Reticulating Splines

OK, I’m getting real close to making some changes in Doug’s Darkworld. Basically this is going to turn into a more or less pure blog where all I write about is current events, politics, and whatever random weirdness inspires me as I chronicle our civilization’s slide into war, denial, insanity, and chaos as the plague [...]

The New World Disorder, why I don’t worry about World Government

This is kind of a generalist conspiracy theory post. There’s conspiracy theories about an incipient USA police state, North American Union government, world government, or some combination of the three. And as I’ve said before, no one has a crystal ball, and human history has gone down all sorts of unexpected and unlikely paths before [...]

The 21st Century, What’s in Store?

If Nostradamus can string together nonsense words and sentences and be recognized as a prophet by all and sundry, why shouldn’t I take a stab at it? Hell, I can even try to make sensible predictions, so I should have an even better chance of becoming famous for all eternity. Right. For one thing, predicting [...]

Dictator Schmictator, what’s all the fuss?

Following up on last week’s post, a few observations on dictators. The “common knowledge” in the west is that they are always bad, with comparisons to Hitler usually cited to illustrate the point. So of course if some foreign leader is labelled a dictator by the west, people immediately assume the worst. And not only [...]

Politically Charged Current Events Post

The feedback on my “letter to my readers” post has been useful so far, spartan, but useful. Current events posts do tend to be popular, and even better, they are relatively easy to write. On the other hand, as was pointed out, they tend to get stale rather quickly. On the gripping hand, they are [...]

A Letter To My Readers

Botanical Gardens in Bucharest, Roumania
Never fear, this is actually good news for a change. I am making good progress on a companion web site to Doug’s Darkworld, where much of my writing will be available in a more organized and coherent fashion. This will both simplify this site and allow me to concentrate more on [...]

America, Land of Politically Correct Racism?

I saw this non news event a day or so ago and was going to pass right by it, but someone posted about it is one of my discussion groups. Then people commented on it. If spewing mindless invective can be called commenting. Sigh. So I was forced to actually examine the issue, which I [...]

Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize and other random nonsense

I haven’t written lately because I have been sinking into despair at the state of the world. Or more specifically at the general state of mental acuity in the world, especially what I see in the USA. I did some research recently and discovered that 15% of American’s think the government was complicit in 9/11. [...]

“Paranoia is reality on a finer scale.”

It’s been a weird week. And the high strangeness in the world is weirder too. The more I study world events and politics these days, the more disconnected from reality they seem. I suppose it’s always been the case to one degree or another every since the rise of the mass media in the nineteenth [...]

The Silence of the Clams

I’ve been working on a  number of dedicated posts, but none has hit that point where it can be whipped into shape in an hour or two, so, a few random observations on the the world as it careens by. As always, stuff just keeps on happening.
Well, big fires in California. Not much else to [...]