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R.I.P. P.J. O’Rourke, who died yesterday at 74. He was a clever and entertaining writer who started out as the typical 60’s hippie into drugs, sex and rock and roll. But like many of us he got hijacked by taxes when he started making decent money as a Gonzo journalist for National Lampoon. He became Rolling Stone’s token conservative voice and was considered “conservative” for much of his career but later in life he converted to libertarianism. He had strong opinions, but his deeply held beliefs continued to evolve.I’m still a bit irked with him for not supporting Trump –...

After spouting the Russia! Russia! Russia! narrative for years silence has fallen on all the Congressional loudmouths. MSM outlets too have mostly gone silent on the latest news to emerge from the long drawn out Durham Report. They have no comment on the findings that Clinton and Company deployed internet spies. In other words, Trump really was spied on. That would be illegal of course, but a hurdle corruptocrats can easily get over around.For the record, the New York Times did pipe up to contend that “these reports have previously been debunked.” Conveniently that debunking was also done by the...

Forget the game and the all-Black (Eminem identifies as Black) halftime ‘show,’ I could write a book about the Super Bowl commercials. But what’s the point? They were certainly not targeting me. The Rams and the Bengals were both coached by Millennials who have taken over from the Old Guard. The game’s ad-spots were likewise created by Millennials for Millennials.Their market research now includes new age data mining that reveals that old Boomers like me are not likely to invest in cryto-currencies - even though I did rather like Crypto platform eToro’s CGI ad. A cryto-investor murmuration over a Post-Post...

I know most of you won’t be watching the Super Bowl today and that’s fine. But we’ll be watching here at Casa MOTUS. You see, it’s a long tradition – watching as a former Detroit Lion performs magnificently and leads a new team to triumphant victory. This time around it’s former Lion quarterback Matthew Stafford who will, quite possibly, lead the Rams offense to a Super Bowl championship in his first year as their QB. While I don’t relish giving LA officials any reason to celebrate their pathetic city, I’m here to tell you that Matthew Stafford deserves a Super...

There are millions of people who think Al Gore invented the Internet for the sole purpose of spreading cat videos. We should not be surprised then that this led to cats developing serious internet addictions. Can’t stop watching the catjinks Which led to another sub-category of internet entertainment: videos for cats. Nine hours worth at a time for cats that have developed other serious personality disorders such as separation anxiety.All of which explains the latest Internet assisted way to waste time. The meme is titled “There’s No Cat in This Picture,” in which there is. It started out easy enough.But...

The Week Canada Liberated the United States – perhaps that’s a bit of hyperbole at this juncture, but I pray it comes to fruition. With so much of the Western world led by puppet governments we are doomed if the people don’t take it back** from the mini-tyrants being led by the nose by Tyrants with a capital T. Let’s not be ruled by the weenie liars-in-chief. “Power to the People” as the Leftists once smugly demanded. So even if you’ve already seen this grand video mocking Castrudeu’s speech vilifying the #TruckersForFreedom watch it again this fine Friday. It encapsulates...

“Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.” – Lord ByronYou’ve got to feel a little sorry for the Babylon Bee:It’s hard to write better satire than the MSM:Are you paying attention Mr. Trudeau?Shut up! No you shut up!I don’t really see how this ends well for Castrudeau. Change my mind. And this just in: January 2021 CPI – 0.6% January 2022 CPI – 7.5%Let’s Go Brandon! (Brandon has now been in office 386 days, but who’s counting?)Posted from: MOTUS A.D.

It was the Left that prematurely pronounced the death of irony 20 years ago:“In the dark days after September 11, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter famously declared: ‘I think it's the end of the age of irony.’”They have spent the intervening two decades disproving their own thesis. Take, for example, that old skinhead, snake-faced Clinton apologist James Carville. The man with one of the most punchable faces in America…tells his podcast audience (all 25 of them) that he’d like to punch unvaxxed people in the face."I wish what they’d do is pass a law to make you immune from liability...

You tend to Harvest what you sow. Not Neil Young, he was lucky. Despite a 40 plus year drug and alcohol fueled musical careerNeil Young grew up to be a reformed substance abuser (Imus would have called him a dry drunk, and he would know) who feels that making one smart decision in his entire life - when faced with the choice of quitting drugs and alcohol or imminent death he chose life: bully for him. He now lives under the illusion that this one smart thing makes him an expert on everything.Still crazy after all these yearsNeil Young takes...

Things are clearly getting out of hand in Ottawa:Trucks, trucks, everywhere!The peaceful protests against government overreach is growing and spreading to other Canadian cities as well, that can’t be good. Eventually freedom loving Canadians will realize that there’s more of them than there are of their autocrat oppressors - that’s when things get really interesting. In order to avoid that eventuality the mayor of Ottawa declared a state of emergency over the trucker protest yesterday,hoping to force their dispersal. Strange, the mayor of Ottawa had no problem when BLM came to protest. But people who come with bouncy houses to...

