Hollow Be They Name, Part Three

 "...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them..." -- Livy, The History of Rome

Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 9/16/2023) -- A Twofer!

 "And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite." -- Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

Make it Stop...

 "The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" -- George Orwell, "1984"

You All Suck (#54b - Electile Dysfunction...)

 "One more such victory and we are undone..." -- Pyrrhus of Epirus

You All Suck (#54a - 2022 Midterm Edition Introduction)

 "It is hateful to me to retell a story over again when it has been well told..." -- Homer, "The Odyssey"

Galactic Housekeeping #19 (A New Chapter Begins?)

 "From the end springs new beginnings..." -- Pliny the Elder

Douchebag of the Week (Week Ending 7/9/2022 -- Mitt Romney)

 "The worse a person is the less he feels it..." -- Seneca The Younger

James Burnham Warned You...

 "Where there is no alternative, there is no problem..." -- James Burnham

"There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine social forces are as trivial, in relation to entrenched power, as the old court jesters..." -- James Burnham, "The Machiavellians"

You All Suck (#46 - Scum Rises To The Top)

 "...in government, the scum rises to the top..." -- Friedrich Hayek

Fixing 'Murica, Part Two: Salvage and Recovery

 "The people who scream the loudest and most-frequently about racism, are, in fact, the real racists they are warning you about..." -- The Overlord

Fixing 'Murica, Part One: The (Below-)Average American...

 

"But the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule ..." - Plato, "The Republic"

You All Suck (#43 - You Dumb Fu*king Monkeys Edition)

 "If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey?" -- Steven Wright

"Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks in a mirror, he sees a monkey." -- Malcolm de Chazal

Defeating the Left, Part Three: The Endgame...

 "Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task that has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us..." -- Winston Churchill

Defeating the Left, Part Two (The Indirect Approach)

 "The Theory of Indirect Approach operates on the line of least expectation...The most effective Indirect Approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move -- so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his own overthrow..." -- Basil Henry Liddel-Hart, "The Strategy of Indirect Approach".

Defeating The Left, Part One (Know Thy Enemy)...

 "If you know the enemy, and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, then for every victory gained you will suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy or yourself, you will succumb in every battle..." -- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"

When You Even Get Revisionist History Wrong...

"Who controls the past controls the future; Who controls the present controls the past" -- George Orwell, "1984"

Erection 2018...

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Public.." -- H.L. Mencken

A Majority of One: Counting Cults...

"There are some ideas so stupid only an intellectual could believe in them..." -- George Orwell.

I'm a Libertarian...And I'm a Doofus (Part I)

"All kinds of people today call themselves “libertarians,” especially something calling itself the New Right, which consists of hippies who are anarchists instead of leftist collectivists; but anarchists are collectivists. Capitalism is the one system that requires absolute objective law, yet libertarians combine capitalism and anarchism. That’s worse than anything the New Left has proposed. It’s a mockery of philosophy and ideology. They sling slogans and try to ride on two bandwagons. They want to be hippies, but don’t want to preach collectivism because those jobs are already taken. But anarchism is a logical outgrowth of the anti-intellectual side of collectivism. I could deal with a Marxist with a greater chance of reaching some kind of understanding, and with much greater respect. Anarchists are the scum of the intellectual world of the Left, which has given them up. So the Right picks up another leftist discard. That’s the libertarian movement. " -- Ayn Rand

You've Lost Your Freakin' Minds...

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." -- Benjamin Franklin