Elisabeth Mahase, Editor-in-chief of Brunel University’s Student Newspaper….. etc., etc. (twice) published a post on Huffpost UK she titled “You Can’t Opt Out at Islamophobia”
It is an intriguing title, as half of the article was about opting out ‘of’ Islamophobia, not ‘at’. Continue reading →
Category Archives: 4-Culture & society
Lunacy in moderation
I recently realized that I am afflicted by several serious mental conditions. I suffer from fascistophobia and communistophobia. At times, I’m worried that these may be signs of an even more serious, overarching condition: leftistophobia.
The long view #2 – Our uncertain future
I finished my last post without actually answering the question I set out to answer. Instead of the possible futures, I ended up talking about immigration. While it is an important subject playing an important role in our future, it is far from being the only source of risk and uncertainty. The future is indeed a mystery, but it clearly has some directions.
The fortune tellers
The long view
I had a conversation with a friend a few months ago about immigration. We are both immigrants, but with clearly differing views on it. The conversation quickly moved on to culture and demographics, but maybe it started with them. I laid out my angst that he countered with……… I don’t even know what.
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The prostitution principle
I was reminding a friend of a classic joke:
A guy walks up to a gorgeous woman and says: “Would you sleep with me for a million bucks?”
The woman looks at him and says “Well, OK……”
Then the man says: “how about for $50?”
The woman gets indignant: “What kind of woman do you think I am?”
The man answers: “We already established that, now we are just negotiating the price.”
Furious anger and righteous indignation
I came upon this statistic above and got angry. Then I watched this video about the numbers behind Black Lives Matter and got even angrier. Then I remembered my hopeless conversations about the damage we cause with our handling of gender dysphoria and got………. You get the picture. Continue reading →
Softcore War
The Antifa warriors of the Berkeley riots are right: this is war. Continue reading →
How can smart people be so stupid?
I know some smart people. I know that they are smart because they have all the credentials, the accomplishments and the recognition to prove it. They are experts in their fields, they are clearly knowledgeable, they are articulate and very confident about the value of their knowledge.
Yet, when it comes to subjects that is not in the direct purview of their field of expertise, they can be excessively stupid and difficult to argue with. Their stupidity on those subjects can be outright obnoxious. Continue reading →
The care bear stare
Someone sent me a link to this Pat Condell video: Human rights travesty, then a day later, with an approving comment, she forwarded to me the following reply she got from a friend:
“He’s clever, and though it’s exaggerated, he’s saying what we all know is approximately true — but he’s leaving a lot out too, like alternatives. Continue reading →
r/K selection theory – the work ahead
My previous post on the subject was extolling the virtues of the theory and the book explaining it; in this one I will talk about the gaps in it. While the value of the theory and the reliability of the evidence supporting it is beyond doubt, there are many questions in need of further answers and explanations. It is a new theory, especially as applied to political ideologies and attitudes. The ‘gaps’ in it are just unanswered or not fully explored questions.
Conspiracy theory
A friend asked me the other day whether I believe that Antonin Scalia was murdered.
I said we’ll never know but I don’t think so. What I should have said is that “I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that he was.”
Free to sleaze
Let me give you the little exchange that led to this post:
My Friend: Do you Agree?
The Slovaks want to contribute
The following article is a loose translation of the ‘proposal’ published here:
https://beo.sk/zabava/2023-kvoty-na-prerozdelenie-slovenskych-ciganov-v-eu
Quotas for the redistribution of Slovak Gypsies in the EU!
Declaring war on stupid
Reading with my coffee in the morning, within twenty minutes, I was confronted with a week’s worth of stupidity. I couldn’t help noticing a system in their nature.
Before I share them with you, let me give you my definition of what ‘stupid’ is – or to be more precise, what ‘stupid’ means to me.
Stupid
Public discourse and the alpha male
I have to be grateful to the CBC. I learned a new name in the news – Roosh V who also blogs @ Return Of Kings – news, commentary, and lifestyle advice for masculine men.
He has two stops on his ‘world tour’ in Canada. He had one in Montreal with the one in Toronto coming up on the 15th of August.