The giant banners of Trump’s scowling face around D.C. are just the latest, and most extreme, manifestation of a longstanding U.S. problem. They’re also the most pathetic. Seriously. Is there anything more stereotypical of the weak dictator than sticking up…
Executive Disorder: Non-Banning A Non-Organization
As you may have heard, yesterday the regime declared Antifa to be a domestic terrorist organization. There is just so much stupid going on here. Let’s just look at the two completely imaginary parts: Basically, they declared a thing that…
You Should Read This: How “Free Speech Culture” Is Killing Free Speech: Part One
I’ve posted a “You Should Read This” about a Ken White (PopeHat) essay before; he’s kind of the go-to guy for sensible thinking about the 1st Amendment, free speech and how law and culture should each deal with controversial speech.…
Last Exit Before Babylon: Next Vote 63 Days
The House of Representatives has missed another chance at derailing the express train to Fascist-town, in particular one Jared Golden (D-WTF?) whose name will live in infamy. Thomas Massie and Victoria Spartz also deserve a quick mention here, as the…
Authoritarians United: Don’t Expect Much From The Corporations Either
So far, I’ve written three of these short posts addressing how various parts of the State who are responsible for keeping the government inside its lane could be expected to fail in the face of the current fascist coup in…
Too Many Secrets: Not Enough Oversight
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently ran some photos of the new “National Defense Area” the regime has declared at the southern border as a way of excusing (and hiding) their use of the military to enforce immigration laws. One of…
Archive: ccTLD cold war with ICANN gets hot
The ccTLD operators never did actually have the guts to break away from ICANN. An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Sun Jun 3rd, 2001 at 09:26:56 PM EST”. The operators of the country-code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) have finally…
All About The Benjamin: Franklin On Freedom Of Speech
In the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk, by a young man whose ideology is probably best described as “terminally online”, the regime has decided to roll out an initiative that the White House Chief of Staff says was…
More On Charlie Kirk: Speaking Ill Of The Dead
As a rule, “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” works pretty well for keeping things peaceful in a community. But it’s not a good rule. It’s a very bad rule when someone horrible has died,…
On Charlie Kirk: 1st Amendment Actions Should Not Have 2nd Amendment Consequences
Charlie Kirk was married, and had two children; presumably his family loved him and will miss him. I know nothing about how he treated them or behaved in his personal relationships, but in public he was frankly a horrible person.…