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Nations don’t change their naval postures because they are content with the status quo. Nor are the world’s other navies focused on building smaller, less-capable warships for low-lethality tasks like combating piracy. The U.S. Navy’s retreat from the high seas … Continue reading →
We’re having a good ol’-fashioned nerd throwdown! Note: Does not depict actual ten-foot robot and enraged Slav.Just their souls. Image from wulffmorgenthaler.com Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Or Belisarius, what do you think? Thanks as ever to Flava Last. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →By Terry Teachout. If that doesn’t make you want to read it, there’s nothing I can add. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Like Confucius*, John Bolton is worried, though he’s not quite as blunt, as befits a diplomat. For years, foreign policy optimists have predicted that China’s rise to superpower status would be peaceful and responsible. But recent Chinese offensives, both domestic … Continue reading →
We don’t thank you people enough for stopping by…we would say if we weren’t a manipulative, conspiratorial cabal secretly running the world. Were we to thank the top towns in our top countries, it would—theoretically—go something like this. Thanks! Thank … Continue reading →
Congratulations, you bastards. I hope their families prosecute bloodfeuds against you. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…used to just be a metaphor. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Well, DT, the GOP will likely find itself in the same position it did during and after the Reagan recovery—the media-academic complex will rabidly attempt to deny them credit, but most people who lived through it won’t forget, and they’ll … Continue reading →
Johan Verner Öland,b. Nyby, Bjurholm, Västerbotten, Sweden The character, the phenomenon, and the amazing real detective who inspired his creation. If you don’t like this, we may have problems being friends. Or not. The Czar hates all fiction—and, indeed, is rendered … Continue reading →
The offices of Sens. Coburn & McCain have put out an entertaining pamphlet called Summertime Blues which lists 100 stimulus projects that seem a bit superfluous. Like: “Town Replaces New Sidewalks With Newer Sidewalks That Lead to Ditch.” Check it … Continue reading →
Paramount paid $32 million to North Koreafor the movie rights to this poster.True story. Two quick items for you to check out: First, Jonathan “Flava” Last has a fairly brilliant theory for why movie producers seem to think anti-American movies … Continue reading →
Of course, the presiding grand marshal was who you’d expect. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…from John Noonan at the Standard. He quotes Politico: The Air Force will hang on to its F-22 tooling at Lockheed Martin’s Marietta, Ga., production plant even after it stops making the fifth generation fighter jet in 2012, according to … Continue reading →
Herewith the latest dispatch from Dr. J. from the depths of New Atlantis, also bringing some love for Art Laffer. After the standard groveling, trembling prolegomena, which we omit as all of you should have the standard Gormogons stylebook at … Continue reading →
Great blog post by Roger Simon. Read the whole thing, but here’s the payoff: But these days, it seems, even the “mini-me” is being abandoned. The pretenses are gone. No more Mr. Good Guy, phony as he was. No more … Continue reading →
Turns out Howard Zinn was a card-carrying Communist and covered it up. Shocker. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Willi Münzenberg, who was in charge of Soviet operations to influence Western intellectuals, did a nice job. The payload was a simple formulation. Stephen Koch, for his book on Munzenberg, “Double Lives,” interviewed Willi’s wife, Babette Gross, who survived the … Continue reading →
Hmm. That doesn’t scan as well as it should. Still, hey, what’s keeping the Œcumenical Volgi up at night, playing insomnia chess with དགའ་པོ his Yeti assistant? War with China. You’ve heard this song before, but these days, it’s the … Continue reading →
Confucius* would be a little more fired up if this project hadn’t been pretty much the ne plus ultra of unfulfilled rumors, but, one has to say, this would rock pretty hard: EXCLUSIVE: Since he left The Hobbit, Guillermo del … Continue reading →
Nor will the facts about 1948 impress the European and American leftists who are part of the international Nakba coalition. The Nakba narrative of Zionism as a movement of white colonial oppressors victimizing innocent Palestinians is strengthened by radical modes … Continue reading →
John Podesta, head of the hard-left Center for American Progress which has been an important source of policy staffers for the Obama Administration, and Bill Clinton’s former “Secretary of S—” troubleshooter, is apparently a UFO conspiracy theorist, or at least … Continue reading →
State and local borrowing, once thought of as a way to finance essential infrastructure, has mutated into a source of constant abuse. Like homeowners before the housing bubble burst, states and cities have gorged on debt, extended repayment times, and … Continue reading →
You’ve made it clear that, deep down, you really don’t like the United States. In that, you are like many of your Ivy confrères, all those Harvard-Yale-Princeton types who find the spectacle of individual freedom playing itself out irredeemably vulgar. … Continue reading →
