Indiana Joan

Indiana Joan

In what can only be considered an advance warning to nerd culture paypigs, former A+ list director turned shady uncle Steven Spielberg has a special announcement for fans of the last Lucasfilm franchise Disney hasn't destroyed yet. Steven Spielberg is behind the idea that when Harrison Ford hangs up his…
April 5, 201820 Comments
Facebook Makes a FUS

Facebook Makes a FUS

My alma mater the Franciscan University of Steubenville submitted a series of Facebook ads on Holy Thursday for their online theology courses. Not all of the ads passed FB's rigorous screening process. Here's the one they rejected: Facebook's stated reason for rejecting the ad? FUS issued a statement on their…
April 2, 20181 Comment
Purged Amazon Reviews: Case Closed?

Purged Amazon Reviews: Case Closed?

Castalia House Lead Editor Vox Day passes along a possible solution to The Case of the Purged Amazon Reviews. Specifically, he quotes author Amanda Green's theory based on her review of Amazon's terms of service. 2. Are authors allowed to review other authors’ books?Yes. Authors are welcome to submit Customer…
March 19, 20181 Comment
Amazon Review Purge

Amazon Review Purge

Has the epidemic of social media censorship that's seen big tech firms like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter persecute users for their politics infected Amazon? A recent purge of book reviews may be a warning sign that the English-speaking world's biggest online retailer is interfering with its users in subtler but still…
March 12, 201815 Comments
Light Them Up

Light Them Up

Science fiction grand master and Grand Inquisitor of the Evil Legion of Evil John C. Wright solemnly pronounces sentence on the cackling coven of witches known to daytime TV paypigs as The View. The Media Research Center is organizing a boycott. If you can pick up a phone and call…
March 1, 20187 Comments
AmRen v Twitter

AmRen v Twitter

In the comments on last week's post about the Twitter Lock Out, I called for legal action against the censorious tyrants in Big Tech. Many readers echoed that sentiment. Well, ask and ye shall receive. A group of free-speech lawyers filed the most serious legal challenge yet to Twitter’s censorship…
February 26, 20183 Comments
Twitter Lock Out

Twitter Lock Out

Rumors that "ass-backward tech company" Twitter would be launching a major purge of non-Leftist users have been circulating for a while now. I fully expected them to try it, having been targeted by Twitter's passive-aggressive shadowban censorship before. Now it looks like they've gone and done it. Overnight, an unknown…
February 21, 201819 Comments
Torching Itself Nicely

Torching Itself Nicely

In light of the ongoing discussion of the Prussian education model, my comment on Joseph Moore's original Catholic Schools Week article would seem to merit its own post. I attended Catholic schools from K-12, and my experience largely mirrors Mr. Moore's. My schooling took place a generation after his, though.…
February 7, 20187 Comments
Prussian Model Stockholm Syndrome

Prussian Model Stockholm Syndrome

Over at Yard Sale of the Mind, the inestimable Joseph Moore attempts to shake parents from their They Live-style illusion that Catholic schools differ substantially in their teaching approach from Prussian Model public schools. A key point you’ll need to keep in mind to understand the following: the form we…
February 6, 201820 Comments
Twitter Shadowbans Confirmed

Twitter Shadowbans Confirmed

In light of Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe's investigation proving that Twitter does in fact wield shadowbans to censor users, I thought it worthwhile to repost the well-documented account of my own deep shadowban. Having written before about Twitter's nasty penchant for censoring and outright banning users who deviate from…
January 16, 20185 Comments