I may not post tomorrow, so I’m putting this up today. In looking up a few things related to eclipses (and finding a set of shades that haven’t been refunded to me because amazons retailers didn’t source their stuff right despite it supposedly being a brand that was on the NASA list – damned chinese knock-offs), I stumbled into a rather unique video [http://adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/17/video-skiing-the-svalbard-solar-eclipse/] . It turns out that the timing and dates of most…
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Free Northerner examines political rallies [http://freenortherner.com/2017/08/16/on-political-rallies/], with some of the pretty euphemisms torn off. > Voting is a display of legitimacy. Voting is the statement: ‘I believe the person I vote for has legitimate authority over me.” This is why naked dictators have hold elections where they win with 120% of the vote. It reinforces their legitimacy. It is also a display of power. It is a ritualistic counting of heads; who would outnumber whom if po…
A few more things tumbled out after the fallout from Charlottesville and my previous post [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/08/things-have-gotten-real-things-have.html]. Namely, the far right.Unfortunately, Vox already [did an excellent post](http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-fake-right.html) following up on a point he made during a darkstream.> The most common error is to postulate a Communist left-wing extreme opposed by an extreme Nazi right wing. Not only does this leave out a substanti…
First – not the first time it’s been observed, most notably perhaps by Orwell, who’s 1984 the left appears to have embraced as an operating manual rather than a warning, but still, the left loves to erase them some history [https://www.menofthewest.net/marxism-hates-past/]. > “New Orleans is tearing down its Confederate monuments, but the South has plenty of others” > > Look at that title. The whole purpose is to eradicate the South’s identity. A people without a past cease to be a people. The…