By Henry Hogan Footage from the Fall of Kabul revealed a stark contrast: as the energetic Taliban stormed toward the capital city, heartened by their rapid and mostly-bloodless recovery of Afghanistan, a dour remnant of the American occupation force fled after twenty long years. Across the outer provinces of Afghanistan, abandoned American airbases stood as…
Month: August 2021
Winners, Losers and Links
Winners Logistics firms – They are pushing transportation costs through with massive price hikes. They just need truckers, merchant marines and train engineers. Vaxxers – They get a booster coming so they have something new to talk about like a Marvel movie cycle. Kids – School is back in session but masking is reduced and…
Buy This Book: Gothic Violence
It was released quietly but thundered up Amazon’s bestseller list. Mike Ma’s Gothic Violence needed no support but the author’s own drive and aura to sell. It did have the support of his initial work of satire, Harassment Architecture, to pull in new readers. Whether a reader enjoyed that first effort, buy Gothic Violence for…
The Myths Of Afghanistan
Submitted by Dan Winchester Within the last week, Taliban forces have taken advantage of our withdrawal to sweep across the entire country. The New York Times mournfully compares the US leaving Afghanistan to the betrayal at the end of the Vietnam war in 1975. But that claim is misleading. The Taliban do now control most…
Winners, Losers and Links
Winners Americans – The end of the Afghanistan odyssey is a blow to the empire. Getting out means no more deployments for a mission that had lost the plot a decade ago. Taliban – Online videos showed the Taliban rolling up cities with little resistance. They pick up a lot of equipment donated by the…
The Mark of the Human
By Henry Hogan In plain sight, the Regime is privileging the vaccinated population while blocking theunvaccinated from ordinary, and necessary, human activities. New York City recently launched the nation’s first vaccine passport system, whereby indoor dining, fitness, and entertainment venues will be restricted to vaccinated persons only. Quebec, Canada’s second most populous province, will require…
Movie Review: The Green Knight
By “Q” I have recently watched The Green Knight and I have some thoughts about it. Watch the movie or read the wiki, I’m not going to do a full plot summary, spoiler alert, etc. My first thought concerns the protagonist Sir Gawain, who is played by actor Dev Patel. I am not particularly miffed…
Winners, Losers and Links
Winners Far left of DNC – Cleaning house of rivals and licking its chops over pet project implementation via infrastructure and budget bills. Taliban – They are rolling up cities quickly this summer. A lot of US military equipment falling into their hands. Kamala Harris – Cuomo is gone, clearing out a big name on…
Secular Society, Secular Death
Observing American behavior since the start of covid, we are a nation of fearful children. Goalposts moved on addressing the illness from flattening the curve to zero deaths. Socially, the revelations were more dramatic. Many Americans became afraid of an aggressive, two week illness that over 99% of the infected survive. People revealed the yeast…
Winners, Losers and Links
Winners Bureaucrats – As covid related regulations and rules proliferate with vaccine status, they gain more power over all daily interactions. Japan – A smooth Olympics spotlighting their well run nation might become even more memorable when compared to Paris ‘24 and LA ‘28. Losers NBC – Olympic ratings are down big time. Rumor has…
The American Sun 