Helicopter Parents Could Learn From Their Trad Moms and Dads

 Helicopter parents are getting worse.

The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of Gen Z parents are actively intervening in their children’s job searches, interviews, hiring processes, and even early career issues.

According to the Journal, parents are calling companies about their adult children’s performance reviews, benefits choices, and even calling in sick for them.

According to one survey, 20 percent of Zoomers had a parent attend a job interview with them.

One staffing executive had to fire a 24-year-old twice — once to the employee, who failed to show up for meetings four times, and again to his irate mother who demanded her son be given another chance.

Needed: Trad Parent Wisdom

Ironically, the parents who are hovering over their children now grew up two or three decades ago under trad parents who raised them in an opposite manner.

Not only did our trad parents not obsess over us, they made us go outside to play and not come home until supper, and we knew we had better not be late.

We were free to roam, invent, and discover on our own. We learned how to socialize, make friends, and deal with some of the jerkier kids without a parent anywhere to be found.

True, families were bigger back then and there was always an older sibling around to help us get out of scrapes.

When a big bully busted up my hand-built go-kart, my big sister kicked the tar out of him — he was two years older and 70 pounds heavier than she, but I will never forget the image of her sitting on his back, pounding her fists into his sides as he cried like a baby.

Trad parents didn't give us unwarranted praise. Rather, our parents specialized in admonishing us for the millions of things we were doing wrong — not getting to school on time, not getting high enough grades, not keeping our beds made.

In fact, if we were ever accused of any wrongdoing by other adults, our parents sided instantly with the accusers.

“What did you do now, Tommy?”

We had to prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that we were not at fault — though, truth be told, we usually were at fault.

Adults Must Figure Life Out on Their Own

When my parents dropped me off at college, they didn't worry about the life challenges that awaited me. They could barely contain their glee that I wouldn't be eating everything in their refrigerator or racking up auto repairs on our Ford Pinto with Jim Rockford maneuvers (don't ask).

They gave me a big jar of peanut butter and some crackers and advised me there was no point in writing home for money — as there wasn't any.

I admit my blue-collar father did intervene in my studies. Worried I would never find a job as an English major, he insisted I minor in something practical.

Thanks to his meddling, I became the only person to ever graduate from Penn State with a major in English and a minor in air-conditioning and heating.

In any event, our trad parents knew that the process of becoming a well-functioning adult required us to figure most things out on our own.

Looking back, that is the greatest gift they gave us.

End Helicopter Parenting Before It’s Too Late

As I said, it’s ironic that so many of today's parents, who enjoyed a trad-parent upbringing, are suffocating their kids’ development by endlessly meddling in their affairs.

It has gotten so bad, reports the Journal, that employers increasingly view heavy parental involvement as a red flag — a signal that Zoomers with especially meddlesome parents likely lack independence and the ability to make their own decisions.

I sure hope these kids figure out how to function on their own before their turn comes to run the country.

Or one day, during a live White House press conference, the president will be asked a tough question and his mother will grab the microphone.

“I don’t appreciate the tone of these questions!” his mom might say. “And for the record, it’s not his fault he was late to the NATO summit — the traffic was terrible and his alarm didn’t go off!”

Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Fauci, Pot

 

Tony Fauci is going to join his pantheon, just not the one he wanted.

Tony Fauci was asked a long time ago if the risk of a lab leak was worth the possible upside of gain-of-function virus research. He said that he did believe so. There are those who claim that Lyme Disease as well as SARS were also outcomes of lab research where things got out, and people got sick. Every activity in life involves risk. Some risks, like crossing the street or eating an egg, seem to be very low. Others, like flying a B-17 bomber over a ball-bearing factory in Schweinfurt during World War II, come with enormous potential downside. It would appear that Tony Fauci not only funded the Wuhan virus lab but may have contributed to the creation of the Frankenvirus via a lab run by him in the American northwest. So while other dictators listed above actually murdered people who opposed them, Fauci’s hubris and incompetence got millions of people killed worldwide. Does his lack of intent make him ineligible?

