JonDelArroz

Yet Learning Nothing

Readers will recall the court case brought by best selling author Jon Del Arroz that rustled some jimmies in oldpub over the summer. SFF death cultists harped on the fact that Worldcon 2018 only paid Jon $4000 as part of their settlement. On Jon's stream, which I was fortunate to…
December 10, 20219 Comments
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Moral IP

Anyone who works in publishing for any length of time necessarily becomes well-acquainted with the concept of intellectual property. If you come up with a new idea that solves a problem in a unique way, you own that idea. Fair use allows wiggle room for third parties to make transformative…
December 3, 202120 Comments
Secular Religion

Heretical Secular Religion

While a majority of Americans practice Christianity at home, our rulers submit to a heretical secular religion. And they've taken pains to make sure Christians' beliefs have zero impact on public life. You can safely call for an innocent child to spend the rest of his life behind bars, but…
November 11, 20212 Comments
VA Governor Race

VA Governor Race

It's possible to win some battles even while retreating. The GOP demonstrated that fact last night when they won the VA governor race for the first time in twelve years. For beleaguered Conservatives who'd been taking body blows since this time last year, the victory finally gave them something to…
November 3, 202115 Comments
Kabuki Theater

Kabuki Theater

Those who've made their way into the counterculture must admit that seeing the Left-Right dichotomy unmasked as kabuki theater was one of the hardest pills to swallow. With the exception of the Zoomers, every living generation of Americans was conditioned to support the Red Team against the Blue Team or…
November 2, 202113 Comments
Archbishop Broglio

Archbishop Upholds Catholic Doctrine

That headline shouldn't be newsworthy, but here in Clown World, it's a bombshell. Archbishop of the U.S. military services Timothy Broglio has issued a statement against forcing American service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, saying that “no one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would…
October 15, 20212 Comments
TV

Cozy TV

Conservatives rightly take a lot of flak for endlessly whining about the culture war while persistently failing to fight on the cultural level. At best, the Death Cult's notional opponents fund movies no one but National Review subscribers will see or launch alt tech platforms that are either garbage, fed…
October 13, 20219 Comments
Optimate Yankees

The Optimate Response

The fatal flaw of Liberalism--aside from its failure to secure long-term material prosperity, never mind maintain the West's social cohesion--is that it's based on the false notion that freedom is an absolute good to be pursued for its own sake. What gives the game away is that any appeal to…
October 6, 202110 Comments
Anti-CRT Protester

Raise Your Own Kids

If you want to know how highly the enemy values a specific asset, watch his response to even the mildest action directed against it. School board meetings are some of the last places where citizens can openly and publicly interact with officials. The secrecy of elections, for instance, makes the…
October 5, 202114 Comments
Catholic Giving Stats

To Purify the Church, Cut off the Money

Folks I interact with IRL and online increasingly ask me what they can do about the American Catholic hierarchy's deafness to their concerns. Whether it's complicity in the canon law-violating restriction of access to the sacraments, covering up abuse of adolescent boys by gay priests, or facilitating the invasion of…
September 29, 20214 Comments