I can’t get over how great and important this moment is. We can openly read actual books by Sailer, Moldbug, Renaud Camus, and soon possibly even Cole. Who could have thought this would even be possible only a couple of years ago?

We might have gotten over the hump and it all will finally start getting straightened out.

I say this because in earlier times, there was none of this business about constant sports practices, extracurriculars, SAT prep, constant doctor’s visits, college funds, expensive Christmases, and on and on and on.

Children weren’t considered tiny princes and princesses — they were just kids, and you fed them, kissed them goodnight, taught them to read and to work, and otherwise left them to their own devices out in the yard or in the woods. Childhood was not some kind of a high-drama summer camp, nor was it a status symbol for public display among the parents.

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I think both models are stupid. During this long weekend, I’ve spent hours and hours walking with my kid, just hanging out, ambling around aimlessly, talking, goofing off.  This is the best part of having a child. Spending time together with no goal, no destination, no educational purpose. Just people being together. In both quoted examples, there’s no being together in the moment. It’s all kind of functional and the goal is always to get rid of the child in some way.

I’ve had the most extraordinary, amazing time this weekend. We didn’t do anything, we just monkeyed around a lot. And it was so enjoyable. My father used to tell me that spending time with your child like this—doing nothing, hanging out—was the whole purpose of life. I didn’t understand it then but now I do.

David Cole has been fired from Taki. Which means there’s no reason to read Taki any more because he was the main attraction.

In any case, Dave is raising money on GiveSendGo, and if he reaches his goal, he’ll republish his banned book Republican Party Animal and write a new book. And he’ll publish his 16 unused columns from Substack. He’s already 60+% done. I don’t know of anybody more uniformly cancelled by the left and the right than Dave. He manages to be equally offensive to everybody. If Dave finally gets to put out an actual book on paper that you can actually buy and read, that will mean real freedom. Let’s help Dave.

Here’s the link to his fundraising campaign.

In 1990, there was a historic chance to disarm, partition and de-ideologize Russia in exchange for food. That chance was pissed away because of the inane “free market” dogma. The idea was that free markets usher in democracy. It was a majorly stupid idea and it’s been priven wrong.

Free markets are utterly indifferent to political regimes. They don’t have much use for the concept of a “country”, so what countries do politically is unimportant to them.

Still, if another historic opportunity comes by to disarm Russia and bring it to heel, it will once again be pissed away because of the same free-marketeering dogma that refuses to die. We are not learning anything, is the problem. Free marketeering means open borders. It’s in the name. Markets are to be free to transcend all limits and drag workers / consumers wherever it’s convenient at any given time. You can’t be for one but not for the other.

Be a free marketeer, by all means, but at least look at what it actually means.

Oh yeah, it rocks so much that your marriage is 50 percent more likely to end in divorce if your wife earns more than you. It rocks so much that both wives and husbands consistently report being less satisfied in their marriage when the wife earns more. Yeah it absolutely rocks… https://t.co/nGYCvKSK8p

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 26, 2025

N wouldn’t mind if I made more money. Both more than he makes and more in general. He’d never say no to more money because he’s worried about having enough in old age.

I would mind, though. I don’t want to be a standard Soviet woman with a decorative husband.

The bad news is: there are 140 million of them, just as crazy as their leader.

The good news is: ————–

The largest country on Earth is armed to the teeth including with nukes and is in the grip of a terrible rage. It doesn’t want money, trade deals, or anything that anybody has to give.

We always have to live in reality and not fantasy. This is reality, and nobody has any answer to the problem. Pretending such an answer exists is magical thinking.

We watched the last episode of a TV series where a tiny, skinny woman physically fought a ripped, much larger man for a significant period of time and did not lose.

I have no idea why this kind of fantasy scenario is so beloved in film and on TV. In real life, that woman would last exactly a second and a half against a man seriously interested in taking her out.

Viewers who grow up watching this stuff sincerely don’t understand the difference in the upper body strength between men and women. It’s impossible to explain to them why men on women’s sports team are a horrible idea. They sincerely wonder why a rape victim just lay there instead of doing what every female character in every movie does and pummel the assailant. They don’t understand history or the extreme value and preciousness of civilization where women live peacefully and unmolested.

We went to one of those children attraction events that in Europe we call Luna Park.

All of the children are white, and all the workers are Guatemalan, which does feel a little weird but OK, that’s not the point.

Klara started playing a game where you throw darts at balloons to win prizes. She missed several times, and I said, “wow, you throw like a girl.”

She got so mad at my comment that she hit the target 7 times in a row and won the grand prize. I truly know how to motivate the young generation.

“Do you want to go on the upside down ride?” I asked.

“Have you considered how that will mess up my hair?” Klara asked venomously.

I thought it was an article on intermittent fasting and thought that it must be a total hoax given the results for this poor woman:

Jokes aside, who will not be sorry to see MSM go?

Isn’t it lovely that President Trump is so dedicated to Israel, he’d dismantle Harvard to please it?

This sort of loyalty is truly rare.

I’m being sarcastic, just in case.