Over at Peter Grants blog, he links to the story of the triton submarines [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-fascinating-tale-of-obsession.html] , capable of getting to the deepest parts of the world [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/thirty-six-thousand-feet-under-the-sea] , period. It's a fascinating read. I certainly never wanted my boat to go that deep - it would be a one-way ride.…
I'd already covered this once [https://thelastredoubt.com/joggers/], but more information has come to light, and Rekeita had Branco on for an interview. I think the overall discussion by Branca with Rekeita is good, but I'd like to address one area where he, by focusing on the legal argument, undercuts the moral argument by declaring he thought the McMichaels were unwise, but worse, by classifying citizens arrest laws as an artifact of the past. He also discards any importance in looking at th…
I've been slow to keep up with the outrages du jour, so it was only the other day I heard about the shooting of a guy in Florida for "just going out for a jog while black". I know the media and the grievance cultists have been looking for another genuine Dylan Roof, and demand has so exceeded supply that nearly every supposed hate crime - Smollett, anyone? - has been faked by the supposed victims. "But, there's video!" OK - maybe the NAACP struck gold again after all this time, but…
Yes, Karens are everywhere. I don't know if they are predominantly an anglo-saxon thing [https://pushingrubberdownhill.com/2020/05/08/the-answer-to-the-karen-is-the-patriarchy/] , but every example seen so far has met that demographic quite nicely. There is a male version though. For those born in the 70's, you may remember the animated smurfs series, with "Brainy", an obnoxious gamma twit, having the tagline "Papa smurf always says". That is your male proto-Karen. The guy who can't stand to…
I was talking to a friend this weekend, and one observation that both of us madee in our way is how often we stop delving into a topic, teacher, etc., because we find that through little or no fault of their own, they are no longer worth the time. Before you drag the knives out and look for places to bury the body; again, it's not their fault, it's me. I spent over a decade in the Navy as a nuke operator. One of the biggest reasons I got out though had everything to do with…