The problem with Tony Fauci and many others in the biomedical sphere is one of religion switching. A God-fearing person might make a different calculation of risk than one whose religion is SCIENCE and who sees himself as the personal embodiment of the high priest of this modern faith. A responsible and somewhat modest scientist would say, yes, I would love to know what would happen if we made the following changes to a natural virus, but I cannot take responsibility for the possible disaster that may occur. A megalomaniac like Fauci can only think about his future Nobel Prize and his name being said in the same breath with Einstein, Curie, and Salk. It’s easy to take risks when the risk is actually on somebody else. If I decide to weaken my fence, where the worst thing that can happen is that it falls on my neighbor’s daffodils, then I might be disposed to give it a try. Fauci talked big in Congress about gain-of-function being worth the risk and no doubt felt the same way with the completely untried mRNA vaccines because somebody else would get screwed if things went sideways — which they certainly did. The current head of the FDA, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, whom Fauci trashed in his diary (and who the hell writes a diary on a government-issued computer? Duh?), said that there were three problems with the Pfizer and Moderna products:

1. We don’t know where the mRNA strands go in the body.

2. We don’t know how many copies of the spike protein they produce.

3. We don’t know if all of the spike proteins are complete or defective.

In his summary of the problem with injecting mRNA into a person and hoping for the best, he made more sense than cowboy Fauci, who pulled out hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin in order to allow for the emergency usage of the new vaccines. Fauci didn’t care if people got sick and died. He at one point admitted in his diary that vaccinated people were still getting sick and transmitting the virus. Fauci was the high priest! He will do as he pleases and he cannot be wrong! And if people die, as in any battle, victory does not come for free. He overstated the lethality of COVID, with its actual risk being similar to the annual flu. Lives were lost. Lives were destroyed. Businesses went under. Students went down the tubes. Societies went south. Just as the British still had war-damaged parts of the country in the early 1950s, we too have destroyed parts of society because Tony Fauci, the Bat Lady, and their friends decided that the real God wasn’t enough and that they would play god by making a natural virus more deadly to human beings. Fauci’s virus buddies immediately saw the engineered “furin cleavage site” that allowed for stronger binding to human cells, but like Hitler’s generals, they knew when to shut up and defer to the Great Man. Who wants to be selling newspapers on the streets when he can have endless NIH grant money and maybe some patent royalties for just saying that the pangolins are the culprit?

I remember reading a book long ago that discussed the diary of the camp commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Hoss. In one entry, he wrote that they had a morning selection of Russian prisoners whom they murdered. In the afternoon, he ate with his family, and they had a delicious meal of rabbit and wine. The author of the book could not understand the juxtaposition of outright brutality next to complete enjoyment of a lovely meal. But what of Herr Fauci? He could write at the top of his entry how many people died in various countries and then list all of the A-listers on a Zoom call arranged by Dr. Kim Kardashian. The numbers at the top were Stalin’s famous statistics: faceless people, many old and sick, who died alone, removed physically from their loved ones. The bottom was the real deal: I am Fauci I, king of biomedicine! These are my loving fans, and I shared with them my wisdom and godly insights. Long live Fauci!

In Hebrew, the expression “lo nisbal” refers to someone who is so into himself that nobody else can stand him. Tony Fauci took the Moderna vaccine on TV and then had a heart embolism. We have a tradition that Pharaoh used to enter the Nile to do his business so that his people would think that he is a god and does not need the bathroom; so too, Fauci did not announce his illness and its possible ties to the drug he was peddling. No, he quietly had himself treated, and like doctors around Hitler, they knew that they had best keep their mouths shut. The emperor has no clothes? The emperor has a blood clot, but nobody on the outside may be allowed to know.

Every field has its practitioners with massive egos. Boeing refused to admit that a fault in a cargo door would allow it to open during flight; only the engineer parents of a young man lost to such an accident could force them to admit and then redesign the door. The problem with Fauci was that his hubris was connected to the safety and well-being of several billion people. I can be a jerk and anger a couple hundred people. Fauci funded, through his buddy, gain-of-function research that got out of the lab, destroyed the world economy, and led to millions dead and injured. He sat like a fool in the Senate. He could not admit what he did, as maybe the pardon given by Joe Biden’s auto-pen is not as solid as he would hope. Also, it would be a killer for his reputation to confirm the evidence trail he left on his government computer diary. So he pleaded the Fifth on the color of his tie and what he ate that morning. Rand Paul might still get him via the DOJ for obstruction, though I don’t expect him to spend a night in jail.

