An American tourist in Russia
Nothing good is happening from the American perspective. Even as a cynic, I am actually astonished at how fast this situation is deteriorating. Yesterday’s CENTCOM press release was basically a template. An extremely vague description of bombing “ISIS” along with a boilerplate justification and a copy/pasted quote from a general. If you ask why I’m … Read more
More than a year and a half ago I wrote about the Daniel Penny subway incident in the New York City subway. Now the ordeal is over, Penny has been found not guilty of all charges and is a free man. But everything I said in that initial article remains true, and the regime won. … Read more
Here’s a quick write-up I shared to Quora yesterday. Apparently I am the minority in this opinion and have been arguing with people about it, including Russians, funnily enough. Russia has two major bases in Syria, Tartus and Latakia. Rebel forces have control of the surrounding areas at both of these bases. They could attack … Read more
I watched the full interview on Tucker Carlson’s website early this morning. I won’t give a play-by-play description of what was said, as that has been done a hundred times already. There’s a good synopsis of the main points on Zero Hedge. Instead, I’ll just give my general observations. There’s the widespread hysteria about Tucker … Read more
Is it okay to admire just the “good” elements of nazism? Star Trek had an episode, Patterns of Force, that attempted to answer this exact question. Kirk and Spock arrive on a planet to discover that a rogue federation officer has established himself as dictator over the natives in an attempt to create a good nazi society with only the positive elements of nazi ideology. However, the experiment is no longer under his control, and the natives are planning to attack the neighboring planet and destroy everyone on it.