Liberty's Torch

(a.k.a. Bastion Of Liberty)

"Keep clear of the dupes that talk democracy,
And the dogs that bark revolution.
Drunk with talk, liars and believers.
I believe in my tusks.
Long live freedom and damn the ideologies!"
(Robinson Jeffers)

Sunday, May 20, 2018

Blogging From The NerdFest

An overwhelmingly male crowd, although welcoming and encouraging to the attending women. I've made some friends (YL's), and am l...

Saturday, May 19, 2018

Re-Privatization

“Opinions are like assholes: Everybody’s gotta have one.” – Porretto’s Principle of Personal Assertion I feel a change coming on...

Friday, May 18, 2018

I'm in NERD-Vana!

I'n in Xenia, OH, just finishing breakfast, and preparing to spend the next 2-1/2 days at the Dayton Area Ham Radio Convention. It's...

The Grand Unification Curse

There have been several large-scale, powerful, and highly observable trends in fiction this past half-century. Paradoxically, the most ...

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Quickies: A Memory

After seeing Sarah Hoyt’s latest Facebook post, I was inexplicably yet irresistibly reminded of a whimsy of years past. It was a time...

The Next Attack

As he so often does, Dystopic / Thales / Ar-Pharazon the Golden has fingered an important gambit in the war over American principles: ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Counterattack!

I know that most of my Gentle Readers have little or no interest in fantasy and science fiction fandom, or in the gatherings such fans ...

The anti-American left and us deplorables.

Trump has his eye on the contemporary Left’s extremism, but this is not so much the statist Left that the libertarians oppose, nor the valu...

Origin of the “Indispensable Nation” lunacy.

More pointedly, the Indispensable Nation meme originates not in the universal condition of mankind and the nation-states into which it has ...

Cultural Ties

I've been writing on Right As Usual about culture, and how it, in its various forms, is far more important than politics. The thing t...

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Day Off

My beloved wife often speaks of her “Crazy Tuesdays,” because on Tuesdays she visits a client who hasn’t seen her since the previous Th...

More Work for the Federal Government...

...that is, if the employees could stop spending all their time trying to impeach Trump. An investigation is needed, with 3 results prefe...

Chechnya insights and new perspectives.

I can’t begin to interpret the gathering you see and the words you hear in this video. Russians fought a very hard war in Chechnya and it w...

Monday, May 14, 2018

Fear in America

It's primarily that of Conservatives leery of letting their non-conforming thoughts to be openly known. To 'out' yourself is to...

Quickies: Foot-Shooting Chronicles, MLB Edition

Some years ago, retired baseball great and commentator Joe Morgan lamented on live television about how there were too few Negroes in t...

Quickies: From The “You Thought 1984 Was Just A Scary Story” Dept.

I recall, when the year 1984 was past, how many commentators regarded the threats to freedom George Orwell’s novel portrayed as havin...

Sunday, May 13, 2018

Quickies: Sex In Fiction

The questions abound: “Is it good? Is it bad? Should it be cool? Should it be hot? Should it be express or implied? What about homosex ...

Quickies: Money, Good Intentions, And Naughty Players

This case, in which a college appears to have targeted a student for punishment specifically because he’s an outspoken conservative, drew t...

Perspective.

[Tom Englehardt:] “Its [the U.S.’s] national security budget is larger than those of the next eight countries combined…” [Welsh:] My favou...

Saturday, May 12, 2018

Some Drive-By Commentary For Your Saturday

Yes, these “assorted” pieces have been getting more frequent of late. Gotta go with the Muse, y’know, and lately the Muse has been sayi...

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