I Ink, Therefore I Am

10 September - 1 November 2026

Nov 01, 2026

It’s time for another roundup of all the bloggy podcastery goodness I’ve been up to all around the internet. The last two months have been quite a painful experience, as my output has been slowed by the old spinal issues having another go-round with me. I am still not entirely back up to speed because I have been forced to learn to write standing up instead of sitting down. Many thanks to all my subscribers for your patience.

This content is EXCLUSIVELY available for premium subscribers to The Distance.

Order In The Court: How Litigation Will Grind Out The Culture War Over Sex And Gender

Critics of Enes Freedom and Royce White say they are not really transgender women, but men pretending to be transgender women, so they must not be allowed to play in the WNBA…

2 months ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

Hollywood Is Burning Over Politics

Entertainment news site TMZ reported yesterday that Paramount Pictures, the last major studio still mainly based in Hollywood, is leaving California. The move is a death knell for the local film and TV/streaming entertainment industry, which had already experienced a severe decline in recent years. …

This content is EXCLUSIVELY available for premium subscribers of Osborne Ink.

Alberta Will Not Be The 51st American State

Albertans go to the polls in October to decide Question 10, a referendum on whether to begin the process of thinking about possibly planning to maybe leave Canada, some day. Polls show that the measure is unlikely to pass. However, the other nine questions are probably going to fare well with voters…

Polemology Positions

Donald Trump Gets The Greenland He Wanted

“Donald Trump’s gambit to buy Greenland may sound ridiculous, but it’s not impossible”, Jack Detsch reported for Politico two …

a month ago · 3 likes

This content is EXCLUSIVELY available for premium subscribers of The Distance.

Legacy Media Struggles To Explain How The Trump Admin Is Shutting Down Gender Clinics

“At least six major hospitals have agreed to refuse gender-affirming hormones and surgery for transgender young people and agreed to make payments to the federal government, according to deals with the Department of Justice”, Associated Press reporter Geoff Mulvihill…

a month ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

This content is EXCLUSIVELY available for premium subscribers of Osborne Ink.

Escape From LA: The New Paramount Logistics

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has settled his litigation with David Ellison, ending a long-shot bid to delay or disrupt the merger and acquisition of Warner Brothers by Paramount Skydance…

Polemology Positions

Are The Service Academies Even Worth Saving?

“I tried to educate in my classroom, because it’s clear that citizens need thinking officers to defend them who can respond creatively to fast-changing circumstances”, professor Bruce Fleming writes in his memoir of Annapolis. “The administration begged to differ…

Wall Street Journal Struggles To Explain Why Gender Clinics Keep Shutting Down

According to her bio at The Wall Street Journal, Corinne Ramey worked as a professional violist before she became a reporter covering federal law enforcement and white-collar crime…

a month ago · 8 likes · Matt Osborne

Nobody At Cambridge Wants To Admit Ghosting Jason Arday’s Last Plaintive Messages

The University of Cambridge has scaled back their institutional review into the death of Jason Arday. His appointment, academic record, and personal history will not be subject to review…

This content is EXCLUSIVELY available for premium subscribers of Polemology.net

Polemology Positions

Junior Juggernaut: Zhukov And The Secret Spectrum Battles That Won World War II

“People say that the allies didn’t help us”, Gen. Georgi Konstantinovich Zhukov told writer Konstantin Simonov in 1963, but he knew better…

This content is EXCLUSIVELY available for premium subscribers of The Distance.

Jennifer Sey Looks Great In Her Own Brand

I have read hundreds of war memoirs. Nearly all of them include accounts of wounding and scenes of gruesome injury. I never flinch…

a month ago · Matt Osborne

This content is EXCLUSIVELY available for premium subscribers of Osborne Ink.

Democrats Have A Serious Polling Problem

It was not supposed to be this hard. Democrats were counting on voter anger at Donald Trump to give them power in Congress again. Any normal presidency has thermostatic effects on voters, and Trump is hardly a normal president…

This content is EXCLUSIVELY available for premium subscribers of Osborne Ink.

