Overdue Update on Nikoley

Everything I can think of I’ve been absent without leave—AWOL, if you will—and it’s high time I let you in on what’s been going on. The truth is, it’s all good news, really. It’s not that blogging itself is bad news; it’s just that I’ve been deliberately distancing myself from all the relentless bad news…

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Unfixable

Hey folks, excuse my absence over the last week. I’m just coming down from a pretty uncomfortable respiratory infection. You know, back when I was a kid, we just called it a cold—or a bad cold. We didn’t really make a distinction between a cold and the flu. Never got specifically diagnosed. But since the…

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Living Inside A Global Myth

This is a very emergent, spur-of-the-moment sort of post, because I read something this morning that’s captured my curiosity for a few years now. I knew I had to write about it right now, while it’s fresh in my mind—not the sort of thing where I chew on it for a while before posting. It…

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What’s Important and What’s Not

Okay, so many people waste their lives sweating the small stuff. They’re always nitpicking on this thing and that thing and the other thing. I’m not like that. I keep things real for myself by thinking only of very big things—like big things that affect the whole world. And since I’m American, it is often…

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Outsized Israel

I start this post with a quick personal update: My gal is finally on her way back in the van after being gone for a month. She’s been tending to her house, her massive fruit tree orchard, family stuff, and the whole neighborhood drama. I’m genuinely stoked about it—beats solo life in Pattaya, Thailand, any…...

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Diffusing two physical altercations in Pattaya Thailand

I started writing this up this morning, and then I decided to make a video instead. The physical altercations were directed at me, one from a little Thai guy, then another from a little American guy who got enraged when I said, “I LOVE Trump.” It’s interesting to me how calm one can become when…

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Murder By Knife; 2 Stories

— I lead off this Friday freebie post with a bit of a heavy heart. What happened is that a couple of days ago, I got a text from my good friend Anthony Johnson, who I’ve known for 14 years. He’s the founder of 21 Studios, and he puts on conferences called the 21 Convention.…

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So You Think You Have Morals

You think you have morals. No, you probably don’t. You only have teachings and indoctrination from your authorities and have never thought it through. American males are mostly pussies who try not to put themselves in harm’s way. I put myself in the target of harm’s way all the time. That Thai gal in the…

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Command Decision

Ditching the Digital Doldrums: A Month-Long Purge of Social Media Sewage Starting now. 1115 hours. Military time, because why complicate things with AM/PM nonsense? I’m killing all social media access. Mostly X— formerly that bird app—and Facebook. Done. Shut down. No negotiations. Why? Simple. My mood’s tanked. I’m usually the guy charging through life, upbeat,…

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BEEFY CALVES THAT CHICKS LOVE (and marriage and adoption)

As I posted in my last article, I’m changing things up. From here on out, unless I have something particularly big to say, every post is going to follow a general format: something like three to five sections covering different stuff I want to talk about. And I mean anything—could be about food, it could…...

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Juxtapositions

— I’m kicking off this post on Friday (my time) with a bit of an explanation about how this whole blogging gig is gonna roll going forward. I think I’ve finally nailed down how I want to keep slinging words as a blogger with a paid option. I went paid back before all the Substack…

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Charlie Kirk; The Roundup

— Charlie Kirk—the public personality Charlie Kirk—was murdered today at a speaking engagement at a Utah university. Or, if you prefer, you could call it a straight-up political assassination. If you don’t know who Charlie Kirk is, that’s pretty damn odd, since he’s been such an influential figure over the last decade or so. He…

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Quick Hits and Brief Thoughts

– Mark Sisson is going to blog again. I was shocked yesterday to learn that my very long time buddy Sisson is tossing his hat in the ring to do more regular blogging like in the old days. Mark Sisson’s Unteathered. He has 3 posts up, and most of it is free unless you want…

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Four Important Things

The Agenda; The Covid/Vax; The Cancer; and the Washington DC I’ll just jump right in. The prelude is this: I’m not completely certain of when the practice of science became hopelessly compromised and captured, but my bet is on the environmentalist movements that began in the 1960s, probably. They coincidentally coincided with the hippies and…

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I Have Good Jeans and So Does My Girlfriend

If you don’t get it, I can’t help you. That’s a pic of my Thai girlfriend, Far’s, denim cutoffs she wore yesterday—on the sofa this morning. I have no idea why they were just lying there on the sofa this morning. Honest. If you really don’t know, the left went apeshit (again…mostly ugly, fat, unfuckable…...

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I Missed One: USA Euthanasia and Organ Harvesting

Here’s a strange one for you that just recently blipped onto my radar, and it amounts to a goddamn oversight on my part that I’ll explain below. I believe it was in the late 1970s, and I was sitting in church—actually, a fundamentalist Baptist one, Grace Baptist Church in Reno, Nevada. The pastor, Phil Rhodes,…...

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A Quick International Trip and Reflections on the State of the World

Yeah, okay, I’ve been remiss and downright derelict in tending to my membership for this blog lately, and I do have an excuse. About ten days ago, I got this phone call. Normally, I ignore anything not in my contacts list, but modern phones are smart enough to flag the origin, and this one was…...

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