Donald Trump

As Predicted, Donald Trump Convicted in Show Trial

Longtime readers are aware that I've been saying for years that the regime would railroad Donald Trump on upjumped charges. Now, as predicted, a New York judge has convicted Donald Trump in a highly publicized show trial. NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former American president to…
May 31, 20249 Comments
Star Trek Horror

Star Trek Is Zombie Horror

Recent interactions on X revived the evergreen debate over which genre Star Trek belongs in. Writer Isaac Young sparked the discussion with this incisive thread. But it was user Brainwright who introduced a related topic that bears on today's meditation: Related: Star Trek—The Motion Picture Miles of page inches have…
May 30, 202410 Comments
Cassidy

Cassidy Guilty of Being Christian

Christian hero Michael Cassidy, who took Christ's universal kingship seriously enough to purge the Iowa state capitol of a demonic idol, has been sentenced by that state's temporal rulers. A Mississippi man who damaged a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa's state Capitol pleaded guilty Friday to a reduced…
May 29, 20245 Comments
Pope Francis

Pope Francis Bans Gay Priests in No Uncertain Terms

Since early in his reign, Pope Francis has faced sharp criticism from Conservatives and traditionalists for alleged Modernist beliefs. Some of his more vocal critics accuse Francis of differing with unchangeable Church teaching on the sin of sodomy. These allegations stem from misrepresented statements he made in 2013 and, more…
May 28, 20247 Comments
St. Carlo Acutis

Millennial Saint of Gamers

In the latest sign of spiritual renewal in the Catholic Church, the announcement came down yesterday that Blessed Carlo Acutis will be canonized. The fifteen-year-old Italian web designer gained acclaim for his cataloging of eucharistic miracles. Now, Pope Francis has officially recognized a second miracle attributed to Acutis' intercession, clearing…
May 24, 20244 Comments
Y

Defining and Defending Gen Y

Every time we pull Generation Y out of the memory hole, Gen Y deniers come out of the woodwork to parrot Madison Avenue's gaslighting against it. Not that it mattes. Because the establishment sources they cite just end up defining and defending Gen Y. Frequent readers may remember the AdAge…
May 23, 202419 Comments
2D 5

How AAA Studios Killed 2D

A recent thread on X by author JD Cowan kicked off a trip down gaming memory lane. In particular, he addressed how AAA studios killed 2D games for a generation. Related: FF7: The 1st Unfinished AAA Game? JD is right. The fifth home video game console generation was when game…
May 22, 202418 Comments
Vietnam Doll Head

The Curse of the Vietnam Doll

No stranger to high strangeness himself, Catholic Answers head apologist Jimmy Akin shares a spooky occurrence that his college friends experienced. From the archives of Jimmy Akin's Mystgerious World, please enjoy "The Curse of the Vietnam Doll". ... [D]olls exist in the uncanny valley. As people will be aware, the…
May 21, 2024
1990s TV

Watching the 90s Watch the 90s

Opining about the 1990s is all the rage in the internet salons these days. If you haven't been following the debate, it may come as some surprise that nostalgia for the final decade of he twentieth century is now a subject of controversy. The disagreement arises between those who want…
May 20, 202426 Comments
The Burned Book

Burned Book Prologue

Every once in a while, I like to unlock the occasional piece of insider material to give readers who aren't yet Neopatrons a taste of what they're missing. Without further ado, please enjoy your delcassified preview of the prologue to my upcoming dark fantasy epic The Burned Book. Nameless Pass…
May 17, 20244 Comments