A Bureaucrat Gets The Willies - Shaking In His Boots As DOGE And The Trump Demolition Team Come To Town by Poohads in Government

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A BUREAUCRAT GETS THE WILLIES - SHAKING IN HIS BOOTS AS DOGE AND THE TRUMP DEMOLITION TEAM COME TO TOWN Herman had no idea how quickly and how deeply DOGE would cut. If entire departments are eliminated and whole chunks of others are gone, paper shuffling and pass-the-buck inefficiency will end -curtains for G7s

Annals Of Genealogy - Bob Hoped For Black Blood But Got A Slaveowner's Instead by Poohads in culture

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ANNALS OF GENEALOGY -BOB HOPED FOR BLACK BLOOD BUT GOT A SLAVEOWNER'S INSTEAD Bob’s slave-owning ancestors had been among the South's worst. Not only was he descended from the worst sort of whites, he had not a trace of black blood in his veins, not a scintilla - a double indemnity he never expected.

Annals Of Liberalism - The Folly Of A Man Who Actually Believed He Could 'Make A Difference' by Poohads in Philosophy

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Bobby Muzelle never learned his lesson, and at last word he was still attending women's conferences, speaking to sparse crowds in Chillicothe about the gay man, raking his lawn, masking up, turning the thermostat down, and wearing sensible shoes. Why should anyone expect him to change? This kind of true belief is an instinctive, innate optimism in the face of the facts.

Why Were We Put On This Earth? No Reason At All - So Why Are Some Trying So Hard To Make A Difference? by Poohads in Philosophy

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We are all products of a roll of the dice – no purpose, no divine sanction, nothing else to do than to play the hand you've been dealt

Thornton Wilder, 'Our Town', And Sticking To Your Own Kind - Diversity Is Not What It's Cracked Up To Be by Poohads in culture

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A journalist recently discovered Blanton and pilloried it in his paper. 'White supremacy par excellence….'. Nothing of the sort, said the mayor. 'It is still the best little town in America’

The Rise Of The Right - Europe, Asia, The Americas, And The Surge Of A Welcome Nationalism by Poohads in politics

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Marion Marechal, Giorgia Meloni, Donald Trump and leaders in Hungary, Poland, Russia among others, have made a dramatic turn to the right. It is not so much a civil issue, but a cultural one.

Trump The Fascist Is Coming! - Poppycock, It Just Looks That Way To The Illusionist Left by Poohads in politics

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TRUMP THE FASCIST IS COMING! - POPPYCOCK, IT JUST LOOKS THAT WAY TO THE ILLUSIONIST LEFT 'Fascist'? A facile, simplistic, ignorant accusation, and a full-throated, ignorant howl. The Democratic Party is already talking of retooling, toning down, moving to the center; but it will take a lot of fancy footwork to reset the balance. They have been whupped and whupped badly, and no rejiggering will do any good whatsoever.

Who'll Cut My Grass? - Trump, Have A Nice Day, And Jose Heads Back Across The Border by Poohads in politics

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Within weeks lawns dried up, babies wailed, and the place looked like shit. Deportation would not last, Jose knew. Americans would soon be fed up with high lettuce prices and would open their doors once again.

'I Told You So', Warns Donald Trump As Liberal Washington Is Uprooted, Tossed, And Taken To The Dump by Poohads in politics

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The Left looks at the pre-Inauguration hoopla at Mar-a-Lago - white, straight, young, beautiful, and able - and can't believe that their dreams of a multicultural, diverse government that 'looks like America' have disappeared. 'Hold on to your hats, America', say party-goers. 'You ain't seen nothin' yet'

The End Of Historical Revisionism - White Wolf, The Bloodiest Indian Chief In American History, Becomes An American IconA by Poohads in history

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No longer a victim, the Native American will be restored - in name, image, and reputation - as a legendary hero, a symbol of bravery, patriotism, and militant defense of territory and natural rights. Just as Genghis Khan posted severed heads on roads leading to conquered villages, gruesome warnings to the next settlements in his sights, so did White Wolf use unconscionable savagery as a tool of war. He knew that the Christian soldiers would see his tribal, animist, ferocity, understand that they were up against a frightening, unfathomable enemy with no moral restraint and would turn tail.