Caring Us All To Death With Kindness: How Gender Studies Created The Woke Campus

Cynthia Burack blames her own career field for the illiberal turn in American academia. “I think that universities, students, and the academic enterprise would be better off if women’s and other identity-based ‘studies’ had never been institutionalized in US higher education”, she writes in…

a month ago · 2 likes

This content is EXCLUSIVELY available for premium subscribers of Polemology.net

Polemology Positions

Iran Cannot Control The Strait Of Hormuz So They Keep Trying To Escalate Overseas

According to equity investor Alexander Stahel, who specializes in energy markets, there are currently “some 116 hulls active in the Shuttle trade around the Strait of Hormuz, most of them using the Oman Lane, hugging the coast of Oman instead of using the Middle Lane (IMO Lane) or the Tehran Toll Booth hugging the Persian coast…

a month ago · 2 likes

This content is EXCLUSIVELY available for premium subscribers of The Distance.

The Progressive Myth That Women Can Compete With Men Is Based On Junk Science

“Will women soon outrun men?” This is the question that exercise scientists Brian J. Whipp and Susan A. Ward asked in the title of their 1992 letter to the journal Nature…

25 days ago · Matt Osborne

Where In The World Is James Talarico?

At this hour, Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico has been missing from the campaign trail for eleven days. Rumors are swirling around his absence. Some sources claim he is a psychiatric inpatient, others that he has relapsed into a hotel room with Andrew Gillum…

Ilhan Omar Is Nobody Special Before The Laws

x

If The Polls Are Off By More Than 3 Points, The Republicans Will Still Control Congress

Overall, the conversation at CNN is pretty much what you would expect, right now. Democrats are leading generic ballots and state polls according to the same polling firms that were off by 3 points or more in multiple previous election cycles. On that note, Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten made sure to give viewers an important caveat this week…

‘Kill Your Way To Heaven’: How The Zizians Transgender Vegan Death Cult Lost Their Minds

Read merely as a true crime book, The Zizians: Inside A Trans Death Cult would still be an achievement. Journalist Andy Ngo has authored a coherent narrative with a large cast of characters despite the deliberate obfuscation and endless legal maneuvers of the principal actors. Ngo cuts through most of the weeds by simply refusing to use the ‘preferred pronouns’ of any suspect…

12 days ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

Alberta Votes To Stay In Canada

Three quarters of Alberta voters chose to keep the province in Canada yesterday. With 90 percent of ballots counted at the time of this writing, 75.2 percent of referendum voters have chosen to remain in Canada, while just 24.9 percent want to start the separation process…

I Told You Not To Trust The Polls This Year

Wedgewood Polls admitted to fabricating months of polling data yesterday after G. Elliot Morris of FiftyPlusOne reached out for comment on problems they had identified in the firm’s data reporting. Wedgewood crowdfunded for polling they represented as legitimate. However, it appears that the scheme may have aimed at profiting on prediction markets…

11 days ago · 5 likes

A Fourth Fake Polling Firm Has Been Unmasked

FiftyPlusOne has outed another fake polling firm in two days. The details of their investigation are published at their Substack. SoCal Strategies appears to be connected to Wedgewood Polls, which FiftyPlus One revealed as fake yesterday…

10 days ago · 2 likes

Nobody Voted For The Transnational Aristocracy That Calls Itself ‘Global Democracy’

It is a tale as old as the Cold War. The entire world was exhausted from the bloodshed and destruction of World War II. Soviet ambitions in the world incited responses from the West. Seeking to win the conflict with money and influence rather than atomic apocalypse, the United States presidency turned to the fledgling CIA, which had a plan…

Portland XX-XY Athletics Action Disrupted By The Chaos Agent We Warned You About

We warned you that Arianna Laureano is unstable. We said he was a chaos agent and a threat to your gender critical organizing. We are now vindicated by the actions of Mr. Laureano, for he has brought disrepute to an important gender critical action with his poor impulse control…

Polemology Positions

How Activist Lawyers Tried To Destroy The Fighting Spirit Of The US Army With DEI

Of all the branches and specialties in the US Army, the most important target for any ideologue bent on changing America’s armed forces is the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAGC). JAGs are the lawyers of the Army. Any soldier being court martialed will have a judge, prosecutor, and defense attorney from the JAGC. Every commander planning a mission or …

Discussion about this post

No posts

Ready for more?

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts