Payback against the soccer players…
…who dared to wear green wristbands. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Confucius, Œc. Vol.
Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.
Obama & Iran: Better late than never?
Maybe, but Mike Goldfarb says, “Why the hell can’t he get it right the first time? Again?!” Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Obama & Iran: Better & Better
More credit where it’s due. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Afghanistan: Not a winning strategy.
PR trumps war-fighting? Hearts and minds are very important, but killing the enemy is more important. Plus, you make this call, and immediately every Taliban stronghold will be surrounded by a ring of hostages. They’ll strap babies to their chests … Continue reading →
Come for the Jonahlanche, stay for the cabaret!
Welcome, NRO readers! And thanks for the link, Mr. G! Poke around, enjoy our unique blend of bloviation, nonsense, and globe-spanning fiendish plots I’m Confucius, the Gormogons’ Œcumenical Volgi. My partners in world domination here at Castle Gormogon are, in … Continue reading →
A shot at the very foundations of the Islamic Republic
If the protests fail, this guy’s on the short list for a bullet in the head if he ever goes back: “The principle of Velayat e-Faqih is neither intuitively obvious nor rationally necessary,” Mr. Kadivar wrote. “It is neither a … Continue reading →
Insane Middle-Eastern Conspiratorialism: Persian Division
Great piece by the often-deranged Christopher Hitchens. He’s dead right, incidentally. Britain was the grand villain in Middle Eastern conspiracy theory until the ’70s, when the U.S. largely took over. But that doesn’t mean the Queen and the rest of … Continue reading →
Talk about inflation
Iran’s charging families three grand for the bullet that killed their kid. (The family doesn’t get the bullet—they get the body.) Back in the old days, the Chinese bullet fee (子弹费) was only $38. The Chinese must be kicking themselves. … Continue reading →
Cookie pushers push cookies at Iranian government. Literally.
Ladies & Gentlemen, your Department of State: WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States said Monday its invitations were still standing for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 celebrations at US embassies despite the crackdown on opposition supporters.President Barack Obama’s administration … Continue reading →
Intel reform: Obama stirring up a hornet’s nest?
Looks like he’s got his own law-enforcement-paradigm intel reform up his sleeve. And the big loser? The CIA. Prepare for big-time bureaucratic war. The Obama administration is preparing a grand downgrading of the Central Intelligence Agency’s lead role in the … Continue reading →
S.E. Cupp: Boxer & the General
She rips Boxer apart over the same ’70s lunatic dinosaur feminism that the Volgi & Czar did: …The venomous brand of feminism that cuts men off at the knees to make women arbitrarily taller is no longer credible. When Boxer … Continue reading →
Who says the military has no sense of humor?
The item in question: The names of the USAF’s first four Reapers. They are named Conquest, War, Famine and Death, after the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. “For the Americans, the Book of Revelations wins out every time”, Brookes said. … Continue reading →
Speaking of credit where it’s due.
How about Pixar’s performing corporal and spiritual works of mercy? Laudable! Exemplary! Just really frickin’ great. Dona ei requiem, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat ei. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Ha! Gitalong! Ha Gitalong! Working for the clampdown!
Rico Suave Lowry makes a very good point: 2) It may be that what we are witnessing here is a devilishly shrewd and effective crackdown, featuring a technological clampdown, targeted arrests at night, and brutality that falls shorts (for now) … Continue reading →
Re: حخاب
The Czar is correct. The veiling of women is actually an early-islamic syncretization of a Byzantine custom. There’s no basis for it in theology, but it is deeply acculturated in many parts of the Islamic world. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask … Continue reading →
Obama wants the mullahs to win…
…because he’s more sympathetic to them than the people. So argues Andy McCarthy: It’s a mistake to perceive this as “weakness” in Obama. It would have been weakness for him to flit over to the freedom fighters’ side the minute … Continue reading →
Systemic risk
Rather than waiting until the next cascade is imminent, and then following the usual modus operandi of propping up the handful of firms that seem to pose the greatest threat, it may be time for a new approach: preventing the … Continue reading →
Englishmen will ne’er be slaves!
Except to the welfare state apparently. You know, we bitch about defense cuts, but we’re comparatively lucky… Army faces biggest cuts since Crimea Caption: Sergeant McGregor, Scots Fusilier Guards (possibly this guy), is ticked. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions … Continue reading →
We’ve gone green.
In support of the revolutionaries in Iran. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Iran: Get smarter with Reuel Gerecht.
