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)

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Business Models And #Woke: Corporate Charity

There are few things less rational than the prioritization of irrelevancies – social, political, or otherwise – in the operation of a b...

Monday, November 18, 2019

For Indie Writers: A New LitFire

I just received a call from an outfit that styles itself Your Online Publicist. The caller spoke haltingly, and with a heavy accent, t...

Old Jane vs. New Jane

Fonda, that is. I've been hearing about her "amazing" looks for a long time. Her recent appearances on the red carpet seemed...

Persuading the Black Community to Vote Their Values

There's a lot of crap said and written about Black people/families. Too many Whites treat the non-White communities as a Lost Cause, fil...

News That Should Trump The Impeachment Farce

If the possible corruption of public officials is a big deal, why is it that the “respectable” media leave it to the “fringe” media to ...

Quickies: The Ultimate, Finally-The-Last Word On Colin Kaepernick And The NFL

Paul Mirengoff of Power Line provides it: During a recess late in a trial where the plaintiff alleged he had been fired due to h...

Sunday, November 17, 2019

How Fake News is Created

With the eager assistance of Leftists in the Tech Community, taking advantage of tools created to capture information and archive it. I...

Atomization Chronicles

Most of what I write, whether it’s fiction or op-ed, is powered by a worry. I’ve got a lot of them, and they surge to the front of my c...

MP Stéphane Ravier on the Great Replacement in France.

Here is a rare but courageous voice speaking out about the insufferable immigration disaster that has taken place in France. Substitute the...

Saturday, November 16, 2019

The Gluttony Gazette 2019-11-16

For those unacquainted with my part of America: Long Island has three “zones,” broadly speaking. To the far west there are the boroughs...

Narrative Engineering In Brief

Via Mike Hendrix comes this beautifully compact exposition on what the Democrats are doing with their “impeachment inquiry:” Pr...

The fate of modern Western man.

To be ruled by scum. “I’m a pro-immigration politician,” [Boris Johnson] the Tory leader declared on the BBC on Friday morning, shaking two...

Friday, November 15, 2019

Whistling in the Dark

The Blogs are just about dead. So few of us remain, that we have been sidelined. The other social media - Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Inst...

A Distribution Of Motives

It’s commonplace for private-citizen observers of political squabbles to assume a uniformity of motives on each of the contending side...

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Watergate Deux

I remember the original Watergate hearings. I was working as a waitress/bartender, and attending college. LOTS of free time, particularly in...

They Don't have to Throw Us in the Gulag...

...they just have to represent a threat to our livelihood, to get us to disavow our allies. VA just took over the statehouse - in 1/4 of t...

The Outage

[A short story for you today, as I’m still working on the next segment in the Moral Fundamentals series. As the C.S.O. loves to remind...

Monday, November 11, 2019

This Must Go Viral

Someone clever – probably not officially an associate of the Trump for President campaign – has made a terrific commercial for his re-e...

A Lost Commemoration

If you’ve ever taken an interest in what was once called “The Great War” – it’s unlikely you have, as very few persons seem to know any...

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Moral Fundamentals Part 2: Lexical And Contextual Considerations

As I write in English (surprise, surprise), I frequently find myself grappling with one or more ambiguities built into that language. T...

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