Food for Trough

“The ruling class’s appetite for deference, power and perks grows.” From Angelo M. Codevilla’s America’s Ruling Class –And the Perils of Revolution … Who are these Ruling Class Orcs?  Who are these aggressive scavengers and opportunistic Kulakovores?  They are Ruling Class America and the minions who do their hunter-gatherer bidding.  They are the Democrats and Republicans…

Guess Who Came to Dine on You? Part Two

The Ruling Class Cannibals! Who are these Kulakovores?  They are Ruling Class America and the minions who do their hunter-gatherer bidding.  They are the Democrats and Republicans who accrue power unto themselves.  They are the un-elected:  the bureaucrats, the administrative state, the regulators, the social engineers, the ones whose careers are dependent on the government. …

License to…Look Out For Number One

Living in a Material World, Part Two Not long ago, while riding the commuter train home, I sat down on an upper row seat not far from a young Indian woman. Her head was covered so I believed her to be a devoutly religious person. On her lap was Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”. I wondered…

Curiouser and Curiouser

From the Big Bang to the Black Rabbit Holes of Moral Relativism Have you noticed that many of the well-coifed commentator’s these days now use the phrase, “The fact of the matter” to preface their comments? This is empiricism trying to counter relativism’s cynicism. Modern day liberals, pundits of the ersatz, consider themselves open-minded individuals. …

Mission Probable: Self-Made Victims

 “Should you decide to accept this mission to self-victimize the IMF (Inane Meme Force) will disavow any knowledge of your subsequent misbehavior if caught in the act.”  Consider the following IMF missions of self-made victimization:  Social media participants as victims: every moment of one’s-no depth of field life must become selfie-important.  We may knowingly expose ourselves à…

The Binary That Binds?

I kid you not… ‘Gender inclusive ‘school district says drop ‘boys and girls,’call kids’purple penguins’  In its quest for “welcomeness” the Lincoln, Nebraska school system, under the guidance of individuals with superior ‘intellect’ and with visions of sugar plum equality fairies dancing in their heads have told their teaching staff to not use the appellation…