Islam is an ideology. Classical liberalism is an ideology. In the ongoing clash of these ideologies, which will win? Looking at our progressive Left and its motley crew of pink-armpit-haired lesbian feminists, armchair socialists, obese antifa weenies, and emasculated, … Continue reading →
Monday’s terrorist attack in Manchester got ‘Puter thinking. No one defends mass murderers. People (mainly progressives) defend terrorists. Why? What’s the difference? Ideology. Terrorists are out-of-power mass murderers with an ideology. Ordinary mass murderers kill without ideology. Castro, Lenin, Hitler, … Continue reading →
Over the weekend, over 3,100 students graduated from Notre Dame University. You know this, because news reports are hammering how students stormed out in protest over the presence of commencement speaker Mike Pence (who coincidentally is Vice-President of the United … Continue reading →
Mainstream Media looks in the mirror and brushes her hair furiously. How dare that dorky Donny Trump take Emily to the Delight Under the Stars dance next week? What do they see in each other? She’s so weird, with her … Continue reading →
Trump’s presidency has induced full-tilt, bat-sh*t crazy madness in once sane people. The shock of Donald Trump chucking Hillary “The Sure Thing” Clinton aside like a no-longer-hot-soon-to-be-ex-wife is partly to blame, sure. But ‘Puter’s got a niggling feeling there’s more … Continue reading →
The Czar’s boys are full-fledged Boy Scouts, replete with the traditional skills of fire building, survival shelters, rifle shooting, camping, eating weird foods, and volunteering all over the place, in uniform, to help out all sorts of seemingly lost causes … Continue reading →
GorT can’t believe that the following premise hasn’t been more prominent in the ongoing debate about Russian influence in the 2016 Presidential election: The contents of the emails have not been denied or asserted as being false or manufactured. Consider the … Continue reading →
The Czar, as usual, went opening weekend to check out Marvel Studios’ latest 200-minute picture Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume Two, which—as you know—features Julia Robert coming to grips with her impending death from a rare Hollywood writer’s disease. No, … Continue reading →
Did you know that President Trump’s* first 100 days are nearly up? You must know that his 100 days are almost up. Everybody’s talking about his first 100 days, and surely by now you know that they’re almost over. Trump’s … Continue reading →
On the eve of the “March for Science” (I had to look that up as I’m lost my quick reference guide to the various marches), Neil deGrasse Tyson posted a piece titled, “Science in America.” You can read it here, … Continue reading →
The Czar has noticed that whenever he writes about North Korea, he tends to get thoughtful mail. Ваше Императорское Величество, Your post today brought something to my memory from when I was a lowly Lance Corporal back in the early … Continue reading →
Earlier this week, the United States Navy sped the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group toward North Korea. Yesterday, the United States Air Force demonstrated pinpoint accuracy with the GBU-43/B Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) on an ISIS cave system … Continue reading →
Derek the Last grabs a bottle of something—we aren’t certain what; the label was obscured in a century of cobwebby dust—pours himself a carefully measured shot into a small glass, and proceeded to drink directly from the bottle until it … Continue reading →
‘Puter read Nicholas Kristof’s column in yesterday’s New York Times. The column concerned Trump voters remaining loyal despite Trump’s acts which Mr. Kristof asserts harm his voters. The column is unobjectionable using ‘Puter’s standards for judging NYT columns.* ‘Puter … Continue reading →
Democracy dies in darkness, it is said; journalism dies at The Washington Post. The Czar of course exaggerates; he merely means to say that WaPo is among the worst newspapers on Earth. It’s like the New York Times, but without … Continue reading →
Nicholas Kristof penned this opinion piece in today’s New York Times. ‘Puter agrees with every single item Mr. Kristof espouses with the exception of the underlying point of the entire piece. Yes, humanities and arts are vitally important to a … Continue reading →
Over at The Federalist, Dominic Lynch has an excellent piece detailing the seriousness of the Democratic Party’s collapse, and shares the Czar’s view that the Democrats are poised to fold as a party, even though they might not actually do … Continue reading →
Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate and distinguished New York Times columnist, informs America today that everyone on the right is a bigoted, hateful predator. Krugman is long-known for ignoring reality in order to push Democrats’ currently favored narratives, even when doing … Continue reading →
