Author Archives: Greg Swann

Silent cinema in three quick glances: Emily Brownbangs at the conception of guile.

This is not what my train looks like – unless you’re a toddler.Photo by: Tejvan PettingerA Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story Sunday, May 8, 2016 – Mother’s Day I want to tell you another train story, but this is a sad … Continue reading

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Love at first sight, twenty-five years later: Someone to thrive with.

I wrote this twenty years ago today, but it describes events that happened twenty-five years ago. You’ll figure it out…  If you wonder what a gorgeous woman like that is doing with a schlub like me, I commend you to … Continue reading

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My only points of disagreement with Ayn Rand, libertarianism and scholarship in general: Everyone has been wrong about everything, going back forever.

My epistemology professor – a playful peripatetic.I have met a lot of big-O and biggish-O Objectivists over the years – people who were present in the salons at the Hotel Martinique, others who were actual invited guests to the show … Continue reading

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Ayn Rand and me – why my homework is late…

Human thriving is not a solitary pursuit? Who knew?I am dilatory, plainly. More than a year since I’ve written anything here, and that story’s horrors bloom like mold spores. For two years and more, I’ve been stuck with a book … Continue reading

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An infinity of souls.

Miss Chioux. She’s even friendlier in person. A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story Sunday, June 20, 2021 – Father’s Day – Rio Nuevo, AZ “Why aren’t you writing?” Josh asked me that, and this is the price you pay for letting people get … Continue reading

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My three Trumps: Envisioning strategies leading to an exit strategy.

Start here: I am not a Trump fan-boy. Never was, and, while I haven’t written much here lately, you can follow my trajectory of Trump affination in these pages over the last five years. At first I feared what everyone … Continue reading

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The Grasshopper Rebellion

“Ants or no Ants, life is a lifelong marshmallow test that Grasshoppers routinely fail.” Continue reading

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Surfing The Deuce with Sarno’s Ghost.

Want to hear some juicy Vegas gossip? The Grace on the left had a boob-job. Extracted from the Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie book Losing Slowly, available at Amazon.com. I have great ideas. You have money. We should trade. A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ … Continue reading

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“The one becomes the other…”

“You’ve given us more tyranny in a week than Clinton and Gore gave us in eight years, and this war of yours is barely started. The one becomes the other, inch by inch, hour by hour, episode by episode. Thirteen weeks? Mr. President, I predict this show will still be getting great ratings in thirteen years!” Continue reading

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Some days the train robs you: Desperados waiting for the hearse.

“Some days you rob the train,some days the train robs you.”Photo by: Syuzo TsushimaA Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story Tuesday, May 17, 2016 The saddest questions are the ones you already know the answers to, without having to ask. “Awb oar!” … Continue reading

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The way to beat Ci compliance displays is to rob them of their oxygen: Your compliance.

Thanks to Google, now even girls know how to shop for just what they want, ignoring everything else.I’ve vituperated a lot, lately, about Ci and its inverse, obverse photo-copy Ic. There’s a reason for that: We live in a Ci … Continue reading

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A Costco family Christmas.

Do you know about Costco? It’s a warehouse-sized store that sells huge quantities of stuff at wholesale prices. There are other companies that exploit the same basic idea. Another big one is Sam’s Club, where the motto is, ‘When mere … Continue reading

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Just in case you didn’t know: I like vigorously dominant sex with a smokin’ hot blonde.

Me and my smokin’ hot blonde wife. I try to give her good cause to look at me that way.That would be my wife, of course. I think every form of extra-marital sex is enduringly self-destructive. I have nothing to … Continue reading

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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

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The War for Independence at the Hotel Port-au-Prince.

When the Honor Guard regained the corner of Broadway, Granny turned to face the crowd of bewildered Princely. “We celebrate peace,” she said in barely intelligible English, “we shoot rockets that way.” She pointed to the sky. Her gaze swept … Continue reading

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