No Going Back

No Going Back

A common illusion that many in the counterculture labor under is the notion that all we need to do is find the right political solution. Then the Death Cult with its riots and bizarre public rituals will be swept away, and America will go back to the high culture of the…
June 11, 202025 Comments
Amicable Divorce

Amicable Divorce

A while back, the Audacious Epigone ran the numbers on the issue of American secession. Here's what emerged. Graph by Audacious Epigone AE's comment: There is no longer any racial, religious, moral, cultural, political, linguistic, or ethnic unity in the US as it is currently defined. The last remaining bond…
June 10, 202021 Comments
Leechcraft

Leechcraft

Until quite recently, there were still people who thought I was engaged in hyperbole by calling the malignant force that's swept our institutions a Death Cult. If this weekend's riots proved one thing to normal people, it's the reality that there's a militant legion of fanatics at enmity with them.…
June 1, 202032 Comments
Trump v Twitter

Trump v Twitter

If you've been paying attention to American politics over the past four years, a couple of observations are inescapable. The first is that Trump is more showman than politician. He likes throwing grenades and then barging into the room to leverage the chaos. This approach usually involves a lot of…
May 29, 202010 Comments
Starts with T and Ends with Witch

Starts with T and Ends with Witch

The gaming scene acquired a rep as the last untaken hill in the culture war. These days it's more like the Death Cult's test market, as each day brings a fresh enormity inflicted by the industry upon its customers. Today's gamersphere fracas concerns the inauguration of a Safety Advisory Council…
May 19, 202031 Comments
Cracks in the Speech Dam?

Cracks in the Speech Dam?

It's been a year since the Trump administration made waves by announcing a DOJ antitrust investigation of Google. Folks in the counterculture who've lived under the looming threat of unpersoning since before Trump took office got their hopes up. But like the Wall and the EO ending birthright citizenship, that…
May 18, 20203 Comments
How Amazon Cut Your Royalties Under Your Nose

How Amazon Cut Your Royalties Under Your Nose

Since the dawn of KDP, indie authors have been questing for the newpub holy grail: that magic formula for earning a living on Amazon. If we rendered KDP in visual terms, it would look like the Valley of the Kings or the Dakota Badlands, with hopeful authors digging away like…
May 14, 202010 Comments
Corona Kayfabe

Corona Kayfabe

As the Coronavirus lock down drags into its second month, the stress is starting to take its toll. By and large, people are channeling their cabin fever into arguing about the lock down online. Granted, venting to randos on social media is a good way to blow off steam. But…
May 13, 20208 Comments
Generation G

Generation G

This tweet emerged on Twitter yesterday. I had to do some back-of-the-envelope calculations to confirm its mind-boggling assertions. But yes, indeed. #GamerGate turns six this year. The Five Guys affair that incited #GG broke out in August of 2014. For many of us who fought to drive what we now…
May 4, 20208 Comments
Sausage Roll Indeed

Sausage Roll Indeed

The gamer scene has been in an uproar over a story that broke over the weekend concerning The Last of Us II. For those who aren't familiar, it's the sequel to a game that gained some popularity during last decade's zombie fad. Rumors had been swirling for years on 4chan…
April 30, 202023 Comments