Huns...

 "Diversity is where nations go to die..." -- Mark Steyn

Galactic Housekeeping #23 (Thanksgiving 2025 Edition)

 "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you can see it's ass..." -- General Joseph Stillwell

A Red Dawn in New Yorkistan...

 

"Do you know the hallmark of a second-rater? It is resentment of another man's achievement. Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own ...They bare their teeth at you from out of their ratholes, thinking that you take pleasure in letting your brilliance dim them...They envy achievement and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become acknowledged failures..." - Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"

Reflections on the Fourth...

 "A republic...if you can keep it..." -- Benjamin Franklin

Obligatory Olympic Crapstorm and Memories...

 No Quote today. This doesn't really warrant any, as it is all just a rant and some reminiscences.

What Pandemic?

 "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election..." -- Otto von Bismark

Refreshed and Vindicated...

  "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you have was once among the things you only hoped for..." -- Epicurus

The World You Live In II

 " I am NOT a racist...I hated Obama's White Half, too..." -- The Overlord

Fish Tank Cleaner All Over Again...

 " I became a journalist because I did not want to rely on newspapers for information..." -- Christopher Hitchens

Critical Race Dogsqueeze...

"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself or others. And having no respect, he ceases to love..." -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Voices Inside My Head (#16 -- People Are Disgusting)

 "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people..." -- Sir Isaac Newton

But...But...Muh Narrative!

 Author's Note: Before I begin, I want to thank a bunch of folks for a very good week, traffic wise. The list may be short, but appears very distinguished, indeed...

Singling Out The Stupidz...

 "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups..." -- George Carlin

Notes from the COVID Gulag...

"For, having begun their building of the Tower of Babel without us, they will end in anthropophagy. And it is then that the beast will come crawling to us and lick our feet, and spatter them with tears of blood from it's eyes. And we shall sit upon the beast and raise the cup. And on it will be written "Mystery!"." -- Fyodor Dostoyesvsky, "The Brothers Karamazov"

Mental Illness, Politics and Religion...Sorry, I Repeat Myself...

"Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed 1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer; 2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind." -- Eric Hoffer

Dark Clouds and Silver Linings, Part 1 (What We Have Learned)

Notes from the Wuhan Apocalypse, as viewed from the Death Star orbiting above Sodom-on-The-Hudson.

A Majority of One (Prevalence of Insanity Edition)

"You're all genetically defective, I tell you..." -- The Overlord

Mass Shootings and (M)assholes...

"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." -- Friedrich Neitzsche 

Own Your Biases...

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into." -- Jonathan Swift

Bleeding Hearts and Leaky Brains...

" I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind..."-- Arthur Schopenhauer