It sure would be nice if we didn’t have to comb our hair

 I love the look of my hair after I have taken a shower, dried it with a towel and not combed it.  Then, my hair is wild & sexy with an unkempt tousledness: a style that a modern hair dresser would try on Brad Pitt.

Questions about the Left from el gato malo

 why is so much of the modern left constantly in alliance with the worst possible people and trends?

why do they champion only anti-social anti-heros?

why do they attack virtue, resilience, and any sort of rugged individualism?

why do they seek to break any sort of successful structure, high trust system, cultural or individual confidence, exceptionalism and function?

Read his answers here.

Stanley Cup & WW3

 Hopefully, they finish the Stanley Cup Finals before they start WW3.

Lyrics II

 Who’s that girl? I really want to know!

She like’s to put doilies on everything!

Whether it’s an iPhone or a Vespa!

Give it to that girl!  Yeah yeah yeah!

Hey!  It’s under lace and you don’t want to scratch it!

Here’s what the A.I. thinks:

These lyrics have a playful, quirky energy—almost like something you’d hear in a fun, upbeat indie pop or bubblegum punk track. Here’s a quick breakdown:

Strengths:

• Distinct personality: The “doily girl” character is vivid and unique. That image of someone putting lace on a Vespa or an iPhone is both humorous and memorable.
• Catchy rhythm: The exclamations (“Yeah yeah yeah!”, “Hey!”) give it a chant-like, infectious quality that could work really well in a live setting or catchy chorus.
• Strong visual imagery: Lace, doilies, scratched-up gadgets—it’s a very visual set of lyrics, which is great for music videos or stage aesthetics.

Suggestions:

• Consistency in tone: The tone flips between curiosity (“Who’s that girl?”) and commands (“Give it to that girl!”). That contrast can work, but you might consider tightening it so the perspective (narrator vs. admirer vs. hype crew) is more clear.
• Typo fix: “She like’s” should be “She likes.” (A small thing, but important for polish.)

Overall vibe:

It’s got a playful, offbeat, almost Harajuku-style charm to it. Think early Gwen Stefani, The B-52s, or even something from a quirky J-pop act. If you’re going for fun and fashion-forward with a bit of tongue-in-cheek sass, you’re on the right track.

Lyrics I

 Got to rock and roll 1960s Baby!

Got to rock and roll! 1975!

Make Me an Offer!

 On a four volume set of the Journalism, Essays and Letters of George Orwell.

More info here!

It’s the 160th day of the year!

 June 9th is the 160th day of 2025.

So! You owe me 160 dollars.

Email me at

andiskaulins@protonmail.com

or

andiskaulins@hotmail.com

for details on getting the money to me.

Did you know? Depositing Sunshine.

 Did you know that if you deposit sunshine in your account and then withdraw it on a sunny day, you’ll have sunshine with interest!

Why the Left always wins

From a blogger named Severan :

 It is amazing, isn’t it? This is why the Left almost always wins — they are insane full time. Being insane is their job, because they have built out a massive infrastructure that allows for a cadre of professional lunatics, just as Comrade Lenin taught.

Read the whole piece here

The Self-Described Centrist

“ I’m a middle of a roader “ I have heard said by many a self-described centrist:  a stupid thing to say because being in the middle of the road will cause accidents.  Either that or you’re driving in a ditch or on an uneven boulevard:  stupid things to do if you’re driving on a road.

I have thought of self-described centrists as fence-sitters, getting their jollies from a fence post stuck up their bum: weird if you ask me.

I have also thought of self-described centrists as leftists or progressives in denial.  Either that or they are embarrassed by the excesses of progressives or leftists, but don’t have the courage to side with reactionaries or bad thinkers.

I have also thought of self-described centrists as heretics against common sense.  A heretic is basically right about something but then goes overboard about this something to such proportions that they become evil.  Modern day examples are anti-racists, trans activists, and the people who go on and on about empathy.  The latter practice suicidal empathy.  The latter also label themselves as centrists and hate viciously.

