January 12, 2022 – 12:01 am
A few days ago I promised to put up a post about “mass formation psychosis”, but it turned into an essay that I sent off to American Greatness instead, and has been published there today. I might reprint it here, after a decent interval, but for now I’ll invite you to go read it over […]
January 10, 2022 – 7:23 pm
Having just had a commenter casually toss the execrable term “climate denier” into my comment-thread, comparing any dissent on climate policy and other such technically complex, politically charged topics to stubborn belief in a flat Earth, I thought I would draw your attention to a useful resource: a collection of thirty-one pages, each presenting useful […]
January 6, 2022 – 10:48 pm
The astonishingly prolific Victor Davis Hanson observes Insurrection Day with a fine essay on just who constitutes the actual threat to the American Way. Read it here. If you are wondering, by the way, what the title of this post refers to, you can read the story of Zhao Gao over at Spandrell’s place, here. […]
January 5, 2022 – 7:45 pm
Well, tomorrow is January 6th, the anniversary of the greatest assault on civilization since the sack of Rome — and all of the good people in our news media, and all of our friendly Democratic politicians, are breathless with excitement thinking of the gifts this special day will bring. From Washington to Atlanta to New […]
January 2, 2022 – 8:23 pm
By far the most polarizing issue at the moment is the Wuhan Red Death, a.k.a. COVID — and things got sharply hotter over the past few days, when (as I’m sure you’ve heard) Dr. Robert Malone, one of the inventors of mRNA-vaccine technology and one of the world’s foremost experts on vaccinations and disease outbreaks, […]
December 31, 2021 – 6:42 pm
Best wishes to you all, and I hope we get some sanity back in 2022, though I won’t be betting on it. I’ll be revving up the blog in the New Year. I’ve been idle too long, and I’m starting to miss writing.
December 25, 2021 – 6:04 pm
All the best to each and every one of you — and thanks as always for coming by.
December 22, 2021 – 11:46 pm
Following on yesterday’s post; here is OpenVAERS, which is a more easily accessible front-end for the VAERS data.
December 21, 2021 – 1:12 pm
Here’s a chart I requested from the CDC’s VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) website. (Keep in mind that these are totals for events from 1990 up to December 10th of this year, and that the COVID vaccines have only been around for 18 months or so.)
December 20, 2021 – 12:43 pm
I must apologize again for having so little on offer here lately. We’ve been distracted by personal matters, but I’ve also felt I have very little of value to say that I haven’t already said. This is as much due to laziness and indiscipline as to anything else, though: not-writing has a momentum of its […]
December 13, 2021 – 10:30 pm
With thanks to Bill Keezer, here is a translation of a speech given by the Frenchman Eric Zemmour announcing his candidacy for President. May he prevail! My dear Countrymen— For years, the same feeling has swept you along, oppressed you, shamed you: a strange and penetrating feeling of dispossession. You walk down the streets in […]
December 9, 2021 – 12:32 pm
Here’s an item from Taki’s Magazine in which Steve Sailer discusses a new study of mass murder. The results will not, I think it is safe to say, be discussed in our major media outlets, or in polite society, anytime soon.
December 8, 2021 – 12:35 am
Sorry not to have been writing more. (Soon the Muse will nag me again, I hope.) So, instead: I bet you’ve never heard of Devin Townsend. Headphones on, and brace yourself.
December 4, 2021 – 6:12 pm
From the UK Daily Standard: Up to 300,000 people facing heart-related illnesses due to post-pandemic stress disorder, warn physicians These stories are popping up all over. I wonder if there’s something else that could be responsible…
November 29, 2021 – 10:10 pm
Here we go: With the help of a supercomputer running AI software, boffins at an American university have created a new life-form they call “xenobots”, which are are tiny, motile blobs of tissue made from frog stem-cells. Under the guidance of the AI — which, as AIs tend to do these days, took off on […]
November 29, 2021 – 6:58 pm
Wellfleet Harbor today, in a late-November mood:
November 29, 2021 – 3:15 pm
Please watch — this might not be up for long.
November 25, 2021 – 12:04 pm
This day, my favorite holiday of the year, is consecrated to remembering the vital importance of gratitude. Yes, things are not going well in America right now, but the story is far from over, and the strength of our good people is undiminished. Dum spiro spero!
November 21, 2021 – 11:00 pm
People are starting to peel away from the Democratic Party as it falls deeper into the gravity well of the Left Singularity. (Tulsi Gabbard is a prominent and recent example, but there are many others.) If readers will forgive me for saying “I told you so”, in a post four years ago I used an […]
November 19, 2021 – 7:36 pm
A splendid result in Kenosha today: Kyle Rittenhouse fully exonerated. The Left is writhing in fury, of course — which is yet another example of the fundamental, axiomatic incommensurability of the competing worldviews fighting for supremacy here in the tottering West. Our side sees a brave young man with a virile and virtuous impulse to […]
November 18, 2021 – 7:39 pm
Following on last week’s post, here’s an essay by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, José H. Gomez, called Reflections on the Church and America’s New Religions. The essay begins: An elite leadership class has risen in our countries that has little interest in religion and no real attachments to the nations they live in or […]
November 11, 2021 – 11:06 pm
I’ve been saying for a long time that what we are up against is a religion. (In 2017 I made the case contra Bill Vallicella, who was reluctant to apply the term.) At the very least, I think it’s helpful to borrow a technique from the philosopher Daniel Dennett, who coined the term “the intentional […]
November 10, 2021 – 10:43 pm
Ann Coulter reads the Build Back Better bill. Here.
