Catholic Church's current leaders on Earth, my motive is not hostility but filial love. Imagine a princely and ancient mansion that's been handed down in your family since the clan patriarch built it by hand 2000 years ago. It stood as a…
August 21, 20205 Comments