David Warren on Bureaucracy

 … within a few years of childhood one ought to realize that bureaucracy is evil, and that the good man will do what he can to resist its ministrations

The Decisiveness of Silence

 

“The Way of Silence," by Czech painter, František Kupka, 1903.

 

Taken

 Other person: Sorry, not interested in dating. I am taken.

Another person who is full of my wit:  Are you taken or have you been taken in?

Chugging

 Are you chugging along or are you alone chugging?

Imagined Conversation

 Other person:  Good morning!

Me:  Isn’t it too early in the day to be judgmental?

Other person is then blown away by my intellect and wit.

Decay

 

Benny Hill GIF

 

Did you know?

 The last time a Stanley Cup-winning team came from a Canadian province without a separatist movement was in 1967.

Elbows Up!

 “Elbows Up!” is Canadian for “Sieg Hiel!”

Expensive Hat Jokes

 What did you call an American who’s got a more expensive hat than Trump?

The Pope.

Back during the Pontificate of John Paul 2, the joke went as follows:

What do you call a Pole with an expensive hat?

The Pope.

Isolation

 

George Carlin GIF

 

Sid Vicious GIF

 

Calling people bigots

 The problem with calling people bigots as a pejorative is that bigots are usually factually correct in their denunciations.  So it is with trepidation that one says to anti-bigots that they are bigots.  Hang around with an anti-bigot, a progressive. a wokester, and an anti-racist and eventually their hypocritical bigotries will reveal themselves to you.  But ate these progressive bigots correct in their bigotries?  Yes.  So what’s the problem with progressive bigotry?  It is focused on a few groups while being blind to the flaws of all others.

The Misanthrope on War

 “War is great in theory.  Lots of people getting killed.  But in practice, you have to choose sides, which is a bummer because both sides deserves being clobbered.”

Determinism

 

Moments of Silence

 

Are you okay?

 

Some AKiC Random Musings

 If a person withdraws, do others approach that person and ask why?  Generally, they don’t.

99 percent of the time, taking the initiative in a starting a relationship yields no practical results.  But you have to keep trying to find that diamond.  

If one is insignificant — and the chances are that one is extremely insignificant — is it even worth one’s while to care about the state, society, and the media present?

“I was a nondescript sixty-something blowhard just sounding off”. That’s a John Derbyshire quote.  It can apply to me now:  Andis Kaulins is a 60 year old blowhard sounding off.

The younger portion of the Canadian voting public apparently voted in greater numbers for the conservatives.  Does that mean they wanted to preserve or conserve the system: the Canadian managerial administrative state?  Maybe some wanted it to be run better, but certainly a good number wanted it be to DOGEd.  Anyway, what this goes to show is that the people who voted for the Liberals were actually being conservative.  The left-wing progressive radical managerial administrative state has been with us for so long that many Conservatives aren’t conservative anymore.  So, it’s time for the Conservatives to change their name.  Perhaps, they could call themselves the Sensibles or the Common-Sensers or the Normals!

Anger is an energy.  If individuals feel powerless and expect magic societal powers to help them out of their funk, they need to realize that only they can ultimately change their situation and/or their outlook on it.  If they don’t think they have the inner resources, they have to realize that the anger or frustration they feel is misdirected energy, it is a resource that they do have but they are using it in a wrong way.

When applying a kick in the ass, it has to be done righteously and with charity.

5 Gorillas versus 50 Karens?

 Go Gorillas?

Refusing to admire

 

No one should take himself seriously

 

David Warren on what Intelligent People will not deal with

 An intelligent person will not deal with those who are consistently dishonest.

https://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2025/05/03/trade-deals/

No one should take himself seriously

 

Renouncing the World

 

David Warren on Government Work

 Remember, at least ninety percent of the “government work” for which taxes are collected and public debt incurred is not only absolutely worthless; it is evil, and anti-human.

