panic

Panic Rewind

As the 1980s vanish in the rearview mirror of the speeding clown car that is America, Generation Y's role as the last cohort with personal memories of that era gains added importance. The closest thing to a political vision that Conservatives have pushed for Millennials' and Zoomers' whole lives is…
September 2, 202222 Comments
Parade

Parade Jumping

It's an open secret in Conservative politics that controlled opposition figures' main job is jumping in front of parades to neutralize genuine dissent. I've noted this phenomenon for years. But I have to admit, it's weird being subjected to it. Freudian slips? Or deliberate co-option? You decide: FYI, that's the…
August 22, 202215 Comments
TragedyOfTheAges

Tragedies of the Ages

An important part of being a social commentator is engaging with good-faith arguments that challenge your positions on the topics you cover. That goes double for writers, since it's storytellers who are the new priesthood of our narrative-driven society. That is also why literary critics play a vital if often…
August 8, 202221 Comments
Education Limits

A Hard Limit

As society continues its accelerating slide into the abyss, people are starting to realize that locking kids in state daycare prisons for eight hours a day doesn't make them smarter. Since I'm being contrarian on main, universal literacy and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. I…
July 29, 202214 Comments
deconstruction

The Death of Metal

Members of older generations have taken to lamenting the musical taste - or lack thereof - displayed by Generation Z. It's easy to understand why. Every generation from the Boomers to the Millennials was raised on rock & roll. That definitive American music genre not only served as a cross-generational…
July 28, 202217 Comments
It's Demons

It’s Demons

Recent interactions on Twitter made me think it's time for a reminder about why we need the Witch Test, and how to apply it. In all the years I've run this blog, nothing I've written has galled the Death Cult more than my observation that their heretical religion is informed…
July 26, 202213 Comments
Rational Motives

Rational Motives

Reader Andrew Philips comments on a recent post: You’ve cautioned us against ascribing rational motives to the folks who are running things right now, so I won’t. Who knows if any of them believed all the things they said about angry white men, domestic terrorism, white supremacy, institutional racism, or…
July 22, 20226 Comments
David Ellison Top Gun

Hired Gun

The US military has been having meeting enlistment quotas these past few years. The government's response to the virus scare deserves its share of the blame. So do rising obesity rates among fighting age Americans. But browse a few of the news pieces lamenting low recruitment, and you'll notice that…
July 20, 20224 Comments
3 More Cults

Three More Cults

The West's large-scale apostasy from Christianity has produced widespread cultural changes - and not the ones we were promised. It turns out that humans are built for belief. Take away our faith in God, and we'll transfer it to something else. Even normies are starting to notice the bizarre spectacle…
July 1, 202216 Comments
Burger King

The King’s Tomb

In "Take me back, I want to go back" news, unwitting urban archaeologists have uncovered the sealed tomb of the King. New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer Thursday could not resist getting a peak at a Burger King that closed more than a decade ago but remained intact. Meyer posted…
June 30, 202212 Comments