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Batshit Crazy America
“Look at what all these white patriarchs built. Without pay. In their spare time. Anonymously” — Jordan Peterson on “X”
Crib Notes for the Trial of the Century
“Once someone determined Trump was so bad it was okay to lie about him, it set the precedent that the only thing that mattered was a subject’s politics.” — Matt Taibbi
The Beauty Parlor’s Full of Sailors and the Circus is in Town
“They have tried to solve a wide range of insoluble problems, from the weather to poverty to viruses, and now they will attempt to solve us.” —Eugyppius
Bang-and-Whimper
“Whoever doesn’t miss the Soviet Union doesn’t have a heart. Whoever wants it back doesn’t have a brain.” — VV Putin
Vectoring Dangerously
“Strategic ambiguity requires strategic capabilities. Otherwise, it’s just make-believe.” — Lee Slusher on “X”
This Is Not an April Fool’s Gag
“I’m sorry for the harsh message, but somebody needs to tell the truth,” virologist Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche
Oh Say Can You See?
“A modern nuc can fit in the trunk of a compact car. When millions of people can walk across our border with impunity what do you think the chances are we would catch something that size?” — Sam Faddis, Retired CIA
In Blob We Trust
“In terms of the Moscow terror attack, the fact that those who carried out the attack were captured is now causing a huge headache for those who were ultimately responsible.” — The Sirius Report on “X”
Wake-up Call
“Those who organized the disaster will take advantage of the inevitable discontent arising from efforts to overcome it, for if there is one thing that they are skilled in, it is demagoguery.” —Theodore Dalrymple
Gags and Jibes
“My law firm is currently in court fighting for free and fair elections in 52 cases across 19 states.” — Marc Elias, DNC Lawfare Ninja, punking voters
Consequences Minus Truth
“People crave trust in others, because God is found there.” — Dom de Bailleul
Twilight of the Blobs
“Respect the blob, learn from the blob, love the blob.” — Robert Kagan, Arch Blob Monster, Brookings, 2020
The Fate of the Union
“I think he borrowed a little something from Hunter tonight.” — Mike Lee, US Senator, Utah
The Five FUBARs
“How many of these places where polite society turns out to be provably insane do we have to see before we stop taking their judgment on anything as significant?” — Bret Weinstein
The Blob Quivers
“Russian meddling will eventually outstrip ‘Saw X’ as America’s most exhaustively-mined sequel series” — Matt Taibbi
Comes Thermidor
“Democratic Party elites such as those on CNN are not just angry but genuinely confused by the fact that American voters don’t obey them.” — Glenn Greenwald
The Dark and the Light
“‘The rule of law is under threat!’ the Regime shrieks, as it throws its political foes into the gulag — Benjamin Weingarten
Brandon, Rotting in the (White) House
“We are going to have the most diverse and inclusive civilizational collapse in history” — Oilfield Rando on “X”
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At the End of the World:
A Fractal Meta-Loco Narrative in E-flat Major
A highly-compressed, super-charged novella about the Apocalypse.
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Just Out! The whole shootin’ match going back to 1987!
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Living in the Long Emergency
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Too Much Magic
Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
The nationally best-selling author of "The Long Emergency" expands on his alarming argument that our oil-addicted, technology-dependent society is on the brink of collapse—that the long emergency has already begun. Published by the Atlantic Monthly Press.
