InstaPunk Returns

The New War on Women, Part I You don’t see it? Sure about that? Let me set the scene for you with the specific trigger that inspired this post. If you’re watching some dark Danish soap opera miniseries on a streaming service, one of the things you have to overlook is the repetition ad nauseam of two or more commercials that seem to reappear every 20 minutes or so. Here’s a pair of them my wife and I suffered through a week or two ago, eventually in the second case becoming expert at hitting the mute button within nanoseconds. The video I had here has been withdrawn from YouTube.  The  replacement  features the same unsettling combo of autoerotic/homoerotic imagery. It’s a cologne commercial. For men. Yes, definitely for men. For the ones who know which is the more beautiful sex when you’re comparing men and women. It’s got kind of a ‘come hither’ feeling about it, like come on over to our side and start living for a change. But maybe there’s also a message in there for wo...

What everybody forgot in all this. The media, the money, and the Machiavellian powers of incredibly huge and ruthless government are still owned by men. Old white men at that. All the niche victim populations forgot that. They are being systematically played against one another to enable the government to keep all of them divided and conquered in perpetuity. At any given time it looks like some of the victim niches are thriving while others are getting their just desserts, but in reality every niche that does not recognize itself as part of the one much larger entity that can throw the Old White Men out of power is being played for a sucker.  Women have forgotten all this in a big way for a long long time. They had a run for sure. They started agitating for the vote just about the time the United States officially became the richest nation in the world. They got that right and others, but they never saw that as they thought they were getting ahead they were in fact being exploited ...

*I’ve* never even had one of these. I’ll leave this one for one of you guys. Plenty of time to get this before Christmas. Here’s the EBay proffer for what’s called the ‘Pinback Button.’ The cute graphic treatment even includes the pin side. It you actually want to read a physical book that you can hold in your hands, put on your shelf, or give to some friend or family member who’d like to understand what happened to the Great American Experiment you can find a copy quite easily, still in time for Christmas, via the following retailers and others. Just search the ‘Shopping’ tab at Google for “The Boomer Bible” and you’ll find it. (If you’re viewing this on a tablet, you can read this graphic more easily by clicking on the pic and turning your device 90 deg counterclockwise.) I don’t make any money from your purchases obviously, but I feel like I’m doing a public service in showing you what’s out there. For example, here’s something that’s out there I hadn’t actually found till yesterday...

Brittney Griner, Superstar Our WNBA superstar is back home now. People may be wondering why we traded a Russian gangster for her, but the athletic record speaks for itself. A national treasure by all lights. National treasure. Hmmm. I looked through her per-game stats (even looked up some of the abbreviations in the interests of thoroughness) and got a thumbnail portrait of a particular kind of player you also see in the NBA. Very tall, lots of field goals, hardly any 3-pointers, decent but not great record on foul shooting, not much for assists, adequate on steals and rebounding, I guess, and reliable on minutes per game and games played. The overall picture? I’m not seeing much that says movement on the court. I’m seeing a tall player stationed near the basket who converts passes from others into 2-point scores, averaging just under 20 points a game, and maybe views the rest of the team as domestic staff.  Then, me being the way I am, got to wondering about this sport I know next...

Important. Interesting word. How do we measure important? Particularly when it comes to human fatalities. The mass media like blood. “If it bleeds it leads,” they used to say. It’s still the way they act. Why they let Biden get  away with the repulsive excuse he gave for not paying more attention to the crisis at the southern border. Yes, there’s talk of millions of illegals flooding across the border in states where the only unaffected people are the elected politicians who I’ve in gated communities surrounded by heavily armed guards. Even the word ‘millions’ has lost its meaning of late. Quick — how many millions in a billion? A thousand. How many millions in a trillion? A million . That’s right. This government has put our nation in debt by (conservatives, in just one year of Congessional spending) by more than 3 million million dollars . Which you have to pay for. But it’s not important enough to you to vote these catastrophe merchants out of office.   On the whole, Americ...

Yeah. Click on the blue headlines. There are two precursor posts to this, both still in-process. I’ll finish and link them later. One is about the death of the historical novel, which mirrors a lot of other deaths in our culture. The other is about divorce, an absolutely transformative and deadly factor in what has become of us as a nation. What does that leave us with? The end result of our progressive devolution, largely invisible to all, because it is a function of the variable we tend to think of as a constant, human consciousness. Which it isn’t. I’ve written quite a lot about the consciousness problem over the years, and Instapunk Returns, as well as a couple other of my blogs, contain 5+++ years worth of thoughts on the topic. I’ll be sending you to those posts here, providing you with an excerpt, usually the lede, a sample graphic or two, and a link. The order is roughly chronological. I’m not going to give you any particular setup from piece to piece. The relevance to the main...