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Superboy goes MAGA, Comes Out of Closet

Posted October 18, 2021 By John C Wright

The in-joke here is a little complicated, but if you have been following comic book news lately, you will get the reference:

My comment:

The silliest part of this silly picture is having Superman protesting anything to anyone.

The original picture had the same scene, but with Supersodomite and his danger-haired commie catamite protesting capitalism and the climate.

Since Lex Luthor has a weather control machine, and since Superman has, in the past, moved the Earth closer or farther from the sun to regulate temperature, I honestly do not understand to whom or about what, in the original pic, he is allegedly protesting. If he is worried about Global Warming, he can cool it with his super-breath, or gather icebergs from the rings of Saturn to chill the earthly stratosphere.

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Tucker Fights Russian Disinformation

Posted October 15, 2021 By John C Wright

Review: Till We Have Faces

Posted October 14, 2021 By John C Wright

I was asked why TILL WE HAVE FACES is my least favorite book by C.S. Lewis.

I agree that it is an extraordinary book. In terms of craftsmanship of writing, and the ambition of the central conceit — telling a myth by the quotidian events which may have spawned it — is unparalleled. I can recommend the book strongly to anyone who does not share my personal taste.

So, while I see no fault in it from a writer’s point of view, as a reader, I was not entertained, not interested, not educated by reading it, which I have done two and half times now.

My objections are to the setting, the descriptive imagery, the characters, and the plot. Read the remainder of this entry »

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On the Injection Mandate

Posted October 14, 2021 By John C Wright

The Center for Medical Progress, which had to enlist the help of Judicial Watch before the university would respond to its Freedom of Information Act request, explained that the school’s GUDMAP program (full name: GenitoUrinary Development Molecular Anatomy Project), with the help of area Planned Parenthood abortion providers, was “allowing babies, some of the age of viability, to be delivered alive, and then killing them by cutting their kidneys out.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/exclusive-pfizers-nervousness-covid-vaccines-origins-conceals-horror-story/

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Lone Soldier in Paradise — Three: Visit from the Civilian Government

Posted October 13, 2021 By John C Wright

Lone Soldier in Paradise part Three: Visit from the Civilian Government is now posted.

Lone Soldier in Paradise — Three: Visit from the Civilian Government

Atkins receives a visit from the civilian government and his horse, and threatens to resign his commission.

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Old Adam and his fair Daughters

Posted October 12, 2021 By John C Wright

For those of you who have not had these pleasure of reading one of the most widely read books in history, this is a quote from Pilgrim’s Progress by Bunyan. The scene here concerns a neighbor named faithful who has been offered a job by old Adam.

As with all allegory, the symbolism is clear, heavy-handed, and exists without any depth or double meeting to confound the reader. Most allegories are not worth reading, but this Puritan classic may well be the exception that tempts the rule.

He said his name was Adam the First, and I dwell in the Town of Deceit. I asked him then, What was his work? and what the wages that he would give? Read the remainder of this entry »

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Commercial Suicide for Superheroes: Trucker’s Take

Posted October 12, 2021 By John C Wright

This is an unintentional guest column on the topic of the ongoing sodomitification and emasculation of supermen, which is only one of many hydra-mouths of the world-wide Wokepocalypse. I found these remarkable remarks under a video by Diversity in Comics (now called Comics Matter) here.

Since the remarks were left in a public forum, I assume it is not breach of manners to repeat them here, in full.

He sports the epidermal-pigmentary yet circumambient name of Tatooman360. The words below are his.

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My daughter is bisexual (well, technically, if she was woke, she says she would define herself as pansexual), lives with me, as does her very gay, lesbian partner. I used to be hardcore into comics and due to the crap that has infested comics, I am not into them at all any more.

My daughter has thoroughly read and enjoyed most of my issues of comics and wondered why I stopped. I didn’t tell her why but simply went out and bought a pile of new a d semi new comics for her to read. Without explaining my positions on anything, she tried to read them.

Constantly, I would hear her exclaim, “WTF? What is this garbage?” or “Since when is so-and-so character bisexual? That’s just F’jng stupid.” or “”WTH, this story has no plot. They aren’t doing anything except talking. This is F’ing garbage.”

We have had long discussions about them since and her conclusion? Exactly the same as mine.

Comics are lost.

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Commercial Suicide for Superheros

Posted October 12, 2021 By John C Wright

Why is DC comics committing financial suicide on their comic titles? Why is Marvel?

This puzzled me back when I was a hard-core Libertarian, and I honestly thought all human action could be understood in terms of self interest. Now that I am a hard-core Christian, I honestly think all human action can be understood in terms of the war between the Prince of Darkness and the Virgin Mary.

The answer is actually simple: man does not live by bread alone.

A Christian should happily sacrifice worldly goods if Christ asked. Likewise, a Secular will happily sacrifice worldly goods when Antichrist asks.

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Common and Refined

Posted October 11, 2021 By John C Wright

It will wound America ears to hear, but there is a difference between fine art and popular, between Great Books and comic books, between poetry and jingles, symphony and dance tunes, slicks and pulps, philosophy and punditry. One has an entry cost.

