I was twelve years old when Queensryche released their rock opera, combining hair metal essentials with a subversive storyline about a heroin addicted assassin working for an underground revolution. For me, it radically changed my perspective on what a genre could be, introducing concepts I’d learn more about and fully embrace in the years to… Continue reading Operation: Mindcrime: How Queensryche’s masterful concept album changed my life
Author: Christian Twiste
Unexpected shrinkage: Welcome to the Biden Recession
The economy officially shrunk in the first quarter despite the steady drumbeat of supposedly positive news from the administration and the mainstream media. Economists continue to insist the odds of a recession are low, though we may be in the middle of one already. Some seem to believe the economy is great, but the people… Continue reading Unexpected shrinkage: Welcome to the Biden Recession
The pandemic is over, Fauci told me so, or did he?
Confusion reigns supreme as Dr. Fauci declares the pandemic over one day, and reverses course the next. The face of the coronavirus fight also declines to attend an event in Washington because of his personal risk, while we learn a leading physician influencer is a total fraud. Could anything better represent the pandemic in its… Continue reading The pandemic is over, Fauci told me so, or did he?
Musk takes Twitter amid a media firestorm and the changing meanings of free speech
The Twitter board officially approves the sale to the world’s richest man, and the media responds by arguing openly for censorship, turning recently held positions regarding free speech upside down, claiming free speech is racist, and pretending there is transparency in the current social media content moderation regime. Sometimes, you think the media simply has… Continue reading Musk takes Twitter amid a media firestorm and the changing meanings of free speech
The miracle of spring and the endless beauty of evolution
The natural world is reborn every spring as flowers bloom and animals return like clockwork, but beneath the surface each species’ unique evolutionary history gives this rebirth an endless, almost magical variety. In New Jersey, there are some 2,100 varieties of plants alone, each similar and unique in how they respond to the coming of… Continue reading The miracle of spring and the endless beauty of evolution
Trump has broken the Democrat party, driving them towards the wrong side of every issue
Last week, President Biden announced he would be going to court to prolong the pandemic over masks, while Democrats in Florida screamed and cried when a multinational conglomerate was stripped of special perks almost no other company has. What could possibly explain this reflexive desire to take the wrong side over and over again except… Continue reading Trump has broken the Democrat party, driving them towards the wrong side of every issue
The workers of the world are uniting against the establishment
Call it the return to normalcy that wasn’t. President Joe Biden and his fellow establishment leaders are crumbling in the polls and in actual elections as shocking numbers believe the future is bleak. Perhaps this is because normal doesn’t exist anymore in a world where governments are at war with their own citizens, and parents… Continue reading The workers of the world are uniting against the establishment
Critical Race Theory: A leading antiracist puts forward a radical, ridiculous new theory as to why this corrosive ideology is essential in schools
Ibram X. Kendi is very concerned that online gaming has become a hotbed of white supremacist recruitment, and the only real protection we can offer to prevent this indoctrination is to indoctrinate the kids with antiracism. Of course, if you disagree, you are a white supremacist yourself. Who could’ve guess it? You know things aren’t… Continue reading Critical Race Theory: A leading antiracist puts forward a radical, ridiculous new theory as to why this corrosive ideology is essential in schools
It’s long past time to discuss President Biden’s obvious mental decline
The media doesn’t seem to care, indeed is doing its best to hide it, but we cannot have a President doddering around a stage, shaking hands with the empty air without serious repercussions. Talk of the 25th Amendment was all the rage when President Trump was in office. We need some of that now, fast,… Continue reading It’s long past time to discuss President Biden’s obvious mental decline
The NYC subway shooter, the media, and the strange failure of content moderation
The NYC subway shooter’s social media profile revealed hundreds of anti-racist and other disturbing rants, where he argued the races should be separated and asked “black Jesus” to kill all white people. The media, however, thinks he’s anti-black, and no one has even bothered to ask how these inflammatory, racist posts made it past the… Continue reading The NYC subway shooter, the media, and the strange failure of content moderation









