From One Tin Soldier to Charlie Daniels, a dual citizen's take on why the mother country will survive its latest midlife crisis. AI-generated image by Poe When I think of where the United States of America is headed today on its Semiquintennial, I am reminded of two songs that define us. The first is the 1970s folk song One Tin Soldier. You’ll only remember it if you’re Of A Certain Age. It was the theme song to the insanely popular 1971 movie Billy Jack—a movie that introduc

My '90s Kinknet trolling exposed the gap between Boomer/Xer resilience and the fragile "snowflake" culture we accidentally created. Beat me, hurt me, make me piss off a Long Island sex toy distributor! Image by Daniele Devoti, Creative Commons 2.0 generic license on Wikimedia Commons My last attempt at online trolling was in the ‘90s. Nerds like me and my then-partner hung out on local BBS’s before we knew the Internet had been invented. Jerry and I trolled a sexual fetish di

From Bacon’s Rebellion to modern fast fashion: The strategic amnesia about unabolished slavery behind America’s newest holiday. President Biden turns Juneteenth into a federal Thing. Don’t they all look so pleased with themselves? Uh, yay? Photo by The White House - P20210608CW-1394, Public Domain It’s impossible to morally argue in favor of one of the ugliest institutions in human history. Anti-slavery holidays like the U.S.’s Juneteenth exist in other countries, too, like E

If every life is sacred, it’s time for Republicans and conservatives to prove it by opening their homes (and wallets)! The Adopt-A-Fetus prototype: Not exactly destined for luxury and privilege. Free AI-generated image by Magnific It’s particularly cruel that the Trump administration has declared war on wanted babies by first stacking the Court during Term 1 to turn Roe v. Wade into a historical footnote, and also threatens birth control access. The Trump birth control mandat

While the world scrolls toward despair, I’m sleeping with dead presidents and Nazi children. Here’s why you should join the insurgency. Image by Thought Catalog from Pixabay Last year on the subway I was reading The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. I held the ‘Okay grandma’ large clunky hardback edition. I noticed the young man opposite was looking at the cover. He looked exactly the age of its subjects, Gen Z.

There's a strong connection between suspiciously neurodivergent 'strange kids' in the 2000s' 'Indigo' mini-craze, and today's trans kids driven by parental status-seeking The beautiful white Star Children will lead us into a harmonic New Age. Or not. Pixabay public domain image by cocoparisienne If you were old enough in the ‘90s and ‘00s, when ‘progressive’ was still a respectable rebrand for ‘liberal’, you might remember the ‘Indigo children’ phenomenon. Especially if you w

These simple rules will dramatically improve your odds (and save you from unnecessary rejection) CC Image from tao alexis on Wikimedia Commons In this guide, you’ll learn: The 33-Minute Rule: Why your appearance is your best “opening line.” Reading the Room: How to spot facial cues and “stop signs” before you say a word. The Exit Strategy: How to handle rejection (or “drama queens”) with your dignity intact. I don’t fault a guy for trying. Last summer a man ran across the str

Beyond virtue signaling: Why genuine reconciliation requires acknowledging the messy, violent, and shared human history of Turtle Island Image by ivabalk from Pixabay There’s an interesting ritual offered by the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee bands of southern Canada called the Dish With One Spoon, in which they acknowledge they both have a right to the land, (the ‘dish’), and the one spoon with which they both feed from it. They agree to take only what they need and clean t

The Reign of Error required more suspension of disbelief than a Fast & Furious movie. And now, Le Déluge of skepticism. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. From publicdomainpictures.net The February school massacre in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia was committed by a not-so-committed ‘transwoman’. Jesse Van Rootselaar, like his predecessor Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook, warmed up by killing family members before moving to the secondary school where he killed six more people

How bipartisan cruelty and stupidity came to dominate American politics Photo by R. du Plessis on Unsplash I don’t like torture porn horror movies for the same reason I don’t like American politics: both reward cruelty and stupidity on a bipartisan scale. The Hostel franchise presents privileged rich fucks who treat the plebs (that’s us, folks) like objects. Or, as in The Human Centipede , the cruelty is simply the point. Torture porn sometimes wraps itself in flimsy righte

