I wouldn't say that Donald Trump is the only person who could possibly lose to Joe Biden, but he doesn't have a lot of company on that list ( Read more... )

On the internet, there exists a group of people that argue that any artist who takes commissions should be willing to draw porn for them. They're willing to pay, and any artist who won't accept their commission just because that artist does not want to draw their favorite subject is a liar and a hypocrite who just needs to 'grow up' or 'get over it ( Read more... )

Two things can simultaneously be true about Twitter ( Read more... )

Rush Limbaugh is dead. He died of cancer. I recall somebody talking about his Christmas Eve broadcast, how it sounded like he was saying good-bye. He probably knew that he was close, that his time was near.

The celebrations of his death online are, in a word, gross. But I didn't expect otherwise. The Wheaton rule ("don't be a dick") doesn't apply ( Read more... )

If you were trying to pinpoint the demise of the Roman Republic in favor of the Empire, there is a good argument for the moment when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon. Bringing a military force into the heart of Roman territory was a drastic step- they were supposed to be merely citizens the moment they crossed that line, no longer soldiers to be ( Read more... )

“We’re looking for the King, the new Messiah…
We were hoping that a king might come,
‘Cause up till now there hasn’t been one.”-There’s a New Kid in Town ( Read more... )

Saw a meme today that said that socialists just want the stuff that their taxes pay for. They put their money in, they want their stuff out.

Except we don't pay enough taxes for the things that socialists want. And you can't get there just by soaking the rich. In countries that do successfully manage a generous safety net (and there aren't many ( Read more... )

So, Jonah Goldberg has an article today in which he notes that polls often measure affiliation rather than one's actual position. He uses support for the Iraq War as one of his examples, pointing out that fewer people say they used to support the war than claimed to support it when it was going on ( Read more... )

The difference between the Sad Puppies and the Rabid Puppies can be summed up very easily.

Larry, Brad, and Hoyt (leaders among the Sad Puppies) are Never Trump.

Vox Day (the leader of the Rabid Puppies) is a Trump supporter.

And now you know.

I have always had an interest in politics. I largely understand how people relate to each other the way I understand everything else: by reading a lot of theories and then observing how well it fits what I see. (I am such an introvert at heart, and an analytical one, too.) So I studied political theories of how people organize themselves, and ( Read more... )