…is in big trouble.
My biggest fear is that if they can’t play in the sandbox, they’ll crap in it, which they are perfectly capable of doing. It’s always much easier to destroy than create, which is what they’ve been doing in Ukraine.
[Afternoon update]
Sorry, link is there now.
Myths exposed. A long but interesting history.
Revisiting the killing fields.
If Marxism means enforced equality, its ultimate endpoint is this. Individuals cannot be ‘allowed’ as they might be ‘different’, they might laugh or be happy, unlike others. Beauty – physical, artistic, sexual, spiritual, intellectual – must likewise be ruthlessly extinguished, because it too prevents a Marxist Utopia. Beauty is unfair. It must be eliminated.
Does this matter? Yes, because we live in a time when kids think Marxism is cool again. When self-confessed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn is seen as an amusing old uncle.
In the early 80s, I worked with a man from Cambodia at Rockwell who had managed to escape, just a few years earlier. He was a good guy, smart engineer, but understandably didn’t want to talk about that.
It’s two decades old, and it’s past time to abolish it.
I thought it was a terrible idea at the time.
They know what will happen to them if they do.
For people who complain about foreign election interference, Democrats sure do a lot of it.
The great strategic opportunity?
We could do worse, and probably will.
Several reasons why it will fail.
It really is astounding how poorly the Russian military has performed.
Depressing thoughts, from Blake Powers.
[Afternoon update]
How the war in Ukraine ends. It’s a long interview, and I haven’t read the whole thing yet.