Tim Pollard's Blog

This past Saturday ("Bright Saturday" in Orthodoxy) I was officially Baptised and Chrismated into Orthodox Christianity at St. Ksenia of St. Petersburg's Russian Orthodox Church. This is a culmination of a couple of years reconsidering the Evangelical Protestant faith of my childhood, and I decided to share my reasoning.

I was convinced to look more closely into Orthodoxy for three reasons:

The Orthodox Church strives for timel...

Christ is risen from the dead,
trampling down death by death,
and upon those in the tombs bestowing life!

According to Lazarus Long love is what happens when you're not having sex. Having now read Time Enough for Love, apparently "love" primarily consists of talking about sex, and making-out with teenage girls.

Heinlein for all his brilliance as a writer was also a dirty old man, and sadly that completely ruins this book. The central conceit, two-thousand-year old man contemplating finally ending it all settles down to tell some tall tales to one of his distant descendants, is quite interesting,...

American Dad and Dalrock have some posts up on the sort of cartoonish "chivalry" that some fathers at least joke that they'll use with any guy trying to date their daughters. (eg: "Toss him a shotgun shell, and tell him it moves a lot faster after 11.")

Which got me thinking:

As a bachelor I know if I went home to meet a girl's parents and her father treated me with anything too far to either side of of cautiously optimistic politeness (a sort of "I hope my daughter's found a good guy, but I'...

Letter to the Glibelian Ambassador dated 4th of Solu in the 7th year of Emperor Halak II [Approximately 2nd of December 2031 AD]

Dear Ambassador Gras XVII, Hand of the Red Council, First Lord of Bosae IX, etc.,

Greetings and Salutations.

To answer your queries I will need to first explain a bit about what makes humans special.

While I was on my recent tour of Earth I was shown a video of a human hunting a kudu (a local herbivorous quadruped). Kudus are much faster than humans, so the kudu eas...

Just sharing some more links:

First up, we've got Mike Cernovich's guide to winning the current propaganda war:

We are everywhere, and that's why the media is losing its mind.

The media is on the defensive. They simultaneously can't look away from what we do, and yet they don't want to wake people up.

Cernovich again with the Jim Ghomeshi Rape Hoax:

[Jim] Ghomeshi, a former CBC radio host, bragged about being a women's study major and male feminist.

Then his life changed. Several women cam...

First up with have Tom Kratman's story of a hypothetical [hopefully] politically correct military (part 1, part 2, and part 3). Here's how it starts (hint: it doesn't get any better, or any less funny):

Top, got a minute? Can you tell us about the company? I mean the real inside scoop.

"Oh, itâs not so bad, I suppose. Could be worse anyway. I mean, I think maybe it could be worse. It used to be worse, actually, back when the XO â Lieutenant Dainty, our lipstick lesbian â was still pining ove...

At this rate I should be finishing the Harvard Classics in around 2026. Oh well, on to the latest update.

Volume 7 is The Confessions of St. Augustine and The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis, both of which I acquired in hard copy.

The Confessions is pretty much what you'd expect; it's the story of St. Augustine's life from his birth to shortly after his conversion from Manichaesm into Christianity, as well as a couple of of bonus chapters on the subject of Creation and Genesis.

I used...

Some links that I thought where worth sharing.

First up we have John C. Wright's Point Deer, Make Horse about the leftist response to the San Bernardino shooting:

[F]or the Left, their God is Caesar, that is to say, the State, that is to say, themselves.

After every crime-spree or disaster or terrorist attack by persons who never turn out to be white rightwingers, the Left says that it is the punishment rightfully delivered for not being faithful enough to Caesar, not giving him what he dema...

So, for anyone living under a rock, apparently the Yanks are having a Presidential election, and it's my duty as a random guy on the Internet to have an opinion on the election. I haven't really been paying much attention to the issues, but I can use help you out with by far the most important issue: Who has the most American Surname.

For a data source, has a nice system where you can find out various stats about different surnames, which we'll use for this. Using that I calculated...