The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Burying Lindsey Graham Won’t Be Easy Karen Kwiatkowski Photo by Simone Pellegrini on Unsplash Long ago, great Senators existed. Resolute and accountable, they represented their governors and state legislatures and asserted those interests in Washington. They aspired to conduct themselves as statesmen; we the people expected statesmanship. We the people also hoped they would be better than we could be, while we agreed with the fundamental truth of Colonel Ludlow in Legends of the Fall . No longer. A regal Senate with a bold populist House of Representatives do not exist. What we call Senate and House do not make federal law, nor do they perform the small number of defined duties described in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. The making of law has become the work of lobbyists and the regulatory bureaucracy, while other Constitutional duties have become entirely too frightening to even consider, much less perform. The hydra-headed executive branch has become the permanen...

  From Bestiality to Beatification: How Depravity Is Sanitised Virtue-Signalling the Vile Thoughts from the Shire One of my first ever Substack articles was titled  Kink covereth a multitude of sin,  it was three years ago, and had four recipients. It was written in response to a moment of televised absurdity, when a man stripped naked on prime-time television and played the piano with his genitals, only to be lauded as “stunning and brave” rather than treated as any other man exposing himself in public would be. Kink Covereth a multitude of sins Thoughts from the Shire · December 1, 2022 Read full story The point then was simple: what would be unacceptable, indecent, and arrestable for an ordinary (non queer/kink) bloke suddenly became art, once it was wrapped in the language of kink and transsexual identity. That was 3 years ago, however this week I saw another story, even more depraved and disturbing. In January 2023, a well-known drag queen in Cardiff was found dead i...