Month: October 2023

The boys drink and review Captain Crowhill Abbey Ale, then discuss the recent spectacle of college students defending Hamas.

The conversation starts with a few assumptions.

* Israel exists
* It has a right to exist
* It has a right to defend itself

Why have there been so many ugly rallies in support of Hamas, and why have the universities been so silent about it. If you misgender someone on a college campus, that’s the end of you. But if you call for genocide against the Jews, that’s free speech.

These protestors divide the world between oppressor and oppressed, and somehow the Jews — possibly the most persecuted people in the history of the planet — are designated “oppressors.”

If you’re oppressed, colonized, marginalized, “of color,” etc., you’re automatically the good guy from the standpoint of the idiot left.

Along with literary contributor Longinus, the boys drink and review Dark Usher, then discuss two short stories from Lovecraft: Shadow Over Innsmouth and the Call of Cthulu.

In “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” a man visits the decaying New England town of Innsmouth and discovers its inhabitants’ disturbing alliance with aquatic beings, the Deep Ones. As he delves deeper into their sinister secrets, he faces terror and the looming threat of a transformation into one of them.

“The Call of Cthulhu” unravels a cosmic horror as the protagonist pieces together accounts of a monstrous entity, Cthulhu, who lies dormant beneath the ocean. Cults worldwide revere this ancient, nightmarish being, awaiting the moment when it will awaken to usher in worldwide chaos. The story unfolds through a series of interconnected narratives, leaving readers with a profound sense of dread about the insignificance of humanity in the face of cosmic forces.

The boys drink and review a no-alcohol porter, then discuss five topics in about 5 minutes each.

#1. Gender-reveal dad. From a YouTube video — This poor fellow was obviously a captive. You could see it in his face. But it wasn’t about a baby, it was about some kid transitioning. It was horrifying. It seemed pretty obvious the man was going along with an ultimatum from his wife. “Support me on this or suffer.”

#2. Means-tested speeding tickets. A Finnish man participating in a strange combination of the Iditerod and a race across the country gets a speeding ticket that was “means tested” based on his salary. His fine was $62,000 for driving 10mph over the speed limit. Because he was wealthy.

#3. Why is nobody covering the Epstein sex scandal? Supposedly there’s a list of elites who took advantage of Epstein’s … hospitality (at the expense of underaged girls). But nobody will touch it — not the media, not the government, not the feminists.

#4. Our broken culture. We have some weird standard these days where someone deliberately provokes a reaction by refusing to conform to society’s standards, and then gets offended when people notice that they’re not conforming to society’s standards.

#5. Joe Biden finally found somebody he wants to deport. Homeschoolers. It’s a horrifying case that makes you wonder if lunatics have taken over every aspect of the government.

The boys drink and review yet another non-alcoholic beer, then discuss Ted Kaczynski, aka The Unabomber, who recently died in prison.

He was a genius. He skipped two grades, went to Harvard, and studied advanced mathematics.

Unfortunately, he was an evil genius.

Ted was a quirky guy who decided that technology and industrial society had to be destroyed. He worked for a few years to raise enough money to live in a shack in Montana. From there he started his terrorist bombing campaign.

His crimes spanned from 1978 to 1995, with a 5-year gap in the middle.

He got caught after his manifesto was published and his brother saw similarities between the manifesto and the ravings and letters of his brother.

P&C drink and review “Gold Rush,” a no-alcohol beer from Sam Adams, then discuss the “I Promise” School.

LeBron James says that he owes a lot of his success to some wonderful people who took him in and helped him out when he was struggling in school. To his credit, LeBron wants to give back, so he created a new school to give disadvantaged kids a chance.

The school started with a lot of hope and promise — and with a lot of LeBron’s money — but it hasn’t lived up to expectations. The results have been pretty awful.

P&C take a hard look and provide some possible reasons why the “I Promise” school didn’t work out that well.

One obvious lesson is that resources are not the problem. Throwing money at the school doesn’t make for better education.

Perhaps LeBron should try this. Find a school that’s doing a good job — like maybe the Catholic school he went to — and help them reach more kids.

P&C drink and review Geralt’s Gold, a no-alcohol Helles brew, then discuss how our views of children have changed.

In the latter half of the 20th century our culture turned away from the previous “seen and not heard” attitude and tried to be more interested in what children say. We also started to be obsessed with childrens’ feelings and their self esteem.

P&C don’t remember anybody caring about their feelings, their self esteem, or whether they were anxious when they were young. It’s as if we’re teaching children to have mental problems.

In the modern environment, the most unruly kid sets the agenda for the classroom because the teachers and principals can’t do anything to them.

This has evolved into the modern “gender” confusion, which seems to have no end of foolishness. Now we have “gender minotaurs” and other ridiculous concepts.

But it’s not just “gender.” The anti-straw hysteria was invented by a nine year old who made up phony statistics that the media swallowed whole. And then he did a TED talk.

Nobody thought to check it. I guess the children were leading.