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22-28 May 2023

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It’s time for another occasional roundup of everything I have been writing around the web in various places. The short story I intend as my first paywalled content here is coming along bit by bit. Time is not of the essence, for the subscriber count is still getting to critical mass. My summer writing schedule is getting jammed up with projects. When I see a break in the weather I will likely disappear for a day.

On Monday 22 May, I published this account of the homecoming, memorial, and funeral of my uncle John, lost in World War II and unidentified until last year. Projects are in the works around this event and I have been asked to advise them. Stay tuned.

Polemology Positions
Bringing An American Hero Home
When he arrived at Hancock International Airport in Syracuse, New York earlier this month, 1st Lt. John Blakeslee Thomas received the traditional rite of every pilot on completing his very last flight. A pair of fire trucks arced sprays of water over the American Airlines jet bearing…
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4 months ago · 5 likes · Matt Osborne

When I had time to get a first read of the Ukrainian Russian invasion of Russia that was happening while I flew home to Alabama, I wrote this quick take. It mostly stands up, more than a week later.

Polemology Positions
Ukraine Flips The Russian Script, Catches Moscow Flat-Footed
I have so many questions. We all have questions right now. No clear answers are available just yet. What started with a surprise foray a few miles over the border, as far as a town called Gora-Podol, may have been only the first of as many as four similar advances taking place today. Patterns emerging …
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4 months ago · 1 like · Matt Osborne

Then I wrote about a Stonewall witness, retired policeman, and gay liberation legend, as well as his opinions on the state of the American Civil Liberties Union. I am helping some people hold a protest at the Capitol in Washington, DC this August amd my coverage is focusing on the reasons why we fight.

The Distance
Fred Sargeant Fingers Anthony Romero For Robbing The ACLU Of Its Principles
Fred Sargeant is the Herodotus of homosexual liberation. He was present at Stonewall when the riot happened and he chronicled the rise of the gay rights movement as it became a political force. Sargeant used to value the American Civil Liberties Union for its role in promoting gay liberation, but he no longer recognizes the ACLU he once knew…
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4 months ago · Matt Osborne

The next day I shared my thoughts on the new Top Gun movie.

Polemology Positions
I Liked 'Top Gun: Maverick' So Here Is My Four-Star Review Of Everything Wrong With It
I finally got to watch the new Top Gun film. Maverick is a solid action flick that manages to do its bookend namesake justice. I can see Tom Cruise doing one more of these movies some day, but I hope not, because this contemporary Hollywood machine would probably make him step down from the cockpit…
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4 months ago · 3 likes · Matt Osborne

The day after that, I posted an explainer on the paralyzing politics of “gender self-ID” in the Scottish National Party.

The Distance
What Scotland Doing?
How far the mighty have fallen. Nicola Sturgeon was the First Minister of Scotland for eight years before she fell from power. Popular, her politics seemed populist — until she put a rapist in a women’s prison, and then the Scots found out, and everything went to shite…
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4 months ago · 3 likes · 2 comments · Matt Osborne

On Friday, I shared some thoughts on Republican presidential nomination dynamics. Also, a sense of doom about Joe Biden.

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Random Reminder That A Republican President Could Pardon Donald Trump In 2025
His goose might just be cooked this time. Really. Donald Trump appears to have violated the letter of federal laws about classified documents and could very well be indicted on serious charges. If that happens, he will fundraise for his defense right when he is supposed to be fundraising for a rematch with Joe Biden. Time and energy spent on an indictmen…
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4 months ago · 2 likes · Matt Osborne

On Saturday, my friend Theo Jordan published this piece, which is my reaction to a podcast of Stephanie Winn and Josh Slocum talking about death.

Logical Reasoning
The Truman Show Does Not Tell You What To Think, It Tells You What To Think About
Josh Slocum has a lot of very interesting things to say about death. Until he was cancelled for gender-based wrongthink, Slocum worked as an advocate for public awareness about the rights of the bereaved. Did you even know that you have rights when you have just lost a loved one…
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4 months ago · 6 likes · 2 comments · Matt Osborne

Then I listed five tangible differences the F-16 will probably make in Ukraine.

Polemology Positions
What We Should Talk About When We Talk About F-16s Flying In Ukraine
The F-16s are happening. With the politics and paradoxes and panegyrics behind us, we only await the first Ukrainians completing training and receiving their planes. The Ukrainian Air Force (UAF) will also receive JAS 39 Gripen jets from Sweden soon, and while I am less familiar with that platform, my understanding is that it shares a lot with the Fight…
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4 months ago · Matt Osborne

Today, I published a paywalled digest in my ongoing examination of wokeness and “gender indentity” as an historic episode of faith formation.

The Distance
Gnostic Gender Gospel Digest No. 3
We have noted in this series that the internet, multiplied by the power of social media, exponential to the power of the smartphone, has been a key part of the rise of “transgender” and “woke” things in the last decade. A furious public debate about the mental health effects of this combo took place only recently, and mainly through the auspices of “psychology Substack.” It seems to have culminated last week in a warning from the US Surgeon General that this toxic mix is…
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4 months ago · 13 likes · 6 comments · Matt Osborne

Another busy week spilling ink lies ahead.

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