#ThursdayThoughts People who believe in globalism, who don't believe in borders or citizenship, who carry water for the Saudi regime, and who support abstracting policy-making powers away from parochial

Right: Let's bomb Iran! Left: Let's bomb Syria! "Centrist": Let's bomb Iran and Syria! Me: Let's not bomb either of them! Right, Left, and "Center": Shut up you Russian propagandist

pre-meal libation: celebratory champagne appetizer course: Borscht soup salad course: Shirazi (Persian cucumber and tomato salad) main course: Vietnamese Banh Mi sandwiches paired with Vietnamese Sơn Tinh

The Joy Reid homophobic blog controversy is hopefully teaching #SJW|s a "Live by the Sword / Die by the Sword" lesson about virtue-signalling, outrage cycles over words, and gotchas. It's Reid and

An ongoing annoyance from #RussiaGate nutcases has been their idea that Putin is sowing "discord", "division", or "distrust".What people who say such a thing are trying to weasel in is that the American

The more the language surrounding #RussiaGate gets muddled, the more the goalposts shift, and the more that mountains get made out of molehills, the clearer it's becoming to me that it's less of a

One year ago, the world said goodbye to an amazing writer, speaker, investigative journalist, and social observer. This remarkable man was William Norman Grigg When that happened, I also said goodbye to

One of the surest signs of #RussiaGate being bullshit has been its goalpost-shifting and vagueness.  We've gone from the story that the DNC and Podesta e-mail hacks were Russian state actors coordinating

If you're a committed peace activist, you'll inevitably conclude that there's no hope of stopping aggression / imperialism without an alliance with right-leaning non-interventionists (or

I think I finally understand what divides the Mike and Joel factions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 People who lean towards Joel already enjoy "so bad it's good" movies and might have watched

Bush / Cheney & Co. never came right out and said it, but they really, really fertilized the ground for a belief that Saddam Hussein had something to do with the 9/11 attacks. Thinking back to 2002-2004,

Things #RussiaGate(ers) like to do: namecall question your motives ostracize scold #GishGallop argue by assertion / repetition use the most vague and nebulous language they can Things Russia Gaters don't

1.) If Rape Culture is a thing, and Cultural Appropriation is a thing, can you culturally appropriate rape culture? (1a) Would a rapist be offended if a non-rapist culturally appropriated rape culture?

Here's why I think so: 1.) When you strip away the Trump Derangement Syndrome of the MSM, Trump's low approval ratings and the Democrats' comparative fortunes aren't that different from the usual bounce-back

1.) Have a real morning routine. I'm almost middle-aged, and, yet for my whole adult life, I've always just rolled out of bed straight into the shower to start my day. Successful people seem to have real

In 2017, I learned that you're a "mouthpiece for Russia" if... ...you point out the metastatic failure of regime change in Libya and Iraq ...you point out that the most out-spoken #SJW's were

Former CIA Director Mike Morell, in an NYT Op-Ed that got approving signal-boosts from knaves and fools, wrote the following: "President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was a career intelligence officer, trained