The Godparents of American Goth are famous all over again thanks to Wednesday — do you know the score? — I haven’t watched Wednesday, because I haven’t flown much this year, and it’s the sort of show I might watch on a long plane ride. I hear that cute camera girl from X did a dance to “Goo Goo Muck” and the youngsters have thereby discovered The Cramps. This is…

On the West Bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, stands a collection of Ancient Egyptian ruins too vast to see in a lifetime. We spent one day there. — Check out Part 1 when you’re done here. Monument Hopping in Luxor Part 1: The East Bank Once known as Thebes, the capitol of Ancient Egypt during most of its existence, Luxor is a living outdoor museum…gentlemanbandit.medium.com Out of any city in Egypt, Luxor has the largest concentration of ancient temples and tombs — so many that you really couldn’t see them all in one visit. If you tried, you’d get pretty bored by the end, because (as profoundly…

How a dwindling minority of mid-caste teacher’s pets dominate the expert class despite their near-total lack of experience — I’ve written before about the Square University Culture. I don’t mean everybody who attends university — I mean people who are born in comfortable circumstances, advance easily through the educational system, get their university degrees, then find jobs and settle into comfortable lives (generally including marriage, kids, buying a house…

Here’s a little history lesson. You might have heard about The Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) protesting hard in France for the past few years. There was a comparable movement in the late 90s and early 2000s, which focused on radical group tactics of defense in order to successfully stand up…

Real quick while I wait for my bacon to cook — This is from a song called “In the Flesh” from a Pink Floyd album called The Wall, which was adapted into a movie called The Wall and a series of tours also called The Wall. It’s all very famous and successful. The story is about a rock star who…

Everything you need to know before you hit the town — San Jose is the only big city in Costa Rica, and it rules. Folks say it’s just a launching pad for one’s adventures to the abundant beaches and rainforests of this tiny Central America country, but they are missing out. …

Son, we ARE the Cartels — Lately elements within the Republican Party are making speeches and TV appearances, demanding that the USA “declare war” on the Mexican drug cartels. This is bullshit, 100%. Let’s talk about it. The United States, by way of the DEA and the CIA, has been deeply enmeshed in the activities of…

All y’all conservatives and squares, quit fooling yourselves. — Marianne Williamson announced that she’s running for president again. Right on cue, the mockery machine used by the Establishment to enforce their primacy in lieu of any attractive policies or demonstrable expertise kicked in. Even that new press secretary of Biden’s got in on the act, which must have been…

I’m just going to take a swing at this — The fundamental argument of the antiwar position is that war is a horror of violence and destruction that leaves hundreds of thousands dead and many more maimed, many more homes destoyed, cities destroyed, water and electricity, hospitals and schools. That the interests of the powerful factions who seek to run…