There’s a tiny, irrelevant newspaper called the WestView News. It claims it’s the “voice of the West Village.” If so, the West Village is full of crazy, lying, violent old racists who hate everybody. The publisher of the WestView News is a demented, savage octogenarian named George Capsis. He keeps assaulting people in public. In…
Why I’m optimistic
July 5, 2014
You may have heard of Kendall Jones, the teenaged cheerleader who goes big-game hunting in Africa. People call it a sport, but I don’t apply that term to life-and-death struggles. I’d much rather we leave wild animals alone. If there’s a need to cull them, I don’t think we should have our pictures taken cuddling…
On mandated forgiveness
July 3, 2014
Louis Zamperini died today at the age of ninety-seven. He was an Olympic distance runner and the subject of Laura Hillenbrand’s book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. I read the book and enjoyed it until the end. Zamperini forgave the Japanese war criminals who tortured him, even though they…
They still want to kill you
July 2, 2014
I wrote a post about Caliph Ibrahim, the leader of the new Islamic State. He issued his first official statement as the new caliph; in it, he says that the mujahedin will take over the world. I got a little pushback over that post. It’s a criticism I hear often, so I thought I’d address…
Time for nationwide psychiatric intervention
July 1, 2014
The past couple of days have been truly astonishing. I’ve never seen so many people lose their minds in concert. What we need is nationwide psychiatric intervention. I’m talking, of course, about Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human services et al v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., et al. We’re perilously close to collapse as a…
Calm down and and watch Gary
June 30, 2014
Today the Supreme Court decided on Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services [HHS] et al v Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. et al. The histrionics over the decision is really beyond moronic, but it’s sadly what I’ve come to expect from our increasingly juvenile, teeth-gnashing, pop-eyed-with-rage culture. All I want to say is calm down…
Don’t BE a tool; USE your tools
June 23, 2014
Our press is absolutely worthless. Journalists are partisan hacks, but even worse than that, they’re lazy, credulous fools. Don’t let them influence your worldview. There are tons of tools you can use to painlessly disprove the lies and fantasies we’re being fed. Something called The Blaze recently posted a piece titled “See the Quintessentially American…
Kabuki for dumbasses
June 21, 2014
The worst part about my first trip to Japan in 1983 was having to sit through kabuki shows. I hated them. Yes, I know, I know: It’s art. You’re free to love kabuki. The fact that I hate it says everything about me and nothing about kabuki. But I absolutely despise it. The music, the…
The smug inhumanity of the safe and coddled
June 16, 2014
You probably know that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) is on the move in Iraq, taking over entire cities without facing any meaningful opposition. ISIL has declared the return of an Islamic Caliphate. In response, I’m hearing a lot of smug inhumanity expressed by the safe and coddled. There…
Is it hard to keep your balance?
June 11, 2014
I have trouble with my balance. Meniere’s disease causes rotational vertigo attacks, and down I go. So I’d like to ask some of my fellow Americans: Is it hard to keep your balance when you stand on dead bodies while trying to score political points? Today I’m reading a lot of gloating. Some Americans are…