Happy Easter, my friends. I’m going to begin with the Orthodox Paschal greeting today because I think the most important thing that I have come to learn these past few years, is how seriously and dangerously cut off from our traditions we are. So – Christ is risen. Now, down to business. I’m currently serving […]
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Twits and Titans
Very little of what passes for ‘culture’ today, is anything more than a cult or a sub-culture. The political movements of our time have more in common with a bowel movement than any of the guiding principles they use as camouflage. The focus on the outcast, the downtrodden or the marginal has become so fetishised […]
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Observations On Deck
The mood has changed.
‘The individual is so handicapped, by coming face-to-face, with a conspiracy so monstrous, he cannot believe it exists.’ – J. Edgar Hoover, 1956. The question we always get asked, as people who think there is more going on, is: ‘Why would they do that’? The biggest problem with the truther/conspiracy theory brigade, apart from being […]
Most Jocks and Brits have spent the last 10-12 years devouring American content on the interwebs, mainly through the now censorious Youtube. A consequence of this is that we have been exposed to such radical ideas as Libertarianism, that have long since been banished from our terrifying government school curriculums. The problem with much of […]
Welcome to the Yankee Jock blog. A place to discuss Scottish and American values. For those who don’t know, ‘Jock’ isn’t just a type of sweaty athletic underwear. In the UK it is also a term used to address a Scottish person, like me. Yankee, although associated with the North in the US Civil War, […]