In Defense of Trolling

In Defense of Trolling

by | Nov 26, 2021 | Uncategorized

Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida and probable Presidential aspirant, recently signed a set of bills banning the mandating of COVID vaccines by schools and businesses. That he did so in the town of Brandon, population 100K and nearly a 5 hour drive from the state...
Identity Trumps Science

Identity Trumps Science

by | Nov 14, 2021 | Uncategorized

Ponder this bit, from an article about how identity politics has infiltrated archaeology: [T]he archaeologist Bruce Bourque recently published a lengthy essay on Quillette about his attempts to decipher the genetic identity of an ancient maritime New England tribe...
Rise of Conscience, Fall of Charity

Rise of Conscience, Fall of Charity

by | Oct 23, 2021 | Uncategorized

We are in the midst of a massive cultural awareness of race and racism that future historians might define as an “awakening” (or Marxists as an “expansion of consciousness”). In and of itself, this is not a bad thing. I have frank conversations...
What’s Yours Is Theirs

What’s Yours Is Theirs

by | Sep 22, 2021 | Uncategorized

Time and again, I hear the same refrain. My concerns, warnings, and accusations regarding the advent of socialist thinking and policy in America is baseless, or ill-founded, or a Fox News talking point regurgitation, or paranoia, or petulance. Simultaneously, I bear...
The New Tokenism

The New Tokenism

by | Sep 20, 2021 | Uncategorized

Hollywood is making another attempt at making a film version of the science fiction classic Dune. We already have David Lynch’s 1984 version by David Lynch, which I didn’t care for, and a SyFy channel miniseries from 2000, which I enjoyed rather more. The...