“Woke” has becoming an ever-present word in recent years, especially since the BLM/Antifa riots and city burnings of 2020. But what does it actually mean? The original meaning, apart from “past tense of wake,” as given by dictionary.com is this: having or marked by an active awareness of systemic injustices and prejudices, especially those involving…
It’s not just State Farm. Allstate no longer sells new home insurance policies in California When corporations flee like that, you know that the local policies have got to be *spectacular.* Of course, there’s always Chicago… At New Chicago Walgreens, You Can Only Browse 2 Aisles — The Rest Of The Store Is Locked…
It seems certain groups do not deserve to have a history, culture, identity. Anglo-Saxons aren’t real, Cambridge tells students in effort to fight ‘nationalism’ In short: As a way to fight English nationalism, Cambridge University is telling students that the Angles, Saxons, Welsh, Celts, and other British ethnic groups aren’t distinct groups. Tear down…
Today I swung by “The Davenport,” the century-plus old apartment building that partially collapsed a few days ago. Roads were closed off for a radius of a block or two around it so I couldn’t get very close in my car, and I didn’t have the time to find someplace to park and walk. Ehhh,…
This tool seems singularly useless for it’s stated roles. Maybe it would be useful for something else… It’s unclear how thick that striking surface is.
It seems obvious by this point that a rational corporation would, when presented with the option of weighing in on politically decisive “culture war” topics, just stick their fingers in their ears and hum real loud until whatever -themed month it is ends, and spend their time trying to sell their normal merchandise to their…
… that the market for them is being filled by non-white people. There was the “white supremacist” Mexican, and now this guy who was supposed to have tried to ram his U-Haul into the White House: 19-year-old Missouri man arrested in U-Haul crash at White House security barriers U.S. Park Police on Tuesday identified the…
With the release of my latest book, I went to Amazon to see if my previous works are currently available (SR-71: yes; B-47/B-52: yes; Vol 1: currently no). In the process, I was surprised to see that there is a *hardback* version of my SR-71 book available. This is surprising for several reasons… 1: No…
History is *filled* with astonishingly bad ideas. And who would have guessed that some of the worst would come out of collectivist totalitarian systems like Nazi Germany? The Case of The Radioactive Toothpaste Curiously, the toothpaste in question was filled with Radium, the radioactive element of choice for insane and/or stupid product manufacturers in the…
So, what is the current form of American government? To the simple, it’s a democracy. To those who actually have *some* understanding of the theoretical workings of the US Federal government, it’s a representative republic. But to those who have watched how the Feds and a startling number of state and local governments work, a…
