The Czar and the Mandarin went off shooting on Friday, and put rather a lot of rounds down different types of weapons. However, the Czar noted that he has never, somehow, done a review of a rifle. Not sure how … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin put one of these on ‘Puter’s desk this morning.We haven’t seen ‘Puter all day. This thing has him totally preoccupied. Courtesy Uncle Jay. The MandarinThe Mandarin, whose real name is 吏恆, joined the order in 1309, and introduced … Continue reading →
In the wake of the news, you have been hearing the phrase “identity politics” a lot. Due to the overreach of the present political scene, many folks are being forced to get involved in politics for the first time; it … Continue reading →
MLP – Nerdy or Geeky? At the beginning of the month, GorT in true GorTastic style wrote a terrific post on geeks and nerds using the six of us as foils to make his point. Indeed he pretty much had … Continue reading →
Contemplative Dog sadly contemplatesthe state of modern debate and rhetoric,particularly on gay marriage. Shortly aftersitting for this photo, Contemplative Dogassuaged her melancholy, returning to licking herself, Bill the Cat style. To say ‘Puter’s conflicted on gay rights generally and gay … Continue reading →
Could the Czar be any happier than to have not one but two highly respected epistolarians offer sweet prose on different topics, each of which deserves a response. First, in order of arrival, is Borepatch, who delights us with a … Continue reading →
‘Your love is better than ice cream…’ Sarah McLachlan President Obama spake* today regarding the SCOTUS with the MOSTUS: On an issue as sensitive as this, knowing that Americans hold a wide range of views based on deeply held beliefs, … Continue reading →
Faithful minion @Blacknsam reminded ‘Puter that he has not yet provided his thoughts on today’s rulings. ‘Puter retorted that he had in fact done a write up of the last week’s goings on at the United States Supreme Court, to … Continue reading →
By spice, Dr. J. means energy. Dr. J. has said in the past that cheap and plentiful energy is the heart of a robust economy. It is the engine that drives everything else. Similarly, the economy struggles when energy becomes … Continue reading →
A popular video is shooting around the Internet in which Natalie Foster—a woman, evidently—is advocating two things: that women need to get into shooting because it’s fun, and that male shooters need to be supportive of women when shooting. The … Continue reading →
Earlier this morning in his post on Fisher v. University of Texas, ‘Puter closed by stating “Justice Ginsburg is a laughingstock and no longer should be permitted to take part in Court decisions.” ‘Puter promised to provide an explanation for … Continue reading →
Yeah, pretty much everything stops when LTC(R) Dan writes in. The Gormogons, as you well know, enjoy considerable military acquaintanceship, but we probably all give pause when LTC Dan writes in because, as you know, he is as smart as … Continue reading →
‘Puter finally found some time to read the Supreme Court’s Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin decision. In its decision, a nearly unanimous court stated the lower appellate court (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit) failed … Continue reading →
A few years ago, Clan J. was shopping at the New Atlantis Mall, and as we’re walking in the direction of the Godiva store, a couple of older teens, one of whom was blond walked out of the store. The … Continue reading →
There was, back in the early days of the Tea Party, a movement afoot to make incoming Congressional freshman take a half-day seminar on the Constitution. This is probably a very good idea, given how many idiotic comments members of … Continue reading →
Dr. J. received this inter-castle memo over the weekend from Confucius ( 孔夫子), the Œcumenical Volgi (The Notorious ŒV): To: GorT, Ghettoputer, The Czar of Muscovy, The Inscrutable Mandarin, Dr. J. From :孔夫子, the Œcumenical Volgi (The Notorious ŒV) Re: … Continue reading →
Mrs. GorT and I attended a 3D showing of the new Superman movie, Man of Steel last night. It was chosen largely because its timing coincided with the One Direction concert that one of our daughters attended with a friend. … Continue reading →
For a while there, maybe as long as three weeks ago, some people were compiling lists of Obama-era scandals just to keep track of them. Indeed, it seemed every week another insulting or embarrassing leak was happening that showed what … Continue reading →
You can go back in time, but DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING…wait, maybe not touching anything will change the future…I HATE TEMPORAL MECHANICS! The Grandfather Paradox is the idea that if you had a time machine, (like GorT) and you went back … Continue reading →
‘Puter read with jaw fully dropped this account at The Fiscal Times of yesterday’s Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing on government’s security clearance process. Succinctly, the government has no standard process for granting security clearances, leaving it to the arbitrary … Continue reading →
