Above is a more one-sided than usual piece in terms of the internal content, but the headline is reflective of what even “mainstream” news organizations are publishing. The short story is that in Portland, a group named Patriot Prayer scheduled a march. They had a permit for the march, had spoken to police, knew Antifa would be out to get them. Per the statement published via their facebook page, the police had assured them Antifa would be kept away. In Portland… Yeah, right. Alongside the m…
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I try to avoid point-and-laugh articles but recent circumstances have tempted me to take the easy path [https://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2017/04/after-yesterday-do-you-want-to-fly.html] , and given my distaste for United, I willingly jumped in and wallowed in it. > The problem here has a couple of aspects. First: the whole antiquated overbooking phenomenon. In what other venue can you buy a product, pay for it, and be denied it? If you buy a flat screen TV and walk it out to your car…
Vox Day notes [https://voxday.blogspot.com/2016/12/of-irony-and-libel.html] that he’s the subject of an article at the Black Gate [https://www.blackgate.com/2016/12/07/unempathic-bipeds-of-failure-the-relationship-between-stories-and-politics/] that calls him a neo-nazi. He’s more than adequately capable of defending himself, and certainly has a horde of minions that are capable of assisting him. No, I actually want to address two other things she wrote, two underlying assumptions that show bo…
Over at Return of Kings there’s an outstanding article on why modern art is so uninspiring [http://www.returnofkings.com/103305/why-is-modern-art-so-uninspiring]. It digs into several sources, notably Tom Wolfe: > What I saw before me was the critic-in-chief of The New York Times saying: In looking at a painting today, “to lack a persuasive theory is to lack something crucial.” I read it again. It didn’t say “something helpful” or “enriching” or even “extremely valuable.” No, the word was cruci…
First – I was wrong [https://thelastredoubt.com/2016/09/isis-again-coincidentally.html]. I wrote that I “have yet to hear insistence that Islam had nothing to do with it.” – and I hadn’t – but only because I didn’t dig further into the official statements by Cuomo, de Blasio, etc. We’re getting responses like [http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/17/us/nj-explosive-trash-can/]: > Bomb experts will analyze the device and how it was made, according to CNN senior law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes. “It co…