Here in the Standard. Here in the NYT. Mr. Gerecht notes that “Command the good; forbid the evil,” has been the religious-ideological justification for the “Islamic Republic.” One wonders if the ḥadîth, “My community will never agree upon an error,” … Continue reading →
Barack Obama! He’s Come to Save the Day!
Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Obama & Iran: Better
Stronger statement today. Still a little timid for your Volgi who thinks we can be more forthright without coming across as manipulative or “meddling.” But credit where it’s due: moving belatedly in the right direction. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent … Continue reading →
’Puter: Wrong! The correct answer is 134. 134. Issue number 6: what did you have for breakfast today?
Ok, given that Ghettoputer is staking out his ground as the all-seeing, all-loving, all-beneficent, Stuff White People Like® Gormogon lately, the Volgi must rule he’s dead wrong on Barbara Boxer and the general. Twice. And the Czar is right. The … Continue reading →
Happy Juneteenth! (But keep an eye on the Man.)
On the occasion of “Juneteenth,” the oldest and most recognized annual commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, members of the Project 21 black leadership network suggest the civil rights-themed holiday be used to celebrate freedoms that … Continue reading →
Rémi Brague
Spectacular interview with the Sorbonne professor of Cyclopean erudtion on the occasion of his Legend of the Middle Ages. Bears re-reading several times. Buy the book. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Aw, we’re flattered.
But we rock much harder. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Obama & Iran: Good piece by Steve Hayes
Over at the Standard. Under President Obama, our approach to Iran–the world’s foremost state sponsor of terror, a rogue regime racing toward nuclear capability–is not only not regime change, it’s de facto regime preservation. So he delicately sought to say … Continue reading →
If you read only one American pundit on Iran…
…make it Reuel Gerecht. He’s by far the most knowledgeable American writer out there with a profound understanding of the intelligence, military, cultural, and political context. His best guess: HH: Now this is Wednesday. Of course it’s now deep into … Continue reading →
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for this message from the President
A Special Message to the People of Iran By Barack ObamaPresident of the United States Greetings. As president of United States — or, if you prefer, the Great Satan — I have have been following with keen interest the vigorous … Continue reading →
Raptor still aloft?
Via Mike Goldfarb at the Standard, a WSJ piece showing the awesome power of a boldfaced Gormogon footnote. A House committee threw a wrench in the Obama administration’s plans to end Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-22 Raptor fighter program, voting instead … Continue reading →
Pimpin’ ain’t easy, #7
Thanks for the kind words on GorT’s “paint the world” opus, Bore Patch. You be happy to know that the Gormogons are reasonably well armed. Though we could always use more. Send guns and money. (Lawyers enough we got.) Enjoy … Continue reading →
Coup d’état! Coup d’état! Coup d’état!
What, no one else listened to the Repo Man soundtrack? Anyway, from Michael Totten over at Contentions, here’s more towards the theory that a Khâmene’î/Ahmadî-Nezhâd/IRGC coterie may have seized power within the government of Iran. His Kurdish correspondent seems quite … Continue reading →
Unforeseen Development! Supplication slapped down as impotence… Redux! [Updated]
We got your “not meddling” right here, buddy. (Savor that Reuters headline, too.) Man, if only there had been some precedent that would have allowed them to foresee this eventuality.* Let your Œc. Vol. be the first to state, incidentally, … Continue reading →
Iran: Don’t Believe the Hype. (And, Yo! Bum Rush the Show!) [Updated]
…what stuns me about the commentary over the last couple of days is the perception that the regime has done something shocking with this election. The regime isn’t any different today than it was the day before the election, the … Continue reading →
The Gormogons’ tentacles reach to Tjicistan [sic]
Thanks very much to the Emir of TJICistan for the very kind words. We’d pimp your blog, but we’re already on that. Rahmat, homey. Oh, and courtesy of the Emir, here’s an interesting bit on Bruce Springsteen, Man of the … Continue reading →
Nightline & the Crazy Old Jew-Hater (Christian-Hater, Federal Reserve-Hater, etc.)
We haven’t touched upon the Crazy Old Jew-Hater who shot Steven Johns. Nor will we, in the hope that he dies in obscurity rather than the notoriety he courted with his senseless, likely dementia-induced murder. But the fact that they … Continue reading →
Robert Kagan articulates the Volgi’s worry on Iran
Obama’s policy now requires getting past the election controversies quickly so that he can soon begin negotiations with the reelected Ahmadinejad government. This will be difficult as long as opposition protests continue and the government appears to be either unsettled … Continue reading →
The F-35’s AN/AAQ-37 DAS
My Man(darin), spectacular avionics porn. Let’s just hope it’s not one of the things the Chinese stole a couple months back. If you look at the stuff the F-22* can do, and the F-35 is supposed to be able to … Continue reading →
Well played, State!