…Panic on the streets of BirminghamI wonder to myselfCould life ever be sane again? ♫ So, yeah, remember the guy Obama knew he couldn’t get through Congress, so gave him a recess appointment as head of Medicaid & Medicare? Right, … Continue reading →
…are we going to have to have this fight over every goddamned decision these evil bastards make?! Yes, evil. They’re going to let people die because they don’t believe it’s in “society’s” interest that they live. Evil. In September, the … Continue reading →
♪ Entire towns with only one last name! ♪ ♪ Cross-eyed, slack-jawed, we all look the same! ♪ Apologies to all our Mountaineer readers. The Gormogons actually adore the state, and have at least one secret base in the mountains … Continue reading →
By David Malki @ Wondermark, to whom all thanks and praise. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Go read this whole piece by R.R. Reno on the Vatican and her ham-fisted responses over the last few years to the various abuse scandals. Don’t worry. It’s not another who-struck-John (or who-fondled-John) roundelay of blame apportionment. It’s a shrewd … Continue reading →
Angelo Codevilla in the American Spectator (Thanks, Jonah.): Today’s ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and … Continue reading →
Pictures of the devastation are coming in. Heartbreaking. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Royal Surgeon, Dr. J., writes in to Castle G to present his report on the former Vice President’s condition. Unclassified excerpts follow. Dread and powerful Volgi, [Finally, someone consults the stylebook! —ŒV] Your Royal Surgeon wishes Vice President Cheney … Continue reading →
But Vespucci, it turns out, had no direct role in the naming of America. He probably died without ever having seen or heard the name. A closer look at how the name was coined and first put on a map, … Continue reading →
New York and London have long competed to be the global capital of global capital. With plenty of business to go around, the competition has usually been friendly; now, as the West’s financial industry shrinks, it could become fierce. London … Continue reading →
Oh, no, I see. Yeah, that’s not so good. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →KAMPALA, Uganda — Simultaneous explosions tore through crowds watching the World Cup final at a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant, killing at least 64 people including one American, officials said. Police feared an Al Qaeda-linked Somali militant group was … Continue reading →
Andrei Sakharov, Nelson Mandela, Václav Havel, Lech Walesa: in the 1980s, these men were household names, winners of extraordinary victories against bestial tyrannies. Western politicians and intellectuals supported and encouraged them, and our solidarity contributed to the liberation of hundreds … Continue reading →
But we aren’t dogmatists: Americans are debating whether to substantially expand the size of their government. As Swedish economists who live in the developed world’s largest welfare state, we urge our friends in the New World to look carefully before … Continue reading →
Sorry, KM, the pre-Islamic Allāh (either a proper name, perhaps from Aramaic alāhā, or a contraction of al-ilāh, “the god, deity, the one worshipped”) was a supreme—though not sole—god in the Arabian or perhaps Meccan pantheon. He was more of … Continue reading →
…over at WSJ.com. Great piece on the history, nature, and appeal of wargaming, tabletop and computerized. Go read. Go. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →So the Doc sends in this story, beautifully illustrating the degree to which liberal governance is parting ways with the rule of law, with the question What would happen if the Republicans just decided not to show up for the … Continue reading →
…but I’m not NOT saying it’s one of his lovely female cousins—Miss West Virginia in the heezy.* (NSFW language.) *Heezy here denoting a doublewide with tarpaper patching and a satellite dish slightly smaller than the Arecibo radio telescope. Confucius, Œc. … Continue reading →
Dr. J, who didn’t spend all those years in basketball school for you to call him mister, writes in: President Obama said today that his administration is not one that will kick the can down the road. So next on … Continue reading →
Two overarching reasons explain the failure of Obamanomics. First, administration economists and their outside supporters neglected the longer-term costs and consequences of their actions. Second, the administration and Congress have through their deeds and words heightened uncertainty about the economic … Continue reading →
Well, well, 1,812 veterans may have been exposed to AIDS, hep B or C, after dental work at a St. Louis V.A. hospital. And note the allusion to this story as well. As we’ve asked before—shouldn’t the government be required … Continue reading →
Amazingly, at the Mandarin’s wedding, he actually got up and said, “Remove the Earth woman! Prepare her for Our pleasure!” If you can turn this movie off late-night cable, your Tool of the Gormogons membership may be revoked. It’s got … Continue reading →
Some quality Balmer bashing over at KSK. Their flag does rock, though. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →He was born in the 19th century, wrote his most influential book more than 65 years ago, and he’s not quite as well known or beloved as the sexy Mexican actress who shares his last name. Yet somehow, Friedrich Hayek … Continue reading →
In regards to the Czar‘s post on the typology of various South African terrorist groups as left or right, the Volgi would like to add that it shouldn’t be forgotten that apartheid, like most social-engineering projects, was a result of … Continue reading →
