Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

HEINLEIN WOULD APPROVE:  DAILY ART FIX: Trump Takes Aim at National Endowment for the Arts.

I’m quoting from memory, and of course what stuck was the Portuguese in which I read it first.  “An artist who needs government support is a whore. An incompetent one.” (More or less Robert A. Heinlein’s meaning if not his exact words.)

EVERY TIME THE SECRET OF THE CONFESSIONAL IS PIERCED:  Montana Prepares to Make Martyrs of the Confessional.

Every time the state gets a look in, it’s never for the purpose they claim, however laudable.  And seriously, how many pedophiles do you guys think confess? or confess to THAT? (Even those who were priests, pedophiles tend not to be big on following the rules of the man above.) And proving it in a court of law? Don’t make me laugh. No. No matter the excuse used to obtain it, the reason the state pierces the secret of the confessional is ultimately always to spy on the people. To gather information about how angry you are at the regime, and what thoughts you’ve had, and–

And sure, Montana is nominally conservative. But is it always? Same as the Federal government. Does it stay on the nominal right? Does it? Forever?  What about Washington, who’s trying the same gambit? You trust them? We already saw Biden sniffing around traditionalist Catholics.

Stay out of my religious beliefs and leave the confessional alone. Good investigators don’t need to violate the conscience of believers and bad investigators will corrupt everything.

I GREW UP WITH FAMILY STORIES ABOUT THE NAPOLEONIC INVASIONS:  The Vanished World.

Vanished worlds are alive under the surface of ours.

And at the same time several worlds vanished just in my life time… and more are passing as we speak. Some deservedly.  We don’t just live in places. We live in slices of time. It is all that is given to us.

THE ACCOUNTANT 2 WAS GOOD:  Target Rich Environment.

The best part about this is that it shows the criminal horrors of an open border policy and how those who come in get exploited even as the country is being destroyed.  I don’t think the filmmakers realized how revelatory they were.

YES, I KNOW THERE’S ANOTHER ONE IN NOVEMBER. BUT THERE ARE SO MANY VICTIMS: Victims of Communism Day.

YOU KNOW, THE MAN DIED, AND I HAVEN’T SEEN A RETROSPECTIVE OR A TRIBUTE:  David Horowitz R.I.P.

Maybe it’s just that I haven’t bounced against the right pixels, but eh… We work alone or at least it feels like it, even when we have associates. We should be remembered.

THERE IS THIS SERIES OF RIDICULOUS COMMERCIALS FOR BLOOMBERG, BUT REALLY THEY’RE:  Trash News.

And the smugness of those commercials is making me hate Bloomberg even if they weren’t… trash.

IT’S NOT YOUR GOOD CHARACTERISTICS THAT MAKE YOU GREAT:  The Special Ones.

It’s the sum of everything you are, good and bad that makes you perfect for something. There’s something you were made for. See it, do it.