Cake. The Band. Walked into somewhere recently and was reminded how much of a love-hate relationship I have with these guys. Musically, tight as hell, but with such a toxic degree of hipster cynicism that it’s no surprise I haven’t listened to them in years. The first song I’d ever heard was “Frank Sinatra” – and for those of you familiar with Peter Murphy’s solo career, at first I wondered if he had a new album out (I recall this being shortly before he actually did release a new solo album,…
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Aside from the extra hoops I’ll have to jump through to get my hands on John C Wright’s earlier works, the biggest pain point for the TORcott originally, for me, was Brandon Sanderson. I had enjoyed the Mistborn series, and though the second Way of Kings had followed the first in a lot of unnecessary angst to drag the book out before finally coming to a decision, I was at least mostly looking forward to the third one. Mostly. There were a few hints from the “strong women characters” he kept wr…
First of all, was listening to the only somewhat recent podcast with Scott Adams, and in the middle, Stefan trots out his common “democrats only want voters”. Adams rightly points out that that is something which at least he personally had not heard, so it sounded like far-fetched mind reading, which Stefan admitted, but then pointed to at least one statement by a politician explicitly calling it out. OK, Once is a fluke, twice is coincidence, so not proof in and of itself, but one could find m…
The quote above, courtesy of Razorfist on twitter [https://twitter.com/RAZ0RFIST/status/996255627759382533], is one I’m glad to run across, as I’ve long hated the “you’re just angry” disqualification the left likes to use. Wrath is a sin. Anger is but a response to a perceived injustice. Your perception may, of course, be wrong, or not in accordance with objective reality, but if it is correct, it is not only valid, butmoral. In that sense, while fully understanding both John Ringo’s stance re…
> “Start by being warm, pleasant, & generous w/every person you meet; but if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him; & if he messes w/you, remember to keep messing w/him long after he has forgotten about it”. Silver Rule of Fat Tony [https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/972887563164946432] in N. N. Taleb’s #SkinInTheGame I’ve said it before – socialism is evil [https://thelastredoubt.com/socialism-is-evi/]. Not kidding, then or now. While I’ve respected Dr Peterson…