Saluting Brandon Morse’s Valiant Struggle With Testosterone-Driven Guilt

Posted on | September 26, 2015 | 34 Comments

by Smitty

An excellent piece sending up the abject, slack-jawed idiocy of our morally degenerate Left:

It started innocently enough. The local university was holding seminars about the gender wage gap, and Gwendalin was a guest speaker. Her feminine wisdom is beyond my comprehension. Naturally, I attended, not only to support my partner, but to learn. As the beneficiary of a system that has institutionalized sexism and racism, it is important that the males take every opportunity to educate themselves on the privileges they enjoy at the expense of others. What better way to check that privilege than by sitting down, shutting up, and submitting yourself to the knowledge of the women closest to you?
Watching this raw display of feminine personhood on that stage, however, began to awaken dangerous desires within me. I began to have the problematic feeling of ownership one has in sexually active relationships. I felt ashamed. Here Gwen was, educating future world citizens about a very prominent and real example of a systematic oppression of women, and here I was perpetuating rape culture by being sexually turned on by my partner.
It didn’t subside, either. Once we got home that night, I couldn’t help myself, and I approached her as respectfully as I was able in my weakened state. “May I kiss you?” I asked her. She looked at me in silence for moment, considering whether to give me permission. “Yes,” she finally said, and awaited me to approach her. Our lips met, and I could tell the night was going to be one to remember.
I’ll spare you the details, but that night there seemed to be no limits. I was overcome with a tidal wave of uninfluenced consent that celebrated and revered Gwen’s independent sexuality.
It wasn’t until some time later that we found out our consensual trist had gotten Gwen pregnant. I felt guilty. She had allowed me to participate in one of the most private and powerful aspects of her womanhood, and I had punished her for it with a child.

Brandon neglected a couple of things, though: his basic sanity seems to have precluded the idea of offering the male child to Moloch in an abortion. Also, he could have ended the piece on a Caitlyn Jenner crescendo.
But hey: it’s not my essay. Go enjoy it.

Category: Culture

In The Mailbox: 09.25.15

Posted on | September 25, 2015 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 09.25.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: John Boehner To Resign
Da Tech Guy: Unexpectedly! MSM Finds Pope’s Visit To Little Sisters Of The Poor Not Newsworthy
Michelle Malkin: “Bacha Bazi” – Obama’s Silence On Afghan Military Child Rape
Twitchy: “Are You Serious?” Harry Reid Comments On Boehner’s Resignation

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Anchor Baby Sophie Cruz’ Plea To Pope Wasn’t Spontaneous
American Thinker: A Nation’s Decline By Its Own Design
BLACKFIVE: Willfully Aiding And Abetting Child Rape
Conservatives4Palin: Obama’s FCC Wants To Stop Businesses From Providing Free Internet Content
Don Surber: Even The Muppets Cannot Survive Today’s Crappy World
Jammie Wearing Fools: Hapless Granny Clinton Sits Down For Interview With Notorious Child Molester
Joe For America: Mark Levin Asks Pope “Why Are You Talking About Climate Change And Not The Slaughter Of Christians By ISIS?”
JustOneMinute: There Must Be Something Obama Can Give Putin
Pamela Geller: Obama Frees 9/11 “20th Attacker”
Protein Wisdom: “Transmisogynist” – Yes, Dears, Some People Believe This Is A Thing
Shot In The Dark: Kimperious
The Gateway Pundit: State Department Finds Discarded Benghazi Emails On Hillary’s Home Server
The Jawa Report: A Muslima With Class And Her Papa
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Wants $4.5 Billion For Syrian “Refugees” While Shorting VA $2.6 Billion
This Ain’t Hell: Why “Clock Boy”‘s Project Should Have Raised Eyebrows – And Alarms
Weasel Zippers: Video – U.S. Muslims Say Sharia Law Should Supersede The Constitution
Megan McArdle: Let’s See What Republicans Learn From Losing Boehner
Mark Steyn: After The Balls

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Category: Linkagery

Friday Fiction: 100 Word Challenge

Posted on | September 25, 2015 | 11 Comments

by Smitty

Cord. Dirty, slack. Perfectly strong-looking as it went from the small wall cleat, through the floor debris, under the locked door.
That rusty door was going to drink all the convenient oil before the key would be useful.
“Treasure,” said Thorgun, hefting his axe.
“Trap,” countered Greybane, adjusting a ring.
“Tempted!” admitted Rhialto, applying oil and key to the door’s works.
The door popped open with a token creak, offering a view a large room, where a figure in white spoke gibberish to at least 500 nicely dressed people.
A couple of minutes on, Greybane inquired “What fresh hell is this?”