They asked Twitter to postpone maintenance to keep the Iranians in touch. Beautiful. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →While ABC is servicing Obama…
…say to your friends, “Riddle me this, Batman…” Why not have the federal government demonstrate that it can provide adequate health care to American Indians, a promise it hasn’t kept for 222 years? Then demonstrate it can provide adequate health … Continue reading →
STOP! GORMOGON!
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Re: Adam and Steve (and Jack and Cindy and …)
Hey, ’Puter, you know how the law works, if one part of the “one-man one-woman” premise is negotiable, all of it is. if marriage is just a societal endorsement of desire, then you’ve got to deal with the fact that, … Continue reading →
So we’re punting?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Obviously all of us have been watching the news from Iran. And I want to start off by being very clear that it is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be; that we … Continue reading →
Re: Precrimes Division, anyone?
Sexy follower of the Gormogons Djinifer writes in to ask: “So, wait, now we’re calling for the protection of the unborn??” Good call, Djin! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Yet another problem for intel reform
More importantly, though, accountability will never occur because it is not possible to pin down responsible managers at the CIA. The CIA’s chain of command is octopus-like, doubling back upon itself. Like relationships in a polygamist compound, a person’s uncle … Continue reading →
Administration pressing the reset button…
…with the wrong country? Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Things in Iran getting serious
General strike tomorrow, followed by mass rally in Tehran at 17:00, conveys Jim Robbins at the Washington Times. Things look like they may are getting seriously unpredictable. Your Volgi has been out of the loop today, procuring Himalayan Death Lotus … Continue reading →
Iran: Ahmadî-Nezhâd fronting military coup?
From Amir Taheri in today’s WSJ. Some of his thesis: Many in Tehran, including leading clerics, see the exercise as a putsch by the military-security organs that back Mr. Ahmadinejad. Several events make these allegations appear credible. The state-owned Fars … Continue reading →
Iran: a primer
A quick rundown on what’s going on: The “Islamic Republic,” a/k/a the velâyat-e fâqih (“the state of the religious jurisprudent), periodically holds sham elections. The results can be more or less fairly tabulated, but it’s largely irrelevant, as all the … Continue reading →
Re: Hubris
‘Puter, I think that eternal temptation of man was best summed up by a certain Herpetological-Edenican who promised some crazy kids that with a little bit of knowledge, “you shall be as gods.” Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like … Continue reading →
Ghettoputer’s directing and starring in films? (Con’t.)
Not As Good As You Think: The Myth of the Middle-Class School Buy it here. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Wait, what?
Scripsit the Czar: the Washington Capitals, who proved to be nowhere as good as the Chicago Blackhawks. I’m gonna say taking the Cup winner to seven games beats taking the Cup loser to five. And clearly the Czar has never … Continue reading →
And so it came to pass
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →The Nine Days of John Paul II
Thirty years ago this week, the Bishop of Rome returned to Poland for the first time since his recent election to the papacy. America’s premier Cold War historian, John Lewis Gaddis of Yale, is not ambiguous in his judgment of … Continue reading →
’Scaansin says: “We don’ need noh socialized medicine, dohncha knoh.”
So y’all saw all the coverage of President Obama’s “yay for socialized medicine” rally at Lambeau Field yesterday. I’m sure that they mentioned the thousand people who showed up in the middle of the workday to protest. Punningly, they called … Continue reading →
Intel reform (con’t.)
As your Volgi has mentioned, he believes fairly extensive reform of “the intelligence community” is a critical part of revitalizing American foreign policy in a more capable, reactive, informed fashion. Here’s an interesting suggestion for the DO (or whatever it’s … Continue reading →
Manas gone for good?
Seems like it. Although, Confucius* has to note that the Kyrgyz might have said nyet, but they might instead have said zhok. *For those who came in late: Confucius is the Gormogons’ Œcumenical Volgi. And, yeah, he’s got a Kyrgyz … Continue reading →
No Guns for Negroes
The candor of the racism is kind of refreshing, if hideously repugnant. Via FJM Blog. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Pimpin’ ain’t easy, #6
Humble regards to the Emir of Tjicistan. Thanks for the link to the Czar’s “personal jihad” post. Welcome to our very exclusive blogroll! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
The Gormogons pray for the repose of the soul of Steven Tyrone Johns, 39, a Washingtonian security guard, an “outstanding colleague who greeted us every day with a smile,” and a man who laid his life on the line and … Continue reading →
Miranda rights for terrorists.
