Here’s a post I originally wrote in 2012. Given how most political commentary tends to lose relevance over time, it’s remarkable when something from the past is even more relevant now than when it was written. Not that this post is overly political: more just a series of observations, including some red flags that, at the time,… Continue reading The Gulf Between the Generations (Blast from the Past: February 2012)
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Is it ever okay to punch a Nazi?
Is the current year between 1939 and 1945? Are you currently on active duty in the armed forces of one of the Allied nations, or a member of a partisan resistance movement within Nazi occupied territory? Is the Nazi whom you want to punch currently engaged in combat operations against you? If you answered “no” to any… Continue reading Is it ever okay to punch a Nazi?
This is more disgusting than anything I saw in 2016.
Anything election related, anyway. Four residents of Chicago kidnapped and tortured a special-needs man, broadcasting it live on Facebook while ranting against President Trump. This is worse than the gang that pulled the Trump supporter out of his car and beat him in the middle of the street. It’s worse than the abusive mother who pretended… Continue reading This is more disgusting than anything I saw in 2016.
Dear #ImWithHer and #NotMyPresident
I know we disagree on a lot of things. We live in troubled times, and many of you are scared for the future. I can see it in your eyes. I can hear it in your voices. There’s a very real temptation now to glory in victory, or to swear vengeance and foment revolution. But that… Continue reading Dear #ImWithHer and #NotMyPresident
Post-Election Predictions
The Good: James Comey will resign. Obamacare will collapse and be repealed within the year. We will not move to a single-payer healthcare system. There will be chaos in the short-term, but healthcare costs will go down for most people. Black Lives Matter, which was always a front for the nationalization of the police, will drift into… Continue reading Post-Election Predictions
Election night thoughts
Oh how the mighty have fallen. That is all.
Well, that rules out time travelers
If there’s one thing that the events of the weekend have proven, it’s that time machines aren’t going to be invented for at least another few hundred years. Because if time travelers from our immediate future were in our midst, I have no doubt that either Hillary or Trump (or both, Godwilling!) would have been assassinated… Continue reading Well, that rules out time travelers
Unthinkable truths
If you told the average person that you believed with near 100% certainty that intelligent alien life exists in the universe, they would consider you crazy. Yet the truth is that our universe is so incredibly vast, so full of Earthlike planets, that the odds that intelligent life only emerged here are low enough to… Continue reading Unthinkable truths
The American Insurgency, Part 3: The Roots of the Insurgency
When the colonies began their war for independence in 1775, they had no formal army, but depended on civilian irregulars or “minutemen.” In a similar way, the American Insurgency was made up of ordinary citizens, self-taught and self-trained, who had prepared themselves for the coming conflict and were ready to take up arms at a minute’s notice. To… Continue reading The American Insurgency, Part 3: The Roots of the Insurgency
The American Insurgency, Part 2: The Constitution Hangs by a Thread
The sequence of events that made the American Insurgency inevitable had its roots in a political shift that had occured more than a century earlier. It began with the Progressive Era, barely a generation after the first civil war, dovetailed into the New Deal, and culminated with the near complete subversion of the United States. It is worth… Continue reading The American Insurgency, Part 2: The Constitution Hangs by a Thread