A Tippling Philosopher

Carlson, Heritage, Russia: Follow the money

Tucker Carlson has spent many an episode of his shows shouting about the importance of freedom of speech and decrying the left for cancel culture—yet he is happy to fawn over an autocrat who has shut down free press and free speech in a one-man cancel campaign. It is a hypocrisy best explained by gr

Marjorie and me, a discussion, and a shower

It has been said, and wisely, that 97% of the activity in the shower involves winning fake arguments with absent antagonists. It was only the other day that I was arguing with Marjorie Taylor Greene in the shower about religion and politics and the Ukraine War.

Christians: Jesus is too woke

I recently described why I think "woke" has become a vacuous word that means little more than "libtard" in modern parlance. It seems apropos, then, that Christianity Today also recently released a piece that saw the editor-in-chief claim (in a previous NPR interview) that evangelical Christianity

What is 'woke'? It’s my trigger word

There is real confusion about what this now-common word actually means. Conservative author Bethany Mandel recently had a car crash of an interview where she froze, completely unable to define what “woke” means. This is somewhat surprising given that she is an author of a book in which she attacks “

Welcome to the Transhumanist Party

'Republicans and Democrats don't meet the minimum requirements for what's coming,' says Transhumanist Party presidential candidate Tom Ross. 'We have the singularity on its way faster than we were expecting. We need a whole executive branch focused on this.'

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