Atlanta, GA

August 3, 2026

“On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.”

- Dr Anthony Fauci, 111 times last week

Last week was the latest act in our political circus, with Dr Fauci back under the Big Top. But rather than walk a tight rope, he settled into the safety net.

It wa…

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[NB: This essay was originally published here]

Atlanta, GA

May 9, 2020

“Happy Friday!”, came the contrived cheer to start another all-day conga of Zoom calls.

“I’ll take your word for it that it’s Friday”, I replied.

Like an extended vacation…but staying home to work rather than traveling for fun…weekdays now run together, each indistinguishable from the las…

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Atlanta, GA

April 12, 2020

Back in the Mesozoic Era…about six weeks ago…we entered Lent, and have since wandered in a hell of a wilderness.

Satan seemed everywhere, but even he could offer little to tempt God’s children…or to compete with government largesse.

Bread? That’s fine. But what we really needed was toil…

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October 23, 2024

Like Hannibal crossing the Po, another presidential election looms.

As with most choices in living memory, there’s no good option. Our best bets are held noses, closed eyes, and rolled dice in vain attempts to avoid the worst.

Like residents of Warsaw in 1939, we shouldn’t stay where we are. But with our escape routes …

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June 4, 2024

Dr Fauci is finally facing the music…or at least a few discordant notes.

Unfortunately, most of them are off-key, whistled and strummed by politicians who were too timid to sing this tune when “P…

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August 23, 2023

I guess the climate con isn’t gaining enough ground. So it’s time to revive a tactic that grabbed more traction. 

For three years, sanctimonious hysterics ruined millions of lives by enforcing “health protocols” that didn’t work.

Or did they?

I suppose that depends on what we mean by “work”. What was the real purpose of those moro…

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November 4, 2022

Imagine going to the doctor with unfamiliar chest pains. The physician hears your symptoms, drops everything, and immediately suggests open-heart surgery. Just to be safe. 

You question the decision, and ask for some tests, additional data, or perhaps another opinion. You also try to inform him of other health issues and family…

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October 26, 2022

Degenerate societies despise children. The Canaanites immolated them, Carthaginians took them to the tophets, and Aztecs hurled them into volcanic pits.

Being more “civilized” than its ancient ancestors, modern culture dispenses with kids by averting its eyes. Every year in America alone, almost a million unseen innocents are i…

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February 9, 2022

Is it finally happening? 

Are these the weeks…like the first stones from the Berlin Wall…that the Covid Regime began to crumble?

It started when Canadian truckers started chiseling the concrete. As cracks formed and the mortar gave way, other drivers hopped in their cabs, started their engines, and plowed through.

Below the 49th …

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February 4, 2022

Time has no beginning and history has no bound

And to this verdant country they came from all around

They sailed upon her waterways and they walked the forest tall

Built the mines, the mills, and the factories for the good of us all.

– Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy”

Last week, an unusual blast of arctic air dropped o…

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January 17, 2022

A couple days ago, I revealed how I failed a test for drugs…because I refused to consume one.

Regarding the pharmaceutical elixirs themselves, I’ve given reasons for reluctance countless times during the last six months, and I need not re-hash all of them here. But I will provide a few more.

It’s interesting that despite the dom…

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January 14, 2022

Yesterday we received a decision from nine people as to whether another person can tell hundreds of millions of different individuals what drugs they must take. While many of us had reasons to cheer or jeer the results, not enough found the scenario disturbing.

How did Americans come to blithely accept that the US government is…

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January 10, 2022

Chesterton observed that the modern world is insane. Not so much because it admits the abnormal, but because it can’t recover the normal. 

We’re now at a point where normality not only appears incapable of being recovered; most people don’t even seem to remember what it was. We think we’re rebellious when we defend the Founding Fathers, insist men can’t get pregnant, or refuse to wear a mask. But that such innocuous acts now seem brazen shows the extent to which normalcy has been lost.

As CS Lewis said, when the whole world is running toward a cliff, he who is running the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. I’m sure many people feel that way about the person writing this essay.

FDR wasn’t right about much, but he was right about fear. Fear, as the saying has it, is often a liar. And, in the public realm, it’s frequently fabricated by master craftsmen in high places and of low repute.

Over the last couple years, reasonable, rational, and pragmatic people have been shorn of their senses and scared out of their wits. We know many of them, and love some. They are generally smart, considerate, compassionate, and well-educated (perhaps too well). 

Yet people of good sense and sound mind will often yield both in the face of fear. And they have. They’ve allowed themselves to be scammed by colossal mediocrities in corporate media, elected office, or appointed position. They’ve been hoodwinked by hot air in empty suits, and swindled by oatmeal in thin skin. 

But too many of them blame not the grifters who pulled a fast one, but the wise marks who dodged the con, and didn’t fall for the ruse. Rather than rise up against the oppressive warden, they turn on the more perceptive inmates. 

That makes a degree of sense. No one likes to admit he’s been had, or to feel like he was less perceptive than those who weren’t. The incessant virus debacle and vaccine fiasco are emblematic of this natural tendency. 

