Since I was covering “well crafted crap [https://thelastredoubt.com/2017/01/sjws-produce-terrible-work.html]” yesterday, I forgot one book that stands out as a rare work I haven’t finished, no matter how fine the prose, briefly mentioned in my gushing [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/08/monster-hunter-memoirs-grunge-or-las.html] over John Ringo’s Monster Hunter Memoirs: Grunge. Holy shit did I get sick of Kvothe – to the point I had to look up his name because I have him tagged mentally as “whi…
I joked in my 2016/2017 post that the “dark secret” of this blog was that it’s as much for me to develop a set of habits, to do something every day, making it a priority, as it is about anything else. Providing at least some useful insights or interesting info is how I hope to get and keep an audience, but without putting up posts, I can’t put up good posts either. So buried in Nick Cole’s recent post on platforms [http://www.nickcolebooks.com/2017/01/11/platform-you-need-one/], was this: > He…
I have not finished Forbidden Thoughts yet, [https://www.amazon.com/Forbidden-Thoughts-Milo-Yiannopoulos-ebook/dp/B01N5LU9C4/] so a review will have to wait. Overall I’m enjoying it so far but some of the complaints noted by several people are, IMO, valid criticisms… certainly a couple stories preach with a 4×4 that did not have to. That said, the intro, by Milo, was brilliant. And in that, the following leapt out at me: > “SJWs produce terrible work SJWs are fantastic at complaining, but terr…
So a recent G+ post by Jeffro was the Washington Post whinging and crying [https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/its-time-to-retire-the-tainted-term-fake-news/2017/01/06/a5a7516c-d375-11e6-945a-76f69a399dd5_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.ccbeef4ab5d5] that maybe, *maybe, *they should give up the hashtag/catchphrase “fake news” as it’s been (clutch pearls, please, and faint) “tainted”. It seems conservatives have changed the meaning and been using to dismiss (implied “just”) “liberal cl…
A friend of mine in High School handed me a mix tape full of various rock music, and on the second side of said tape, he included the song I’m linking to here. Until that point in time, while I had a minimal familiarity with Iron Maiden, etc., I had no idea that metal could be anything but Scorpion-glam, or annoyingly noisy stuff (with some exceptions for Priest and Maiden) compared to Floyd, Led Zeppelin, etc. Holy shit. I can blame my love for both symphonic and power metal on this one damn…