The CCP and Me: Once Upon A Time in Today's Hollywood
Michael Clark at Epoch Times
Eric Scheske
China Controls Hollywood?
"The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them." Lenin (might be apocryphal)
Vermont is the New Texas?
Ice BacksThe folks fly into Canada then trudge into Vermont and North Dakota. In 2023, compared to 2020, it’s up five-fold and is on pace in 2024 to crush the 2023 numbers. Graph. And like the new immigrants coming across the southern border, these folks appear to be well-funded.
St. Patrick and Sundry
Black St. Patrick's Day
According to the Spectator, St. Patrick's Day is the biggest bar night of the year, surpassing even my favorite holiday, Black Wednesday.
For a country like Ireland, as devoted to its faith as to a good party, the fact that St. Patrick’
Happy St. Patrick's Day
Everything you need and don't need for your bar conversations this weekend
You Can't See Their Faces on Route 66
The Blurry Allure of the Open Road
Hating Rural Whites
Nathan Robinson at Current Affairs
Twelve Aquinas Aphorisms
Simple observations from the medieval poster boy will give you new perspectives
Hey Dude, Let's Inherit the Kingdom
If you want to inherit the kingdom, look with the eyes of the little child. Or maybe drink a few cocktails.
Here's the thing about kids: Their prefrontal cortexes aren't developed. Their PFCs don't fully develop until their early twenties.
PFCs control analytical thinking.
Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State: Summary
I think this minor classic boils down to a handful of points:
1. State power comes at the price of social power. If the state will take care of something, then people won't. As social power collapses, so does society. This is Nock's best insight, and