November 8, 2021 – 1:34 pm
Way back in 2006, I noted that when there’s a concept out there that’s socially uncomfortable, whatever word we use to refer to it soon becomes freighted with the underlying awkwardness of the thing itself, so we have to discard that word and replace it with a new one. Before long the new word becomes […]
November 3, 2021 – 10:41 pm
Well, that was fun. Glenn Youngkin beat Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, and various other Democrats around the country, and Democrat propositions, were defeated. It was nice to see all those folks on the other side wailing and gnashing their teeth, and blaming the whole thing on ‘racism’ (which is pretty funny, given, say, the victory […]
October 29, 2021 – 6:38 pm
The lights are back on here on our little dirt road in Wellfleet, where the power had been out ever since the thrashing we got from that nor’easter on Tuesday night. We get a lot of these storms out here, but this was a pretty nasty one, and it knocked down an awful lot of […]
October 27, 2021 – 4:33 pm
We took quite a wallop from last night’s nor’easter here on the Outer Cape, with lots of trees down and widespread power outages. (I’m posting this with my phone.) We have no electricity, which means no heat, water, or internet. (I just got back from filling buckets at Long Pond.) Back when the lights come […]
October 27, 2021 – 12:00 am
As things fall apart in America, and talk of secession, “national divorce”, and civil war becomes more common, I’ve seen some people saying that the Sixties were just as bad, or worse — and that as bad as things were then, we got through it nevertheless, and hung together as a nation. There’s something to […]
October 25, 2021 – 11:09 pm
I mentioned in the previous post that I’ve just made some improvements to my mixing studio. I haven’t written very often about music and recording lately, so here’s a post about some of that. For most of my recording career (I got my start as a staff member at Power Station Studios back in the […]
October 20, 2021 – 10:32 pm
Well, we are slowly recuperating and establishing order. We are going through the daunting process of consolidating decades’ worth of accumulated possessions from two households into our modest dwelling here in Wellfleet, and it’s a slow go for the two of us, but we’re gradually getting there. There’s a lot going on in the world, […]
October 9, 2021 – 10:52 pm
Mission accomplished: we completed the move. It was a marathon on Thursday. The movers came at 7:30 a.m., loading the truck as Nina and I scrambled to make the place presentable for a final walk-through with the buyers at 1:30. We got on the road for Massachusetts about 2, with a plan to get to […]
October 6, 2021 – 12:33 pm
Well, this is it. Movers come at three today to pack, and early tomorrow we ship out. The lovely Nina and I have lived in this three-story house, on the park block of Ninth Street in Brooklyn, since March of 1982. We started out as tenants, then gradually took over the place. When the aging […]
October 3, 2021 – 12:58 pm
The “Spartacus Letter” mentioned in last Wednesday’s post discussed the use of graphene nanoparticles as a transducer for brain-computer interfaces, and expressed concerns that the vaccines now being forced on everyone — which are said to contain these particles — might in fact be an insidious step toward mass behavioral control. I said this seemed […]
September 29, 2021 – 7:14 pm
Sorry for the thin content here – we have one week here in Brooklyn till the movers come, and plowing through 40 years’ accumulated detritus, sorting what is to be moved, stored, sold, donated, and jettisoned, while taking care of last-minute medical stuff before we move 300 miles away from where all our doctors are, […]
September 26, 2021 – 10:28 pm
I lost a friend last Monday. His name was Alan Chevat. He was 72. I met Alan about twenty years ago when he came to study at the Yee’s Hung Ga kwoon in Brooklyn, where I was an instructor. We became friends right away. Alan was a very interesting man. He was Chief Attorney in […]
September 21, 2021 – 10:00 pm
Absolutely sickening news today: one of civilization’s great defenders, Angelo Codevilla, has died at the age of 78: struck and killed by a drunk driver as he walked home from church. Here is his author page at the Claremont Review of Books, and here is one of his most recent items, published at The American […]
September 14, 2021 – 4:47 pm
I wish Norm McDonald hadn’t died.
September 11, 2021 – 1:50 pm
The blank-slatist axiom at the heart of contemporary racialist Leftism is beginning — as was always inevitable, barring complete governmental suppression of all relevant research — to crumble under the patient advance of genetic and cognitive science. Here’s Steve Sailer, writing about this at Taki’s Magazine. Prediction: as this motte becomes indefensible, “luck egalitarianism” will […]
September 8, 2021 – 11:19 pm
Tucker Carlson interviewed Curtis Yarvin, AKA “Mencius Moldbug”, for an hour today. That’s quite a development, I think. Back at the end of July, I noted in a Twitter thread that a new and influential troika had taken shape: “Moldbug, [Michael] Anton, and BAP [“Bronze Age Pervert”] have emerged as the three corners of the […]
September 8, 2021 – 11:23 am
The lovely Nina and I, having sold the house in Brooklyn that we’ve lived in for almost 40 years, now have about three weeks to clear out of the place before closing with the buyers on or around September 30th. After a fantastic weekend of music in Maine, we are driving down to NY today […]
September 2, 2021 – 2:06 pm
I’m off to Maine for my annual musical retreat. (Used to be on Star Island, but now Maine for logistical reasons.) It’ll be good to push the world away for a minute and just make music with old friends. (These are the same folks I’ve been making those collaborative “lockdown’ videos with, for example this […]
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. […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]