From the, “Hey! That’s Our Trick” Files
Forward.com, one of the left’s frontline soldiers in the culture war – and one dedicated to scaring Americans of Jewish faith away from those super scary Republicans, recently sperged out a primer on the AltRight, or alt-right, or however you want to spell it. If you’ll permit a bit of...
Cleveland Rocks and Bottles and Bricks
Can you feel it? Can you feel the held breath by the media, the pundits, and those of us in the cheap seats, as the Republican National Convention approaches? Dallas was just a warm-up, every angry mob and rent-a-mob is warming up their throwing arms and sharpening the ends...
Fight Stories: One Fist Was Irish
Larry Holden’s One Fist Was Irish is pretty much A River Runs Through It, with boxing substituting for fly fishing. Barney Nolan is a decent raspberry farmer and a great boxer. A gentle man, he only ever fights to raise money for the farm, which he continues to...
What’s In the Box?
Pulp magazines have been out for a long time. Plenty of people have noted that they provide a glimpse into the culture of days gone by. Surely there are multiple books out there on the subject – why not just read one of those? It would be trivially easy...
You Don’t Deserve This
Dear Officer, You don’t deserve this. Sure, you may rally around men accurately accused of wrong-doing. You might stand by and allow Trump supporters to be viciously attacked on a regular basis. You may even repeatedly fail to protect the rights of assembly and freedom of speech, but you...
Congratulations, Cirsova
Yesterday the best little SF/F magazine that could, completed a successful Kickstarter for Issue #2. The first issue was fantastic, and that was done on little more than a wing and a prayer. It’s going to be great to see what P. Alexander can do with some extra financial...
Google Doodle Fun
Yesterday NASA’s Juno probe reached Jupiter. Google Inc., as a hotbed of science-loving goofballs, saw fit to mark the occasion with an animated banner showing Team Juno celebrating the event. This is what the world looks like to Google: The Google Doodle, an irregular feature of the world’s most trafficked...
Fight Stories: Homecoming
I’m just a regular guy, you know? Half of what I know about boxing comes from experience a little of it firsthand and everything I could tell you about boxing comes from reading about it. All those deeper meanings and insights into man’s internal struggles have been noticed and...
Fight Stories: Celebration or Cry For Help?
The conventional wisdom states that when it comes to mens’ adventure magazines in general, and magazines with a sweaty guy on the cover in particular, they simmer with barely disguised homoeroticism. The counter culturalists of the red pill argue that this modern day conventional wisdom was drafted and promulgated by...
DMM: Express to Hell!
The second offering in the April 1938 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine is a short revenge story by Julius Long called Express to Hell!. On a foggy night, four railroad executives are summoned to a meeting on the railroad owner’s yacht. The meeting is certain to be a discussion...