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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 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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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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An everyday perfect love.

“If you’re his favorite skateboard, he’s a crystal vase to you, a thing to be treasured forever or shattered in an instant’s rage.”This story first appeared in Sun City, but it’s also collected in Loving Cathleen, a book about building a … Continue reading

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Why does the Deep State hate Donald #Trump? He’s taking their war profits – and your Gold Stars – away.

Why are these men smiling? Because they – and you – are no longer slaves to the Deep State’s perpetual war machine.I’ve been writing here and there about President Trump’s foreign policy since last fall, but if you don’t get it … Continue reading

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A fast farewell to Greenhurst.

Got Yard Sale?We chapter our marriage in houses. That’s what comes of being in real estate – and being broke a lot. So far, we are Cochise, El Caminito and Greenhurst, the respective street names of our homes. Commencing tomorrow, … Continue reading

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For the 20th anniversary of Bubba’s big reveal: Monica’s Song.

“I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story March 8, 1998 To be sung loud and fast, a sassy girl-group sound: VERSE: They say he’s a cruiser, a good-for-nothing user They tell me he’s a tar-pit … Continue reading

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Want to send someone a greeting card with some oomph? Send a Willie book, instead.

I wrote a ton in 2017, lots of everything. Among other works, I published four new Willie books. They’re short – because I leave out all the boring stuff – but they’re cheap – because I want them to be … Continue reading

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“Baby, it’s cold outside!” – and that’s when it’s the best time to be a mammal.

Nothing attracts like mutual attraction.Photo by: Kevin JohnstonMammalian empathy is evolution in action. Want proof? Turn off the heater before you go to bed tonight. If you are lucky enough to be happily enspoused, you’ll find a way to stay … Continue reading

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When I say, “Who wants a handful of red hot Willie for the New Year?” – you say, “#MeToo!”

“Whose Festivus do you have to grab to get some laughs around here?”Cover illustration by the incomparableDonkeyHotey | Creative Commons.New for the New Year: Bubba: How the Predator-in-Chief pulled it off. What is it? Twenty years of brutal jokes – with songs! … Continue reading

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