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True Scotsmen of Christ: Religion vs Faith, and the Special Pleading of Progressive Catholicism

Note: For clarity's sake, I will define Evangelicals here as a self-identified interdenominational Protestant group who lean towards conservative politics,...

Update 18 June 2025

This should be reaching your inbox after the long promised issue on the economy is out. A lesson I learned is that I shouldn’t use this newsletter to talk...

It’s The Stupid Economy

Let’s establish this up front, “the market” is a construct. That is not the same as it being fake. Nor is it always unreflective of reality. There are...

Sample of our first fiction work.

Meta-morphoses and fiction update

Here’s the first part of our first fiction. I originally wanted to send a longer selection, but I decided that a short sample would be better for a first...

Apologies for the long absence. I have been dealing with various personal matters, including mental and physical health issues for the past few months that...

Shin Godzilla and Music in Visual Media: A Brief Thought

February 27, 2025

Note: A lot of this issue is applicable to several audio-visual mediums, but I will be using film as a synecdoche for those at points because the article’s...

A Comic Book Issue, or The Problem With Power Creep, and the Virtue of Democracy

February 26, 2025

Shout-out to Brian Heinz for inspiring that pun, one of the few Channel Awesome recap style review era guys I can actually stand. Not sure if he does the...

How To Self-Destruct Your Way To Happiness

January 9, 2025

Note: This issue is something of a follow-up to The Amiable Reaper. You don’t need to have read that to understand this issue, but it is available in the...

Bewere Wolves #1: The Beast Within

December 9, 2024

Bewere Wolves #1: The Beast Within (2024) or It’s a Metaphor? I Mean, It’s a Metaphor. I had initially thought to begin this series with a more informative...

The Amiable Reaper or We're All Going To DIE, and That's Just Fine

December 1, 2024

I was told by family members on the night of the 2024 presidential election that I was remarkably unfazed by the event. After this I spent a fair few hours...

MOLOCH RUNS THE WORLD

November 7, 2024

Moloch never got off his throne, instead he did what a shrewd leader does and learned from his subjects. He learned you can get away with a whole lot if you...