Cracker – School of Vice

Romancing the ‘rona. (Part 1)

Cracker — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 19:29:19 +0000

You! Yes, you. Smart. Attractive. And, in fact, a real people person (1). But only the right kind of people.

Successful by any standard measure but at the same time opportunistic. But in a good way, you tell yourself. Truth be told, over the course of your life you have bent many, many others to your will (but not nearly enough to satisfy your cravings). To be truly satisfied you need to have more. Much more. ......

Insurrection falls short.

Cracker — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 04:04:50 +0000

Nancy Pelosi and the intellectual kill zone…

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Official School of Vice Presidential Election Projection

Cracker — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:12:46 +0000

With only days before Nov 3….

…we present our official 2020 Presidential Election Outcome Projection. It is based on the Norpoth model with tweaks of our own design. With greater than 70% of the Electoral College our proprietary modeling predicts a landslide victory for Mr. Trump.

Eat your hearts out CNN.

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An Unusual Feature of the Building

Cracker — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:15:05 +0000

An unusual feature of the building is the ring bolts in the floor. Most of the rooms have at least one or two of them, including ours. Made of steel, the rings are about 4 inches in diameter and ½ an inch thick. They are set deeply into the concrete and would take a good deal of jack-hammering to remove. The rings keep the patients from running away. Not all the patients; only some of......

The Long, Slow March Towards Idiocy, part 4

Cracker — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:24:47 +0000

Antifa, the suppression of debate, and the coming of corporate tribalism…

Antifa are not anti-fascist. They have brought to American shores a political style of thuggery more in line with European political movements of the early 20th century. Do not let the name distract you. While they claim to be anti-fascist, their method and rhetoric are more in tune with Leftist totalitarianism. Despite the widespread invocation of Nazism or Italian Fascists, the closest approximation to a......

Theological Francis versus Theological Tyson – Part 2

Cracker — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 02:28:21 +0000

Modernity as another in a line of Catholic schisms…

Christian Theology, you ask? Well…that there is one big can of worms. Actually, it’s more like a 2000 year old tangle of cobwebs. Dusty. Old. Took a really, really long to accumulate. So, so many threads. And once you walk into them, engaging with them, trying to untangle them…the strands start falling apart. You walk in and the strands get sticky and clingy and after awhile…the strands......

The Long, Slow March Towards Idiocy, part 3.

Cracker — Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:22:47 +0000

Or why Lucky Luciano is a better baby-sitter for your kids than any African tyrant…

In part 2 of this series, School of Vice described an academic theory called Hobson-Leninism. The theory describes what the industrial societies of white Europe are supposedly to have done during the colonial period; that is they took advantage of far off places in native black or brown lands, stripped them of natural resources, abused the indigenous population; and essentially do......

Theological Francis versus Theological Tyson – Part 1

Cracker — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 02:20:16 +0000

Mike Tyson, as a boxer, has been called The Baddest Man on the Planet, one of the greatest punchers of all time, the hardest hitter in the history of heavyweight boxing, the scariest boxer ever, and perhaps the most ferocious fighter to step into a professional ring and one of a very small group of men to have regained a heavyweight championship title after losing it. In short, he is one of the greatest boxers......

The Long, Slow March Towards Idiocy, part 2.

Cracker — Fri, 12 May 2017 20:16:32 +0000

You know who I’m talking about. Every family has at least one…

There you are…at the latest family get-together, minding your own business when suddenly and for no good reason, you find yourself being verbally beaten about the head and shoulders by your sister-in-law…again. Suspiciously butch yet avowedly hetero-, politically Left-leaning, and Bernie Sanders loving Rhonda (or Ronnie has she prefers it) has you backed into a corner with her finger poking repeatedly into your chest,......

The Long, Slow March Towards Idiocy, Part 1

Cracker — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:14:19 +0000

At any given time in history and in any given place, there is a climate of opinion. Climate of opinion is loosely defined as the ideas swirling about in the public sphere contributing to the debate about current events. What people see on TV news programs or read on their favorite internet journals contribute to the atmosphere of ideas and opinions. For any reader of news and opinion, the ideas presented run up against their......