Category Archives: Splendor!

It’s sims all the way down for Elon Musk and sophisticated nihilists everywhere!

“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

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Empathy for the irreproachable: How the Prom King becomes the monster.

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

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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

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#BrotherYouAskedForIt: #Trump thrall @Nero parades on a litter borne by his pretend slaves.

@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

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The three most important words in all of human scholarship? “I was wrong.”

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

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RIP Guy Clark: Some days you rob the train. Some days the train robs you.

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

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Letting kids be kids. Inducing children to make choices about sexuality is child sexual abuse.

“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

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Public school is now pervert school, so I bring you “Uncle Willie’s World-Class High School In A Matchbook Cover.”

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

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Robert @Tracinski gets Rotarian Socialism. Why can’t @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Inst. catch a clue?

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

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You know #Trump is a monster. What do you plan to tell your children when he comes for you – or for them?

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

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#NeverTrump and #NeverHillary: The most self-loving way I can think of to vote for slavery-by-proxy.

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

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Flesh Puddles: The most dishonest kind of suicide is camouflaged by infinite indulgence.

“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

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President Fallguy: How YOU can win this presidential election.

“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

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My entry in ‘The President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition.’

None so deserving…Image by: thierry ehrmannBy way of The Spectator, time and fate have conspired to make a limericist of me: Erdogan? Let none dare deride him. The thought police sidle beside him. With his jaw forged from glass, his … Continue reading

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Patriot’s Day II: The best a man can get: How to live and die as a happy man.

From March of 2014: Imagine yourself dying. Are you joyful or gloomy? Does your mind frolic in a meadow of happy memories, or are you failing to escape a dungeon of regrets. Are you surrounded by people who love you? … Continue reading

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