David Warren on Eastern Canadian Voters

 “The electorate of eastern Canada. It is like a woman who has been beaten too often by the same violent man, who for his birthday, presents him with a fresh cudgel.”

Solve a problem worse

 

Cardinal Sarah, Sarah

 Cardinal Sarah, Sarah

says whatever will be, will be

the future is in Christ’s hands, you see.

so say Sarah, who hopefully becomes Pope.

Neither Defeat nor Misfortune

 

David Warren on the true enemies of mankind.

 The true, and the most wicked, enemies of mankind, are the people who think they know what they are doing. They should be spotted, tried, and condemned. For, the beginning of political wisdom is to know, with holy certainty, that you don’t know.

Dean Martin Roast Gif

 

I’m going to try and prove I can walk and talk at the same time!

 

You’re going to Hell!

 The way I think of it, telling someone they’re going to Hell is tolerant.  For to me, tolerance means putting up with something you don’t like.  It’s only intolerant if you try to genocide the thing and offer it no hope of redemption.

That being said, intolerance can be good.  Tolerating evil is no virtue and is probably cowardly.

It is too much to ask for acceptance.  Acceptance is not a synonym for tolerance.  The tolerant are unaccepting.

Perhaps the best politician

 …promises not to destroy you, but more importantly doesn’t promise to help you 

Literally Trump

 In the 1920s when Hitler was coming prominence, his detractors said he was literally Trump.

Despise the World

 

A poetic notion

 

Eremition: an interesting word

 Does this mean Eremite is a verb?  That is to eremite means to gradually fade from the life of others…

I don’t think I could do this.  I can fade away and I am in a situation where I am fading away from others but it’s from a resignation tinged with bitterness.  

1,504 Views

 

Free Tamara Lich!

 

Jiangyin, China Double Moon

 

Boredom

 

Drowning Babies

 Left wingers assume that saying what a supposed intention of a government program happens to be is all that is needed to keep a government program going.  Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water! they say to people who question the program.

Right wingers, for wont of a better label, say that the results of a program show that it is useless or even counterproductive.  But, the bath has drowned the baby!  they say to the left wingers who are deaf, and or are incapable or are unwilling to understand what the right winger is saying.

Strawb

 

The Recluse

 

Carney & Trudeau

 Apparently, Trudeau has been following Carney’s orders for the last five years,

Good things that could be said about Justin Trudeau

David Warren on Carney

 Indeed, Mr Carney may be worse than the Trudeau child, because his empty qualifications will confuse people, and Canadians are easily confused. He will be an ideal victim for Donald Trump, who fights rough sometimes, but is genuinely smart.

Read it all here.

Chesterton on Great Men

 We never hear of great men until the time when all other men are small.

Case in point:  Trump!

Zelensky has to keep the grift going

 How to explain Zelensky’s strange behavior?  He seems bent on having his country destroyed.  He surely knows he has no cards, and Trump is offering him a dignified escape.

Zelensky is a grifter who either doesn’t want to be found out or wants to keep the grift going.  Looking at it that way, his behavior can then seem rational.  Zelensky, knowing that Trump & Vance were on to him, decided to appeal to the progressives who were worshipping him.  And what better way to stay in their good graces than by making a scene with Trump.  Even if Trump was substantively correct, Zelensky knew his left wing supporters would ignore that and see him as being bullied and thus heroic.  And even if these people pledging support for him, like Trudeau and Starmer, had no cards either, it’s not important because he’s still a shining bauble in these peoples’ eyes.  And so Zelensky’s grift can continue.

Z man on the road back to normal

 While it does appear that we have reached the end of a cycle of madness, perhaps several historical cycles that culminated in the last decade, it is going to be a long road back to normal. The crazies will not simply go away. They must be defeated, caged, and only released when the conditions that created them are eradicated. The normals will have to be trained in the new way of engaging in politics. Much like Russia after communism, America is on the road to recovery, but it is a long road.