via Darleen

Category: Friday Fiction

Unpacking The Library

Posted on | September 24, 2015 | 14 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

The great work of constructing shelves and unpacking boxes full of books continues, and as it does, I keep finding books I haven’t seen in years – and, unfortunately, quite a few books that I’d forgotten I already had, which in the meantime I’d bought additional copies of. Some of them I’m going to keep -for example, the original DAW edition of Jerry Pournelle’s A Spaceship For The King with the Kelly Freas cover, even though it’s since been expanded into King David’s Spaceship. That’s the exception rather than the rule, though, and I may well wind up having a garage sale of the surplus volumes by the time I’m done sorting everything out.

Among the recently unearthed long-lost literary (sic) treasures is Robert Frezza’s McLendon’s Syndrome. Not everyone does humor in SF well, but Frezza carries it off in this amusing tale of Ensign Ken McKay, the tramp freighter Rustam’s Slipper (more commonly called the “Rusty Scupper”), interstellar drug smuggling, vampires, and the backwater colony of Schuyler’s Planet, where all the children are below average and their parents aren’t so hot either. Also, there’s His Rotundity Bucky Beaver, heir to the Rodent throne, his indispensable sidekick Cheeves, and the unfortunate matter of the Rodent-Human war that Ken accidentally sets off. Hilarity, deranged nurses, and occasional romance ensue. Another case where you can’t believe it’s not available on Kindle.

Speaking of Kindle, Vox Day’s Castalia House is in the process of reissuing the series of There Will Be War anthologies edited by Jerry Pournelle and John F. Carr back during the Reagan Administration, starting with There Will Be War Volume I. The cover art is a little different, but the stories and non-fiction are the same, and there are some damn good stories in these collections, including Pournelle & Niven’s “Reflex”, which was cut from The Mote in God’s Eye; the original version of “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card; “Cincinnatus” by the late Joel Rosenberg, and many, many others. Some reviewers have complained that the fiction and non-fiction alike are a bit dated, but personally I think of the whole series as a nice collection of period pieces which reflect the times in which they were written.

And speaking of period pieces, there’s Robert Moss’ fine political and military thriller Moscow Rules, which tells the tale of a young GRU officer who resolves early in life to destroy the Soviet system in the only way possible – with a pitiless coup by the Soviet Union’s own deadliest soldiers, the spetsnaz. I think Moss does as good a job as any Westerner of depicting the gray, depressing life of the average Soviet citizen and how corrupt the system was – and how tempting it could be to defect. Young lieutenant Preobrazhensky remains true to his purpose, though, accumulating allies in the strangest places before finally dropping the axe. Alternate history now, of course, but still a fascinating tale. Was available on Kindle for a while, but not at the moment.

Category: Books

INVASION: European Union Faces ‘Millions of Potential Refugees’

Posted on | September 24, 2015 | 31 Comments

Syrian refugees enter Hungary last month.

The European Union could collapse unless emergency measures are taken to halt the invasion of Muslim immigrants, which is likely to grow worse, an official warned Wednesday:

Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, warned the EU was now facing a “critical point” and that the migrant crisis hadn’t even reached its peak.
As he chaired an emergency meeting of EU leaders in Brussels last night Mr Tusk painted a bleak picture of the EU’s future, saying the 28-member bloc was on the verge of breakdown with “recriminations and misunderstanding” pitting nations against one another.
The future of free movement was at stake, he said, as the continent had lost control of its borders as well as a “sense of order”.
He added: “The most urgent question we should ask ourselves…is how to regain control of our external borders.
“Otherwise, it doesn’t make sense to even speak about common migration policy.” . . .
“Today we are talking about millions of potential refugees trying to reach Europe, not thousands.
“It is likely that more refugees will flow towards Europe, not less. Especially as almost all of them feel invited to Europe.” . . .
More than half a million migrants have arrived in Europe so far this year, and experts believe the total figure for 2015 could top one million.

In 1973, the French novelist Jean Raspail’s book The Camp of the Saints depicted an eerily similar scenario. Widely condemned as “racist,” Raspail’s book was a sort of right-wing samizdat when I first read it 20 years ago. Much like The Bell Curve, it was one of those Books You’re Not Supposed to Read. Yet now the daily headlines seem as if they were scripted by Raspail, and I wonder if he has gotten due credit for having so clearly prophesied this crisis.