GorT, Sr. passed along a summary presentation on generational cycles that stems from The Fourth Turning, a book by William Strauss and Neil Howe, in regards to Czar’s opening in this post. The basic premise is that there are … Continue reading →
Dear Tsar, I had a confusing experience on Women’s Day. I was on Facebook (a mistake, I know) and made a comment about the Wage Gap on a friend’s status. A crapstorm of decent proportions followed. What ended up happening … Continue reading →
Our good friend Mo (@molratty on Twitter) commented on a thread with the following: These people just say anything. Seriously. Whatever they can get their hands on without regard to consistency GorT has been kicking around the idea behind this post … Continue reading →
Well, it’s time for another rant about the generation gap. The Czar tends to be more accepting of the Millennials than his Castlemates, because by and large, the kids born between 1983 – 2001 are finally getting their feet on … Continue reading →
Derek the Last writes in about a good prediction that he made: Ваше Императорское Величество, Recently, in the state that I hail from, the voters passed a measure to allow medical marijuana to be legal and joined the ranks of … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin is not used to posting so much, but our Retired Spook has written in to discuss scout rifles. Esteemed Mandarin; Was pleasantly surprised to see your brief discourse on scout rifles, and would like to add my $0.02 … Continue reading →
Hello, children. Hello. Your Mandarin received this interesting letter in the post this morning. That’s funny! But actually, you ask a very good question. Indeed, the Mandarin is a very big fan of the scout rifle concept, and there are … Continue reading →
Operative B curled his first around a glass of something caramel colored and sighed loudly, like an old dog finding a slightly less comfortable spot on an uncomfortable bed. The New York Times is reporting that several members of the … Continue reading →
[Note: This was supposed to get posted yesterday, but WordPress was on the fritz, so it’s up today. Also, suck it, Czar] “Who’d Want to Limit Retirement Plans? House Republicans.” Or so says the New York Times, implying there can … Continue reading →
The Czar has long argued that the media can help themselves by dropping the act: admit their respective biases and continue forward. Yes, that makes all news reporting little more than opinion pieces, perhaps with better sourcing, but opinion pieces … Continue reading →
Retired Spook writes in to say, well, the Czar is right as usual. Your Immensity; Sorry I haven’t been as active as I should have been, occasionally, life intrudes on what we’d like to be doing. But I couldn’t pass … Continue reading →
As evidenced by recent family discussions, opinion pieces, protests riots, and the stances being taken by democrat leaders, the left side of the aisle has become unhinged. GorT tends to believe that they are following the “six stages of grief”: Shock – … Continue reading →
Television host and opera singer Mike Rowe has been touring the country promoting his most recent effort, The mikeroweWORKS Foundation, which is attempting to de-stigmatize having no college degree. As Rowe more or less puts it, there are roughly 6 … Continue reading →
As Chinese New Year’s approaches, we here at the Castle want to wish all our Chinese readers 拖拉機拖車! (Gong Fu Fat Chow), and remind all of you round-eye imperialist running dogs that the Chinese zodiac is total horseshit made up … Continue reading →
JAB, who is indeed someone of consequence and worth getting to know if you should see her around the Castle, has evidently had a fair amount to drink and decided the best way to work off a major buzz was … Continue reading →
I posted what follows on my personal Facebook page moments ago. Let the hate commence. I figure most of you have already muted me permanently, and that the rest will after this, but here goes. I’ve been fairly quiet since … Continue reading →
My Fellow Americans, I humbly accept the office of the presidency of the United States. I thank each of you for your trust, and will work hard to prove myself worthy of it. America, we have heard you. We *will* … Continue reading →
NEW FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT GORMO-ARMS! Hey, have you ever noticed that your AR-15 is looking all drab and low definition? That’s because the AR-15 was designed in the 1950s, in the analog days: that’s why most of them aren’t … Continue reading →
Scenario 1: After 8 years of an obnoxious president, voters realized Hillary Clinton would be just as bad, and perhaps worse, than her predecessor; thus motivated, they turned out in respectable numbers to vote for an alternative, even though he … Continue reading →
Smarter people than ‘Puter have written about Democrats’ strategy of unity through division. Way smarter people. People like that one kid in third grade who ate paste and his own boogers, probably. But ‘Puter feels he has something to add. … Continue reading →
