So on Wednesday our baby graduated high school, which is a weird weird feeling. But I’m not going to concentrate on that. Instead, I’m going to do what I always do when someone hands me a long list of local people: Look for made-up or creatively misspelled given names! Jamison (male) Jenica (female) Evee (female)…
Don’t just “do something,” do THIS.
[cross-posted from Twitter] Many voices are saying “something” needs to be done. I agree. There are things which must be done to heal our society. Marry the father/mother of your child — preferably before there’s a pregnancy. Treat that as a commitment beyond all other commitments. Realize that civilizing your children is your greatest responsibility….
Movies Seen Recently: Iron Sky: The Coming Race, Plan 10 From Outer Space, Evil Takes Root
Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019) – This sequel to the 2012 tongue-in-cheek movie about a Nazi base on the moon (as opposed to any potentially serious movie about a Nazi base on the moon) adds a bunch of stuff from Edward Bulwer-Litton’s novel The Coming Race about a subterranean race of supermen using an…
The Department of FYJS.
What follows is an epic thread from NY Times bestseller Larry Correia, the International Lord of Hate himself. I’m posting it here verbatim (with a few minor typo corrections) because: I agree wholeheartedly. A lot of people aren’t on Twitter, or don’t follow Larry, or don’t read Twitter threads. I want it someplace where I…
The Great Twitter Liberation.
Owing to the mighty emancipation which Twitter is undergoing, I made myself a new account there (I deleted my old one a couple of years ago, and had stopped using it a year or two before that). If you feel the urge to follow me, it’s @NathanShumate. At present, I’m just retweeting with commentary (which…
Movies Seen Recently: Compound Fracture, The Astronaut’s Wife, The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Compound Fracture (2014) – An adult son, with his fiancee and his orphaned teenage nephew, finally goes home to the compound where his estranged father still lives, his lifelong paranoia about the supernatural exacerbated by his declining mental faculties. But it turns out that something else “came home” with him, something that turns Dad’s supernatural…