The Post-Partisan Emporium

"...  democracy is when you eliminate heads of state and replace them with the kind of leader who would visit Epstein island." The people who spent two years levelling Gaza would like you to know Iran is violating international law Normal Island News In a masterclass of humanitarian restraint that has now stretched into its third glorious year, Israel has continued to show the world how deeply it respects international law. Having already liberated almost every animal, vegetable, and mineral in Gaza by the innovative method of erasing them from existence, and wiping every school and hospital from the map, and conveniently removing every inconvenient leader and negotiator, the IDF decided the time had come to extend the same courtesy to the Iranian people. If you don’t support this generosity, I can only assume you want Iranian girls to wear the hijab. It’s fair to say the liberation was proceeding in the spirit of the Geneva Conventions as US and Israeli forces struck a girls...

  The Sound Of A Collapsing Empire Karen Kwiatkowski T.S. Eliot wrote “...This is the way the world ends[,] Not with a bang but a whimper.” We expect a sound to accompany any collapse, an ending, a grand finale – but little did we know that the sound of the end of the US military superpower would be the sound of a weak flush. Shockingly, or predictably, or even shockingly predictably,  we discover there is a terrible toilet problem on the USS Gerald R. Ford . This carrier is the newest and most expensive warship ever built, at $13 Billion 2017 dollars, $17 Billion in today’s fiat. Among its many innovations, a vacuum-sewage system was adopted from the cruise ship industry, with pipes too narrow to accomplish their military mission. The USS Gerald Ford recently finished a strenuous, if imaginary, narcoterror operation in the Caribbean, and at this moment, is in the Mediterranean Sea attempting to join the massive US sea and air forces buildup vis a via Iran. Israel wants to dec...

  Cognitive Collapse: A First Reconnaissance As most of my readers know by now, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, it’s up to the readers to suggest and then vote on the theme for the post I put up on the final Wednesday. Sometimes most of my readers vote for a single theme, sometimes there’s a quiet little contest among an assortment of themes. Then there was this month, where three topics broke from the pack early on, a lot of people who rarely or never vote in these contests flung themselves into the fray, and all three of the leading topics got more votes than most winning topics do. Since I have the best as well as the most eccentric commentariat on the internet, I decided promptly enough that the only sensible thing to do was to do posts on all three. This week’s post, accordingly, is on the topic that nosed ahead in the final days of the contest and won the contest. Some weeks ago, in the course of the ongoing discussion of Situationism on this blog, I noted that the...