The Czar was evidently among the last to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story on the big screen last night, based on the very light audience present. But he gathered up the boys, found great seats about middle-center (where … Continue reading →
GorT’s entirely correct that Democrats are engaging in their typical naked hypocrisy regarding the Republicans’ attempted changes to the Office of Congressional Ethics. Perhaps it’s just jealousy that the Democrats never managed to do it. There are two points to … Continue reading →
GorT’s liberal relatives fired up this morning regarding the GOP’s late night move to attempt to dismantle the Office of Congressional Ethics. The problem is that any move against an office purported to be in existence to provide independent oversight … Continue reading →
Happy New Year, to all our followers, minions, and operatives. There will be no pay raises for any of you this year. The Czar spent the afternoon reviewing Euler’s equations for a rotating solid, and still finds it hilarious that … Continue reading →
The following essay is a guest post from Derek the Last. We remind our readers that you are welcome to submit your thoughts either as an email or as a complete essay. There has been a lot of talk about … Continue reading →
Donald Trump, for all his flaws, has succeeded in doing what no Republican president to date has done: illustrating the emperors of Foggy Bottom have no clothes. Take the latest Obama-Kerry fit of pique/backstabbing of Israel. State Department doctrine is … Continue reading →
Screw Nostradamus and Miss Cleo. Plus, they’re dead anyway. You’ve got ‘Puter, Master Prognosticator to the Stars!* As a service to you, dear readers, ‘Puter spent the last week reading the signs and communing with the spirits of time to … Continue reading →
Well, you all know ScottO (@gscottoliver), right? Well, he wrote in recently. O Dread Czar, In your excellent recent piece “Academia Becomes Aware”, you stated one reason that leftist arguments lose to the right, and went on to hint at … Continue reading →
It’s been a while since GorT has delved into the mailbag, but this morning he reached in and pulled this one out at random from the 13,438,325 unread emails (‘Puter keeps clicking on those random links in emails): Dear GorT, … Continue reading →
I almost posted the following (or a version thereof) to Facebook as I really am interested in what other-minded folks would say. But maybe I’ll start here. Let’s say that Russia sponsored hackers infiltrated email servers and released DNC and … Continue reading →
The Czar has been anticipating a massive academic correction in Higher Education for some time, now. Awareness is always a positive first sign, and for years now the average American understands that college tuition is ridiculous for what you get … Continue reading →
Reply mail appeared under our door yesterday, this time from Operative SMR, who was able to provide additional thought on how Cuba survived economic isolation. The Czar thinks these ideas are quite good. Dear The Czar, I read with interest
Continue reading →The Czar is frequently in and out of the Castle, and has so many visitors that he just cannot make time for everyone. Derek the Last, long-time castle visitor (because he cannot pay his guest bill, so he’s decided to … Continue reading →
Well, it’s been over a week since anybody posted anything up over here. You probably assumed we were just busy with the holidays or whatever, but the truth is ‘Puter really trashes up the place. We’ve just been the last … Continue reading →
Every so often, something happens that astonishes the long-over-lived Czar. Lately, it’s been the sudden appearance of a conservative backbone. Look, we all have at least one liberal loud-mouth at every holiday gathering, either a friend or relative who signals … Continue reading →
The Czar welcomes Derek the Last to the pool of correspondents (although it’s really more of a deep dry well than a pool…unless you count the blood), and does not believe he has written in before, and the Czar wonders … Continue reading →
As Democrats slowly recognize the awful position in which they have placed themselves, they function almost purely by instinct now. Far too many of the recent opinion pieces implicitly or explicitly rely on tropes that most Americans, it would seem, … Continue reading →
The Czar agrees with every word of Operative B’s thoughts, below: Your Majesty, Yes, the grand majority of Harley-Davidson riders – among them are Victory and Indian riders – are polite and genteel folk who do indeed pull over to … Continue reading →
There’s nothing better than feeling the wind tear through your hair, the skies overhead, the rough feel of the road under you, and the sound of traffic—unless of course this is you waking up naked alongside the expressway again. But … Continue reading →
Trump and the Republicans are going to hunt down and kill every last LGBTQ person, woman, and melanin enhanced person because Trump is the literal equivalent of Hitler and the Republicans are the indubitable modern day SS. The currently sitting … Continue reading →