Jackboots, Storm Troopers, And The Ethnic Cleansing Of America - The Left's Hysterical Terror Of Donald Trump by Poohads in politics

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The Left has reason to be upset, and well they should be. The culture of unquestioned permissiveness, the glorification of racial identity, and the proto-socialist faux inspirations of 'equality' has finally been challenged, and the country is ready for a reversal. A little Wild West justice doesn't seem so bad. A return of hanging judges, the law of the six-shooter, and the pacification of American territory might be just what the country is what the Left is afraid of, very afraid

The Circus Leaves Town - The Left's Diverse Menagerie Heads For The Hills by Poohads in politics

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'We'll be back!', Roberta nee Robert shouted to no one in particular, but one of those square-jawed straight white Trumpers in a BMW with the top down, shouted back, 'Not for a long, long time, sweetheart'.

The Sorcerous Transformation Of Kamala Harris, Presidential Candidate, Into A Nasty Old Woman by Poohads in politics

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'You tried, Sweetheart, and that's all anyone can ask', comforted her husband. Just as she was about to send him off with big 'F-ck you', the doorbell rang, and it was Jehovah's Witnesses. 'How did they get past security?', she wondered, but now that they were here, might as well listen

The Coming To Washington Of A Man Who Loves Women - Donald Trump And The New Sexual Ethos by Poohads in culture

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An unapologetic lover of women, a bad boy par excellence, a man of male allure, he brings a sexual counter-revolution. The lap dogs trained and muzzled by women and who bought the whole do-the-dishes cant are now cold sexual leftovers

Looking Like America - Pimps, Ho's, Ghetto Grilles And The Coming Of Donald Trump. by Poohads in politics

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In the end, LaShonda Jackson, madam of Anacostia, had no cause for concern, and neither did the entrepreneurs of the gun and drug trades. Like most white men, the new President would end up not caring in the least what happened across the Anacostia River. Let the pestilence go on as long as it doesn't seep out into white America.

Kamala For President In 2028! - A Poor, Deluded Woman, A Baffled Party, And The Final Turn Of The Screw by Poohads in politics

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So she sailed off into the sunset with no port in mind. Life's a journey, she remembered, and given her good fortune and good looks, she would certainly find a place to lay her hat. She fluffed her hair in the mirror, adjusted her jacket, touched up her lipstick, and click-clacked confidently down the corridors of the West Wing.

Donald Trump's Last Roundup - Ahead Of The Gay Pogrom George And Phil Head For The Emerald Isle by Poohads in politics

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The thought of Kristallnacht and the emptying of the Warsaw ghetto - jackbooted Gestapo breaking into their Washington duplex and dragging them off - gave Phil a shudder, but it couldn't happen here. Or could it?

Why Stop At Deporting Illegal Immigrants? - Let's Clean Up The Whole Mess Once And For All by Poohads in politics

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Amanda Blevins short-circuited epiphany was not all that remarkable. She was a woman of fierce independence and individuality, who had fallen prey to progressive blandishment. It took only a look at the gross mess of a Philadelphia slum to wake her up. 'Get rid of 'em all', she said.

The Business Of America Is Business - Donald Trump And Let The Buying And Selling Begin! by Poohads in politics

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Americans have taken capitalism to an iconic level. Whether marital relations or buying a new car, the playbook is the same. Men negotiate for sex, and women to avoid it. Used car dealers chop the clock, and buyers are skeptical. The minute we wake up in the morning, the meter is running, and Donald Trump gets it.

Divisive America, A Problem? - Hardly, Clash Not Compromise Has Been History's And Darwin's Lesson by Poohads in politics

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History shows only that the clash of civilizations, societies, and cultures is permanent; and that one side will always prevail. Along the way civilization - art, literature, science, and its darker corollaries - will spread, be defended at all costs, and will last until the turning of the screw

Here It Comes! The Outrageous, Bulldozing, Upending Trump Cavalcade - Nothing Will Ever Be The Same Again by Poohads in politics

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Hold on to your hats - there will be a lot of demolition noise and dust and the building of new foundations in the next four years. Not for the faint of heart; but the craven have already run for the exits. What the Left never understood was the coming cultural change. Conservative policies are nothing compared to the revolutionary individualism of the newcomers. Not only Trumpists run against the progressive cliques and claques with their strange, medieval ideas and witch trial mentality, but vowed to uproot them, slash and burn the culture of received wisdom, cant, and assumed right.