The Czar has finished reading Glenn Beck’s latest book Control: Exposing the Truth About Guns and wanted to beat the Mandarin (a) to a book review and (b) with a hockey stick. We shall tackle (a) here today. The book … Continue reading →
When We Saw the Dude Nailed to the Plus Sign on the Wall in Math Class…We Knew The Teacher Meant Business! GorT beat Dr. J. to the punch regarding President Obama’s poor choice of words in Northern Ireland, but Dr. … Continue reading →
Obama is in Northern Ireland for the G8 Summit and in front of over 2,000 young people many of whom are Catholic, he made the following statement: If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have … Continue reading →
All right, it has come down to this so the Czar pretty much is going to come out and say it: Barack Obama is not fooling anyone anymore. Set aside the polls showing his support collapsing (except in the African-hyphen-American … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers: One could misconstrue The Czar’s posting of the magnificent Operative BG’s transmission as him running his own version of PRISM on your other Gormogons, but the reality is that BG’s communication, like many receive is an open letter … Continue reading →
On the subject of “America the Beautiful,” and whether it would make a good national anthem, Borepatch himself writes in to remind you: Agree 100%. Ray Charles used to do a beautiful rendition of this, and would often open the … Continue reading →
Special secret ghost operative, helpfully named Ghost, writes in from the Mandarin’s Proving Grounds Road Tour: Dread Lord, I was driving through Dallas the other day, and this ad kept replaying on XM radio about a new channel that is … Continue reading →
Long, long-time Operative BG sends this in by home-made satellite transceiver: I keep hearing radio this commercial extolling how tough comprehensive immigration reform will be, telling me I should support it because Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan support it. Big … Continue reading →
A trio from Island Dweller, who now posts here more frequently than our own Confucius,* now concludes: Your immenseness: It would seem we have our lower-level supervisor who, according to the media, was directly responsible for providing guidance to anti-tea … Continue reading →
And another from Island Dweller worth your time: Your most imperial highness, “Politico,” June 13 2013, reports members of both houses of Congress and their staffers are beginning to leave Capitol Hill en masse as their govt-subsidized health plans will … Continue reading →
Island Dweller could pretty well give the Czar a week off with his submissions! Here is one of three: Your illustrious majesty: A recent string-telephone conversation with Esteemed Associate, still in the bowels of the Federal beast, prompted me to … Continue reading →
The Czar has been remiss, and has much mail to go through. Through which to go? Yeah, probably the latter. Anyhow, erc wrote in a while back: Your Czarness: Your post of June 8th reminded me of the old joke: … Continue reading →
The Czar once cut off the entire left side of a guy’s body, but he’s all right now. There are some things the Czar is good at that most folks might not have expected. These include: —Dishwashing. The Czar enjoys … Continue reading →
Happy Fathers Day to all of our readers who are fathers or who have fathers! Let’s take a look around Castle Gormogon to see what the Fathers Day Fairy brought your Gormogon Overlords, Fathers to All, muah ha ha ha … Continue reading →
The Czar’s first job was, well, Czar. The Czar has been around almost 750 years and in that time has learned many languages, worked on many skills, seen considerable amounts of history, and read many books. But there are some … Continue reading →
GorT figured that with all the swirl regarding PRISM, Mr. Snowden, and the other recent leaks about various aspects of the country’s intelligence collection programs, that I’d weigh in on a few things: 1. The initial reports of Snowden being … Continue reading →
Today, as you know, is Flag Day. Although the Czar was born several centuries ago in the steppes of Russia, he was quick to follow the progress of the American Revolution. We came to this country in 1776 and have … Continue reading →
A scene from last year’s birthday celebration. Your own birthday was probably something similar. Today is the Czar’s birthday. He expects nor requires any well wishes from you types, as he is well aware how difficult it is to find … Continue reading →
By now, you all know about little Sally, our sad little dog who is scared of many things. Sally, just the cutest little Shetland Sheepdog We are big proponents of animal rescue. Not just because it saves the lives of … Continue reading →
“Boy, as a really, really observant RomanCatholic, am I looking forward to meetingJesus. He’ll be so proud of me, increasingthe rights of His womyn creatures to indiscriminately slaughter their young.” ‘Puter’s governor, the ever-delightful Andrew Cuomo, has come up with … Continue reading →
