Notoriously, husbands tend to see their wives as hot, when they would never see some other woman of similar age as hot. If they are separated from their wife for a year or so, for example by divorce, the wife goggles fall off. Wife goggles appear to happen primarily to fathers. If the wife does …
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US State Department hints at invading Ukraine
We currently are working with Ukraine to determine its requirements across the security sector. Based on those requirements, we will review options for potential additional security assistance. This follows the path that the Soviet Union followed into Afghanistan. The Soviet Union mistreated its allied government in Afghanistan, after the style of Darth Vader I am …
Real Rebellion in Ukraine
Reuters shows a video of these people seizing the police station, mayor’s offices, and so forth Observe, no two in quite the same uniform. It is very hard for a militia to get uniforms exactly the same. Â It is very hard for astroturf to get uniforms varied. Â Therefore, real militia, not Russian astroturf. These are …
Firing Kathleen Sebelius
Everyone involved in the disastrous rollout of the disastrous Obamacare website has been fired or has had something horribly bad happen to their careers, from Human Health and Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius downwards. It turns out that people working for the government, like people with tenure, can be punished by the left, though not by …
autogynophilia
The progressive model of transexuality is that a man is really a woman inside. For the most part, this is not true. Transexuals are, for the most part, men who have no interest in knitting, dolls, or housework. They are men who have a sexual fetish for being treated as women. They get a kick …
Bored with Game of Thrones
I used to be a huge fan of Game of Thrones. Attempted to watch the latest episode, Season four episode one, gave up when we got introduced to some bad guys in the occupation army harassing the North. I don’t care about those people. They can rape the northerners all they want. Fine by me. …
Watt’s big list of failed global warming predictions
Watt has a big list of failed global warming predictions.  None have been fulfilled, many of them have been falsified. Here is the subset of Watt’s list that has been clearly and obviously falsified. May 15, 1989, Associated Press: “Using computer models, researchers concluded that global warming would raise average annual temperatures nationwide [USA] two …
The trouble with white nationalism
is that it is demotic. The trouble with our brahmins is that they are demotic. If, seeking power, you propose to give all white people a microslice of power, you will be outbid by those seeking power who propose to give everyone a microslice of power. White nationalism is moderate leftism, and moderate leftism will …
Still patting themselves on the back
The Cathedral believed it was unthinkable that Putin would annex Crimea. When Putin annexed Crimea, they believed he had made a terrible mistake, and they just needed to allow him some face saving way to back down. Mother Jones tells us: Russia Is Not Exactly a Big Winner in the Crimean Dispute Here is how …
Creeping coup in the Ukraine
The fascists took over Japan in the 1930s by a creeping coup. There was a fair bit of violence and assassination by people with friends in government, and people in government had friends in the violence and assassination business. Similarly, that is how Mossadegh “democratically†came to power in Iran, without ever facing the inconvenience …