History And The Curse Of Revisionism - Some Of It Happened, Some Of It Did Not , It All Depends by Poohads in history

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History whether that of a family or of a country is currently up for grabs, a kind of pleasant chimera, shifting and changing depending on the teller. The more distant the historical event, the more self-serving interpretation and reconfiguration there is.

Bureaucrats Beware! - The Trump Armageddon Is Nigh, And Government Will Be Left In Cinders by Poohads in culture

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Of all else - reduction of taxes, energy independence, closed borders, a muscular foreign policy, judicial reform - the radical elimination of unnecessary federal agencies is perhaps the most important. If government goes, then the country is free to prosper. Afuera!

Beauty Contests And Beautiful Stewardesses Are Back - The Conservative Sexual Counterculture Is On Its Way by Poohads in culture

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The beauty-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder nonsense will soon be dismissed, gone, and forgotten. The days of the Emperor's New Clothes are finally over. Beauty pageants are back, and while it may take some doing, so will beautiful American airlines' stewardesses. Men who have yearned for the likes of Marilyn Monroe for millennia, now can come out from under wraps

Horrors! The White House Is White - The Left Howls As Diversity Goes Out The Window by Poohads in politics

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Here, staring them in the face was the whitist White House in recent memory, a blonde, blue-eyed monument to white privilege. The black man would be back in the cotton fields, the brown one picking lettuce. How could their perfect vision of a motley-colored, marvelously diverse nation have faded so quickly?

The End Of The World Is Nigh! - The Desperate, Incredulous, Humiliated Left Craves Doomsday by Poohads in politics

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And so it was that yet another dinner spoiled by hysteria came to close. The invited guest needed help out the door and down the walkway, and under the light of the streetlamp was seen crying at the steering wheel. Doomsday, she thought. Yes, Doomsday, the only way out.

Why 'The Truth' Never Matters - Banking On Absolute Truth, The Left Suffers A Humiliating Defeat by Poohads in politics

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WHY 'THE TRUTH' NEVER MATTERS - BANKING ON ABSOLUTE TRUTH, THE LEFT SUFFERS A HUMILIATING DEFEAT An electoral defeat is one thing, but to have one's absolute conviction of right rejected out of hand is entirely another. No wonder liberals are an inconsolable lot. Their very being has been tossed in the gutter

'Garbage', 'Deplorables', And White Hatred - Reverse Racism And The Arrogant Infamy Of The Left by Poohads in politics

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Hate Has No Home Here', said the lawn signs in Bob's white suburban Washington neighborhood, a reference to racism, homophobia, and misogyny; but the irony was lost on him as he seethed venomous hatred at the white fools who had elected Trump. This animus was not hatred, he reasoned, because it was righteous anger. He was a good person.

But We Were Right!! - Kamala Harris And The Unravelling Of An Arrogant Vision by Poohads in politics

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Most conservatives have once and for all stopped calling liberals progressives, for nothing in their bag of tricks is forward-looking and promising. They are Utopian idealists at best who have been shown the door and won't be back for a long, long while.

The Wailing And Gnashing Of Teeth - The Gobsmacked Left, Incredulous At Loss To Trump, Goes Berserk by Poohads in politics

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Wha' happened', said a lawyer tossing down another shot of Wild Turkey at the bar of the Olde Ebbitt Grille, two blocks from the White House and watering hole of Biden/Harris people. 'Didn' see it coming'; and there it was in a nutshell. The fools never saw it coming, overreached, overestimated and shat on the voters who could have made a difference. 'We'll get 'em next time'…

Donald Trump Is Coming To Town! - The Unthinkable Has Just Happened, So Buckle Up And Enjoy The Ride by Poohads in politics

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DONALD TRUMP IS COMING TO TOWN! - THE UNTHINKABLE HAS JUST HAPPENED, SO BUCKLE UP AND ENJOY THE RIDE More than anything the progressive culture of moroseness will be gone. No more breast-beating, rending of garments, wails of grief and misery. America's genius will be celebrated. There will be all-night, bright and sparkling Gatsby-esque parties. Glitz, glamour, and beauty will be back.

