“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” ~ Adam Smith, Economist Extraordinaire I simply can’t shake the feeling that someday the absurdity and irrationality of our culture has to end. I have been told I am “anti-science” – mostly because I rarely take anything at face value, even when that…
In the 2000 film “Memento”, Director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception) introduced movie audiences to Leonard Shelby, a former insurance investigator with anterograde amnesia resulting from an injury sustained that was associated with the murder of his wife. Anterograde amnesia is a loss of the ability to create new memories after the event…
It certainly seems that there is a significant rise in deviant behaviors in America today. Again, as I have said many times, I do not use the term “deviant” as a pejorative, it is a term with a distinct, clinical meaning – according to Webster, it means “deviating (to do something that is different or to…
This past week the Washington Post noted that 9 out of 10 Native Americans either thought the name of the DC football team, the Redskins, was not offensive or simply had no opinion either way…that is to say that they just didn’t care. Yet the left, including sports commentatwit, Bob Costas, continue to tell them…
The “migrant” situation in Europe is both dismaying and interesting to watch. Germany in particular because of its largely industrialized base, its carefully ordered society (the Germans love precision), its societal non-aggression pact with other cultures due to the shame of the Holocaust and its almost pathological need to avoid external conflicts as a result…
Technology is killing wisdom. That’s not exactly true – it is our INABILITY to manage technology that is killing wisdom. The sheer volume of facts and the speed at which they are accessed today is only equaled by the selective bias and velocity at which these facts are considered and discarded. Studies have shown that…
This Baltimore thing has me more than a little pissed. First we were told that all of this was due to RAAAAACIST WHITE COPS rollin’ and trollin’ for a brutha to beat down. That there was no way that Freddie could have broken his neck inside that paddy wagon (even though people break their necks…
Modern society is destroying itself. We simply do not have the capability to speak to each other without offending, universities and student governments are buying into the feminist fable of “rape culture” that infantilizes young women and criminalizes young males for nothing other than being male. The same goes for the assault on masculinity in…
So much of today’s “scholarship” is actually tripe – unseriousness at the highest level (or is that the lowest level?). It seems to me that academia is in a rush to invent areas of study so that unqualified “scholars” can be experts at something (and the universities can get paid). Sort of the academic version…
TRUTH: ‘Tradition’ is ESSENTIAL to the Preservation of Society I went to Rudyard Elementary in Rudyard, Michigan. Both the town and school were named after Rudyard Kipling. I never paid any attention to their namesake — until recently. I wish I had done so long ago. In trying to explain why, I have cited the majority…
From The Oyl URGENT WARNING: Prepare for Nuclear Attack! Look, I understand that we live in a cynical world filled with skeptics, conspiracy theorists and people who are clinically unstable. I am even aware that many people would place me in one of these three groups. That’s why I am unsure how you will take this…
The sadness and anger I feel about our current situation in America is that what we are going through as a nation was avoidable. It was completely foreseeable – and was actually predicted 226 years ago as the debate raged over the ratification of our Constitution. In February of 1788, James Madison (Publius) penned Federalist…
I think that most on the right side of the political spectrum will agree with the statement that during Democrat administrations, our major news media has failed to perform the same watchdog functions with the same investigative zeal that it does when a Republican administration is in control of our government. There is ample evidence…
Is this a quandary for dope smoking tree huggers who believe in global warming? Do I keep smoking pot and destroy the planet? …What about all the coal (fossil fuels) and fertilizer and water and electricity and pollution and… …oh man… …this is so stressing me out…. …sounds of a deep inhalation… …I’m really hungry………
Bill of Rights Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ________________________________________________________________________________ Our Constitution is truly simple. Read it again: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; (Click on the Bill of Rights heading to read the entire 1st Amendment.) ________________________________________________________________________________…
TRUTH: Morality is Eternal and Universal You’ll have to excuse me, but it is time to really climb on my soap box (which usually means this will be one of my better posts). The impetus for this post comes from a comment on another blog. I have heard the notion that was expressed in this…
A month or so ago, a blogger named Amy Glass garnered quite a bit of attention for a post titled, “I Look Down On Young Women With Husbands And Kids And I’m Not Sorry”, expressing her disgust at young women who place a husband and children ahead of a career. She uncorks her vinegar tinged…
I’ve been back in the US for almost a year now after living for almost three years in Scotland. The one thing that has changed the most is that the American left has become even more irrational. Just this week we had supposed adults at the White House explaining to us why working less and…
THE PROGRESSIVE LEXICON Explaining what Janet Napolitano means by ‘the Arc of History’ Recently, during an interview on “Meet the Press,” Janet Napolitano explained her recent change in position on gay marriage by saying ‘the arc of history has clearly arrived:’ Janet Napolitano: ‘The Arc of History Has Clearly Arrived’ for Gay Marriage Now, to…
Now for something completely different…. Well not really. You see we have all been here before. For the last 3 years in the late summer as kids go back to school and parents around the Nation rejoices there is a little bit of theater that goes on being played out in the Nation’s Capitol. It…
The Rio Norte Line 
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