ICYMI: In 'The Camp Of The Saints': Novel Popes And Reverends http://t.co/6pte8e2s3C #PopeInUSA #PopeFrancis cc: @instapundit

— Bob Belvedere (@BobBelvedere) September 25, 2015

Category: Europe, Foreigners, Immigration

In The Mailbox: 09.24.15

Posted on | September 24, 2015 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Never Go Full Retard
Doug Powers: “For The Children”, Right? Senate Dems Block Bill That Would Ban Abortion After 20 Weeks
Twitchy: Josh Earnest Claims Putin Is “Desperate” To Meet With Obama

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: An Ahmed Mohammed Comments Section Goes Horribly Wrong
American Thinker: Importing Our Own Destruction
BLACKFIVE: Book Review – Ashley’s War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Conservatives4Palin: Dems Greet Pope Francis With Three Cheers For Abortion
Don Surber: The Red Pope Has It Backward
Jammie Wearing Fools: FBI Arrests Chinese Millionaire Tied To Past Clinton Scandals
Joe For America: Would You Support A Nazi For President?
JustOneMinute: What Time Is It? It’s Time To Blow Up The Clock Story!
Pamela Geller: “We’re Going To Be The Majority Soon!” Muslim Parents Taunt NJ School Board Over Eid
Protein Wisdom: RIP Yogi Berra
Shot In The Dark: Die Hungerspiele
STUMP: What Should Be Taught, Part I – Japan Bans The Humanities?
The Gateway Pundit: Pope Francis Speaks, Justice Ginsburg Naps
The Jawa Report: War Porn – Run, Achmed!
The Lonely Conservative: What Can’t Happen Here Did
This Ain’t Hell: Another Six Come Home
Weasel Zippers: Muslim Dr. Tawfik Hamid Says Ben Carson Is Right About A Muslim President
Megan McArdle: Preschool Can Be Worse Than The Alternative
Mark Steyn: The Emperor’s Moral Narcissism

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Category: Linkagery

‘Carly Cut His Balls Off’?

Posted on | September 24, 2015 | 137 Comments

Certainly, many Fox News viewers must have been shocked Wednesday night by Rich Lowry’s comments to Megyn Kelly:

“Look Trump attacks everyone but she’s become a much bigger target. And I think part of what’s going on here is that last debate. Let’s be honest, Carly cut his balls off with the precision of a surgeon.”

.@FoxNews owes me an apology for allowing clueless pundit @RichLowry to use such foul language on TV. Unheard of!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2015

Fox is becoming the anti-Trump network, as Trump himself has noticed and, whatever its effect on Trump’s campaign, I’m not sure that is a wise marketing strategy for Fox. The populist anti-Washington “mad as hell” voters who like Trump are a huge part of Fox’s viewership. Nor are the Trump voters a negligible component of the electorate:

Americans are “fed up” with politics, suspect the wealthy are getting an unfair edge, and think the country is going in the wrong direction, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll that lays bare the depth and breadth of the discontents propelling outsider candidates in the Republican presidential field.
The survey shows that 72 percent of Americans think their country isn’t as great as it once was—a central theme of front-runner Donald Trump’s campaign. More than a third prefer a presidential candidate without experience in public office.
Three of the four candidates leading the Republican field fit that description: Trump, the first choice of 21 percent of registered Republicans and voters who say they lean that way, followed by neurosurgeon Ben Carson with 16 percent, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush with 13 percent, and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina with 11 percent.

My suggestion last night on Twitter:

The whole pro-Trump vs. anti-Trump thing: Can everybody just de-escalate that and focus on how the Democrats are ruining America?

— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 24, 2015

People need to calm down about this primary campaign. We are still four months away from the Iowa caucuses. If Trump is your favorite candidate, OK. If you hate Trump, that’s OK, too. But there’s no point in conservatives denouncing their own friends and amping up the all-or-nothing rhetoric as if nothing else mattered.

Six months from now, in late March, a lot of people are going to disappointed that their favorite didn’t get the nomination, but so what? As long as the eventual Republican nominee wins in November 2016, conservatives generally will be happy, while liberals generally will be freaking out in paroxysms of rage and despair.

Imagine the disconsolate tears of liberals when Hillary loses. Be happy.