The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Is it legal? On laws, authorities, and superstition CARLOS RAMALHETE (What the heck is going on here?!) During the personal lockdown my poor health imposed on me, I became so depressed I could hardly read anything more complicated than a cake recipe. That’s when I found what I call “the bottom of the Internet”:  pages  whose main business is reproducing idiotic Reddit tales, interspersing them with inane text that more or less paraphrases the original story so that there is some “original” content to shield them from accusations of copyright violation. Two kinds of stories are often republished at the bottom of the internet: familial woes, and workplace problems. The kind of thing that in regular fiction or news (even if most news is fictional nowadays) would provide no more than a background. Great fodder for depressed Thomist sociologists temporarily unable to face organized studies of what, in the end, is the same subject matter. The few neurons still alive in my bra...

  The Just-Us System When the going gets batty... RADIO FAR SIDE A member of the NYC militia  saved a woman  from being robbed, then she turned on him. A member of the Houston militia  stopped a robbery  in a taqueria, and landed in front of a Grand Jury.  Indiana mall shooter  stopped by member of the militia. Off-duty border militiaman  kills Uvalde mass murderer , while cops drink coffee and calculate their pensions. Texas militiaman  boots 2 thieves  from his store. The US self-appointed overlords are in a desperate scramble to prevent the general public from waking up to the fact that We the People are the ultimate authority, not them. They have abrogated their offices, and so the power WE gave them reverts back to us, and that terrifies them. Somewhere along the way, the overlords managed to convince everyone that we were here to serve them. They made laws and forced us to comply with them, rather than us telling them which laws we...