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The hue and cry over “fake news” is not complicated, but it is disturbing.  I hate crap as much as the next guy, but the #FakeNews nonsense is classic censorship with a progressive twist.  The two-fold goals are to get the government in the business of shutting down publication of conservative thought, and to attach a stigma to Trump’s victory that even the offended wings of the GOP will accede to.

Bullshit is still bullshit, and you still need to regularly tune your bullshit filters to get through life — same way you need an ID card to exist in the real world.  But in the Progressive police state, an ID card is too hard to get, and the existence of incorrect thoughts cannot be borne by a … Continue reading →

For some reason, you must enter an even wager for $1 — win or lose — on one of two outcomes, but there’s a twist: Instead of a fifty-fifty choice like a coin toss, or picking 1-3 or 4-6, this one is pretty easy.  Using a fair die (not crooked or “funny” in any way), you can bet that it will show 1,2,3, or 4 on the one hand, or you can bet that it will show 5 or 6 on the other.  Those are your choices — 1-4, or 5-6.  You know that if you had to do this a hundred times, you would come out money ahead by standing on 1-4, as this will win two times of three.

However, you only have one swing at … Continue reading →

Good to see you!  I have upgraded your account, so you can play in all the sandboxen.  Glad you’re here.

Have had a stomach ache for days now, and Thanksgiving dinner gives me a great opportunity to bellyache about it and chalk it up to being s-o-o full.  It’s the kind of thing where  full and hungry and grouchy all at once, but fear not — I suspect the grouchiness is a pre-existing condition.

Anyway, it’s probably nothing a little coffee and a sammich won’t take care of.

I ran into a couple of people at the Black Friday sale, once I did wrest my bad self off the couch for the last time. Good stuff.  I was just … Continue reading →

The history of the Thanksgiving Holiday is complicated, but the intent is not. Here is part of the story.

My favorite line?

…to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them…

I just had a whopping Thanksgiving dinner at the swankmost US joint in Tokyo, the New Sanno Hotel.  Wife and son and I took another little guy who has been my son’s friend since they were just peas in a pod at the day care.  Also ran into some friends.  This year, I have much to be thankful for.  Kind of like every year.

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Witness the power of this fully operational Congressional Oversight Committee:

There is a cry on the right for a rapprochement, a “healing” and a “coming together”, a “moving forward” between the NeverTrump termites on one hand, and decent, upstanding conservatives on the other, although not everybody phrases it exactly so.  The usual caveats apply, and I am pretty sure you can see where I stand on the business — I’m agin’ it.  This is not mere bitterness, although I cop to that, and not mere orenreiness, which I will confess to, nor mere score-settling, although … you get the point.  Plenty of poor adjectives may be applied to my refusal to entertain this nonsense, and I have never shied away from the use of poor adjectives, except to enrich them.

There is a reason that the NeverTrump divide … Continue reading →

It’s a nice car.  Oldish Honda Odyssey, the Japanese version, smaller than you think.  More like an Accord wagon.

I’m doing shift work now, in a good way.  It also gives me the odd days off at home, but today was dedicated to sleep.  Ahhhh, sleep.  Mmmm, good good sleep.

An article in Michael Booberg’s outfit uses classic sales tactics to propagandize the meaning of the word “Populism”.

When you first encounter the word “populism,” you might think it’s a close cousin of democracy, with all the positive connotations that go along with it. And for some, it may well seem a purer form of a process by which politicians harness the will of the majority.
But that’s only part of the picture. Populism—ostensibly a belief in the rights, wisdom, or virtues of the common people—often requires a bogeyman, be it an existing government, the supposed cultural elite, the media, or a particular ethnic, racial, or religious group.

Let’s take that in parts, shall we? In the first paragraph, there’s the obvious trap that you (according … Continue reading →