Could Turkey’s president Erdoğan be ginning up a casus belli in Syria to distract from his domestic problems? Maybe. Here, from Friend of the Gormogons Claire Berlinski, are Ten Things You Need to Know About Turkey. Read them all, but … Continue reading →
Nothing strikes fear into the undead heart of a zombie like the sound of chainsaw revving up. Nothing, that is, except a chainsaw revving up prominently displaying the visage of She Who Has No Mouth, Yet She Must Scream.** If … Continue reading →
College football players are checking out the talent helping a freshman co-ed move in on move-in day. Gormogon longtime fan, reader and sometime writer, JAB writes from the doublewide: Dear Mr. Dr. J.: I read your “Big Skool” post with … Continue reading →
Dragonslayers, and proud of it! Many, if not all of your Gormogons know their way around a 20 sided die. Dr. J. had a standing RPG campaign with two of his childhood chums dating from their junior high school days … Continue reading →
Mrs. Volgi modeling the Volgimobile Dr. J. was delinquent with regard to this missive from the great ScottO, who you better be following on twitter @gscottoliver. He writes regarding Dr. J.’s recent rant on Obamacare: Most Excellent Doctor, At the … Continue reading →
Conservative twitter great, future senator from the great state of South Carolina, and Friend of the Gormogons Bruce Carroll, aka @GayPatriot posted this on his twitter feed: Just when you thought it was safe to go the doctor… #ObamaCareNado: http://t.co/uxEY5HIdYQ— … Continue reading →
Long-time brainpowerfulness BG writes in: Your Czariness – Jonah Goldberg initially pointed me in the direction of Castle Gormogon. So it’s immensely satisfying to me when someone responds to a post of mine as below. rulierose @bg • 20 hours … Continue reading →
Operative JB writes regarding the Idaho ban being explored in Congress: Dear Dr. J., Also shaped like various modern and futuristic guns: Florida, North Carolina, Maryland, Oklahoma, Massachusetts and Louisiana. Also, West Virginia looks like a praying mantis, which scares … Continue reading →
Dr. J. saw our friends over at IMAO link to this on teh twitterz this morning: New blog post: Pluto’s moons goo.gl/fb/ywlzO— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) February 13, 2013 Apparently we have observed that the flagship Dwarf Planet Pluto (the 9th … Continue reading →
GorT is a big believer in correlated data and there are certain demographic trends that aren’t looking promising for the United States. The one I usually cite is the population numbers by age versus investment behavior by age. I believe … Continue reading →
A big welcome back to LTC Dan, from whom we have not received a message in far, far too long. We appreciate the Colonel’s presence here at the Castle, and are most interested in his question: Sir, I found “Reading … Continue reading →
People want to know how we’re going to vote…run! Mitch H., proud owner and operator of Blogfonte, sung by the Castle and had a barside chat with us on the Czar’s wonderful piece on the weirdness of recent polls. The … Continue reading →
The Great Merlin writes thusly: Dr. J., Here’s something that confuses me (well, technically, yet another entry on a long list of things, but let’s not go there, shall we?). In all of the discussions about Obamacare/ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP/SCHIP, … Continue reading →
The Gentle Reader may recall Dr. J.’s discussion regarding third party payors and how that model has contributed to the rapidly escalating cost of healthcare. You may also recall how a gentleman who goes by the handle Cziltang, and blogs … Continue reading →
Friend of the Gormogons Michael Walsh has written a treatise you may have seen advertised called The People v. The Democratic Party. Available to your left from our Emporium Gormogonicum, along with other fine items. This 45-page treatise can be … Continue reading →
There is an entire course in psychology within this 3:16 Craig Ferguson clip. All of it is right.Thanks to FotG Jonah Goldberg for alerting us to this. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, … Continue reading →
Hey, lucky readers! Know what can be even more fun than reading the Czar? Hearing a faithful reading of one his posts! Check out, and continue to check in with, the folks at Own the Narrative, in which they read … Continue reading →
There’s a little black spot on the sun today, but it’s not the same old spot as yesterday… See you again in 105 years. h/t T.J., Dr. J.’s childhood BFF captured this image of Venus in transit across the sun. … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. has received a pair of missives related to his recent post on Dolores Umbridge as the fictional figurehead of the Progressive Movement. The Czar sent this interoffice memo via owl: To: Dr. J. From: The Czar … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, with Rick Santorum’s departure from the GOP race, Republicans are beginning to coalesce around Mitt Romney. And President Obama’s campaign has set its targets on him as well: Can we say ‘set its targets’? Well we did anyway … Continue reading →
More Pony pr0n for our brony readers. h/t Kennedy Craig Smith @TheKennedySmith Dr. J.
