Disjecta

Recently, a fraudster purported to sell Yayoi Kusama’s Yellow Pumpkin to an eejit who paid over a million squids for it. More recently again, the Yellow Pumpkin was washed away by strong winds and waves generated by Typhoon No. 9 on 9 August 2021.  It’ll probably have to be replaced.  At the highest point ofContinue reading "A Big Pumpkin, in Japan"

I have a "balderdash" problem.  I've had it all my life.  Pretty much on a daily basis, I read or hear something, and immediately I think the b-word ... The only person I ever heard use the word "balderdash" was an elderly primary school teacher in the 1970s.  It's a great word - respectable, in a fuddy-duddyContinue reading "Balderdash"

Good article <here> by Mary Harrington. So balanced, so distilled. Some often-missed themes there - such as modern Feminism's un-thought, hook, line and sinker swallowing of dismal right-wing atomised individualism (ironically, a traditionally male viewpoint) and how that bleeds into Feminism's ingrained outrage about the inconvenient reproductive realities of the female body: "But we needContinue reading "Feminism’s cul-de-sac"

If we sent everyone off to space, we might have world peace. Expensive though: They didn't; but we do

Masks? "<Tyranny>" yells Janice McGeachin, a Republican in Idaho. "<Tyranny>", fulminates the Daily Telegraph in England. "<Tyranny>", fumes rich rock singer. A quick Google search for "tyranny masks" produced 3,170,000 results. Seems like there's a lot of "tyranny" going down in rich Western countries these days; how on earth are you hardened radical revolutionary maskContinue reading "The tyranny-tourism of the whinging Right"

Currently, the UK is <considering legislating> to make it legal to kill off unproductive people, notably the old and the sick and those in terminal pain. This is an instance where a law's primary importance is its role as a cultural catalyst in the post-Christian West's reversion to its former death culture. I've helped careContinue reading "Your thoughts on senicide?"

You really want to know why Brexit is a shit-show? Two broad reasons: 1 It's an economic decision taken for non-economic reasons; and 2. Not enough people voted for it in the first place. It simply does not have sufficient popular support. 1 It's an economic decision taken for non-economic reasons. It was a populistContinue reading "Why Brexit is failing"

I wonder at the mentality that sees to propagate certainties of any kind, whether atheistic or theistic.  Where are you in this (flawed) diagram? When challenged, the standard Dawkins-type atheist will seek to spoof their way to a position closer to agnosticism. I don't buy it though - like Dawkins, atheists are usually too trenchantly fervidContinue reading "On becoming like a tree (man)"