TRUMP WINS! America, Therefore Is Evil, Fascist, And Racist - The Shameless Aftermath Of The Left's Decisive Loss by Poohads in politics

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Harris is still in hiding. Congratulations would be a sign of capitulation to Nazi terror. 'I was supposed to be elected. I was supposed to be the first woman to sit in the Oval Office. There must be something I can do. Think, Kamala, think!!!'

When Wackos Try To Go Straight - How Tarted Up January 6th Insurrectionists Get Schooled by Poohads in culture

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America had passed him by. He was social detritus, leavings, insignificant, noticed by no one. Insurrectionist? If only he had been, it would have been some record of having belonged. As it was he was trash

When Priests Go Bad - Fairies In The Vestry And The Compelling Case For Atheism by Poohads in Religion

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Of course it is one thing do leave the Church, another thing altogether to go over to the dark side, the Godless side, but that was exactly what Harry Gooding did. 'Fuck 'em', he said to no one in particular. 'Fuck 'em all', and so it was that Harry became a practicing atheist, more out of anger and spite than blame of the Deity, but so be it. The dark side can be recrossed with difficulty, so why bother. His was a more considerate, rational, temperate side without the likes of Brophy and Peacock.

Putin, Xi, The Ayatollah, And Machiavelli - Overmatched, Diversity-Only Kamala Harris In The White House? by Poohads in politics

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Her admirers in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran cheered her on. A Harris victory would be theirs at least until the American electorate woke up and in four years tossed the woman out; but four years was plenty of time to move forward with their own international agenda; and who knows what a marvelous triumvirate Russia, China, and Iran would make.

The Campaign Menagerie Of Kamala Harris - And The Coming White House Zoo by Poohads in politics

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'A menagerie', quipped one political observer who thought he had seen everything in the way of vacuous politicians. When the feral assortment of Cabinet hopefuls was leaked, he had a field day. 'The most absurd collection of misfit, wrong, caricatures of diversity ever..'

Why Can't There Be More Civility In Political Life? - Are You Kidding? This Is America by Poohads in politics

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Unfortunately someone has to win this Presidential election - there is no Churchill, Napoleon, or de Gaulle running. We are stuck between bombast and sanctimony, the worst kind of a rock and a hard place, but it is all of our own making. 'Is this the best you can do?' ask foreign observers. What a question. Of course it is.

The Best And The Brightest? - Kamala Harris And The Rise Of A Vaporous Woman by Poohads in politics

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Kamala Harris is the right person to lead the progressive charge, but exactly the wrong one to lead the country. Her black womanhood will only be a footnote to history, a diverting commentary on the politics of the early 21st century and nothing more.

Redecorating The Oval Office - A Woman's Place Is In The Home And Kamala's In The White House by Poohads in politics

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She was a campaigner, a notional Vice President, but a decorator-in-chief in her mind. Briefings, policy, signatures could wait until she set things right - Oval Office first, bedroom second, executive dining room third

Treacle, Nostrums, And Bombast - The Vanities Of Trump And Harris, But Only One Of Them Makes Any Sense At All by Poohads in politics

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So, a week before the election, the show goes on - bombast, braggadocio, and big top lion-taming and high-wire acts; and immeasurably incoherent homilies, metaphors, and allusions. The Left is worried, very worried that the man they have branded as evil, spawn of the Devil, a dangerous, destructive man may again sit in the Oval Office. How could this happen, they repeat again and again as the polls narrow and Trump edges closer to victory?

There Was Never A Dunce Like Harry Muster - The Tale Of How A Progressive Dimwit Made It In Washington by Poohads in politics

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If Trump wins, all the treacly, meaningless ribbons of progressive Utopianism will finally be tossed into the dumpster; but Harry never gave defeat a second thought

Kamala Goes 'Round The Bend - The Last Days Of A Hysterical Woman by Poohads in politics

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'When will it end?', a five-year old was heard saying to her mother on a park bench in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, referring to the endless hawking and barking of the Vice President. 'Soon, my love, soon'

Confessions Of A Moral Zealot - A Life Of Good Causes, Left On The Curb, Then Death In A Chaise Lounge by Poohads in culture

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Luckily the reality of it all - a life that nobody really cared about, all his social activism either for naught or coopted by goons and comers, an existence as pedestrian and unremarkable as any - came only much later. Nothing in the halcyon days could have been more unthinkable - sunning himself on a Miami beach in a chaise lounge sipping pina coladas. Nothing could have been more bourgeois, anti-progressive, a downright moral failure, a dismal, pathetic end; but there he was actually considering the option.

