Series links: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Why does Japan inspire longing in so many people? Why did I devote so much of my university studies followed by 5 years of my life, and countless hours of continued study afterward to a place where I [Read More]
And the same day Sinead O’Connor converted to Islam. It kind of undermines the European narrative that they’re more enlightened than us knuckle dragging MAGAs. I mean, Sinead was always bat-s**t crazy (I have video from 1988 of her appealing to MTV 120 Minutes viewers to send money to the [Read More]
On Quora an anonymous useful idiot asked, “Why do otherwise intelligent conservatives believe that liberals and progressives yearn to have a country like Venezuela?” While researching the answer I came across some very good articles, most referenced in the answer below, but one in particular is worth mentioning. Dan Hannon, [Read More]
Over the past few weeks of the Kavanaugh debacle I expected the Republicans to cave. Why? Because when it comes right down to it, the party leadership isn’t all that smart. When the Tea Party rose, they neutered it. The fight to overturn Obamacare? They bravely fled the field of [Read More]
We are witnessing the first coup d’état in the history of the United States. The will of the American voters is being completely overthrown not by generals on TV or soldiers in the streets but by unelected bureaucrats and administration officials behind closed doors. Although there are no tanks rumbling [Read More]
My wife and I were both raised in the Roman Catholic Church and left it during our early adult years. Several years ago she presented the following scenario to me. “Imagine you are the Devil and you’ve just helped dispose of the Son of Man only to watch his apostles [Read More]
I do all the right things when it comes to online transactions. I use multiple, hard to guess passwords. All my cards are chipped. I track my spending carefully and have alert on my credit lines. I’m careful when I pay for transactions online, making sure the website is trusted [Read More]
Every Monday, the WoW! community and our invited guests weigh in at the Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week’s question: What was your first job? Doug Hagin: First job? A friends dad hired me to work at his welding [Read More]
Every Monday, the WoW! community and our invited guests weigh in at the Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day, the culture, or daily living. This week’s question: Russia, Friend Or Enemy? Rob Miller: I think President Trump is taking exactly the right stance on Russia. They are [Read More]
The Danger of Hysterical Rhetoric Imagine a time traveler appears on your doorstep. She offers you the chance to return to Germany 1933 and stop Hitler. Would you take it? Imagine having the power to stop the Holocaust, or the war that took hundreds of millions of lives. Even Gandhi’s [Read More]
Are you as offended as I am over the comparisons between US government policy towards illegal immigrant children and the Nazis? This is just the latest in countless comparisons made since Trump announced his candidacy 3 years ago. All of these comparisons reflect a fundamental ignorance of history that is [Read More]
I’m a recovering alcoholic with 17+ years of sobriety. The first “pill-head” I met was in rehab in 1988, a man injured in a car accident who got hooked on painkillers during his recovery. Opioid abuse has been around for much longer than the current “crisis”. Photographer Larry Clark documented [Read More]
I find it difficult to take anything that guy says seriously after his mishandling of the Hillary Clinton investigation as well as his politicization of the FBI while he was in office. But it appears that James Comey is taking the lead of Hillary Clinton and blaming American voters for [Read More]
This past week saw Facebook under attack after a scandal involving abuse of user data. Suspicion quickly spread to Google, Instagram, Twitter and other “free” social media platforms. Various article have appeared online showing users how to see the data these platforms collected. I’m generally suspicious of the sudden rise [Read More]
I’ve been online since 1989 when I bought my first PC complete with a 2400 baud modem and dialed into a local online bulletin board. At that time in my life I was an information freak, reading several newspapers a day then exploring the exploding online universe at night. On [Read More]
Last week the Chinese Communist Party announced it was ending term limits, allowing president XI Jinping to hold the office as long as he wanted to. The day after the announcement I caught a BBC program discussing the move with three experts on China, all representatives from Academia including one [Read More]
When I first saw this I didn’t believe it. After living for 15 months in what the Left would describe as the “Trump-ocalypse” since the 2016 election, Trump is actually polling better than the Left’s messiah Barack Obama. Rasmussen reports, “Since last week’s State of the Union address, Trump’s approval [Read More]
Cross-posted at TheRazor “Carthage must be destroyed.” Ceterum censeo Carthaginem delendam esse often abbreviated to simply Carthago delenda est. So ended every speech by the Roman senator Cato the Elder in the years between the 2nd and 3rd Punic wars, the latter the final war that finally accomplished what Cato [Read More]
If you’ve never heard of Grindr, you likely aren’t a member of the gay community. Grindr is a dating app used by gays, bisexuals, transgendered and all the other allied acronyms and has been popular since it was launched in 2009. On January 6, 2018 the Chinese firm Kunlun announced [Read More]
Driving down the country road listening to music too loud, a dog on my lap and another on my shoulder. I travel down this road several times a week, it’s a connection to larger roads that lead to the interstate, but tonight was I was driving down it to pick [Read More]
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