Category: Culture

Only Hollywood could make Napoleon a boring, lovesick mope rather than one of the most dynamic and engaging personalities in world history

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Rather than the fearless, master horseman who led charges, the film depicts a far more reserved and fearful man.  Rather than the dynamic, workaholic it shows us a moribund, borderline depressive.  Rather than anything resembling the whirlwind of actions and contradictions the real man must’ve been, we are left with only with a poor, bittersweet… Continue reading Only Hollywood could make Napoleon a boring, lovesick mope rather than one of the most dynamic and engaging personalities in world history

When did so many progressives become trained seals clapping for their masters?

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Doublethink is to be expected for those in positions of power, but to the average person, who had been supporting President Biden this entire time and who’d believed what they’d been told, it should have been a shocking revelation that they had been mislead, especially as they watched it collapse in real time.  To me… Continue reading When did so many progressives become trained seals clapping for their masters?

Assassination attempts are inevitable, piss poor security is to blame rather than rhetoric

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Former President Donald Trump is not the first leader to be targeted, nor will he be the last.  As long as there have been politicians, or leaders of any kind, there have been those who seek to kill them for reasons of every kind. As we begin to internalize and rationalize the heinous events of… Continue reading Assassination attempts are inevitable, piss poor security is to blame rather than rhetoric

Springsteen’s “Radio Nowhere” and the tragedy of our connected disconnection

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Upon its release, the entire human race was beginning perhaps its most radical evolution yet, as both traditional radio and music video was rapidly replaced by digital downloads and satellite music, both more more far reaching than anything before. “Radio Nowhere,” the first track on 2007’s Magic and one of the Boss’ best true rockers… Continue reading Springsteen’s “Radio Nowhere” and the tragedy of our connected disconnection

Teddy Roosevelt’s 1914 expedition to the unexplored Amazon rainforest might be one of the most ridiculous things that’s ever happened, ever

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If there’s any doubt how dangerous this expedition was, consider that it would be another thirteen years before anyone successfully made the same trip.  The first follow up expedition had to turn back because of the Indians.  The one after that simply disappeared without a trace, presumably killed by the Indians.  Roosevelt, being Roosevelt, somehow… Continue reading Teddy Roosevelt’s 1914 expedition to the unexplored Amazon rainforest might be one of the most ridiculous things that’s ever happened, ever

This Fourth of July, the sound you hear might be progressive heads exploding instead of fireworks

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Yes, it’s been a good week for conservatives, one of the best I can remember since Trump was elected in 2016, and we have much to celebrate tomorrow.  We should not, however, gloat too much or get too cocky.  Teddy Roosevelt’s political kaleidoscope changes fast, in ways we cannot possibly predict.  At the risk of… Continue reading This Fourth of July, the sound you hear might be progressive heads exploding instead of fireworks

Progressives are coming for your pets

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There is, apparently, a “robust scientific literature [that] leaves no doubt about the anguish pets experience.”  This anguish includes “physical confinement, social isolation, and chronic exposure to stress.”  In other words, we are torturing our pets and should let them run free... Last week, people were a threat to the planet itself.  This week, people… Continue reading Progressives are coming for your pets

Meet the “NEETs,” a new acronym to describe how Generation Z remains hopelessly adrift

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“Not in employment, education, or training,” that is those who are doing absolutely nothing with their lives, neither productively working nor preparing for their future.  After two decades of being told all they could not do, the spark of life has gone out, drowned by those who believe failure is our birthright.  Generation Z, born… Continue reading Meet the “NEETs,” a new acronym to describe how Generation Z remains hopelessly adrift

Springsteen’s “Better Days” and the promise of a more limited redemption

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We’re all looking for something better, but are unlikely to achieve it through some magical moment, some mystical epiphany, or some mythical transformation.  Ironically, Bruce Springsteen’s two albums most focused on positive outcomes and the possibility of redemption, are also his most underrated if not outright forgotten.  After spending almost two decades penning songs about… Continue reading Springsteen’s “Better Days” and the promise of a more limited redemption

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73, the “Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang,” and the meaning of love itself

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Love can sing to us, sweetly, and we can build an edifice upon it for that special choir, an edifice composed of both the joy we have in our lover and the fears of how it will end, for everything is ultimately “ruin’d” in this world, but in Shakespeare’s, even a single intentionally shortened syllable… Continue reading Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73, the “Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang,” and the meaning of love itself