I was taught (and retaught) table manners as a child. I suspect you had them driven into your noggin as well. Chew with your mouth closed, Lest your food fall out all over the placedon’t talk with your mouth full, Deploy your entrenching tools correctly (aka hold your silverware correctly) Okay Okay NoAnd a myriad of others such as no elbows on the table (although I later learned that even Emily Post said it was appropriate to place your elbows on the table for conversations between courses when there were no plates on the table), no reaching across the table,...

I could comment on how China didn’t let either a global pandemic or a muted global concern over their human rights violations stop them from throwing a really big party to celebrate the opening of the Olympic games. It wasn’t as creepy as their 2008 Summer Olympics opening, which showcased 5000 identical drummers drumming in unison…They chose a much less threatening theme this time around: snowflakes,and hearts…Ironic, no?It was touching; cute kids singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” – in what passed for English – and the IOC President urging everyone to just “give peace a chance” – also in what passed...

I know some of you are boycotting the Beijing Olympics. And I know that some of you don’t consider figure skating a real sport. However….Team USA took top place in the team figure skating event last night. Nathan Chen (Salt Lake native) took first place in the men’s figure skating event with a near perfect performance.Madison Hubble (Michigan native) and Zachary Donahue took first place in the rhythm dance competition.Ignore the Rhodesian Ridgeback hair do, she’s quite lovelyand Brandon Frazier and Alexa Knierim took third place in the pairs skating.Nathan Chen skated his best short program ever as the United...

“If there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.” - Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. 1856-1941, Liberal, ProgressiveSerious Throwback Thursday question: Does anyone else remember when Liberals were adamantly opposed to censorship? They were you know, back before “liberal” became a synonym for “fascist.” But today you would be hard pressed to find more than a handful of people who identify with the Left/Democrats who are opposed to cancel culture. They love shutting down whatever they determine...

Groundhog Day, 2-2-22. Also known as day 702 to flatten the curve.Happy birthday Punxsutawney. 702 and still going strong! Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and predicts 6 more weeks of winter. But then, you knew he would. We’re in this for the long haul.Unless, that is, the long-haulers - i.e. #MapleLeafRevolution - inspire their brethren to the south to mount an even larger convoy and declaration of freedom from the autocratic policies that our betters have deemed “useful and necessary.” In a sane time, in a sane world – neither of which we’ve seen for years – this Johns Hopkins...

On February 1, 2020 had somebody asked you to pick the country whose citizens would mount a mass protest against government tyranny that would spark a worldwide movement,and which country would zoom from freedom to tyranny in something like zero to sixty in three seconds,Note: you can’t play this as it has, of course, been taken down.I’ll bet your pre-lockdown answers would not have been, respectively, Canada and Australia.The new rule was introduced by the Western Australia government, not the supermarket chainNote bene: Australia’s dictates have nothing to do with “health.” This mechanism is intended to reward compliance and punish...

Calvin’s father was closer to the truth than he thought:That is pretty much how they do it when Democrats are in charge. You see, the bridge in Pittsburgh that collapsed last week was known to be failing. It was one of those projects that the Obama/Biden administration touted as a “shovel ready job” that the nearly trillion dollar "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" was intended to fix.So why didn’t it? Why was this rusted out bridge, first identified as a shovel ready job during Obama’s first term and scheduled to be rebuilt in 2016, left to fall down? Well, that’s...

White on White PrivilegeIt used to be that Americans, who were free to disagree on everything, had one safe space where they could speak civilly to each other. No more; we can’t even agree on the weather because SCIENCE! Or something sort of like science. Take this weekend’s storm in New England:CNBC - Climate change, particularly the warming ocean, probably influenced the strength of the storm, atmospheric researchers said.Much warmer ocean waters “are certainly playing a role in the strengthening of the storm system and increased moisture available for the storm,” said University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Jason Furtado…[before whispering...

This week is the annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City. You wouldn’t know it though, as the streets are devoid of all the PIBS (people in black), the hotels are empty, the restaurants uncrowded and the usual film venues shuttered. Sundance has once again gone virtual, as announced in early January, due to mounting concerns over the Nu-Wu-Flu cooties.On January 5, 2022 it was announced that the in-person components would be scrapped in favor of a virtual festival due to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.Just as “virtual” education advocates proclaim there is “virtual learning” going on, the Sundance promoters pretend...

I had a different post in mind for today but this is what is known as breaking news. I would title it ‘Breaking America,’ The New York Post calls it: ‘Betraying the American people’: Leaked video reveals Joe Biden’s ‘hush hush’ migrant invasionWhile Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi go all out to protect Ukraine’s national sovereignty, at the same time they are orchestrating a clandestine invasion of America across the southern border.Two million illegal immigrants from dozens of countries crossed over from Mexico last year, and the Biden administration is facilitating the cartels’ people-smuggling operation — at taxpayer expense.Under cover...