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A 100% FREE collection of some of the best of the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie stories. You will want to read all of my books, but here is a cost-free way to get started.Buy my books at Amazon.com
Dusty
An elegy of hope and love.
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Bedtime stories for your inner child from The Mall of Misfit Families.
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Las Vegas Redemption
Pastor Trey Coyle and the reincarnation of Sarno’s Ghost.
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Shyly’s delight
Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Nine empathies
Apprehending love and malice.
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Father’s Day
More Married. More Husband.
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Loving Cathleen
A Love To Live Up To
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Sun City
Loved ones die. Life goes on.
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Losing Slowly
How Las Vegas lost its mojo – and how to get it back
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Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie's Christmas stories
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Contra @realDonaldTrump, @Nero, @StefanMolyneux – and Eric Cartman: Tu quoque is never okay.
An Incandescent in power will always become a Cautious tyrant. And #BrotherYouAskedForIt!The Army of Cartmans marches on – to its terminal peril – with new generals, and now with an even more tragic end goal. This week’s Church of Splendor … Continue reading
What is true child abuse? It’s the emotional outrage Stefan Molyneux himself repeatedly endured.
The purpose of defooing is not to induct the defooers into a cult but to inflict what Stefan Molyneux believes to be the most excruciating possible pain upon their parents. His motive is not to help anyone but to kill … Continue reading
Empathy for the underfathered: Why Hamlet, Stefan Molyneux and Richard Dawkins can’t shut up.
Not only do parents and friends deserve to be scolded, scorned and shunned, but your unborn baby secretly wants to die! What should you do? Try not listening to underfathered moral idiots.I made a video for The 21 Convention’s Youtube … Continue reading
Comfort for the Defooed Heart: Stefan Molyneux’s pathetic pantomime of parricide-by-proxy.
What is the ‘defoo’ advocated by Stefan Molyneux – the practice that has at last won him recognition as a cult leader? And what can you do when it happens to you? All my Molyneux news.
What do you call an anti-family libertarian like Stefan Molyneux? A Marxist.
“If you want to perform the greatest service for political liberty, all you have to do is turf all of your unsatisfying relationships. Parents, siblings, spouse, it doesn’t matter.” –Stefan MolyneuxI do not wish to dwell on matters Molyneuvian, but … Continue reading
Contra Stefan Molyneux on the family: I pity defoo on nihil.
Yesterday’s Church of Splendor homily: We start with a discussion of the essential role of self-responsible fatherhood in the creation of Western Civilization. Then we relate that back to the anti-family praxis of ‘defoo’-ing – disassociating from your family-of-origin – … Continue reading
Fisking Ayn Rand on abortion: Why her utilitarianism is necessarily anti-man, anti-mind, anti-life.
“The don’t want to live. They want you to die.” –Ayn RandSaturday marks the six-month three year anniversary of the release of the first of the Planned Parenthood infanticide-mining videos. In all that time, the Ayn Rand Institute has had … Continue reading
Set humanity free? No need. The enemies of liberty are graciously volunteering to exit the future.
I have the map to a much better future for humanity – but here is the best news of all: We’re headed that way already.Photo by: Ben FrancisI participated in a Facebook debate yesterday, something I almost never do. (Rule … Continue reading
Empathy tells all: Why are libertarians so hostile to marriage and family?
Do you see any room for a baby – an endlessly needy whining mammal that will never, ever pay back its monetary and opportunity costs – in there? That’s why you see so few babies among libertarians.Photo by: Lisa Rosario[From … Continue reading
The DISC of Ayn Rand’s anti-family philosophy and how it promotes human misery.
You wanted to know what explains the Incandescent/Cautious female harridans and the Cautious/Incandescent male involuntary-celibates of the libertarian movement: It is this formula for human misery concocted by Ayn Rand.This started as a comment. Then it grew. If you have … Continue reading
For Luke Williams, here’s a complimentary grenade to lob into your Non-Agression Principle debate.
“Just remember this: If the rationale is almost impossible to read, it can’t be a cargo cult!”Photo by: barkThe Non-Agression Principle (NAP) is merely a sentiment, much alike to the Golden Rule. But it is (putatively) socially-restrictive, where “do-unto-others” is … Continue reading
Practical anarchism is egoism in action: “Be who you are. Do what you want. Have what you love.”
My answer, always: Live for your own sake, in pursuit of your own values, in behalf of your own loved ones – starting with yourself.Photo by: Kalyan ChakravarthyPeople who are fans of talk-show host Stefan Molyneux and who are not … Continue reading
Doing the job the Ayn Rand Institute is afraid to do: Abortion is incompatible with egoism.
How will you feel about yourself going forward if, as the only possible protector of the life of a helpless innocent, you choose to exterminate that life? Egoists ask those kinds of questions. Juveniles do not.Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy is … Continue reading
Is the Ayn Rand Institute’s indefensible stand on abortion part of a clandestine intelligence op?
Spies everywhere!Photo by: JD HancockWriter David McGowan is the author of an enchanting conspiracy theory: Was the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s a sophisticated intelligence operation devised to defuse the anti-Vietnam-War movement? As with … Continue reading
Why am I infanticide-shaming the Ayn Rand Institute? Because abortionism kills humanity itself.
Good grief…Intrauterine infanticide – abortion – is morally repugnant – and you don’t need for me to tell you that, do you? The ‘procedure’ itself is ugly, as are its secondary consequences, but being instrumentally involved in abortion makes us … Continue reading