Bullseye?

So I haven’t been blogging much, because when I have a quickie curse at the Endarkenment, it generally ends up on Facebook… which annoys my commie musician friends no end. But last week I blurted out something that seems to have made me Famous, with all the brightest lights of the wookiesphere reblogging and retweeting it. While one can always take pride in a well-turned phrase, I’m not all that thrilled…if it doesn’t get me shot some day, it will be because it got reattributed to P. J. O’Roarke or somebody.

Edgy

If the media could froth at Sarah Palin, they should be calling for the immediate stoning of Vox Day if he ever steps foot in the US:

if one accepts that the federal government possesses the right to murder Americans that it presently asserts, (and which is clearly not limited to it under the Constitution), on what rational grounds can anyone complain about individuals like Jared Loughner exercising exactly the same right?

Later, in comments:

I have no interest in targeting anyone or attempting to restore the Republic, which is why I left long ago.

I can’t argue against his logic though; can you?

Rachel Lucas is back

…having finished grad school. Not up to speed yet, but I’m sure she will be.

Now, if Venlet would start posting more often than once a month…and he’s overdue at that.

RIP, “I’ll take Liberty”

Jennifer III’s blog is now closed.

I have a funny feeling about this little adventure. She burst on the scene in the wake of Vanderbeogh’s Window War declaration. Her voice was sensible, courageous, but yet feminine. Then, perhaps a month in, there was a post about a bizarre interaction with some self-alleged patriots with government connections, that were then passed over as a prank by some racist types she had crossed.  On June 30, we got the “My condition” post, in which we learned that “she” was not quite a “she” … nor a he either. We’d all fallen in love, or at least respect, took her at her word and offered sympathy about her genetic condition. But I found myself wondering, “Why are you sharing this?” It wasn’t relevant to our blog relationship.  My original theory was that it was a pre-emptive outing in defense against the nasties she had just encountered.  Now I think it was a gambit to see how far she could go with people. After that, she got lost in grand strategic theorizing, her posts became increasingly infrequent, and now we read, “It will not come back, I’ve moved on to other more productive projects. Thanks for reading while it lasted. I can still be contacted at the e-mail address that was listed here.” (and is no longer, because the site is dark….hmmm….and nothing is found in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine) . The original WordPress blog (May 11-25) is still up. It’s kind of an odd trajectory for giving up blogging…it tends to happen either immediately, or after a year or so.  The 5-month flameout is quite unusual.

Personally, I think the freedom movement has been punked. I don’t think Jen was a Fed….frankly, I don’t give the Feds that much credit. I think Jen was a graduate student doing sociological research, and one day the story of her blog will be told in a thesis. I would be delighted to be wrong, of course.  It’s not the sort of thing I WANT to believe. But “I take/I’ll take liberty” can be interpreted in more than one sense…perhaps she was telling us all along who she was.

Breitbart pisses his credibility away

The site that began with the Giles/OKeefe stings is now reduced to publishing empty anti-Ron Paul screeds by Eric Dondero.

Dondero, a self-proclaimed “libertarian Republican”  has for years haunted the libertarian blogosphere with screeds mocking libertarians, arguing that the GOP darling-du-jour (Bush, Giuliani or whomever) is “really libertarian.” Even the mention of his name has become a punch line. In the latest rant, he equates Coakley’s position on the Middle East wars with Ron Paul’s (a stretch; Coakley never met a principle she could hold), and ends “But its [sic] notable that voters of one of the most dove-ish of states, [comma sic] chose to side forthrightly with the candidate of the Bush foreign policy agenda, over Obama/Paul.”

I understand that tomorrow, Big Government will run a debate between Charles Johnson and Andrew Sullivan on the topic “Trig: Sarah’s or Bristol’s?”, with both eventually agreeing that, whoever the mother was, Trig’s father was actually one of the survivors of the Roswell crash.

RIP Clay Bond

He passed on Jan. 7, of cancer, as I discussed earlier. And he was my age!

Viewing the Facebook memorial was interesting. One never knows somebody on the Internet. I had suspected (but hadn’t known; it wasn’t something he paraded in front of strangers) that he was gay, for instance. And apparently, from the pictures, he was quite flamboyant in his youth. I have to wonder what path led him to his curmudgeonly middle age; certainly many of his friends discussed his “opinions” as if indulging a child.

He wasn’t much for having photographs on his blogs. Physically, he resembled in build Billy Beck — somewhat ironic, since I don’t remember Billy having much patience with him on I-S.

He’s not in pain, and he’s with Jesus. Good on ya, mate. You’ll miss “the chickens coming home” … which would have killed you anyway.

God hears an atheist’s prayer

From way back in December ’06:

I don’t believe in you at all….
I am not a praying man. However, if you’re really there and can take my stipulation in the best spirit that I can intend, then I wonder if you could see to it that this bloody soft-sell commie Barak Obama is elected president the next time around. Here’s the thing; see, it would be very cool if you could arrange things so that if this guy gets to the white House, then we wouldn’t have to put up with anymore haranguing and breast-beating about “the first Black president”, and then maybe disgusting creeps like Jesse and Sharpton would finally sit down and shut the fuck up, and we could really get on toward realizing Martin’s dream about “the content of character” and not “the color of skin”. You know? Maybe, if we turn this large corner, then a lot of the lying bullshit surrounding that eminently noble ideal, these days, would be disarmed and finally go away.

Well, I don’t suppose this means that Billy will accept Jesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior. Not by a long shot, though I’m eager to be wrong about that. But what I’m saying, Billy, is that we’re going to need all the help we can get, these next four years. You’re on a roll; don’t stop now.

Racist survivalist for class president?

I passed a university poster kiosk and did a double take: “Tim May for class president 2012″. I wondered what kind of joke this was, but it was no joke, just an unfortunate duplication of names. “Getting it done since 1989″ was totally the wrong slogan, as the “real” Tim was getting it done long before that. “Tim May for class president: the dieoff will be glorious” would be far more suitable.