When the Laughter Died

When the Laughter Died

If you paid attention to popular entertainment in the 80s and 90s, you probably remember the wave of edgy comedians who rose up as a sort of pushback against the allegedly staid Reagan era. Guys like Andrew Dice Clay, Denis Leary, and Sam Kinison were among a class of funnymen…
December 31, 201825 Comments
Reminder: There’s No Voting Our Way out of This

Reminder: There’s No Voting Our Way out of This

Today strikes me as a good time to repost this piece from three years ago. You're always in for something interesting when you go back through the archives for a little perspective. A previous post on how the tide is turning against legacy media and its Leftist bias drew commenters…
December 21, 20188 Comments
What Slippery Slope?

What Slippery Slope?

The vast overreach perpetrated by the Coalition of the Fringes in their Trump-induced frenzy is beginning to make normies take notice. From William M. Briggs: Long-time school teacher Peter Vlaming was fired for saying these words: “Don’t let her run into the wall.” Problem is, the lunatic parents of the…
December 11, 201816 Comments
What Principle?

What Principle?

Breitbart reports on a recent poll that asked if employers should make room for Muslim employees to pray at work, then asked the same question about Christians. The results were broken down along Liberal and Conservative lines. It should come as no surprise that more Liberals favored giving Muslims prayer…
December 7, 201816 Comments
Tolkien Bashing’s Back on the Menu

Tolkien Bashing’s Back on the Menu

Alex over at Amatopia reports on the latest round of Tolkien bashing instigated by the grandfather of fantasy's soyfed, unjustifiably smug inferiors. Everything that is good, true, noble, and beautiful must be destroyed. The recent denunciation of the legend J.R.R. Tolkien and his masterwork The Lord of the Rings is…
November 29, 201815 Comments
Stay Away from Conventions

Stay Away from Conventions

Author Jon Del Arroz reports on yet another deplatforming of a major science fiction author from a convention. This time, it was astrophysicist and Reason Magazine editor Gregory Benford who ran afoul of the SJW hatemob. Gregory Benford thought he was just speaking on another panel, something he’d done dozens of times…
November 28, 201820 Comments
SJWs Take White Wolf’s Pelt

SJWs Take White Wolf’s Pelt

White Wolf, publishers of Vampire: The Masquerade--a tabletop role-playing game that gained massive popularity in the 90s--has succumbed to an SJW outrage mob. Sales and printing of the V5 Camarilla and Anarch books will be temporarily suspended. The section on Chechnya will be removed in both the print and PDF…
November 16, 201820 Comments
The Judge of its own Membership

The Judge of its own Membership

Ann Coulter offers some salutary advice, complete with direct historical precedent, to GOP leaders struggling to deal with Florida elections plagued by rampant voting irregularities. Republicans control the state legislature and governor’s office in Florida. They control the U.S. Congress and the presidency. If that’s not enough to prevent two…
November 15, 201810 Comments
When Elephants Fight

When Elephants Fight

The following is a blanket response to questions and comments from several people both on and off this blog. We authors know that the reader is king, and that we are competing with TV, movies, and beer for his hard-earned dollars. I would not presume to gainsay readers' market preferences.…
November 6, 20189 Comments
Killstream Kobayashi Maru

Killstream Kobayashi Maru

Photo by Daniel James Citizen journalist and web drama enthusiast Ethan Ralph's popular #Killstream show has been banned from YouTube. YouTuber Ethan Ralph accused The Wall Street Journal of sabotaging a fundraiser he held in September to benefit St. Jude Children’s Hospital. On September 29, the host of the popular…
November 5, 20186 Comments