T. Coddington van Voorhees VII rotasubteriates Barry O: I and my guests were momentarily stunned, this being the first time any of us had heard an ill word spoken about Mr. Obama by a European of impeccable intellect with the … Continue reading →
Illinois and Wisconsin residents have an excuse. A gun mention from 2003 in this article. And, seriously, New Mexicans, drive out the Imam, and it’s Karbala all over again. Like Jacques de Molay, Val will be avenged. Via John Lott. … Continue reading →
First, in 2008 the British public heavily invested in candidate Obama as a long-awaited social-democratic anti-Bush. Four years earlier, in 2004, the British media had closely followed the American presidential election, with some commentators haughtily berating the voters of Ohio … Continue reading →
You know, folks like Noonan and Mort Zuckerman whining about Obama, after they praised him, pushed him, and voted for him in the face of all the evidence that led less besotted observers to see him for the empty suit … Continue reading →
Gabriel Schoenfeld asks: But an interesting question to ask about the policy is: Why is the United States always the supplicant? We have enormous military and economic power. Yet no countries are begging for talks with us. Part of … Continue reading →
See Gamma Squad for an explanation. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →With some sort of psychoactive chewing gum. Thanks, Flava. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →…is your read of the week. I’m not even excerpting it, it’s so good. Read it entire and savor in the brutal, brilliant destruction of some useful idiot, fellow-traveller moron journalists’ fatuous, ignorant sucking up to the fascist Chinese regime. … Continue reading →
Nonetheless, a universal connection links every living American with those who have fallen or will fall in American wars and overrides the lapses in sustaining and honoring their memories. We are and shall be connected to them by debt and … Continue reading →
David Frum on the Left’s view of Israel. You will perhaps recall this as pretty much the definition of the Fallacy of Foreign-Policy Egocentrism and your Volgi’s railing against it. For those who came in late, the Fallacy of Foreign-Policy … Continue reading →
I know you’re excited about your Crimes Against Nature® experiments, but for 正名’s sake, keep them off the internet. Otherwise, how the hell are the Freemasons going to be surprised when we hit them with your army of Bōjutsu Bears? … Continue reading →
These attacks, orchestrated by Japan’s infamous Unit 731 between 1932 and 1945, are the only documented mass use of germ weapons in modern times. Scholars say that we will never know exactly how many were killed. Sheldon H. Harris, the … Continue reading →
The earth is moving under our feet. In a development that’s rather jaw-dropping in light of historical attitudes, the Russian Orthodox Church is proclaiming itself “no longer a competitor but an ally” of the Roman Catholic Church when it comes … Continue reading →
Much more toy-stormtrooper awesomeness here. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →In the hot Washington afternoon, in one of those endlessly bustling government offices, there sits a man named Michael J. Astrue, the fifty-four-year-old head of the Social Security Administration. Competent, organized, bald, and busy, he is not a politician, exactly, … Continue reading →
Via Greg Ransom. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Invisible A—holes Elena Kagan and America’s Rude Legacy of anti-Harvard Bigotry Guest Opinionby Professor John Evans Evans-JohnHarvard School of Harvard A—hole StudiesHarvard University When I last visited these pages, in the wake of the Cambridge Police Department’s brutal treatment of … Continue reading →
He’s hoping they pass gay marriage, because after this press-conference moment de pwnage, as they say in France, he can’t quit Chris Christie. Well played, Governor. Via Big Journalism & Save Jersey. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that … Continue reading →
The first movie star I ever saw was a disappointment. Beautiful on screen, in life she turned out to be scrawny, sullen and surly. No eye contact, no communication save muttered bromides, she clearly hated meeting the press. Her hair … Continue reading →
Dr. J, who must be typing on his laptop in a rowboat drifting down a boulevard somewhere, writes in again today asking The Notorious (President) BHO has nominated Ms. Kagan to the SCOTUS. As Solicitor General, she lost the landmark … Continue reading →
Царь наш, of course the North Koreans didn’t figure out nuclear fusion this week. Kim Jong-Il discovered fusion as a child of four and never again did physics, lest lesser scientists be intimidated by his world-conquering genius which additionally explains … Continue reading →
So Jonah’s engaged in a debate about Wilson and Wilsonianism with a C.K. McLeond. [My bad. —ŒV] McLeod seems to recoil at the conservative critique of Wilson because Wilson was a president of the United States who had a number … Continue reading →
Update: Now with pictures! That Dr. J had sent originally, but the Volgi just noticed. He blames the Liao Drug. But, you may be asking yourself, how does a healthy 41-year-old get felled by a stroke out of the blue? … Continue reading →
Everyone thought Hermann Simm deserved to be honored. It was Monday, Feb. 6, 2006, and he was dressed in his best suit to attend the day’s event. He had been invited to Estonia’s presidential palace to accept the “Order of … Continue reading →
