Prolific Atavisions

(And not my pic.) After all, Canadians had many years to get to know then knowing, loathe Justy. Apart from the most extremely online crowd, normies don’t know Carnage the same way. Yet.

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The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milano is celebrating the 17th Centenary of the Nicene Council. From December 19, 2024 to June 17, 2025 visitors can admire the exhibition “Jubilee 2025 – XVII […]

The mystery of phantom time continues as TEMPUS OCCULTUM is now up to Episode 14. The door of the observatory creaked open, and I started, hastily covering Brother Clemens’s manuscript with a star […]

1,264 words The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a vice-like grip on elected and non-elected officials in Canada. Revelations during the current election campaign have reinforced the fact that many […]

~~~ Tories push to ban recording of non-crime hate incidents Slowly the push for free speech gathers momentum. People need to be able to express themselves. If others cannot handle the criticism, […]

Bill Vallicella, the Maverick Philosopher, recently posted an item critiquing a defense of “presentism” by the Canadian philosopher John Bigelow. Philosophical presentism is the view that only […]

2,340 words [A] uniformly valid and binding designation is invented for things, and this legislation of language likewise establishes the first laws of truth. -Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lie […]

North Korea is home to slavery, famine, and is famous as being the country where human feces is valued higher than anywhere else. Competition for human feces has once again become cutthroat in North […]

Prominent voices on the Left and within movement conservatism have argued that President Trump’s approach to foreign trade is strange, unorthodox—and even un-American. This is not surprising. […]

1,220 words Trump’s victory and policy positions continue to divide dissidents. Opinions on the matter have ranged from Trump being the second coming of Christ, to him merely perpetuating the […]

Westworld Season 1: Philosophical Reflections

Postmodern architecture is supposed to be a medley of past styles and architectural ideas; a recombination rather than original or the result of a unified aesthetic vision. Westworld is explicitly […]

The Chinese Global Times points out some of the obstacles that are facing the USA’s attempt to bring back the semiconductor industry: The substantial losses incurred by Taiwan Semiconductor […]

If you consume any of the content from Hollywood produced in the last decade, you no doubt are familiar with the concept of the girl boss. This is now the main character in almost every film and […]

Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of […]

Physicist and microchip inventor Federico Faggin is an open unabashed enthusiastic pantheist, or rather panpsychist. Any number of such people are found in the sandal-shod organic trail-mix crowd, […]

It is funny, living in a dying age: everything except something you hear three times in your life is probably a lie. That is, someone will tell you a whole realistic view of a situation maybe three […]

3,298 words (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here, Part 4 here, Part 5 here, Part 6 here, Part 7 here, Part 8 here, Part 9 here, Part 10 here, Part 11 here, Part 12 here, Part 13 here, Part 14 here, […]

Its activist wing is formidable.

The Pennsylvania governor survived an anti-Semitic attack. Now he faces a choice: fold to his party’s radicals—or lead.

Pronouns in bio…”Culture & Evangelism Marketing Manager” at…checks notes…Focus on the Family.

Anyone remember back in 2008 when the housing market collapsed and the stock market crashed, with many tens of millions of Americans seeing their lifetime savings nearly wiped out? Apparently the […]

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I’ve been continuing to test-drive the AI known as Grok. Today I thought I’d ask it about consciousness. Me: Are you conscious? I’m Grok 3, built by xAI. I don’t have consciousness like […]

But not for defamation. Oh, no, he wouldn’t want to open up that can of worms. He’s suing the woman who used to live in his house for breaking her NDA. The author Neil Gaiman is seeking more than […]

~~~ Want to leave the U.S. for good? How to get dual citizenship. Americans with Italian, Polish, and Irish heritage can apply for citizenship of those countries and remigrate, which increasing […]

2,434 words Part 1 here Critical Thinking and Critical Theory First up we have an operating definition: Critical Theory is a scholarly approach that analyzes social conditions within their […]

965 words The myth of the “noble savage” — a vision of indigenous peoples as gentle, egalitarian, and in perfect harmony with nature — has bewitched the Western imagination for centuries. It […]

Despite overwhelming public support for deporting criminal aliens, most of the state’s localities refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials.

The second bonus track for THE ONLY SKULL album was released today, courtesy of the Soulsigma backers. A MERCILESS NIGHT was mastered by the same audio engineer who mastered the previous 12 tracks, […]

City Journal Podcast

If Elon Musk didn’t have other priorities at the moment, he might want to consider adding Reddit to his free speech portfolio. Such a feat would take away one of the largest and most powerful […]

2,160 words It’s Grim Up North, So Let’s Make a Film About It Britain is renowned for its social realism, whether it’s the likes of the world’s most disturbingly mundane soap operas, film […]

Even as traditional public schools flounder, state leaders are targeting charters with funding cuts and bureaucratic obstruction.

1,598 words Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 3 here Another important aspect of sexual discourse in the 1970s was, of course, the then-burgeoning feminist movement already alluded to, but this was of […]

Note: Behind the green door, there is a post about David Hogg taking control of the Democratic Party, a post about the younger generation of males, and no Sunday podcast as it was Easter. Subscribe […]

It’s pretty obvious that people have paid absolutely no attention to what Owen Benjamin has been saying for years when they get their panties in a bunch about the Big Bear pointing out the utter […]

The party’s activist wing is formidable.

I flatter myself that this is the best general thing I have written to explain why you must never, not ever, use a p-value, hypothesis test, “significance”, Bayes value, or…

Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of […]

The insightful Bruce Charlton writes about nihilism as if it were a pathology of idealizing emptiness: Modern Western people are strikingly lacking in powerful motivators, compared with earlier […]

They already approved it. It was a sunk cost.

Fake Pope Francis went to what one can only presume was his infernal reward this morning, thereby presenting the genuine Christians in the Catholic Church another chance to clean their house of the […]

In my church, there’s slight fluctuations at Easter / Good Friday / Christmas / New Year’s, because some are out of town visiting family and so are at their churches, while there are some […]

Today’s global trade system was never intended to last.