'Fascist!' - Kamala Harris And The Last, Humiliating Resort Of A Desperate Woman by Poohads in politics

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'I was at Auschwitz', said Hyman Rubenstein. He had been herded into the showers when the Americans liberated the camp. Skeletal, naked, hollow-eyed, and tearful, he ran to the gates and for the first time in four years, smiled. 'Trump is no fascist'

An Ivy League Side Show - When Gaza Love And Transgender Coupling Meet In A Splendid Jamboree by Poohads in culture

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The university, now in line with every vocational school, cow town junior college, and third rate midwestern college, could only rest on its laurels for just so long; and after a while this descent into a nightmarish woke madness slowed. 'Well, Harkness Tower is still standing', said one alumnus at his Fiftieth Reunion. Reunions were held after the school year ended, so there were no signs of the protests, festoons, and sexual antics of a few weeks before. He looked at the bell tower, the Gothic spires of Davenport College where he had lived while at Yale, and smiled. 'There will always be an England', he mused, 'and always a Yale'.

The Old Yale Two Step - A Tea Dance For True Believers In A Woke Age by Poohads in culture

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THE OLD YALE TWO STEP - A TEA DANCE FOR TRUE BELIEVERS IN A WOKE AGE It was indeed a ragtag bunch that gathered in the Old Campus. Despite its raison d'etre, the death of Palestinian children, it still was a happy jamboree of hugs and kisses. 'We Are The World', that old bit of treacle from the Eighties rang through those few heads with any sense of history or irony

Nothing ever came of the demonstrations. Israel kept on undaunted in its violent reprisals against Palestinian terrorists and Iran-sponsored militias in Lebanon, and Yale protected its portfolio as it always had done - profits first and foremost - with only a notional withdrawal from investment in Soda Stream, the Israeli spritzer water company.

Post-Roe v Wade Abortion - Even More A Man's Right To Choose by Poohads in culture

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The Biblical injunctions against abortion are based on the nature of divinity and the role and responsibility of mankind in responding to it. The principles evoked in both Old and New Testaments are not socially or historically conditional despite post-modernist exegesis. They have to do with Creation, the nature of God, and the character of Man – fundamental theological conclusions not adaptable suggestions.

Within this context, the role, responsibility, and rights of men and women are inextricably linked As such men 's rights cannot be ignored

Donald Trump, Quintessentially American - Exactly How Alexis de Tocqueville Would Have Seen Him by Poohads in culture

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If the French aristocrat were to return to America today, he would not be surprised. Things have really not changed since the days of Andrew Jackson. Forget his bombast and outrageous personality. Pay attention to the same principles that have underlain American exceptionalism since the founding of the Republic.

The Dumbing Down Of America - The Fall Of Yale And The Decline Of Intellectual Honor by Poohads in culture

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'This is not your grandfather's Yale', says the new wave of publicity for the newly diverse university, debunking the aristocratic days of Fence Club, Nantucket, and Wall Street; but what Yale has lost in this volte face is its historic legacy and its relevance. Yale and the other Ivy League colleges will never recover from this sorry descent into chaotic populism. They are ashamed of their history rather than be proud of it and revere and respect its traditions, and we are ashamed of them

Sex, Class Divide, And Sorrentino Tail At Yale - Gown Meets Town And Gets What's Coming To It by Poohads in culture

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So, despite her WASP yearnings, Maria returned to her roots and went to Mario for a favor. Could his son, Richard, now enrolled at Yale, teach that philandering, deceitful prick Farnsworth a lesson he would never forget? No one knew why Farnsworth got badly beaten, but rumor and ethnic prejudice being what they are, it was assumed that his goomba chippy was behind it Sex, Class Divide, And Sorrentino Tail At Yale - Gown Meets Town And Gets What's Coming To It