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April 25, 2013. Reading a couple mainstream reviews of a certain new sci-fi movie, I'd decided not to bother seeing it; but when I read Andy Nowicki's account, which I post here, I reconsidered. (It's not the first time that's happened.)
The System's employees just aren't supposed to notice certain things, and if they do, they're not supposed to write about them. Mr. Nowicki, though, does notice, and he does write:
"Facing fearful odds: 'Oblivion' as a reactionary parable"
March 28, 2013. As you know, we here at TLD are devoutly committed to Nonviolent Change — and Hope! — well, kind of — so I trust it is in the right spirit that you and all the secret police monitoring the site will read this essay by senior editor Ronn Neff on, uh, violent revolution:
"Gunplay"
Now, remember, friends, he's just sayin'.
March 23, 2013. Alas, we have heard once again from our erratic and peripatetic correspondent Henry Gallagher Fields, who has induced me to offer you this parlous dispatch:
"Humanoid Action: A mini-treatise on economics and things like that"
February 15, 2013. Senior editor Ronn Neff noticed a little something that happened in the Old Dominion during all the national fuss and bother last November. To be precise, it was a bit of fuss and bother that didn't happen in Virginia:
"A reflection on the Great Election: Waste that vote!" (Unsilent Truth, no. 18)We here in The Ditch continue trying to unfold the Mysteries of Democracy for benefit of those who are still addicted to voting.
January 26, 2013. The swine who presume to rule us "ask" (as they like to put it) for our compliance in almost every corner of our life these days. Recently they've started to "ask" for compliance as they expand their assault on our right of self-defense. A great many New Yorkers, I hear, may be disinclined to comply. But most of us do comply most of the time, and without requiring the government gangsters to put a gun to our head.
A gripping little movie recently came out on DVD that's a must-see for liberty partisans, who may find that it offers clues to what some of us call the mystery of obedience. It's called "Compliance," and I've just posted Andy Nowicki's penetrating review of it:
"'Compliance' — An unnerving parable"
December 18, 2012. Freedom-eating crocodiles are weeping again, or pretending to do so, but veteran herpetologist David T. Wright urges us to focus not on their cheeks but on their teeth: "The Sandy Hook massacre: Guns and the Emperor's bloody tears."
Published in 2012, 2013 by WTM Enterprises.
Blurbs are by Nicholas Strakon unless otherwise specified.