Monthly Archives: May 2024

Service Notice

May 31, 2024 – 3:48 pm

I’m away for the weekend – a recording session and live gig with the Shoal Survivors. Back soon.

By Malcolm | Posted in General | Comments (1)

Trump “Guilty” On 34 Counts

May 30, 2024 – 5:22 pm

Insane. Sickening. Buckle up, folks. The earth is shaking. The rest of this year is going to be very lively indeed. Also: this is a carefully calculated provocation. They’ve done this flamboyantly, daringly, pugnaciously, right before our eyes, as if to say “well, what are you going to do about it?” Any jacquerie that results […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Society and Culture, Politics | Comments (1)

What’s Going On Here?

May 29, 2024 – 11:52 pm

The comment-thread to my recent post about Joe Biden’s fawning tribute to the deceased thug George Floyd turned in some interesting directions. Among them was the observation that Christianity was no longer able to serve as the scaffolding that once built, and braced up, Western civilization. Was this a failing of Christianity itself? I remarked […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Society and Culture, Reason and Philosophy, Religion, Reaction | Comments (8)

And Now For Something Completely Different

May 26, 2024 – 5:52 pm

Here’s a splendid little video (found on X) on how energy moves through and around an electrical circuit. 5 minute clip explaining that energy does not flow through wires it flows around the wires through free space based on electric & magnetic fields How have I never known this?? pic.twitter.com/rgK5WjF8DI — JessicaGenetics (@JessicaGenetics) May 26, […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Science, Technology | Comments (0)

“You Are A Slow Learner, Winston”

May 25, 2024 – 6:32 pm

Today the White House posted this audacious tweet: George Floyd should be alive. He deserved so much more. Today, I join all those who loved him and all those touched by the civil rights movement he inspired in remembering the tragedy and injustice of his death. He changed the world. Now, let's act in his […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Society and Culture, Politics, Rubbish, Reaction | Comments (18)

Court Of Last Appeal

May 23, 2024 – 4:06 pm

“And where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment.” — John Locke, Second Treatise on […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

By Their Fruits

May 23, 2024 – 3:10 pm

Today I learned that the Biden administration has been holding secret talks with Iran to discuss how to bring Israel to heel, starting with toppling Israel’s government. To my many left-leaning Jewish friends: have you seen enough yet? Are you still voting Democrat?

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The God-Shaped Hole

May 23, 2024 – 2:55 pm

Bill Vallicella has just published a sharp, brief post about the confusion that atheists and many leftists (a Venn diagram with a large intersection) share about the nature of religion, and the nature of the human need for it — which ultimately cannot be satisfied by material or social goods. We read: Leftists, and atheists […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Religion | Comments (4)

Service Notice

May 21, 2024 – 1:05 pm

Away in NYC for a couple of days. Back soon.

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Why Sex Is Binary

May 18, 2024 – 5:33 pm

Having had, last night, a lively conversation over dinner with a woman who chid me (and sought to correct me) for insisting that sex is indeed binary, I think a clarifying post is in order. Before I begin, I’ll pause to express surprise and dismay at how stubbornly fashionable, and how prevalent, denial of the […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Society and Culture, Science | Comments (14)

Pier Review

May 17, 2024 – 11:49 pm

About that pier we built in Gaza: don’t be surprised if it later turns out to have been built not to bring supplies to Gaza, but to evacuate Gazans to the West.

By Malcolm | Posted in Foreign Affairs | Comments (0)

David Sanborn, 1945-2024

May 14, 2024 – 6:25 pm

I note with deep sadness the death of saxophonist David Sanborn, who died on Sunday at the age of 78. I’d known Dave for decades, and worked with him often (including having engineered much of his Grammy-winning 1999 album Inside). David was a towering musician — one of the most influential players of his era […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Music and Recording | Comments (1)

The Forbidden Conclusion

May 11, 2024 – 1:13 pm

I missed it, somehow, when it happened back in April, but I’ve heard it now (h/t to Radio Derb): the Dutch political activist Eva Vlaardingerbroek’s rousing speech at CPAC’s convention in Budapest. Her message to the ancient peoples of the West? “Our elites have declared a war on us, and now it is time for […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Immigration, HBD, Reaction, Foreign Affairs, Religion, Jihad | Comments (0)

Tip

May 10, 2024 – 11:28 pm

To live more consciously begins with reversing the direction of the arrow of attention between awareness and the senses.

By Malcolm | Posted in Inner Work, Apophthegmata | Comments (3)

President, My Foot

May 8, 2024 – 10:40 pm

The State of Georgia’s Election Board is grilling Fulton County over missing 2020 ballot records, in particular ballot images and .SHA files (these are digital fingerprints more generally known as hash-files, which are widely used in information security). We’ve known since the night of the “election” that things were awfully fishy; the stink is now […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

On Israel And Hamas

May 7, 2024 – 11:59 pm

In my previous post I commented on the spectacle of pampered students and faculty at our elite colleges and universities cutting class, donning keffiyehs, LARPing as oppressed Palestinians (at the top of their lungs, and as disruptively as possible, which is always fun and exciting), and calling for the extinction of the Jewish state. (As […]

By Malcolm | Posted in General, Society and Culture, Foreign Affairs | Comments (28)

Chaos On Campus

May 1, 2024 – 7:13 pm

The spectacle unfolding at elite universities these in these last weeks has dominated the news. On one hand, it’s been gratifying to watch the coalition of the Left coming apart, and to see factions that used to march in step now turning against each other. Writing seven years ago, I compared the tensions that would […]

By Malcolm | Posted in Society and Culture | Comments (10)