Archive - First Toil, then the Grave

Columbia protests and the "right side of history"

A tremendously dumb argument, especially when made by woke people

Apr 29 •

First Toil, then the Grave

Lies, damned lies and the Washington Post

Substituting a common-sense statistical metric for a less obvious and intuitive one is almost always a red flag for deceit and obfuscation

Apr 1 •

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March 2024

Covid fallacies, part two

The dramatic conclusion

Mar 29

Covid fallacies, part one

A reflection on the anniversary of a remarkably trying time for everyone

Mar 22 •

First Toil, then the Grave

The "radical fringe" which is neither

What the 2024 referendum says about modern Irish political alignments

Mar 11 •

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January 2024

Contra deBoer on transgender issues

I don't think you're merely asking us to be "kind"

Jan 8 •

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"Prophet Song" and psycho-political projection

A reflection on the iron fist in the rainbow glove

Jan 2 •

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August 2023

Movie review: Barbenheimer

Yes, I'm jumping on the bandwagon, fuck you it's my blog I'll do what I want

Aug 6, 2023 •

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May 2023

American cultural exports

How can you say to your brother, "Let me take the groomer panic out of your eye", when all the time there's a #BLM hashtag in your own eye?

May 5, 2023 •

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March 2023

The Journal's sloppiness and inconsistency isn't even funny anymore

A broadsheet-style outlet read by one-sixth of Irish people ought to have higher standards

Mar 28, 2023 •

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The Journal's new article about anti-black racism in Ireland is utterly vacuous dribble

It took them 2600 words to say nothing at all

Mar 1, 2023 •

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October 2022

Medium-Sized Breasts and Gaussian Distributions

Do modern identities originate from a misunderstanding of how psychological traits are sorted?

Oct 31, 2022 •

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