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Trump Drops in a Hemi

It has taken a while to round up the parts, but Trump Performance Motors has installed a new engine in America.

Stages of Envy

We have it so easy, envy is the laziest of sins, yet one so metastasized that it might take a Malthusian reset to stop it.

The One-Way Social Contract

The Democrats and the DSA are selling a gullible segment of America a bill of goods.

Twin Sons of Different Mothers

My opinion is that communism and anarcho-libertarianism are radically different but will end up in the same place.

The Dangers of Cultural Lag

Changes brought about by technology are leaving social mores and cultural boundaries in the dust.

A Malevolent Nexus

Internalizers, externalizers, and rational discriminating attributors.

Hotty Toddy, Y’all.

The old college try has changed a little since my matriculation.

Looking Upstream for Answers

Given the inevitability of time and hydraulics, what is released at the river headwaters will eventually wind up at the river delta. How fast it arrives is determined by the river itself.

Fake And Not Accurate

Progressive Democrats sure spend a lot of their time driving square pegs into round holes.

Culture is the Key

Western civilization may not be the best civilization, but it is the least worst of all the other alternatives.

Back to the Future

America’s flux capacitor needs a few banana peels before we can sustain 88 miles per hour.

The Flight from Consequences

What modern “socialism” promises is more than the traditional ideas of confiscation of wealth and the redistribution of income; it is the transfer of consequences that many cannot resist.

Every Murderer Needs a Fan Club

In the age of algorithms, the criminal is recast as a victim, the victim is forgotten, and reality itself is put on trial.

Caught Between Two Millstones

Postmodernism cannot reconcile the contradictions it creates.

Have It Your Way!*

* Some restrictions apply. Void where prohibited.

From the Back to the Brain

Modern sociopolitical warfare has the same goals as ever, but the soldiers, weapons, and battlefields have changed.

Living in Wonderland

Alice had nothing on our contemporary society.

Riding a Macker

Democrats have always been great surfers, riding the big social and economic waves, but now the DSA has harshed their groove.

The Intersection of 1984 and Sophie Cunningham

I think I'm in love.