Continue reading →FotG Jonathan Last posts an interesting tidbit and notes here that the comment wasn’t made off the cuff but rather was part of a prepared speech. Big JL raises a key point: how arrogant is Obama that he would denigrate … Continue reading →
Our Castle Archivist @MBernadetteE, who you should follow on twitter and read here, and here, writes in: Dr. J., Sir, I must commend you. This might be the best one-liner I’ve seen in writing recently. “Lastly, abortion is the sacrament … Continue reading →
No, not the great pirate from The Goonies, but rather, Dr. J.’s buddy Jamie Jeffords, aka the Eye of Polyphemus took on an issue that Dr. J. has been ruminating on all weekend, and that is, “How do you solve … Continue reading →
Great bit by the RNC – amazing, one would think that the President hasn’t moved anything forward in the last year (and in some examples two years). Oh wait…. Hat tip to Jonathan Last. Good stuff! GorTGorT is an eight-foot-tall … Continue reading →
Merry Christmas. It is a beautiful morning, no matter what. The Gormogons are very excited, and you can see us all gathered around the tree opening our gifts. Your Œcumenical Volgi, or 孔夫子, for those who came in late, or … Continue reading →
As you know, the late North Korean dictator was quite the gourmand. Indeed, he was able to detect a difference in the amount of sugar used in his sushi rice… Nevertheless, Emily Grace (@GreatGrace84), our resident (gluten free) baker and … Continue reading →
So how popular is this site? More importantly, how cool are you for reading it? The answer is very cool. In fact, take the day off, and never be afraid to tell someone off because you read this site, and … Continue reading →
If you have the time, FotG Jonathan Viceroy Last has a superb analysis of President Obama’s narcissism that begs for broader promotion. And since our site averages 62 billion readers a day, this would be a great place to promote … Continue reading →
And so the Czar was lucky to have no less a personage than Uncle Jay over to the Castle for a brief lunch. You do read Uncle Jay every day, no? Anyway, with a rare-enough trip to Chicago in his … Continue reading →
FotG Jonah Goldberg references the 50 Funniest Headlines of the Year. Any guess, would you say, on what percentage of these 50 were in fact our doing? No, higher. Higher still. Yep. You got it. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею … Continue reading →
The Czar is inclined to agree with FotG Claire Berlinski that it does not matter whether the mainstream media acknowledges that Portland teenager Mohamed Osman Mohamud is a Muslim terrorist, because anybody more than two seconds into the story can … Continue reading →
Jonathan Last (FotG) positively nails the psychology of the President. The Czar admits it: he is insanely jealous of this piece. The Czar says this because he believes whole-heartedly in the premise: that President Obama is totally in love with … Continue reading →
FotG Johnathan V. Last (you know him, right?) wants the Czar to know: I am, as always, a committed fan and follower of the Gormogons. Cool, or what? Sorry, girls, he’s taken! Mr. Last will be rewarded with a continent … Continue reading →
FrOG* Borepatch is a blogger you should read. Every day. Your Gormogons have even linked him in their blog roll for ease of access. He’s brilliant on global warming pseudo-science, his bete noir, and extremely knowledgeable on matters firearm related. … Continue reading →
For many of us that grew up in the 70s and 80s, cartoons (both afternoon and Saturday morning) hold a special place. Whether it was Scooby Doo (pre-Scrappy), Jonny Quest (not sure I’m up for Zac Efron as Jonny) or … Continue reading →
…by amica Gormogonorum Claire Berlinski is up at City Journal’s site. It’s a great read. I walk alone through almost every neighborhood of Istanbul, often at night. This is a megacity of at least 12 million people, many of whom … Continue reading →
Thanks to questions from our dozens billions of fans, the Gormogon Gift Shop, in the first level of the Castle Gormogon (next to ‘Puter’s Pub and the Mandarin Grill) contains action figures for all of us. The Mandarin comes with … Continue reading →
Special nod to Space for Commerce (the Czar reads him every day, and so should you if you want to keep that pretty head of yours), who not only saluted our inscrutable Mandarin for being so gosh darn inscrutable, but … Continue reading →
That‘s what FotG David Frum’s site NewMajority.com is about assembling, and this is the best piece of practical analysis in that direction I’ve seen there. This guy argues you have to start with this fact: That’s right: according to the … Continue reading →
We’re all fascists now, says Michael Ledeen. He’s right, of course. The cartelization of industry under state control (and partial ownership)—exactly the “bailout’s” mandate—is textbook fascist economics (as the Volgi pointed out frequently when the Clintons attempted to cartelize the … Continue reading →
Friend of the Gormogons David Frum has a neat post at his new site on what Obama shoulda said. Check it out. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. 3.14.242.153
Continue reading →Friends of the Gormogons Jonah Goldberg & Steve Hayes have some very perspicacious comments on how great it is to have elected a black president—even not having voted for him and hoping that his policy agenda goes down in flames. … Continue reading →
A Friend of the Gormogons, knowing ‘Puter’s hatred of all unions (particularly those NYC unions), writes concerning the U.S. Airways Airbus 320 “unexpected water landing” in the Hudson River today: [i]t appears a bird strike was responsible for the thankfully-not-fatal … Continue reading →
Friend of the Gormogons Claire Berlinski pens a terrific, terrific article on some deep fault lines in Turkish government and society that may be headed for a crisis. Read it now. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass … Continue reading →
Great interview. Read the whole thing. We just had a reporter kidnapped and then released after four days in captivity with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. Our man was moved around during that period of time. What he encountered was … Continue reading →
When ‘Puter’s wrong, he’ll admit it. But ‘Puter’s not convinced he’s entirely wrong on the Tom Dart post below. Anyhoo, in an effort to pull back the curtain and let the world see the exquisitely intricate process of creating a … Continue reading →
