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Latest — 17 Feb 2026

This Lent: Resolving without Resolving

There, in the gate, before the bar raises to let those spiritual horses run, sits the left hemisphere: all grinning and shit, holding a pole at your horse's feet, ready to trip. You've been there, right? The season of grace arrives. You just have to welcome

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"Frank Rich and John Simon are the Syphilis and Gonorrhea of the Theater."

That’s a quote by the great David Mamet, back in the days when he was a “brain-dead liberal” (his words), in the late 1980s. I gotta believe his view of Simon has softened considerably since then. Simon was no red-hot conservative partisan, not remotely. He was merely a critic

The Roaring Twenties

They roared with alcohol

Get Outside and Walk

A local man told my son-in-law, "We call your father-in-law 'The Walker.'" He might as well have said they call me "The Well Hung," I was so pleased. When Wittgenstein quit Cambridge and moved to Ireland, he walked. And walked. Then walked some more.

We've All Become at Least a Bit Monstrous Because Our Culture is Very Monstrous

Abnormality pumped Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's nads. The 19th-century French natural scientist was fascinated by things like a two-headed calf and a stillborn pig fetus with a single eye at the center of its face. They were "monsters" in the medievalist's Latin jargon: monstrare: to show,

The Federal Government is So Numb and Bloated, It Doesn't Even Know When It Gets Raped

Nellie Bowles nails it this morning when discussing ethnic groups' tendency to defraud the government: In general, I appreciate all the grassroots efforts to eradicate public services fraud. I went all in on DOGE, guys. I was defending Big Balls till the shrinkage. We need a national anti-fraud movement.

Fighting for One's Soul in the Digital Age

The Savonarola Option

Savonarola, Dominican Monk (1452-1498)

Some cultures are so spiritually poisonous, they need to be burned.

Whales are Fish

Don't let some 19th-century egghead tell you any different