Reflections From a Murky Pond

Sadly, that is an apt contrast between men of 1775 and the bois and gurls of 2025. Those of the modern generation are lesser children of a fallen house. Worse, we did this to ourselves, to them, and to our once great nation.

The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

— John Adams
Letters of John Adams Addressed to his Wife

John Adams was in many ways a great man. But he was right in what he hoped and thought would happen, but so very wrong in hoping for it. He, over the course of 250 years, got what he wished for. And now, we have to live with that degenerate nightmare.

Tags: America | Degeneration | Gen Z | History | John Adams | Millennials | Politics | Society | Weakness

This entry was posted on Monday, August 25th, 2025 at 10:25 am and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

“Al-Goebbels’ Di’aya” is merely an arabicization of “Goebbels’ Propaganda.” I find it highly fitting – and I love getting some continuing use out of the languages I had to learn 😉 – because the entirety of the “existence” of Palestine is a lie told so often that it became many’s truth. This despite the objective fact that “Palestine” and “Palestinians” are a myth and lie. The closest thing to that was “Syria Palaestina,” the name the Romans gave to the whole region after brutally putting down the Judean revolt in 136 AD.

Tags: Antisemitism | Goebbels | History | Israel | Judea | Lies | Palestine | Politics | Propaganda | Rome | Sarcasm | Society

This entry was posted on Friday, August 8th, 2025 at 4:30 pm and is filed under Politics. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Found in 1868 in the River Thames by Waterloo Bridge in London, England, the Waterloo Helmet has long been labeled as a Ceremonial / Ritual / Religious object. This has always been based on how the “horns” were useless and problematical in combat.

OK, any and every “find” that archeologists can’t immediately identify a use for has long been labeled as a Ceremonial / Ritual / Religious object. 😛

But now, after seeing the Waterloo Helmet in context, we can see that we were fundamentally wrong. Those aren’t horns; they’re boobs! It’s a repoussage, pre-Roman, bronze boob hat in the La Tène style. 😆

Tags: Ancient Culture | Ancient History | Archeology | Boobs | History | Humor | Intellectual Bias | Science | Society | Waterloo Helmet

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 16th, 2025 at 9:41 am and is filed under Humor. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

There’s no doubt that America, like all nations, cultures, and peoples, is a land partially built upon myths. Just listen to a Liberal rant when they hear about making America great again, or an American when Liberals try to rewrite – normally to a more Black and White – parts of history. In both cases, there will be an immediate acknowledgment that this is so. Simply put, America is Americana as much as anything else.

But now, 23 years – approximately an entire generation – since the Muslims enacted the greatest act of terrorism in modern history, we seem to have a new American myth, that of widespread unity in the aftermath of 9/11. And, that is what and all it is – a myth, a wondrous but false bit of exceptionalism to be added to Americana.

The truth is that by 9/12 various Democrats were already online, proudly proclaiming that the attack was America’s fault and we deserved it and worse. The truth is that by 9/12 the were many Muslims celebrating the attack, and others whose only concern over it was their fear of Americans’ response. The truth is that 9/12 literally was when Democrats brought the term “Islamophobia” to the forefront of sociopolitical discourse, and it was the inception of what has become #Wokeness.

No. Our nation coming together as one on 9/12 is just a new American myth. Many of us did, but far too many within our borders chose to side with the Muslim terrorists instead, and many more than that chose to politically profiteer off of it.

Tags: 9/11 | 9/12 | America | Americana | Comforting Lies | Democrats | History | Legends | Liberals | Myths | Politics | Progressives | Society | Unity

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 12th, 2024 at 9:58 am and is filed under Politics, Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Just a photo collage of George Takei, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Shatner, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, and Nichelle Nichols before they boldly went where no man had gone before.

Tags: DeForest Kelley | George Takei | History | James Doohan | Leonard Nimoy | Nichelle Nichols | Nostalgia | Sci-Fi | Star Trek | Walter Koenig | William Shatner

This entry was posted on Monday, August 19th, 2024 at 11:00 am and is filed under Society. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.