The Czar got three things wrong this election: he originally said in 2012 that the Republicans were certain to lose in 2016. He said that Hillary Clinton would not run because she was inherently unelectable. He also predicted Donald Trump … Continue reading →
Thanks to so many who did so much for so many more. May we be worthy of your countless and timeless sacrifices and setbacks. The Czar of MuscovyБожію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The … Continue reading →
GorT’s friends, family, and even co-workers are a pretty diverse bunch in social issues, economic issues, and definitely in political issues. And within that group there are those that range in extremes on all of those issues. There were the … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, It wouldn’t be an election post mortem without all of your Gormogons providing commentary. Dr. J. was taken aback by the vast swaths of pussytude infecting the half of the voters that voted for Hillary Clinton in response to her … Continue reading →
Hello, children. Hello. Your Mandarin and the Czar were conversing a some days prior to the election when the Czar expressed concern regarding now President-Elect Trump’s poll numbers. Your Mandarin being all knowing, and with the help of some crude … Continue reading →
Today, and the next few weeks and months will be telling and it’s a time from introspection. As you read your Twitter timeline, your Facebook feed, Instagram, watch the news, listen to the radio, consider for a moment that there … Continue reading →
Dear Your Czarness, May I interrupt Your Czarness’s celebrations after the World Series and request that you come back down to terra firma ….’cause you know we’ve got this little matter of an election today. I think that by Wednesday, … Continue reading →
The Czar and his family took off to see Doctor Strange and felt you would very much enjoy it. In doing research for this review, which basically consisted of seeing the film, the Czar read a couple of reviews in … Continue reading →
Which is worse? The news that the media is so obviously employed as a tool of the Democrats to control the narrative, or that this isn’t even news? Poll after poll shows that Americans simply do not believe the media. … Continue reading →
And you should be concerned about the time we have left. 1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come … Continue reading →
Boy, Democrats are sure ticked this weekend about the FBI’s reopening of their investigation of Hillary Clinton. Normally, news broken on a Friday afternoon is forgotten by the media before the Sunday morning chat shows, but this time the outrage … Continue reading →
‘Puter visited his Dad this weekend. As most of you know, ‘Puter’s Dad was diagnosed a year or so ago with primary progressive aphasia (or, dementia, logopenic variant). Basically, Dad is losing his ability to communicate, reason, and do simple … Continue reading →
When it comes down to it, there’s only one sport on which the Gormogons agree, and that’s hockey—it’s awesome. The Czar loves baseball, and GorT and Ghettoputer love soccer and there’s not much either of us can do to change … Continue reading →
JAB writes in from the Doublewide in regards to this post by the Czar and GorT’s response: In order to avoid banishment to a terribly unpleasant place, I must first agree with Your Czarness’ observation that MLB, made up “rivalries” … Continue reading →
From time to time, there are disagreements in the Castle. One such topic that generates this is the whole baseball and soccer talk. The Czar recently posted a interesting read – which I agree with in parts – but take … Continue reading →
The Czar likes baseball and he’s not alone. He’s not one of those Euro-weenies who are into soccer, and who get all aggressive about it because they don’t want to admit, yeah, soccer is a little socialist like nationalised healthcare … Continue reading →
The Czar presumes it’s too early to announce eight full years of Hillary Clinton’s oppression as president, but doesn’t see much alternative after this weekend. The Czar, unfortunately, was unable to see last night’s debate as he was attending a … Continue reading →
Dear Sovereign Czar, I am sorry for not asking about the Цесаревич’s election. I request that my punishment be made in the form of eating re-heated frozen burritos. The cheap kind, too. On a side note, did you see that … Continue reading →
The vice-presidential debate was certainly better—and more substantive—than the Caddyshack St. Andrew’s dinner dance scene that preceded it. But it won’t make any difference. It’s doubtful anyone on the fence will suddenly switch to supporting Hillary Clinton after watching Sen. … Continue reading →
It’s been a bit since GorT posted anything and the Czar’s post yesterday inspired a thought and I think it actually ties in to the national disaster-of-an-election-cycle as well. GorT’s middle child, 2-of-3, is a high school senior. She is … Continue reading →
Thanks to all of you who asked about the Цесаревич’s student council presidential campaign. The number of candidates eventually dropped to four: the incumbent SJW, the fashion model boy who only seems to have girls as friends, the basketball girl, … Continue reading →