Well said, ’Puter. Wrong, but well said. Here’s the thing. Let’s presume she’s a lesbian. To draw a straight line from that to her disgraceful keeping military recruiters out of HLS and her presumed support of gay marriage is easy—and … Continue reading →
Uncle Jay (who’s on the Blog Pimp Roll, check him out chez lui) writes in to note that he’s spotted the Thirteenth Imam (huckleberry be upon him) in the trailer for the new MacGruber movie. On a semi-positive, did you … Continue reading →
Under the rubric “Liberal Fascism: The Font,” Jonah points us to this fun piece on the documentary Helvetica, by Ed Driscoll (whose blog is also linked at left). Mr. D. writes (emphasis ours): And just check out the block of … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →SOCOM is putting the SCAR in the field. (Both the 5.56mm Mk 16 [at right] and the 7.62mm Mk 17 for those of you scoring at home.) This is a pretty big deal in small arms as it’s the most … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →As the Gormogons’ arbiter, Confucius, the Œcumencial Volgi, hereby declares the Mandarin and the Czar to have won this year’s hockey bet. Congratulations, and enjoy your booty. Sleestak, you may unlock the slivovitz locker and unchain the vodka barrels. Confucius, … Continue reading →
But funny. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →So, Puter and the Czar have been talking about Arizona, la migra, etc. For my part, I’d like to just note that American Hispanics’ support for Democrats is not tied to immigration perhaps quite as closely as is implied. Hispanics … Continue reading →
Wow. I mean, wow. In an unprecedented step, the Russian State Archive published documents showing how Soviet leader Joseph Stalin approved the World War Two massacre proposed by his secret police henchman Lavrenty Beria. Other prominent members of the ruling … Continue reading →
Not the Gormogons, ahem, approve of beating racist jackasses down, but we are amused by this story: So a punk rocker named Jimmy Gestapo plays a gig at a Jewish-owned club in Philadelphia. And a few hard-core fans show up … Continue reading →
Via John Derbyshire on the Corner. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Otherwise, we’d be having to manhunt the Czar in England. Why? The fair English rose at right would be a Czar magnet. Let’s go down the list of desiderata: • Cute Laura Hall, 20 Sure, cute enough. plus a low-cut … Continue reading →
…and demagogue but that doesn’t mean he was wrong about everything. Writes Ron Radosh: That is precisely why the new article by Jennifer Delton is of such importance. For the first time, a young historian at a major liberal arts … Continue reading →
…but this is a pretty funny—and way more moral—form of revenge. The site revolutionislam.com, which threatened Matt Stone & Trey Parker with death for their Muhammad-themed jokes in the 200th episode of South Park, was hacked thusly: Update: Looks like the … Continue reading →
Asks Friend of the Gormogons Jonah Goldberg over at Commentary. You’ll want to check it out, comment, etc. Possible commentary coming later… Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Confucius is a bit of a crank on the topic of DDT and how its effective banning by green groups has led to something like a hundred million unnecessary deaths by malaria since 1972, 90% of whom were likely pregnant … Continue reading →
’Puter argues that potential Supreme Court justice and current Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s refusal to self-identify as a lesbian damages her credibility (and maybe a little less reasonably that this disqualifies her from the Court). Confucius, your Œcumenical Volgi, tends … Continue reading →
Patty-Patty Buke-Buke* sees white ethnonationalism on the rise. Which, over the years, he seems to think the key to preserving the (white?) Republic against the multi-culti left-wing onslaught. This is, of course, insane. However much one may deplore the injustices … Continue reading →
This is some pretty good satire, reminiscent of In Living Color and Chapelle’s Show, and dynamite screen presence. Enjoy. More at her YouTube channel here. No idea what her politics are, so don’t bitch to the Volgi if you’re offended … Continue reading →
Царь наш, In regards to your earlier post about the obscurantist ẖojatoleslām who was blaming seismic activity on the wiles of wanton women.* Obviously, sure, Eyjafjallajökull’s eruption was caused by Mandy’s Tectonomat® because he needed to short some airline stocks … Continue reading →
Say that three times fast. From adept J.S.. Check it out. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Granted that almost all of Obama’s exciting, innovative “change we can believe in” turns out to have been exhumed direct from the sclerotic Seventies to stagger around like a rotting zombie in polyester bell-bottoms from some straight-to-video sequel, there’s still … Continue reading →
What a relief. I don’t know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they’re capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn’t scored that … Continue reading →
In 1928, D.H. Lawrence wrote a poem entitled “How Beastly the Bourgeois Is” in which he compared the middle class to a “fungus, living on the remains of a bygone life/sucking his life out of the dead leaves of greater … Continue reading →
Confucius* has some things to say about the repercussions of the shocking loss of most of the senior officials in the Polish government—near Katyń no less—but they’ll have to wait for a more propitious moment. Confucius would like to make … Continue reading →
