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What I’m Expecting, Part 2: Unchecked

Back in August 2020, I wrote out my thoughts on how I was expecting the next five months to go. I wound up being frighteningly close to the mark. Some details were wrong, but still within the margin of error, and still within the...

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A Brief History of the Epstein Client List

As of July 18, 2025 September 1973Donald Barr, headmaster of the Dalton School, a private high school in Manhattan, publishes a sci-fi novel that involves child sex trafficking by powerful oligarchs with the protagonist joining...

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Political Compass, Volume XXII

Prolific blogger that I am, it's been over a year since I posted here. I'm a bit late with my annual Political Compass results. Sad to see that the site has become an ad-ridden hellscape, but at least the test is still there. No...

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Political Compass, Volume XXI

Can't believe it's been 21 years since I started doing this, but here we are. They say you get more conservative as you grow older, and yet, this year marks my farthest to the left since I started taking this test. Getting pretty...

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Political Compass, Volume XX

It's my once-annual visit to my blog! Almost missed it this month. Twenty years of taking the Political Compass test has shown you do get more conservative as you grow older. For instance, last year I was even farther in the...

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Annual Checkup

Economic Left/Right: -9.75Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.28 While the timing of this test comes at a point when I am, shall we say, agitated at the current state of the world, it's only a slight outlier on a rather tight...

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Purity Tests

Establishment Dems talk about ideological purity a lot and how the Left demands it, refuses to vote for candidates who aren't ideologically pure, and thus, hurt the party. They frame this as "the Left won't vote for anyone who's...

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Oops, I Missed It Again

I usually do this in May, but I forgot again. WHOOPS. Not much of a change (at all) here: Economic Left/Right: -9.63Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -8.62...

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What I’m Expecting

I started writing this back in February, but didn't manage to get it down in a condensed version until mid-August when I unleashed it as a tweet storm. Here's the slightly expanded and cleaned-up version. Posted here for...

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Just a bit late

I usually do this in May each year, and what do you know, the fifteen years that was May just flew by. So here's my Political Compass update: Yep, that's:Economic Left/Right: -9.5Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.08 I'm sure...

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A Republic, If You Can Keep It

There was no chance that Senate Republicans were going to acquit Trump, but they definitely did their level best to come off as dictator-state-running goons in the process. The worst part about at least one of their...

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Blowing the Whistle

It's late one early summer evening, and I'm sitting on my porch, minding my own with a glass of iced tea. The traditional summer sounds are in the air - crickets, birds, children playing... are those gunshots? I live right on the...