Vox introduces [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/12/an-open-letter-to-democrats.html] Eric Raymond’s open letter to the Democrats [http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7268] as follows: > ESR writes one in the faint hope they will react reasonably and learn from their unexpected defeat: “Unexpected”. … Ok, now that I’ve stopped laughing – tempered by the fact that no matter how much I *knew* things would not be the walkover Democrats expected the morning of November 8th, that things were still uncertain…
Yes, I am a Nolan fanboy. Ever since Memento, as a matter of fact, and I personally think his version of Insomniacompares well with the original. Identity has been a consistent theme of his movies (Inception, Memento, and the batman movies). So has nobility, truth, and adventure. Two of my favorite lines in Interstellaroccur on earth, one about how we used to look up at the stars, and now just look at the dirt – not even ground, dirt,perfectly encapsulates postmodern, typically liberal, narciss…
While I love poetry, and Kipling is by far my favorite, it’s been the Didact who not only has been posting excellent works, but has been focusing on the works and observations of this man. Go see his latest post [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2016/12/a-servant-when-he-reigneth-by-rudyard.html] . Like much of Kiplings work it ponders human nature, and more broadly applies than at first glance. In a more general sense, it applies to those with no skin in the game who nevertheless wish to tell…
“All right, let’s pull on that thread Demosthenes….” Well worth watching, because “The only hacking John McCain ever does is in the wee morning hours before he’s roused from his hyperbaric slumber to feast on peasant blood”.…
One of the reasons I will effectively drop anything and everything to read a book by Larry Correia, aka the “International Lord of Hate”, is that he not only is nearly as prolific as John Ringo, but is, if possible, even funnier when he goes off on a rant. Given the high bar needed to exceed the utterly inspired Ravencon AAR [https://thelastredoubt.com/content/images/2016/12/RavenCon202006.pdf], that is saying something. So, in part due to slow blogging activity over at Monster Hunter Nation,…