Read it all here

Pardon the Swearing

 In many cases, it’s good advice.

What’s with the Germans?

 With some election coming up in Germany, I hear the German authorities are trying so hard not to be Nazis, that they are turning into Nazis.  Shit posting and Meme posting can apparently get you thrown into jail, or be raided so that your phones or computers can be seized. And apparently some NGOs that are fine with this sort of thing are receiving USAID-style funding from the German government to help in these persecutions.

Maybe the Germans should also have made it illegal to be Stasi.

I suppose this blog post would earn me prosecution if I had posted it from Germany.

Chesterton on Sanity

 “Of a sane man there is only one safe definition: he is a man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head.”

Chesterton on Moderns & Nature

 I think modern people have somehow got their minds all wrong about human life. They seem to expect what Nature has never promised; and then try to ruin all that Nature has really given.

Is the Blob being disassembled?

 

What to do if you’re in government and your iron rice bowl is threatened?

 The proverbial iron rice bowl is, simply stated, someone’s way of making a living.  Hopefully, most iron bowls are honorable; but surely many iron bowls are rackets and grifts.

What to do if you have a government iron rice bowl?  You have the bowl because there is a problem that exists and you are said to be solving it.  So, what to do if a reformer enters government and questions how you are dealing with the problem and even questions if you’re solving the problem at all?  Your iron bowls being threatened, you can exacerbate the problem and then blame the reformers.  Or you can expose what hithereto had been a result of your workings that you had hidden, and blame it on the reformers.

Anthony Esolen: The Vandals Within

 “Consider a few measures of cultural oblivion.  We have college graduates who have not read a single book in their lives.  We are not replacing ourselves with children.  Marriage is not on the rocks; it hardly gets out of port to begin with.  Churches are closing.  Ignorance of Scripture, in part bound up with a general ignorance of history and the cultural heritage of Western civilization, is endemic.”

Esolen is another favorite writer of mine.  What he writes has that hard slap of the unvarnished truth.

Read his whole essay here.

Zman on Trump and Prudentialism

 This is how we arrived at this odd time where John Derbyshire and Paul Gottfried share a pew with RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard. The excesses of progressivism, unconstrained by the necessity of the Cold War, have put everything at risk, thus calling forth an old force that has been dormant since Gettysburg. That force is prudentialism. The thing that lies at the heart of Western conservatism is a set of precautionary principles that act to avoid unknowable negative consequences.

Read it all here.

David Warren says to make the USA a monarchy

 Without entering overmuch into details, I am an enthusiastic monarchist, and see it as the solution to many little problems; that, and an appointive legislature. I think this would appeal to that sizeable majority of Americans who approve Mr Trump’s policies, on immigration and everything else, and might also assuage the minority of voters who worry what might happen if he were ever deposed. For with democratic practices, the future is always unsound.

Immediately we have the lovely Queen Melania, and a very plausible, impressively tall heir in Prince Barron, together with an extensive royal family. But more to the point, Canada and Greenland could join this American Union uncontroversially, together with other entities including Panama and Gaza, for our own various monarchical traditions (British, Danish, Spanish) could be easily revised.

Mr (surely, Lord?) Vance would make an excellent Prime Minister — a job he already has de facto —  and any one of Mr (surely, Lord?) Elon’s youthful staff could be given the Treasury to mind, assuming the rocket-man himself wouldn’t have time.

Read it all here

NGD #34

 —Acabamos tratándonos recíprocamente como bienes fungibles cuando dejamos de creer en el alma.

—We end up treating each other as fungible goods when we cease believing in the soul.

Josemaría Escriva. #5

It’s not enough to be learned, in addition to being a good Christian. If you don't correct the brusqueness of your character, if you make your zeal and your knowledge incompatible with good manners, I can't

see you ever becoming a saint. And despite your learning — because of it — you should be tied in a stall, like a mule.

