Beep-Beep! — “Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.” George Santayana Captain Jack Sparrow, the Road Runner, and former US President Donald Trump enter a bar. What do they all have in common? Yes, you guessed correctly: even though their foes keep coming up with ever more…

Civil disobedience is a noble gesture, unless you are the one bullying people into submission — Ireland, the land of saints and scholars, the Emerald Isle. The cradle of titans of intellectuality such as Yeats, Shaw, Beckett, Swift, and Joyce. Yet, it is also the place where a man was jailed for his opinion crimes. In the West. In the 21st century. Now, it’s not just…

The rise and fall of a bonafide social justice warrior and what it tells us — Everything was fresh in the state of Anti-Racism, or at least that was what the hero of our story, Professor Vincent W. Lloyd, thought. Professor Lloyd is a highly-regarded director of Africana Studies at Villanova University and the author of “Black Dignity,” which was described as “a radical work by…

The Bacon principle: the more you confront an atheist with science, the more he/she will deny being an atheist — The title of this article is based on a quote often attributed to either of two Catholic titans of science: Louis Pasteur and Blaise Pascal. Even if both men would likely agree with it, it is more likely that the idea is paraphrased from another scientific giant — and devout…

Democrats keep bailing out the rich and woke, and you keep picking up the tab — “ A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money” Everett Dirksen, U.S. Senator In many ways, the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) balance sheet was a perfect metaphor for Joe Biden’s political capital: too many liabilities to cover, with rapidly deteriorating assets. Biden, of course, is…

A ‘misogynistic’ attack on feminised men everywhere triggers the woke zealots — “Words like violence Break the silence Come crashing in Into my little world” Depeche Mode, Enjoy the Silence Everybody hates Chris. By ‘everybody’ here, you should read ‘the polite society.’ These are really the only people that matter: the intersectional petit bourgeoisie who live in that area of the Venn…

But, more importantly, are we the electric sheep it dreams of? — “We shape our buildings, and afterward, our buildings shape us” Winston Churchill, October 1943 In Liu Cixin’s novel “The Three-Body Problem,” a fictionalised version of John von Neumann builds a massive computer for the Emperor of China, using an army of 30 million people as transistors. This serves as a…

My quick exchange with Medium CEO “Coach” Tony tells me they might be — So, it has finally happened: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has taken the final step to remove the special tax dispensation given to Disney World in Florida. This is the result of a spectacular sequence of idiotic corporate events that began when Disney executives decided to run the franchise into the…

After his latest disaster, Pete Buttigieg can finally forget 2024 and focus on the job at hand. That is if he still has one — Mayor Pete was never the right man for the job. Without any background in transportation or infrastructure, it was always hard to shake off the feeling that he fell upwards into the position of Secretary of Transportation, following his failed presidential run. An example of a diversity hire gone wrong…