So, yesterday, standing with family and a small group of people that I still, somewhat, consider friends, I made the following toast: > “May your darkest fears not come to pass, May your noblest aspirations come to fruition, May you find joy and good fortune, And as the Navy says, Fair winds and following seas” I meant it from the bottom of my heart. The first line was directly addressing all of the negativity I’d heard in the last two months from not only that set of friends, but family as w…
Men of the West recently published a piece that proposes an interesting solution to dealing with illegals and giving them a “path to citizenship.” [https://menofthewest.net/over-the-wall-and-far-away/]Think a US Foreign Legion, roughly modeled on the French one. So what are my thoughts? I’ll admit, it’s been difficult to shake a lifetime of programming regarding “we’re a nation of immigrants.” – you can see it everywhere, down to repeated lines in the music for Hamilton about how he’s “an immi…
I’m spending the day with family, so this will be it for now. later – possibly today, likely later – I’ll post on the year, the holidays, and the future.…
Larry Correia, the mountain that walks, the International Lord of Hate of the Evil Legion of Evil, and Sad Puppy One, takes a break from vacation to respond to someone being stupid on the internet [http://monsterhunternation.com/2016/12/30/fisking-the-huffpos-snooty-rant-about-self-publishing/] . And since it is the Huffington Post, it is very, very stupid indeed. An excerpt (but please, read the whole thing. The only people who write as prolifically are Johns, Wright and Ringo): > Writing is h…
Over at Quintus Curtius site, he delves into a bit of history behind a common phrase, [https://qcurtius.com/2016/12/24/the-chilling-origins-of-the-sardonic-laugh/] and we uncover something quite disturbing. He was going through Procopius’s History of the Wars, and came across the following regarding what we call a “sardonic laugh.” > This island of Sardinia was formerly called Sardo. In that place there grows a certain herb that, if men eat it, a fatal convulsion immediately comes over them a…