NGD #33

 

NGD #32: My truth

 —Mi verdad es la suma de lo que soy, no el simple

resumen de lo que pienso.

—My truth is the sum of what I am, not a simple

summary of what I think.

David Warren on Politics and Quiet

 Deafening hype is coming from both sides (there are only two) of American politics at the moment. I find it hard to think of any other topic, even though I long for quiet. Given my preference for peace over war, and freedom over slavery, and strength over ignorance (some subtleties are being concealed here) — and, more generally, for good over evil — the reader will understand that I associate with the “Far Right” on the usual political spectrum. It is a reactionary and controversial position.

Read it all here.

It was good to read this.  I’m glad I’m not alone.

Tracked Shopping Carts?

 Somewhere in Wuxi, there is a supermarket where the shopping carts don’t have fixed back wheels.  That is, the back wheels spin like the front wheels. I learned about this when I was accompanying someone on a beer buying odyssey. This someone complained about it and asked me if I hated it as well.  I had to confess that I had never noticed, never thought about it, and that furthermore, I usually let my son control the cart.on family shopping odysseys.

So, the next time, I went on a shopping trip, I had to check out the back wheels of the cart.  I didn’t want to feel like I was blind to something.  I even took a video and sent it to that someone.

The rear wheels were fixed.  That turned that someone on! 😛

Which leads me to wonder why there aren’t tracked shopping carts, like a tank is tracked.  It’s a useful innovation that the Chinese are capable of like all those mop and pail combos my wife buys.

Is Justin Trudeau a USAID Project?

 If it’s true, those Americans are dastardly!

David Warren on the best politics

 the best politics consists simply of negating whatever the other side has done: retiring regulations and withdrawing taxes. There is no economic argument for government interference, even against corruption; only the moral argument of preventing evil.

It is why, while Donald Trump is no saint, I was more or less delighted by the hundreds of executive orders by which he cancelled everything Joe Biden had done. Alas, I fear he may try to do things himself.

Read it all here

Z-Man on USAID

One of the things that is becoming clear to everyone as the USAID scandal unfolds is that much of what has been presented to us over the last several decades, as far as politics, has been an illusion created by the blob. The media was part of the blob, underwritten by the government and cultivated with government access, so they presented a version of political reality that favored the blob. Even the debates over policy were staged by the blob.

Read the whole thing here.

David Warren on Reading

 I had years of reading “for pleasure,” which led from Pookie through Kipling to other story-tellers, and I was able to avoid what was given me to read, for “education.” But I was not reading, nor thinking, philosophically.

Read the whole thing here.

So far, the Canusa trade war has been comedy gold!

This Canada USA trade war has to be one of the silliest in Economic History.

You’ve got Canadians going to Costco to boycott American products.

You’ve got environmental whackos wanting to put tariffs on electrical vehicles 

You’ve got the premier of  British Columbia wanting to boycott the liquor of states that voted for Trump while allowing the liquor from states that voted for Kamala to stay on the shelves.

You’ve got the President of the USA who can do stand up comedy.

You’ve got a Canadian PM who can’t do stand up comedy or even play a straight man.

David Warren on The Trump Tariffs

 A more suitable financial topic for this morning, in the Canadian news, is “Trump tariffs.” (He is settling the score for decades of smug, Canadian abuse of American generosity.) I mentioned in a previous post that his intention is, incidentally, to destroy our government, and implied that this would be a good thing. The Canadian government is cooperating, by counter-tariffing, and the voters, especially in Ontario, are confirming their reputation as malicious idiots. I could explain how the trade war they are demanding will accomplish Trump’s end, by accelerating the tailspin of the Canadian economy (“drill baby drill”) — but why throw pearls before swine?

Read the whole entry here.

