butter

How to Butter

Dead Internet search algorithms have reportedly made my post on how to make popcorn hard to find. Re-sharing it on Twitter kicked off a series of cooking discussions, which led to the subject of butter itself. Note: I do not use, nor do I recommend you use, butter on popcorn.…
January 26, 20232 Comments
sacrilege

A Rash of Sacrilege

The so-called Culture War is one front in an escalating war between Satan and the Church. You could be excused for not realizing it, since the media tends to bury reports of attacks motivated by hatred of the faith. Because the press is the enemy. But the situation is getting…
January 25, 20237 Comments
Nick Fuentes Is Back

Promise Kept

The whole Elon Musk - Twitter saga elicited a lot of comment. From the beginning you had people saying it was all a grift or a publicity stunt. I said last year that Musk's purchase of Twitter would be completed in the fall, and it would take until early in…
January 24, 20235 Comments
Japanese PM

Now or Never for Nihon

We've covered Japan's demographic woes here before. Some people scoffed at the ancient island nation's peril. But now her own prime minister is warning the time to address Nihon's population crisis is "now or never." Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged on Monday to take urgent steps to tackle the…
January 23, 202312 Comments
First Contact Enterprise-E

Star Trek: First Contact

Our retrospective on the Star Trek film franchise left off on the installment that officially handed the keys to the Next Generation crew. Though a general audience pleaser upon release, Star Trek: Generations has since acquired a reputation as a mixed bag of good visuals marred by character mishandling and…
January 20, 202311 Comments
Crowder Con Inc

Con Inc Exposed

It's no secret that this blog has been critical of Conservative pundit Steven Crowder. After all, his career is one of the answers to the often-asked question "Why doesn't Conservative media ever do anything effective in the culture war?" But now, it looks as if Crowder is breaking the Con…
January 19, 20239 Comments
Male Suicide

Losing Our Religion

It's been pointed out before on this blog that irreligiosity kills. Now, a new paper adds to the mountain of evidence that not just individual belief, but public group worship, is essential to one's wellbeing. Hat tip to authors David V. Stewart and Alexander Hellene. So-called deaths of despair such…
January 18, 20238 Comments
Civilization 1

The Gen Y – Millennial Gap

A commenter on yesterday's post writes: I don’t quite know what to say. I’m a millennial, and one who has hardly heard a song from the 80s (That I was aware of) but when I heard that last song on your list I felt… Something. It wasn’t nostalgia, it was……
January 17, 20239 Comments
80sNot80s

80s Not 80s

One strange aftereffect of Cultural Ground Zero has been the rise of the retrowave musical aesthetic. Like the PulpRev in fiction, this movement doesn't so much embrace a genre as an earlier state of the art - in retrowave's case, the 1980s. To a member of Generation Y, the phenomenon…
January 16, 202334 Comments
Fall of Bablyon

The Fall

Spend any length of time in dissident circles online, and you'll soon be introduced to the concept of the Collapse. Though formulated by philosophers of history a hundred years ago, the idea that civilization now faces a great decline is popular with ex-Trump supporters discouraged by the MAGA program's failure.…
January 13, 202310 Comments