The Phantom Soapbox

Remember how there used to be gas station attendants? Some kid (or grown man sometimes, I recall) in a uniform would fill your tank and clea...

I post this little article in relief that I am not merely crying in the wilderness about this mass surveillance by our electronic devices . ...

There's been some full-volume defense of Milo Yiannopolis the last few days at some blogs that I visit. Mad Genius Club , According To H...

This is reblogged from Small Dead Animals , as usual, because I did a big long comment and it seems a waste not to post it here too. Wayne B...

The horror. A billboard on Interstate 40 West near Winston-Salem is angering many who say its message is offensive to women. The bo...

A new "anti-trolling" tool at Google . Google's freely available software, known as Perspective, is being tested by a range o...

Your betters are tired of listening to you, Canada . Neil Macdonald: A lawyer is governed not just by normal criminal and civil law, but b...

Someone FINALLY says what Rush Limbaugh has been saying since forever. You can see it in the way sportswriters police a consensus against t...

Here we have a post that's making the rounds . I saw it first in the comments at According To Hoyt , today its at Small Dead Animals ...

Today's outrage . Imagine carrying a child for 9 months & give birth & take care of them for years for them to grow up to ...

Milo Yiannopoulos's book "Dangerous" cancelled for publication by Simon and Schuster. Shocking no one at all. Also "disin...

At Slashdot today , it seems the Father of Facebook has some power user issues. He posted a large screed regarding the type of world he want...

Good thing I never Twitter . Twitter has launched a new way to punish users for bad behavior, temporarily "limiting" their account...

The Stupid burns ever deeper in SJW Land , according to the Washigton Post. These days, though, a book may get an additional check from ...

Yes friends, those wifi capable lightbulbs may not be such a great idea . A full-blown Skynet situation might be the thing of science...

J oy Villa's dress at the Grammies . Sweet! Truth to power, baby! Looking good!

It appears that the NOAA Climate Scientists have been fudging. Wow, didn't see that coming, right? They were duped – and so were w...

Mr. Camestros Felpatron (clearly a nom de plume) has taken to deleting my comments at his blog . Him being a Leftist, this is not surprising...

Snagglepus rebooted as gay southern playwright . The eight-page story will debut this March in the Suicide Squad/Banana Splits Annual #1,...

Coming in over the transom today, Orange Pi. Yet another amazingly cheap single board PC . Orange Pi is a family of Linux-powered, single bo...