The MalaCast

When prisoners are released from prison, they often say that they have paid their debt to society. This is absurd, of course: crime is not a matter of double-entry bookkeeping. You cannot pay a debt by having caused even greater expense, nor can you pay in advance for a bank robbery by offering to serve a prison sentence before you commit it. Perhaps, metaphorically speaking, the slate is wiped clean once a prisoner is released from prison, but the debt is not paid off. –Theodore Dalrymple

William Shatner got depressed in space.

Nicolas Cruz is spared the death penalty in a travesty.

An NBC reporter reports the obvious truth and is hounded by her co-professionists.

Alex Jones is ordered to pay many, many times more for spreading a rumor than OJ was for murdering people.

Stalin, through Pravda, openly advised the local organs not to give them work.

In a country where the sole employer is the state, this means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced with a new one: who does not obey shall not eat. –Leon Trotsky

“There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe… and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.” -Ayn Rand

It's that time of year again in which the left say I'm on indigenous land. But I don't think so.

JD Vance and Tim Ryan had a debate. There are precisely two clips that are worth noting.

"I distrust every idea that doesn't seem obsolete and grotesque to my contemporaries." -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin. -Chesterton

According to justthenews.com, the Biden administration gave millions of tax dollars to groups which funneled government accusations of "misinformation" to tech companies for censorship prior to the 2020 election. If true, the government has deprived us of our first amendment rights and subverted an election. Yikes.

Democrats are pulling out the ole last-minute irrelevant personal scandals for Herschel Walker. My question is, why do any voters care?

Joe Biden is pardoning people for marijuana possession. Why didn't Trump do this?

All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life. –Goethe

"One time we had to carry some long, heavy girders over icy tracks. If one man slipped, he endangered not only himself but all the others who carried the same girder. An old friend of mine had a congenitally dislocated hip. He was glad to be capable of working in spite of it, since the physically disabled were almost certainly sent to death when a selection took place. He limped over the track with an especially heavy girder, and seemed about to fall and drag the others with him. As yet, I was not carrying a girder so I jumped to his assistance without stopping to think. I was immediately hit on the back, rudely reprimanded and ordered to return to my place. A few minutes previously the same guard who struck me had told us deprecatingly that we “pigs” lacked the spirit of comradeship." –Victor Frankl

My Top Three Reasons to Not Vote For Tim Ryan: 1) He wants to ban the combustion engine. 2) He can't or won't define woman, doesn't know what SCOTUS' role is. 3) He wants to make DC a state, which is to say disempower Ohio -- forever.

"There is, not infrequently, a considerable social pressure not to take note of the obvious." –Hitchens

“Where there are no men, strive to be a man!” -Hillel the Elder, circa 50 BC

Joe Biden is falling apart mentally.

Jordan Peterson gave a tremendous answer to the question, "What is the greatest challenge facing humanity?" or something. "Narcissistic compassion." Wow.

The writer who loves or hates is less persuasive than the one who loves and hates. -Nicolás Dávila

"And then the evenings at home when I smoke my cigar and read my papers. Sophie knits and the children tumble about, knocking everything of! the tables. It’s all so cozy and precious…” -Archduke Ferdinand, 1904

I do some ill-fated volunteering, A woman worries if she's broken the law when she plainly hasn't, and a right-winger wins in Italy.

"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation." -CS Lewis

Confused ideas and muddy ponds appear deep.  -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

People, ESPECIALLY liberals, dramatically overestimate the number of unarmed black men killed by police.  Like, by orders of magnitude.

A high school shop teacher in Canada has she/her prosthetic nips protruding.  It's the most asenine thing I've ever seen, only made more ridiculous by the fact that she/her leftwing school is backing she/her.

When I was a kid, the left said, "What happens between two consenting adults in the privacy of their own bedroom is none of my business."  Which is pretty much how I feel.  But they moved on.  Now captive minors have to witness your crazy kinks.

People online are desperate to rescue "leftism" from the tarnish other leftists are always throwing on it.  But why?  It started horrific, it's been horrific since, and it will end horrific.

Why did so many liberals tell us that the communism of the Soviet Union is not ‘real communism’ when the very suggestion that there might be a real fascism, or real Nazism, free from the moral taint of the historian variety, would be dismissed as despicable whitewash?  -Roger Scruton, 1991

"Taste is relative" is the excuse adopted by those eras that have bad taste. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

The right is still writing about Norm MacDonald. JD Vance is annoying me. Why won't he ATTACK for god's sake?

The Denver Post's hand-picked "experts" have declared, at least according to the headline, that dangerous Christians are a threat to democracy.

Civilization seems to be the invention of a species now extinct. -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

"Diversity is our strength." -Every Democrat for the past 15 years.

High-IQ people get as low IQ as needed to maintain their cherished but dumbest belief.

DeSantis is sending a few dozen migrants to Martha's Vineyard and he's Hitler.

"The border is secure." -Kamala Harris

“You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good at the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to ‘see through’ first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see.” -CS Lewis The Abolition of Man

"Many upper class white Americans are to black Americans what visibly desperate and insecure 17 year old boys are to women: separated from an idealized object of desire by an overwhelming and self-centered experience of their own need which precludes genuine human connection." -@theageofshoddy on Twitter

Women on Twitter "correct" me. But why?

Antarctica's Doomsday Glacier Hanging on by its Fingernails! The news media are hysterical, gullible drama queens.

In Canada and in Memphis, we're seeing cases where suspects OBVIOUSLY should not have been on the streets.  The only question is:  When will those of us who favor the innocent to the guilty have had enough?

"Marxism takes the darkest parts of the human soul and feeds and waters them lovingly so they grow to fill almost every part of the person, who effectively becomes a host for a deadly mind-virus." -@nua_peasant on Twitter