The legal theory of all law in NAZI Germany was the Furherprinzip. Basically, whatever crossed Hitler’s mind was law. It made for a perpetual legal train wreck but after 1942 that was the least of Germany’s problems. I now live in a state where the Governor has sworn, in public where people could hear her […]

Read More The Rule of the Karenprinzip

If you can’t tell what Joe Biden is saying is it still a lie? NEXT NEXT Okay, I’m done here.

Read More Blogs and Ends: Quandary

Challenge for my beloved readers. Find examples of a Nakama in Western literature or movies. Doesn’t have to be recent and if you are more comfortable with Eastern examples use them instead. Here is the format to be used while discussing it in the comments. Title: The Three Musketeers. The Leader: D’artagnan The Rival: Athos […]

Read More Cataline’s Collegium: Nakama

This week, the Michigan Medical Veterinary Association sent a formal request to Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. As Corona is on the downswing they asked her to rescind her orders regarding the severe restrictions she placed on spays and neuters. Her view when that order was imposed in March was that those operations were elective […]

Read More The Iron Ding-Bat Strikes Again!

I recently asked you, my beloved Darklings, if you would like me to do an essay on Eastern storytelling traditions as opposed to Western. The support for this was overwhelming.  Three of you said, yes. Let’s begin. Hakawati, is the Arabic tradition of story telling wherein each story must have… Unfallen Darklings: Uh, Cataline that wasn’t […]

Read More Eastern Story Structure

There used to be two basic kinds of Inuit villages.  Whale hunters and Salmon fishers. When the whalers landed a whale, times were fat.  There was plenty of everything because there is a lot to go around when you are living off of a whale.  Unless there aren’t any whales to hunt.  Put a pin in this one. We […]

Read More Interesting Times

They continue to burn their own phanes and temples and dance naked in the ruins, even though they really shouldn’t because SJWs do NOT look good that way.  Not even a little bit. No art survives contact with fourth-wave feminism.  Corrosive politics have to be injected into any work and it burns away any integrity that […]

Read More Burning Their Own Temples

In 1992 the Chief Financial Officer of Sierra Entertainment, Edmond Heinbockel, had had enough.  I’m not sure what he had had enough of, but he had clearly had IT.  He led a walk out of Sierra and with the aid of several former Sierra devs started a new company in 1992, Tsunami Media. Tsunami shuttered their operations in […]

Read More RE:Play…Protostar

From Ace of Spades: “My Self-Isolation Quarantine Diary Day 1 – I Can Do This!! Got enough food and wine to last a month! Day 2 – Opening my 8th bottle of Wine. I fear wine supplies might not last! Day 3 – Strawberries: Some have 210 seeds, some have 235 seeds. Who Knew?? Day […]

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I won’t say that things couldn’t be worse for the American entertainment industry. They could. Civilization hasn’t genuinely fallen apart. There is a very faint light at the end of the tunnel. Their services can be sold again once the great lock-down is over. But it’s very rough going for now. When this first broke, […]

Read More Kay-Kay is in T-r-o-u-b-l-e!