Monthly Archives: May 2024

Nerdstalgic is one of those YouTube channels where at first it’s hard to tell if this is one of those AI content farms or just an annoying collection of things that you thought you would like but naaah.  Then the narrator/writer/bqhatevwr goes on to make mistakes that only a person would, such as saying that a thing was hotly “debated over” rather than “debated”, and referring to LOTR Trilogy director Peter Jackson’s colleagues as his “cohorts” rather than his cohort; a use which already stretches acceptability.  This sort of thing keeps up, and then he gets the topic all wrong as well, that being why Jackson infamously omitted the key chapter “The Scouring of The Shire” from the end of his movie trilogy.

Nevermind most of his bad … Continue reading →

I realize that every day is the most important day, and every election is the most important election and so forth, but I have two points.

• First, I’m still stuck into the claim I made in 2011/2012 that Obama’s re-election was for all the marbles — the fact that he won in 2012 meant that Americans had seen Marxism up close and personal and still voted for more of it.
• Second, I just cannot shake this feeling that this year is warming up economic, international, and political debacles in a foul combination not seen in decades.

I don’t know what, I don’t know where, and in general, I am out of the prediction business.  So allow me to scamper into the roadside weeds of “Gee, it … Continue reading →

Most folks here know me from the cafe across the street, and know that I am pro-Israel and pro-Jew.  You may not know that I got tossed out of there for (most proximally) calling the reprehensible anti-Semite lawyer from the southwest a “broken toilet of a man” for his continued dancing-with-the-rules harassment of this one lady over there whom we all like a lot.  Except that one jerk who didn’t like her at all — I helped get him chased out of there.

I broke the rules, and I’ll accept my fate.  I’m as proud of my enemies as I am of my friends — no need to thank me.

But comes now before us this awful law which proposes to protect Jews and will instead outlaw Christianity, … Continue reading →