Anagrams of Andis Kaulins

 The name "Andis Kaulins" can be rearranged to form various anagrams. Here are a few possibilities:

1. **Anakin Sulids**  

2. **Sulids Anakin**  

3. **Kain Sulands**  

4. **Luna Skandis**  

5. **Sank Dailuns**  

:

• Sandal Kisiun

• Akin Sun Dials

• Said Ankulin S

• Island An Suki

Here are more anagrams of Andis Kaulins:

• Sandals Uki In

• Akin Dual Sins

• Alas Kind Sun I

• Dusk Ail An Sin

• Ink Laid Us San

• A Sun Kind Ails

• Skid As A Unlain

These are mostly abstract combinations

Z-Man on Trump: The Destroyer of Worlds

 What we are seeing is the long-anticipated end of the 20th century. Russia and China have moved into the 21st century, but America and the West have remained moored to the prior century, convulsively resisting any attempt to abandon it. That world, however, is gone and now, thanks to The Mule, it is being destroyed. For now, the destruction is the show, but soon, what comes next is what will matter. Everyone needs to remember that The Mule is the destroyer of worlds, not the creator of them.

Read the whole thing here.

Buy Canadian!?!

 On X, I saw a  Canadian who was up in arms about Trump Tariffs saying we must buy Canadian: a kind of MAGA like policy for Canada proposed by a Canadian Anti-MAGAer.

So, in a way, Trump is actually helping Canada start to put its house in order.  What will Canadians do when they find out that most of the stuff they buy in malls isn’t made in Canada.?  Or in America, for that matter.

The End of Quantum Reality

 Trailer.

I enjoyed this film.  It gave me hope.

How many units of Gid?

 I’m so giddy!  109 units of giddy I am.

No need to shoot me!

 I’ll just shoot myself!  Thank you very much!

Is Andis Kaulins a Hottie?

 Of course not!

Is Andis Kaulins in China Haughty?

 

Haughty

 I have more reason to try to be a hottie than to be haughty,

Instead of saying “lord it over”, I should say “be hsughty!”.  But if I say that: stupid moderns would think I mean hotty.

Haughty hotty.

Chinese New Year GIF

 

To Live with Lucidity

 

Countryside Foreigner

 A countryside foreigner is a foreigner who is living in the countryside of China and is thus not familiar with the modern contrivances of China’s big cities.

Chuck Norris Super Bowl Trivia

 Chuck Norris is the only individual to have won the Super Bowl.  Chuck Norris defeated the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXIV on January 28, 1990   Norris won with a dominating score of 55-10, which remains the largest margin of victory in Super Bowl history. The victory has been falsely attributed to the San Francisco 49ers.

It’s a great moment in history

 You got to admit that we’re living in a great moment in history.  Common sense is in charge.  Thought can be free again!  Mistakes can be corrected.  Stupidity is really ineffectual.

Possibilities abound for sanity!  Imagine them!

It’s great to be alive!

It’s a great interregnum.  Alas, stupidity will eventually return.

Enjoy the moment while you can.

Andis Kaulins on the Nantong Big Bridgr GIFs

 

David Warren on Trump

 It is getting more and more difficult for me to dislike Donald Trump, for he seems intent upon destroying everything I want destroyed, including, most particularly, the Government of Canada.

Do you like drinking coffee?

 

Andis Kaulins on Trump’s First Few Days as President

 

Hsu Yü Washing His Ear

 https://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2025/01/23/hsu-yu-washing-his-ear/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Breathtaking!

 Trump is not fucking around!

Five Year Streak Almost

 

Karina Gould is Evil

 How do I know? I hadn’t heard of her till last week.  I’m going off two data points.  One, I saw her make a statement chastising some Tory for not doing anything about Climate Change.  Two, she declared her candidacy for the Liberal Party of Canada leadership.

Biden’s Pardons

 Biden pardoned his family, Anthony Fauci, General Milley and the J6 committee.  The justification is that these people don’t deserve retribution for their actions.

The pardons are an admission that either the justice system is corrupt and that lawfare is a thing, or that the Biden regime and the Biden family were corrupt.

Biden pardons a mass murderer

 

Shameful!