Month: April 2019

Blogs and Ends

Just a quick post. Here are my first thoughts on Avengers Endgame.  I’ll be posting a more thorough review next week, since I don’t want to risk spoilers, I figure by next week everyone who is in a rush to see it will have done so. Anyway, my thoughts. Yes, it’s good.  Go see it. […]

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Atlas Shrugged at Sixty

  How relevant is Ayn Rand’s Objectivism to the Nationalist Right?   An important question for the elders of the movement considering how many of us were some species of Randite when we young.   Sixty years ago, when it was first published the question would have been what relevance does her philosophy have at […]

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Blogs and Ends: Disney Plus

Disney Plus is a paper tiger.   At $7.00 per month it’s priced very aggressively.   So much so, it’s obviously a loss leader. If you are thinking about subscribing, go with the annual payment option because this one won’t last a year. In theory the bench looks pretty deep.   But in practice it’s […]

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It Came From Planet Bollywood

My wrist is still in the sling so please forgive any eccentricities in my writing,  strange words and turquoise nut bound feet.   I first took an interest in Bollywood movies about 10 years ago. I was surfing Netflix and on the basis of a movie that I’d “liked”( some historical drama or another) it […]

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Star Wars Lucasfilm’s biggest problem

REPOST Gamma Male: The introspective, the unusual, the unattractive, and all too often the bitter. Gammas are often intelligent, usually unsuccessful with women, and not uncommonly all but invisible to them, the gamma alternates between placing women on pedestals and hating the entire sex. This mostly depends upon whether an attractive woman happened to notice his existence […]

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