Just freaking great. Terrific work by FoG Steve Hayes. NRO’s Andy McCarthy reminds us: let’s not forget to thank John McCain. Say it with me, folks, hostis humani generis. Caption Subhead: Missouri judge says state has no jurisdiction, waives extradition, … Continue reading →
May we humbly suggest ‘Gormogonium?’
Meet Number One-Twelve. Via Buttle. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Wise Latina, Piss-Poor Grammarian
Making the rounds today is Ed Whelan’s post contrasting Judge Sotomayor’s comments in which she chides the legal community for its lack of Strunk ’N’ Whiteness with a speech of hers making a crashing grammatical category error. Go back and … Continue reading →
Pay attention, President Obama: Them Jews know what they’re doing.
So, the “Rev.” Jeremiah Wright (the scare quotes are because he ain’t a person to be revered) says that “them Jews” are keeping him away from President Obama. If so, well played, Bnei Yisrael. “Them Jews aren’t going to let … Continue reading →
The tender mercies of ObamaCare, coming soon to a hospital near you
Once again, the Gormogons note, IT’S RATIONING! WHAT GOOD IS “FREE” MEDICINE WHEN YOU CAN’T GET CARE? My views changed in medical school. Yes, everyone in Canada is covered by a “single payer” — the government. But Canadians wait for … Continue reading →
Truth is indivisible
GENEVA (AP) — A senior Vatican delegation visited the world’s biggest nuclear physics laboratory, proclaiming that true faith has no problems with science. … “The Church never fears the truth of science, because we are convinced that all truth comes … Continue reading →
Wasn’t us…or was it?
A secret sect of kung fu assassins could have silenced actor David Carradine as he delved into their shadowy activities, according to his family’s lawyer. God bless you, New York Post. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass … Continue reading →
Barry O in Dresden — Woohoo!
Hey, credit where it’s due, however absurd: thanks, President Obama, for not apologizing for the firebombing of Dresden! The Volgi is relieved. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →I say “tomato,” you say “volji”
So, yeah, your Œc. Vol. visited the Czar’s domains yesterday, and we had a nice time, or at least so thought Confucius*. The Czar seems to have been baffled by the Volgi’s pronunciation of “Volgi,” or as the Volgi would … Continue reading →
Barry O in Dresden.
See?! See?! Listen to your Œcumenical Volgi! And, of course, apologies for the language. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Obama fi’l-Azhar
Your Œc. Vol. knows a little about “the Muslim world” which President Obama addressed yesterday. So you might expect him to have a lengthy opinion on the speech. Well, there was a fair amount of stuff in there that’s kind … Continue reading →
Elitist self-regard (con’t.)
An elite convinced of its own merit is unlikely to be skeptical about its decisions and prejudices. If Ivy League graduates share certain cosmopolitan assumptions, they are taken less as class markers and more as evidence that great minds think … Continue reading →
Stan & Ollie take the party train
Lest we get too serious. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →天安門事件
Confucius* says: The Czar is right. But so was Orwell, and the Ministry of Truth in Peking has been hard at work airbrushing the protestor from in front of those tanks. Glorious Parade of Armored Division of 27th Army PLA! … Continue reading →
GM: the host…
…killed by its parasite. General Motors was destroyed by operating under the ignorance, stupidity, and irrational greed of a labor union. From this point on, it is to operate under the ignorance, stupidity, and irrational greed of government officials acting … Continue reading →
Joe Cocker @ Woodstock, Translated!
Too good. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →我靠!
After the Obama administration shredded bondholder rights in the Chrysler and General Motors bankruptcies, the rule of law in the United States now is on par with China’s. So what’s the over-under on how long it takes us to dig … Continue reading →
Not truthy
…a recent Ohio State University study found that a majority of conservatives polled believed [Stephen] Colbert the man was one of them. Oh, please. This is just another variant of the “science proves it: conservatives are idiots!” pseudo-studies that come … Continue reading →
If we do this, then maybe Kim & Ahmadinejad will too!