The good, the bad, and the guys who just need to try a little harder ‘Ridiculously overmuscled man’ AI image request generated by Poe, because even the Hulk wasn’t he-man enough for this! I need a hero, I’m holding out for a hero ‘Til the morning light He’s gotta be sure And it’s gotta be soon And he’s gotta be larger than life (Larger than life!) -Bonnie Tyler, I Need A Hero I wrote recently about manipulative men and the younger women easily played. Modern feminism—two wa

Do you really think anything will change with a Democratic landslide in November? Photo by goodfreephotos.com We see that willful angelic cluelessness on the left as from the finger-pointing right— “They’re the racists and homophobes, they’re the anti-science side, they’re the censors and free speech haters,” and especially, “They’re the violent assassins and mass shooters, not us!”— despite thirty years of research showing near-monopolist market share violence from the r

What forty years of dating taught me about female "empowerment" Public domain image at Pxhere I ain’t no spring chicken. You can’t sweet-talk yourself into my pants. A recent dating experience re-introduced me to the romantically manipulative man, and reminded me of how much nothing changes in forty years of dating. I met Bruce in late fall on the last dating app I tried, overpriced eHarmony, theorizing the cost might filter out lazy-asses, has-beens, and never-wases I found

Christians had one. Jews had one. Now Islam needs to catch up and align responsibly with the modern world. Image from Rawpixels Last year I wrote my highest-performing Substack so far, my critical 2025 Is Not Shaping Up To Be A Good Year For Muslims. I took a lot of heat for it, ironically, not from angry Muslims but from others who damned me for not being critical enough. I hope they saved some venom for radical Islamists as we head into 2026. Antisemitism is partying like

The birth dearth is a fake right-wing crisis. Declining fertility is real; the fix is easy but the U.S. government discourages it Motherhood, as depicted by the pro-natalists. Image by Satya Tiwari from Pixabay When I was six or seven I told my mother before Christmas, “I don’t want dolls anymore. I’d rather have stuffed animals.” Barbie was the exception; she wasn’t a baby doll. I played house and emulated my mother as she took care of my new brother, but there was an early

What do you do when you've been illegitimately accused of 'mansplaining'? I gotcher answers right here! “Is he ever going to shut up?” Image by Megan Judge from Pixabay Men explain things to me, but they never mansplain . Sometimes I ask for information, other times they lecture, uninvited, which is more annoying. Sometimes they simply don’t know when to shut up and I sit there thinking, “He answered the question ten minutes ago.” What are the differences? Some men get accus

Liberalism has become a zombie movie. You never know who will get infected with the woke mindvirus and turn on you. Image by Grae Dickason from Pixabay I understand why so many rational people find themselves drifting to the right. Or maybe, should I say, persistently pushed. I met up with a liberal single guy this summer. He slipped into the conversation, “I’m very supportive of LGBTQ,” I think to see how I’d react. “Live and let live,” I think I said. Didn’t seem like the

"The Great Feminization" illustrates why women shouldn't run everything, either. What we need now is a Great Social Integration, led by us Normies. Photo by August de Richelieu on Pexels My friend Sam called me a few weeks ago. “You know Roberta So-and-So, right?” he asked. Yes, I told him, we’re connected on Facebook, but I haven’t talked to her in years. Sam wanted to vent. It seems our Ontario premier in all his buttheaded glory wanted to end rent control and Roberta, eve

Because we can't wrest democracy back from only one side. We have to kill all the cancer. Image by Alejandro Lizardo on Public Domain Pictures Democracy is no longer ‘precarious’ in the Ignited States of Trumpistan, but swirling down a golden toilet. One might argue that rather than critiquing the excesses of liberalism, I should instead turn my attentions to Messolooni, currently heaping up a veritable guerra lampo of gross abuses of power. But the left’s own excesses are

You never know what you're made of until the air raids sound. All. Day. Long. April 1942. The residents of Valletta, the capital of Malta, survey the latest bombing damage by the Axis powers. Public domain image Lt. J E Russell , Royal Navy photographer on Wikimedia Commons Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England, and Erwin Rommel, the ‘Desert Fox’ head of the German Imperial army, didn’t agree on much, except one thing: If the Axis powers couldn’t subdue the tiny tri-is

Today's T&D Day requires more than blame. Let's explore what the Indigenous, Canada's perpetual children, can do for themselves Photo...