Category Archives: Splendor!

Who wants to buy ‘Frankenstein’ retold as a high school farce?Photo by: Peter StevensFrom December 10, 2015: Call this a movie treatment. I’ll flesh it out and make it farcical fiction when somebody’s check clears the bank. For now, the … Continue reading →

Fathers should learn how to change diapers? No. Fathers are tasked to learn how to change the world. Church this week: It’s not defended in the video, but the argument undergirding this is that all of civility – the stuff … Continue reading →

“What? Me, worry?”The sophistry of nihilism is nothing new in philosophy – more’s the pity. Now Elon Musk goes that ancient game one better – by insisting we are all living in a video game. No one actually believes any … Continue reading →

The untouchable is scorned by everyone, of course, but his counterpart – the irreproachable – is prized by all the others precisely because he scorns them – with their own consent.Photo by: Carl Nenzén LovénThere is a semi-brutal chapter in … Continue reading →

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 →

@Nero’s litter bearers deserve what they will get. No one pretends to be a slave for long.Opposing evil with evil assures the triumph of evil. Until I saw that photo, I hadn’t known I could be even more disgusted by … Continue reading →

You had to learn how to make that simple hand gesture – and it wasn’t easy at first.Photo b]y: sylvarWe are bombarded with science “news” thrust upon us by Cautious academics – almost all of it tendentious. Here’s an example … Continue reading →

Per my friend David Brodie, yesterday was supposed to be Happy Day, but the passing of Guy Clark made it a very sad day for me. More than Townes van Zandt, more than Leonard Cohen, much more than Bob Dylan, … Continue reading →

“Hey, little girl. Wanna catch the gay gene?”Homosexuality is an unavoidable, inescapable non-lethal birth defect, and, accordingly, children must be recruited into it by every possible means. Wait… What…? The claim that homosexuality is a genetic defect, much like epilepsy, … Continue reading →

The world’s greatest gun salesman is now also the world’s greatest promoter of home schooling. Accordingly, I will revisit an ideal high school curriculum I devised a while back: Parents: If your children have mastered geometry and Latin, they can … Continue reading →

If your ideal is at odds with reality, your claims are useless.Do you watch “Shark Tank” on ABC? We rarely miss it. I like to see eager strivers showing how they’re putting a dent in the universe – and I … Continue reading →

No one does smug like a lifelong thug.Will you feed your kids to this monster?The Republicans are screwed: They have reduced their options to Benito Mussolini versus Frank Underwood. The worst of it is, the election will be won by … Continue reading →

There are a lot of different ways to think about voting, most of which are just quasi-religious white noise to me. But the issue of voting — do it or don’t, and, if so, how and why? — has gnawed … Continue reading →

“I ate the Food Pyramid and now I am one.”Photo by: Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin RoseFor church this week, a cautionary tale: We are hectored about the epidemic of suicides among the middle class and the epidemic of deaths by … Continue reading →

“I say, I say, but that’s not FAIR!”No matter who wins the election, your freedom will lose. An unmoored electorate must move ever leftward, and, regardless of the results on election day, Foghorn Leghorn has successfully unmoored the Republican party … Continue reading →