Is, seriously, the rationale for our publicizing to the IAEA where all our nuclear facilities are and what they’ve got in them. Mike Goldfarb has the scoop.` Gee, what could possibly go wrong? Oh, and “removed from the Web?” Maybe … Continue reading →
Elitist self-regard
You know, His Obamaness is a confident guy. His acolytes attribute virtual omnipotence to him, and one gets the sense that he’d rarely refute such claim, other than with a backhanded dismissal insinuating it’s not that he couldn’t do it, … Continue reading →
We gotta get this guy for Gormogonicon 2010
Listen for: “Come on Eileen,” “Don’t You Want Me Baby?” “The Final Countdown,” “Axel F,” “Material Girl,” “Every Breath You Take,” “Don’t Stop Believin’,” “Livin’ on a Prayer,” “Never Gonna Give You Up,” and “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” Confucius, … Continue reading →
Nork Nuke Madness: Made in China?
So hypothesizes Anne Applebaum. Read the whole thing, but: Perhaps the North Koreans have stepped up their war rhetoric, and their war preparations, because China wants them to do so. China is the one country that actually has influence over … Continue reading →
Cloaking device…
…activated! I’m assuming whole flotillas of white-clad naval officers are descending upon Champaign to talk to Dr. Fang about this technology. Hope he gets a big, fat royalty if this ends up being the Navy’s hull of the future. Confucius, … Continue reading →
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord; I shall repay.
Which is what the murderer of Kansas’s and the nation’s most notorious abortionist, George Tiller, should have noted. What one presumes is his own faith has no place for vendetta and revenge. Like the murderous abolitionists of old, these anti-abortion … Continue reading →
The Jenny McCarthy Body Count!
Dead kids! It’s awesome! Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Mark Steyn on the Nork Nuke
Doesn’t Kim Jong Il have a compelling personal story? Like Sonia, he grew up in a poor neighborhood (North Korea), yet he’s managed to become a nuclear power, shattering the glass ceiling to take his seat at the old nuclear … Continue reading →
Autodämmerung
For GorT the Elder: The phrase “bankrupt General Motors,” which we expect to hear uttered on Monday, leaves Americans my age in economic shock. The words are as melodramatic as “Mom’s nude photos.” And, indeed, if we want to understand … Continue reading →
What’s wrong with the American musical?
At least three of the Gormogons have had serious engagement with the Broadway musical. And like women. We swear. The musical has had a tough couple of decades and seems to have had a particularly bad year. Terry Teachout explains … Continue reading →
Savages.
The proud, cultured, and great nation of Iran must be ashamed at the scumbag lunatics they’re ruled by. Farzad Kamangar, a 33-year-old teacher, journalist and human rights activist, is awaiting execution in Iran’s notorious Evin prison. The Islamic regime calls … Continue reading →
♫ Baby, it’s cold outside… ♫
And it’ll be getting colder for a while, seems like. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Verdammte Scheiße! Moral vanity in Mitteleuropa [Updated]
President Obama will be visiting two places in Germany on June 5: the concentration camp at Buchenwald and Dresden. Jesus fucking Christ on a Vespa this pisses your Volgi the fuck off. Here’s a more reasoned statement, but what kind … Continue reading →
Does Obama have it in for the CIA?
Friend of the Gormogons, Leinenkugel fancier, and rabid Capitals fan Steven F. Hayes writes: All of which raises an interesting question: Was Leon Panetta hired primarily to oversee the dismantling of the CIA? I suspect not, given that bureaucratic reform … Continue reading →
Turkey helping the U.S. on Manas Air Base?
Maybe! At Gul’s May 27 press conference with Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiev, the Turkish leader said that “the most important issue of our discussions was the stability of Afghanistan.” He added that talks were held about how the two countries … Continue reading →
BAM!
If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a “stimulus,” then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity… —GorT’s imaginary grandfather, Thos. Sowell Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. … Continue reading →
官
The Gormogons are more than pleased to announce the Mandarin’s choosing to join forces with us. A wise choice on his part, we nevertheless appreciate the analytical rigor, wide reading, and vast reserves of spleen the Mandarin brings to the … Continue reading →
The Gormogon Mailbag
Gormogons Follower Djinifer writes in, in re “Oh Brother”, noting the Czar: …quotes one parent as saying, “Our schools are a reflection of our community and world…From a very early age, children should see what exists in the world.” Yeah … Continue reading →
Fair enough, right?
Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Europe or America? You make the call.
The virtues of the multicultural era were elite virtues. The British sociologist Geoff Dench suspected, with good reason, that favouring elites was a large part of the point of multiculturalism. Conflicts in a striving meritocracy, he noted “can probably be … Continue reading →
If you don’t like politicians, don’t give them power, even if they promise you stuff.
Because the more power they get, the more things in your life will be decided by political means. The hated “special interests” (i.e., organized interests who aren’t you), sleazy Congressmen, unelected bureaucrats, those guys of the opposite party from yours … Continue reading →