In Defense of Riding Motorcycles
When I initially picked up my '78 CB750, it was just a mechanical project. I wasn't particularly handy with a wrench, and I wanted to fix that. Read enough Crawford…
How to Delete Steam in 7 Easy Steps
Some people really enjoy video games and consider them a hobby. (Everyone's got a hobby and I'm not here to bash video games in that capacity.) But for some people,…
Hatred isn’t Giving Up Control
I remember when Nelson Mandela died in 2013. I remember because everyone was falling over themselves to remember this Marxist terrorist as some kind of hero. But one of the lines…
Druid wolf pack chasing bull elk;
Doug Smith;
December 2007
On Dog-Loving Misanthropes
There is a particular personality type that I have come to really dislike: that of the dog-loving misanthrope. This kind of person believes that dogs are superior to humans, at…
Sanity and the Sun
The two best summers of my life were unusual. For the first, I was 20 years old (if memory serves), and I had moved back in with my parents, between…
The Price of Misogyny
When circling around anti-feminist circles for a while, it is easy to come to believe that misogyny is a fantasy. Feminists so often interpolate malicious motives into benign statements and…
Why is Sex Associated with Death?
It isn't just the French la petite mort -- the "little death" -- that binds the mysteriously opposed forces of sex and death together. Death has long been associated with…
Hatred Isn’t Fear
I am a few chapters into a book called Hatred: The Psychological Descent Into Violence, and I may end up doing a full-length review of it in the future, after I…
Can You Hate an Idea?
Last month, KM Patten wrote a rather lengthy review of my first book, In Defense of Hatred: Two observations can be made almost instantly when one considers the concept of Hatred.…
Courtesy Peter Beste
What is “Traditional Masculinity?”
Between the recent Gillette advertisement criticizing "toxic masculinity" and the new American Psychological Association's guidelines for the psychological practice with boys and men, everyone is talking about masculinity. Is it…