Jefferson said famously that not every difference of opinion is a difference in principle. Yet these days, for more and more people, it is. Increasingly, Americans seem to be living in different worlds, and separate realities. 

Bridges seem incapable of being built, much less crossed. On one side are people who wish to be left alone. On the other are those who refuse to let them be. 

And, like the war on “terror” before and that on “climate” to come, “the virus” is an ideal foe for our irrepressible meddlers to instill fear, provoke panic, and accrue power. It’s a deadly, invisible adversary that’s not going anywhere. 

It’s a perfect excuse to wage an endless war that must ever be fought, but can never be won. And the purported “enemy”…as with terrorism, poverty, “the climate”, or drugs…couldn’t care less. It’ll be here regardless, and will do what it does no matter what we do. 

As with the ostensible fight against those nebulous adversaries, the real “Covid war” is being waged on those it was ostensibly launched to protect. Many victims remain unaware that they are the target. They keep joining the ranks and following their orders, oblivious that they’re on a kamikaze mission. 

No matter how many mindless government directives, idiotic corporate mandates, or incomprehensible bureaucratic pronouncements come whisking across their radar, they stay locked on auto-pilot, maintaining full-speed as they spin toward impact. Even after two years of this lunacy, they refuse to pull up.

For the hysterics of the Covid cult, injecting “the vaccine” is like receiving a sacrament, or taking an oath. Declining, for whatever reason, is akin to sedition. To the high priests, those who refuse are considered anathema. And any traitor, infected or not, will be treated like vile vermin, to be excluded from society in ways that have harrowing historical precedent. 

Around the world, people have lost their perspective, and their minds.

Remember when people knew infectious diseases were a fact of life and not a moral failing? That the world was full of threats, and that we risked encountering them whenever we walked out the door (or even if we refused to open it)? That germs were among these threats, and that being infected by them was no one’s “fault”? That mitigating these bugs was an individual or family responsibility, to be managed in ways best suited to each person’s medical situation, value scales, risk profile, and philosophic outlook?

But as with the Communists last century and the Revolutionaries a century before, our “public health” commissars invoke an abstract “common good” as a way to extol “collective benefits” to suppress individual rights. And, now as then, ersatz “science” is the pillow pressed to freedom’s face.

“The Greater Good” is this year’s “We’re All In This Together.” It’s an anesthetizing euphemism that makes people think their rightful liberty is a threat to everybody else’s freedom. Everyone must be “safe” before anyone can be free. 

But a genuine greater good can only be revealed thru an aggregation of voluntary individual action. To the extent personal preferences are forcibly thwarted, the greater good is by definition diminished. Our rights are inherent. They’re not subject to democratic debate, to the whims of popular vote, or the vicissitudes of political weather.

In Rousseau, the Greater Good was part of the “Social Contract” to which everyone was bound, but that no one ever signed. The Soviets referred to a “dictatorship of the proletariat”, that inevitably subjugated the workers. The Nazis proclaimed that “public benefit comes before self-interest”.

And they taught us that when it does, both are destroyed.

JD

January 7, 2022

We know a lot of people who took vaccines for Covid. I guess it worked…because many of them now have it.

After two years of neurotic germaphobia, authoritarian lockdowns, economic destruction, unhinged hypochondria, useless mask mandates, irrational fear, catastrophic school closures, never-ending nasal swabs, idiotic floor stic…

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December 13, 2021

Much as there’s a nonsensical perception that “unvaccinated” equals “infected” (and vice versa)…as if one can spread Covid even if he doesn’t have it…many people seem to think that if someone opposes vaccine mandates, that person must be unvaccinated – or is, at the very least, “anti-vaxx”. 

People have been called hypocrites …

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December 3, 2021

The most improper job of any man, even saints, who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on, is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. 

– JRR Tolkien 

Despite all we should’ve learned the last couple years, a disconcerting number of people seem to be getti…

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October 23, 2021

I honestly am trying to get away from this topic, but (disheartening as it is) opposing mandatory vaccines is apparently a great way to cause controversy and generate questions. Once again, I received several responses to my most recent reply. I include several below, and then will try to answer them all at once.

JD,

Thanks to y…

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October 16, 2021

Everywhere we turn, Morons and Midwits abound. These are not synonymous, and the latter are frequently more dangerous than the former.

Some Morons can be managed and handled, and often are…usually by the deep state cronies and chislers who arrange to have them elected. But many Morons have their own mind, defective as it may be…

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September 29, 2021

Recent missives have drawn more replies. The question below is similar to several, and is a good one, so I’ll reproduce and answer it here.

Question:

JD, You have said that indoor mask mandates and vaccine mandates by businesses are assaults on your freedoms. Let’s say that you are Health Commissioner of Georgia, responsible f…

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September 16, 2021

To [HR Compliance Officer]:

On August 6, 2021, [the company] notified employees that they must be “fully vaccinated” against COVID-19 and provide proof that they have done so, or face termination of employment.

This letter serves as my formal notice to [the company] that receiving the COVID-19 vaccination would violate my sinc…

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