Singapore and Hong Kong resist “International Community†dominance, taking gay books off the library shelves. Now that Trump is disinclined to back Blue Empire soft power with Red Empire hard power, Blue Empire soft power is running into severe head winds. Recall Duterte threatening to give Soros a helicopter ride if he came to the Philippines. One of the books removed is “And Tango makes Threeâ€, a book that schoolchildren …
English pay the Jizya
The Daily Mail Online tells us “Less than one in twenty street robberies and burglaries solved†Naturally I thought the unmentionable planet Jupiter must be in sight, and suspected that these mysteriously unsolvable crimes might correlate with that. “Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire had the lowest rate of solved crime in 2017, while the most crimes were solved in Uttlesford in Essex†So, I looked up Google Earth, for the main town …
Can’t stump the Trump
Naturally the world press attempted to frame this as Trump taking a humiliating beating like an errant schoolboy. But … But the frame fell off with Trudeau’s eyebrows. Trump targeted Trudeau in particular, not because of anything he said, that was just an excuse, but because the Canadian economy is the most vulnerable to a tariff war with the United States. The fake eyebrows were a visible manifestation of less …
Jordan Peterson, controlled opposition
Jordan Peterson is on our side of the Culture War: anti-political correctness anti-identity politics biological sex roles and traditional gender roles meritocracy and meritocratic hierarchy personal freedom and responsibility angers our enemies But this man is not an ally. The enemy of our enemy is not always our friend. It is good that my enemy’s enemy is successful against my enemy, but much though I wish my enemy’s enemy was …
Baking a gay marriage cake
The supreme court has rolled back the decision that forced a particular baker to bake a particular gay marriage cake. But has done nothing in general about the rules that pressure everyone else to piously give service to gay marriage, that require ever other baker to bake a gay wedding cake. The reason for undoing that particular decision is that the human rights commission was openly and enthusiastically delighting in …
The drift to civil war
Whichever outcome happens, Trump in prison or the swamp in prison, as leftism keeps getting lefter the stakes just keep getting higher, and the processes for seizing the stakes are losing legitimacy. When things are falling apart, the first guy to escalate tends to win, and the first guy to escalate to naked violence is likely to win. The deep state, the swamp, figured that they would illegally hound the …
We are all white supremacists now
Obama promised a post racial America. We elected Obama so that we could once and for all cleanse ourselves from the guilt for our racial sins. Obama running for election spoke of the “nation’s original sin of slavery,†in the celebrated “A More Perfect Union†speech on race.but promised redemption. Elect Obama, and your sins will be forgiven. Shortly after election, we discovered that our original sins were irredeemable, we …
“The intellectual Dark Web†– and Jordan Peterson
Yesterday, Saturday, I was shopping at the farmers market, and at one of the stalls my girlfriend asked if we should buy some choko, and I said “You are in charge, you decide”, meaning she was in charge of cooking and the kitchen. Whereupon the stall holder, a late twenties white male small scale farmer selling his own produce or his family’s produce, said “Hey don’t say that. They might start …
Inclusivity codes of conduct
When an open source software project adopts a “code of conduct†it slowly dies. Bugs don’t get fixed, new features break stuff, and it is unable to accommodate updates and changes in the environment. Over time, it gradually suffers bitrot – unchanging and unchangeable assumptions in a changing world, combined with “fixes†that introduce new bugs, and confusing new misfeatures that irritate old users, never quite work as they were …
Who gets sex
The simplistic account is that eighty percent of women are having sex, and twenty percent of men are having sex – a hell of a lot of sex. It kind of feels as if it is true, it is emotionally true, but it is not literally true. The number of men and women getting sex is not hugely different. More woman are having sex than men, and substantially more women …