Today, we get to know the Царевич, our 8-year-old who celebrated his birthday two days ago. The Czar and the Boy catch up with the Okhrana’s latest and woefully inept gossip. These are the stoops who told us Romney would … Continue reading →
Today we will spend a little time with the Czar’s 10-year-old. Serf’s up! Here we are waiting for the borzois to come out while our neighbors watch. As the elder of the two boys, he receives the special title Цесаревич. … Continue reading →
Cole Porter, who understoodwitch hunts, would not be amusedby our president’s disregard of Americans’ right to be secure fromunwarranted government invasionof our personal lives. ‘Puter loves him some American standards, like Night and Day, sung by Ella Fitzgerald, which … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. stumbled across this over at the Geeks are Sexy blogsite. For those of our readers who have been following the Higgs Boson story (for which not a lot has been going on since the recent ‘discovery’ … Continue reading →
Today, the Czar will tell you all about his beloved Царица, who is better than a queen. A царица is like an empress, but is a much better shot. Here she is, and she is wonderful. The Царица teaches little … Continue reading →
Welcome back. The Czar has, we hope, convinced you that he is a nice enough and ordinary guy like yourself. Or girl. No, the Czar is not a nice and ordinary girl. This introduction is a total failure. All right: … Continue reading →
Novel data presentation has always been something Dr. J. has been fond of. Similarly, regional dialect differences is also a subject of casual study for Dr. J. He largely has his 7th grade linguistics teacher to blame for this, but … Continue reading →
It gets exhausting trying to list the many ways liberals, Democrats, and progressives annoy the Czar and make life difficult for normal folks. The Czar thought he would perhaps take a break from exposing stupid people and spend some time … Continue reading →
Today is the 69th anniversary of D-Day when the Allied forces started the push to re-take Europe from the Nazis. It is an event that is worth learning more about to understand the drive, coordination, and perseverance of those involved … Continue reading →
Only Trebek knows the secrets ‘Puterholds deep within his, tiny, shriveled,black heart. And within ‘Puter’sno-no hole, but that’s another story. Wow. ‘Puter gets buried under an avalanche of work for a few days and comes back to find some truly … Continue reading →
Dr. J.’s post the other day offering up Colin Salmon as the 12th Doctor caught the eye of a few of readers. It even made GorT and the Czar quip. The first came in a series of tweets from a … Continue reading →
Several friends pointed me at this excellent article that differentiates the terms “nerd” and “geek”, as I circulated it among various nerds and geeks, I got this picture in response: Let me first pull a few salient points from the … Continue reading →
The news that the Obama administration seized millions of ordinary Americans’ phone records for some undisclosed reason has everybody stumped. We thought we would each do a reaction to the story and then select the best one to post. We … Continue reading →
Many of you will remember back in 1999 when the Y2K bug was all the rage. Suddenly, all these retired COBOL programmers were brought back as high-paid consultants to turn -00 into 1900. Reportedly, some programmers made more in 1999 … Continue reading →
Two missives from Island Dweller worth sharing: Most exalted one,It seems the IRS agents who sang so freely about methods employed to harass and stymie conservative tax-exempt organizations in their application or renewal process have declined to identify those high-ranking … Continue reading →
Chicago has had many fine police superintendents over the years, and when the Occupy twits hoped to stage a monster riot in Chicago a while back, Chicago’s Garry McCarthy showed superb organization and an understanding of how riots spread; he … Continue reading →
As many readers know, several of your Gormogons grew up in Maryland and GorT continues to maintain a residence there. A pointer to this topic came across the Pedabit network pipe into the castle from GorT, Sr.: Three separate, independent … Continue reading →
Rockin’ the Gallifreyan Robes Gentle Readers, Dr. J. learned over the weekend that Matt Smith will be completing his run as the 11th Doctor on Doctor Who after the 2013 Christmas Special. Dr. J.’s been a big fan of the … Continue reading →
Dr. J. caught this on his morning trawl through teh interwebz and found this fun piece on io9: This is a political map of Pangea using modern nation borders. Dr.J. not only finds the idea of beachfront property in Tibet tantalizing … Continue reading →
Still not looking good for our president’s second term. Ah yes, the IRS has finally agreed to eye contact with the typical American voter. Polls are showing a steady erosion of support for him—actually, the good tidings are over—and a … Continue reading →
The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of … Continue reading →
