In a recent posting [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/01/social-media-and-threat-to-status-quo.html] Vox Day notes that the ability to dox effective opponents of the leftist narrative has reached a point that anonymity, even moderately strong steps, can no longer be considered effective to protect oneself from blowback if your lifestyle is not antifragile. In the comments he notes: > There is nothing veiled about it. The situation changes. 10 years ago, it was possible to remain anonymous. The…
I normally reserve the pulchritude for Fridays, but who couldn’t use a little more of Kate Upton and her gravity-defying assets defying a little more gravity?…
The internet, of course, gave us Poe’s Law:without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, parodies of extreme views will be mistaken by some readers or viewers as sincere expressions of the parodied views. So of course, given the rise of social justice warriors, race baiting, feminism, etc., more and more things become normalized enough that they cannot be parodied. Take this recent article from the Huffington Post [https://web.archive.org/web/20170118165921/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/en…
Pournelle is one of my personal heroes. While I might argue that Dan Simmons or Gene Wolfe are better prose stylists, that Larry or Ringo can capture me with the chaotic rush of their stories and their wonderful characters, or that Wright can floor me with the scope of his vision and the direct poetry of his words, I keep coming back to Pournelle. His editorship of There Will be War [https://infogalactic.com/info/There_Will_be_War_(series)]that I stumbled into while in middle school, was a turni…
> *To demand that others suffer responsibility for the consequences of your choices and actions, is the heart of tyranny. * A favorite tagline I see over on Pournelle’s site, is “Free men are not equal, equal men are not free.” It is catchy, and encapsulates very nicely a central theme of the book “Equality: The Impossible Quest [https://www.amazon.com/Equality-Impossible-Martin-van-Creveld-ebook/dp/B00UVLE20W] ” that equality is a myth, that any attempt to establish equality on one axis inevi…