In the Old World, there was a cultural difference between the classes. In England especially, the upper class with their French family names were the progeny of conquerors, and a long history of deliberate class distinction informs their society. High and low, by and large, did not share a common background of education, did not read the same books, and did not visit the same shows. In America, it is the opposite. We generally ignore distinction of high and low, looking for what might sell well. Hence the influence of negro spirituals, originally the music of slaves, on jazz or rock is clear, as is the influence of country music on composers like Aaron Copland. American fine arts speaks in the vernacular.

Nonetheless, I submit the two are distinct, and meant to be judged by distinct standards.

While I am a man of common tastes, and have no criticism of those who prefer simple, fun, and vulgar things, fastfood tacos or Jack “King” Kirby, to fine things, caviar and Milton, I cannot have a fruitful discussion with those who cannot tell the difference between fine and vulgar, simply because I cannot ignore the difference, but neither can I define it precisely.

Like a vast fogbank of cloud looming on the horizon, one can spy it, it is obvious, but one might be able to tell precisely where the boundaries rest.

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Academic Agent on BLM Antivaxers

Posted October 9, 2021 By John C Wright

I am not familiar with this scholar, nor have I read the authors from whom he takes his themes, namely, C.A. Bond and Bertrand de Jouvenel.

However, I recognizes certain themes from De Tocqueville and Montaigne, particularly the eternal power between an alliance of royalty and commoners against nobles, which may be generalized to include modern equivalents: the elite and the dispossessed against the middle class.

Here, Academic Agent uses a different terminology, but the referents seem largely the same.

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Nyarlathotep

Posted October 9, 2021 By John C Wright

This short story by far famed writer of weird fables, H.P. Lovecraft has an odd parallel to the modern-day season of political and social upheaval.

Nyarlathotep

by
H.P. Lovecraft

I DO not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined only in the most terrible phantasms of the night. I recall that the people went about with pale and worried faces, and whispered warnings and prophecies which no one dared consciously repeat or acknowledge to himself that he had heard. A sense of monstrous guilt was upon the land, and out of the abysses between the stars swept chill currents that made men shiver in dark and lonely places. There was a demoniac alteration in the sequence of the seasons the autumn heat lingered fearsomely, and everyone felt that the world and perhaps the universe had passed from the control of known gods or forces to that of gods or forces which were unknown.

And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt.

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Lone Soldier in Paradise — Two: Shooting the Moon

Posted October 8, 2021 By John C Wright

This is the second time in over a decade I have forgotten to post my weekly installment of a story when due. With my apologies, I present it now. I hope the gentle reader is in a forgiving mood.

Lone Soldier in Paradise part Two: Shooting the Moon is now posted.

Lone Soldier in Paradise — Two: Shooting the Moon

Atkins fires a test shot. No shots have been fired in answer in countless thousands and tens of thousands of years, yet he keeps his weapons ready.

With wine bowl in hand, and steps outside to view the sunset, and sees the fire between the horns of the moon.

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A Comment on the Ever Oncoming Apocalypse

Posted October 8, 2021 By John C Wright

In terms of destroying the world, I am very, very disappointed in Greta Fun-berg and her child-abusing puppeteers, and all the writers and daydreamers feeding nonsense into her medically abnormal brain.

After being told in 1970 that the whole established Earth would be frozen by 1980, and told in 1980 that the world would starve in 1990, then told in 1990 that the world would boil like a poached egg by 2000, then in 2000 by 2010, then in 2010 by 2020, it seems the alarmist have run out of alarms to ring.

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Conan: Hour of the Dragon

Posted October 7, 2021 By John C Wright

Hour of the Dragon was first serialized in Weird Tales magazine, appearing between December of 1935 to April of 1936. It was later published by Gnome Press in 1950 in hardback as Conan the Conqueror. The first Weird Tales episode came one month after Man-Eaters of Zamboula. It is the seventeenth published story in the Conan canon, and the last to see print in Robert E Howard’s lifetime. It is also the author’s only novel-length Conan tale.

Spoilers abound below.

If you have not read it, please avail yourself of that pleasure before reading this review. Like many classics pulps tales of yore, it is available to read without fee, and you may enjoy it.

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The Demeanor of the Warmalarmer Witness

Posted October 6, 2021 By John C Wright

This is a reprint of a column from July 2017 I reprint in the hope that it may be of timely interest once again to my readers of the Green New Deal generation.

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A reader asked me to justify my skepticism toward such well informed experts as NASA and NOAA and Scientific American magazine on the question of catastrophic manmade global warming, and, of course, the United Nations IPCC, whereby I dismiss their data and declare the matter to be a hoax.

Let us review a crucial bit of evidence first. This is Aaron Mair, the head of the Sierra Club, which is perhaps the foremost and most well-respected conservationist group on the planet. If anyone can be expected to know the facts of the matter, it is he. This is not some surprise interview by a reporter popped through the mail slot, but prepared remarks and cross examination in Congressional subcommittee hearing.

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