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Author: marc

Marc is a software developer, writer, and part-time political know-it-all who currently resides in Texas in the good ol' U.S.A.

Parks Emergency

Posted on February 27, 2025March 14, 2026 by marc

Are we really so desperate that we need to terrorize America’s parks? Really? Impressive heroics by the park rangers. A real president would know better.

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Review: The Second Sex

Posted on March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 by marc

Philistine that I am, I had never heard of The Second Sex, a 1000-page protest of woman’s lot in life by existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, until it was given a passing nod in the TV series Emily in Paris. An over-short snark would be to say that Emily provides more insight into the life of a…

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Making Sense of the Game

Posted on January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 by marc

Suddenly the head games liberals are forcing us to play makes sense!

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Psycho Shot in Austin

Posted on December 25, 2021December 25, 2021 by marc

After a 911 call, Austin PD received several calls about a shirtless man waving a black rifle while walking around the intersection where a crash took place: “Austin police shot a man who was waiving a rifle on a highway Friday, the Austin Police Department said. The man is in stable, but serious condition.” https://abcnews.go.com/US/austin-police-shoot-man-reportedly-waving-rifle-highway/story?id=81940506…

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Cost of Stupidity

Posted on December 18, 2021December 18, 2021 by marc

Cheers to the Doctrine Man for re-surfacing Italian economist Carlo Cipolla’s 1976 essay, The Basic Laws of Stupidity via ClearanceJobs, from which I quote: In his essay – which was initially intended for a very small group of close colleagues – Cipolla presented his laws of stupidity. We all know stupid people exist, he explained,…

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Too Much for Twitter

Posted on October 2, 2021October 2, 2021 by marc

This simple tweet was too much for the twits at Twitter to take: Full link. Of course I stand by the comment, because it’s right. And of course I will end up deleting the tweet because I’ll be banished otherwise. So be it. It’s their platform and if censorship is their thing, it’s nothing to…

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3rd World Trump Protest

Posted on January 6, 2021January 6, 2021 by marc

Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., says it all about today’s pro-Trump protests: “This is Banana Republic crap that we’re watching right now,” said Gallagher, who had spoken out against objections from fellow Republicans to certifying the Electoral College vote that Biden won. What we’re witnessing is some serious 3rd-World Shit. Are we suddenly living in Venezuela…

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No Class

Posted on November 26, 2020November 26, 2020 by marc

This is the kind of classless idea that liberals spend their time coming up with: http://scripting.com/2020/11/25.html#a011411 No surprise, but we don’t want you.

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10 Days After

Posted on November 13, 2020March 14, 2026 by marc

For a conflicting few hours, it looked like President Trump would snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. I had very mixed emotions about this as The Donald is a terrible president who would, in a wiser country, never have been selected to the ballot in 2016. His enemies, who are also my enemies –…

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The Morning After

Posted on November 4, 2020 by marc

Quite an interesting presidential election. President Trump has 267 electoral votes locked up, by my count. That leaves him 3 short and he must come from behind in either Michigan or Nevada to keep the presidency. My prediction is that will not happen and Joe Biden will become president. Given the vast inaccuracies in pollsters’…

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