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Your Guide To A World On Fire (2025 Edition)

Your Guide To A World On Fire (2025 Edition)

If you've been paying any attention at all to world events, you'll have noticed something remarkable recently. Fiery, youth-led protests are threatening the government in country after country. Identified as "Gen Z Protests," these youth uprisings have been sweeping...

October Open Thread and Subscriber Exclusive Video (2025)

October Open Thread and Subscriber Exclusive Video (2025)

Is it October already? Hold on, let me check the calendar. . . . Why, yes! The piece of paper on the wall (not to mention the gradually falling temperatures here in the sweltering climes of western Japan) tells me that it is indeed the tenth month of the year! Tempus...

If At First You Don’t Succeed . . .

If At First You Don’t Succeed . . .

Bad news, my liege. It seems the plebs are growing wise. You know the whole "global warming" thing? Let's just say that agenda is . . . not going well for us. Even our reliable mockingbirds at The New York Times are starting to admit that that particular fairy tale is...

In Praise of Sheep

In Praise of Sheep

If I were to write "If there is hope, it lies in the proles," the book readers among you would no doubt nod your heads, recognizing the Orwell reference. Yes, you would say to yourself, scratching your chin in contemplation. It's true. The Party can't be overthrown...

June Open Thread and Subscriber Video (2025)

June Open Thread and Subscriber Video (2025)

Happy June, everyone! Well, the calendar on the wall is telling me it's June, anyway, but I'm pretty sure it's lying. I, for one, categorically refuse to believe that 2025 is nearly half over despite the fact that it so demonstrably started a week or two ago. The only...

Bitcoin $100,000: What Does It Mean?

Bitcoin $100,000: What Does It Mean?

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day, everybody! . . . You do know about Bitcoin Pizza Day, don't you? On May 22, 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer from Florida, paid 10,000 bitcoins for two Papa John's pizzas—the first recorded bitcoin transaction in history. Now, May 22 is...

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