The Children are Getting Bold and Snickering at Their Parents
I try to say counter-cultural things and realize no one thinks they're counter-cultural. I swear, to get a reaction out of people, ya almost gotta go full-on Nick Fuentes.
Eric Scheske
QAnon Got a Lot Right
We were assured Q was a hoax and his followers morons. But damn, he got a lot right. It's just more evidence that we live in crazy times: obvious hoaxes aren't hoaxes and nut-job conspiracy theories get vindicated far more often than narratives spun by the media.
Slaying Goliath with Another Goliath
Hope springs eternal: Artificial intelligence only has a left hemisphere. Bureaucracy is left-hemispheric. It makes sense that AI might be able to kill the blob that has spread everywhere since it started its halcyon days in the 1970s.
Finally, a Rat Goes Down in This Epstein Saga
"It’s kind of fundamental that perverts and degenerates are not deserving of public trust." James Howard Kuntsler. Larry Summers is now stepping out of public life. Will we drown the rest of the rats? I doubt it. We need an exorcist to get rid of the corruption on the I-95 corridor.
Emil Lunden: Blasphemer to Believer
He wanted to forge the ultimate artifact of our unraveling age: black metal songs so steeped in malice that they might summon the demons. The Faust wannabe threw himself at Latin grammars to unearth lyrics to curdle the soul. He hadn't reckoned with the Desert Fathers.
The Ultimate Guide to Ancient Greek Philosophy
Your scribe's essay on Pyrrho of Elis starts on page 109
Brews You Can Use: 11/14/2025
It's the birthplace of Joe Stalin, but don't let that fool you: Georgian wine is very good. The Spectator has praised it at least twice in recent years. I drank it twice while in Krakow this week.
Books Aren't Rational. They're Tactile.
Back in the greasy, disco-lit haze of the 1970s and the dawn of the Reaganite ‘80s, the publishing world churned out a billion paperbacks. They were dirt cheap, some even free, handed out like girlie pamphlets on the Vegas strip.
But there was a hook: they were riddled with ads,
Books Can Shield You From Cults
Role models are great. We all oughtta have a few.
But don’t underestimate the anti-role models. These cautionary wraiths of consequence are more often the true educators in this carnival of folly called “modernity,” whispering not “be like me” but “For God’s sake, be anything but.”
That lean
Don't be a Zizian
Everyday Neurology 101: The right hemisphere receives sensory input, feeds it to the left hemisphere for processing, receives a report from the left hemisphere, synthesizes it, feeds its synthesis back to the left hemisphere for more processing, which reports back, and on and on until a decision is made.
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