Monthly Archives: August 2021

Horror Movie

August 31, 2021 – 1:45 pm

I’m not much of a consumer of popular culture these days, but I think it’s worth pointing out that, aside from some news items, you almost never see anyone wearing masks in visual media — in movies, TV shows, etc. — despite the ubiquity of masks in this new era of the actually existing world. […]

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Meet The New Boss

August 28, 2021 – 3:09 pm

New York has a new governor, Kathy Hochul. Obviously, she’s a Democrat, but what kind? Old-school centrist? Moonbat radical? If you aren’t sure yet, read this brief item by Betsey McCaughey.

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Ice, Ice, Baby

August 28, 2021 – 12:05 pm

It appears that Arctic sea-ice coverage is, shall we say, heading North: SHARP UPTICK IN ARCTIC SEA ICE: EXTENT ON COURSE TO BE THE HIGHEST IN 15 YEARS I’m sure this will be all over the nightly news.

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Tinfoil Hats On, Please

August 26, 2021 – 1:28 pm

I’d hate to seem cynical here, but it’s hard, sometimes, not to imagine that there is some sort of powerful and malevolent agency at work behind the scenes that has, in the past two years: 1) Unleashed the Wuhan Red Death upon the world; 2) Usurped the primary-election process to install Joe Biden as the […]

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“Shut Up”, They Explained

August 25, 2021 – 10:54 pm

You may have heard of Abigail Shrier, who recently wrote a book, called Irreversible Damage, about the “transgender” mind-virus that has lately infected so many young girls. Her book has aroused a fierce reaction from the clerisy of our new official religion, who have brought intense pressure to censor and bury it. Ms. Shrier has […]

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Charlie Watts, 1941-2021

August 24, 2021 – 8:07 pm

How sad to learn today that Charlie Watts has died. The Rolling Stones have died with him, as far as I’m concerned: it was Charlie, not Mick Jagger, who was really the heart of that band. I was fortunate enough to meet the legend in person long ago, when I was an assistant engineer on […]

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Untergang Down Under

August 23, 2021 – 4:17 pm

Australia, which started out as a prison colony, is returning to form under the shadow of the Wuhan Red Death. Despite massive protests, the government has imposed brutal restrictions in the name of “safety”, and nothing is off the table: censorship, forced confinement, criminal charges, social intimidation, propaganda, and all the other too-familiar tools of […]

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Nothing To See Here

August 22, 2021 – 1:38 pm

Well, Henri has come ashore well west of the Outer Cape, and while I’m sure there are some pretty nasty conditions in Connecticut, we’ve got nothing more out here than stiff breezes, perspiration-inducing warmth and humidity, and some rough surf. The sun is even shining, sort of.

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Before The Storm

August 21, 2021 – 12:59 pm

Here in New England we’re awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Henri. The original projections showed the center of the tracking cone passing right over us in Wellfleet, but now it looks as though the storm will make landfall somewhere in central Long Island. What we’ll get out here will be storm surge and wind, but […]

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On The Bright Side

August 17, 2021 – 10:29 pm

It’s important to keep in mind just who, or what, was just defeated in Afghanistan. It wasn’t the traditional American nation (and military), but rather those who have stunned it into helplessness and have been wearing its senseless body as a skin-suit. If there is any silver lining to all of this, it is the […]

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Half A League Onward: Repost

August 15, 2021 – 11:27 am

I’m reposting this item about Afghanistan from December 2009, eleven years ago. *          *          *             I watched the President’s speech last night. It was not encouraging. It had something for everyone: escalation for the hawks; an exit date for the doves; the usual rot about “distorting and defiling a great religion”, to keep the Muslims off […]

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Notes From The Underground

August 14, 2021 – 5:44 pm

We’ll get back to the previous topic in a bit — for now, yes, I think we’ll all agree that the best course has to be some sort of pushback on the part of ordinary Americans, and there are now some heartening signs that more and more of us are starting to realize this. Perhaps […]

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What Next?

August 12, 2021 – 4:09 pm

My previous post was, I have to admit, pretty gloomy even for me. It’s been difficult to watch events unfold over the last year or so without getting the feeling that the USA as it has existed for the past two-and-a-half centuries has reached a point of fatal exhaustion. (Looking at the familiar cycle that […]

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So, Here We Are

August 10, 2021 – 1:04 pm

As I mentioned in the previous post, one of the reasons I hadn’t been writing much was that I thought things had got, gradually then quite suddenly, to such a state that further diagnosis and analysis had begun to seem pointless. Trump had been ousted. The shenanigans that tainted the elections were so swaggeringly, pugnaciously, […]

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Brushing Off The Cobwebs

August 8, 2021 – 9:45 pm

I’m glad to be able to start getting back to normal operations here. I haven’t really written much since the election. At first it was because I was, quite frankly, just too dispirited: the nasty shoulder injury I’d had back in the summer had made it difficult to type, and the forced discontinuation of my […]

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Home Stretch

August 5, 2021 – 12:38 pm

Still here. I’m anticipating, any day now, a long-awaited conclusion to a stressful process that has caused me, as a matter of prudence and caution, to keep a low online profile for the past several months. (I will explain later, but at this point I don’t want to jinx anything.) Lord knows there’s plenty to […]

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