Normally, the Czar writes up a debate review for all of those readers who were not watching it; however, from what we understand, you probably did watch it. And why not? Putting Trump against Clinton in an unscripted, unrehearsed context … Continue reading →
As one gets older, one tends to skew to a cranky disposition. The Czar was born in the mid-1200s, making him quite old and quite cranky. But that never means he’s wrong, and we do have a bit of a … Continue reading →
Dr. J. would like to apologize for his prolonged absence (except to Fred who probably welcomed Dr. J.’s prolonged absence). The Lil Resident fell ill about two years ago (the first of two major illnesses in two years), right at … Continue reading →
You never know who will come walking into the lobby bar at the Castle Gormogon. Hello! I wonder if you all remember me at your site, but I used to write you back when men were men and TVs were … Continue reading →
‘Puter decided he’d give media types a hand in identifying the various subspecies of Trump supporters. Media clearly need ‘Puter’s assistance, because their recent attempts at defining Trump supporters waver between uniformed hilarity and vicious condescension. ‘Puter breaks Trump supporters … Continue reading →
How the ever-lovin’ f*ck did we get here? There are around 340 million or so Americans, probably 150 million or so of whom could plausibly be president, and moron voters in both parties (and the moron parties themselves) decide to … Continue reading →
The Цесаревич appears to be entering the world of politics, with his declaration yesterday that he intends to run for Student Council President of Muscovy Junior High School. The decision was not reached easily, but was made quickly. Last year, … Continue reading →
One of the best parts of our day are the crank letters. Because of the nature of this site and the high intelligence level of our readership, we get some superb cranks stopping by. Ghost, for example, has been an … Continue reading →
The Czar had a break in the weather to get some grilling in this weekend, and elected to do chicken. Grilled chicken, it may surprise some readers, gives a lot of folks fits and starts; indeed, the Czar is often … Continue reading →
The Czar was pleased to see that Comcast could barely keep up with demand for streamed Olympic events, and overall ratings for streamed events by other providers was also much higher than expected. Perversely, the Czar was also pleased to … Continue reading →
But we digress. Certainly, long-time readers here know the loathing animosity the Czar maintains for the liberal media, and is generally exhausted trying to scream at them all the time. Even so, the Czar is quite aware, thank you, that … Continue reading →
As GorT’s summer wraps up, he has a few thoughts to share on a variety of random subjects: I-95 is the work of the devil. Well, not really. But it sure feels like it. Actually, the work of the … Continue reading →
With a Hillary Clinton victory all but assured thanks to her long-time Republican assistant, America should brace for another four eight years of gun control speeches. The Czar doesn’t expect that President Hillary Clinton will be more obnoxious and ill-informed … Continue reading →
Sean Hannity is evil. ‘Puter knows. You’re sitting there on the crapper reading our blog on your fancy smart phone, thinking “But ‘Puter, Sean Hannity’s living proof there’s a place in the world for cute short bus kids!” Sure, Hannity’s … Continue reading →
‘Puter hasn’t written much of late, not because there’s nothing to write about, but because there’s too much to write about. Today, ‘Puter shall take a bit of time to bitch about the worst people on the face of the … Continue reading →
The Czar seems to be enjoying the Olympics this time around more than in recent years. And he knows why. No, it isn’t the hysterical hypocrisy of the Opening Ceremonies lecturing us on environmentalism when Brazil is burning down its … Continue reading →
First – there are no spoilers in this post. GorT is not a fan of the horror genre per se. Sure, he’s seen most of the classic horror movies (i.e. The Shining, Poltergeist, The Exorcist, etc.) and some odd ones … Continue reading →
Did you know that 93% of the $1.2 trillion student debt is owed to the United States government? Yeah, it turns out that the United States is the biggest student lender by far. Why? Because they’re making a killing: in … Continue reading →
The Czar pays attention, for the most part, to the emails and tweets he receives, and notes with some smug pride that many of you have come to appreciate his long-standing observation that the spontaneous rioting that occurs in cities … Continue reading →
Our beloved Operative SMR writes in that he and his wife were recently shoplifting in Ikea, and was delighted to find we have a product for sale there. Lest you doubt him, here’s the photo: “I always wondered where you … Continue reading →
