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Category Archives: Popular Culture
The Scrooges Of 2025
A survey of evil philanthropists.
John Varley
RIP.
I didn’t read everything he wrote, but Millenium was good.
The Fascist Kennedy Family
It’s just more evidence of the failing of the American media that too many Americans still worship these people as royalty.
No Kings
…versus the Democratic deep state. You can have a constitutional republic, or a massive federal bureaucracy. Pick one.
Antifa’s Recruiting Problem
Thoughts on the not-to-be-hoped-for civil war:
Antifa wants an insurrection leading to a legitimacy collapse and a communist/left-anarchist revolution. But there's a very basic question: where's it going to find the troops, and how's it going to train them?
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) September 25, 2025
In one of my previous analysis posts I identified three overlapping…
Elizabethan English
How to get it right, or wrong, in writing period fiction.
The Climate Hysteria
Are we at a turning point?
We can hope.
A New Book On SpaceX
A Book Recommendation
Though written by a woman (and a friend), and recommended by another woman (and another friend) this looks like a good book to get boys back to reading.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Laura returns the favor.