We are generally enamored by things we know very little about. Someone outside of Boeing would be amazed by the company’s products and history. Go inside and see the cost-cutting-driven engineering failures. My business partner and I once did some Anthrax testing at an Israeli national lab. Our host brought out a vaccination strain to test. The day after our visit, he called to say that we had accidentally been working with live Anthrax. We had been sitting in his office, not in the Level 3 biolab down the hall. Accidents happen in science, and China is no place to expect Swiss lab protocols.

Art Hasn’t Recovered After Abandoning Human Greatness

 

Greenland, the largest island in the globe, is no longer remote. It is the ice-covered, cold piece of land amid the rapidly warming global strategic competition, mainly between the United States of America, China, and Russia. As the ice melts, the urgency to control its strategic location and the resources beneath it intensifies. Blind selfishness coupled with strategic shortsightedness on the part of the Kingdom of Denmark and the European Union has been destructively unhelpful. On the contrary, these amateurishly emotional reactions have greatly contributed to the increase in the many risk factors present in any attempt to exclusively control the area of the Northern Arctic.

The currently existing legal status of Greenland is as murky as the Danish government’s illusory position at a chaotic intersection of local self-rule, Danish sovereignty, and intensifying global interests in the Northern Arctic. Greenland’s population is smaller than the capacity of a medium-sized football stadium, but its strategic geography is outsized. Politically as well as legally, Greenland is self-governing in most domestic matters, while remaining part of the Kingdom of Denmark, with the latter retaining responsibilities for defense and major aspects of foreign affairs under the Self-Government framework established in 2009. In addition, this framework lays out a legal path to independence, based on Greenlandic decision.

As a result, Greenland’s domestic and foreign policies are dominated by two intertwined questions: how to broaden economic options and how to manage diplomacy and security. Realistically, Denmark is not in a position to fund economic development alone or to defend Greenland against the mounting threats to the island’s independence. Moreover, Denmark has had a grossly abysmal record of treating the island and its population. From total neglect through inhuman discrimination and degradation, the history of Danish overlordship of Greenland will remain a shameful episode in the Kingdom of Denmark’s otherwise civilized existence. Finally, President Trump’s intention to resolve the Greenland issue unambiguously and, if needed, unilaterally raised the stakes within NATO regarding the unity of this multinational military organization.

The good news regarding a possible transatlantic rift is that the United States of America and all other NATO members agree that there is a global strategic threat to the Northern Arctic. Compared to this reality, the core disagreement concerns the relationship between strategic necessity and sovereignty as an overriding principle among NATO member states. From President Trump’s perspective, Greenland is a national security question. Primarily, early warning, space tracking, and North Atlantic access have been embedded in American defense architecture through long-standing agreements and the Pituffik Space Base. More recently, China’s overwhelming military aggression in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, coupled with the Baltic Sea and the Northern Arctic, put the White House on high alert regarding future threats to the American mainland from Alaska to the other 48 states.

From the European perspective, Greenland is mainly a sovereignty question within NATO. President Trump’s declaration that Greenland will be “one way or the other” an integral part of the United States of America, the European member states of NATO hear in this a direct attack on the premise that the organization is a voluntary collective defense pact among sovereign and equal states, not a hierarchy between the United States of America and the rest. Clearly, the European position is not merely rhetorical. In essence, it indicates that if territorial integrity becomes negotiable within NATO, deterrence against external adversaries, particularly the Russian Federation, will become extremely difficult. More importantly, such a conundrum will increase the relevance of Article 5 globally. Finally, Article 42, Section 7 of the Treaty on European Union, with its own mutual defense clause that complements but remains subordinate to Article 5, cannot be ignored legally.

An additional major problem is that Greenland is both “inside” and “outside” of the European continent. The crux of this situation is that NATO was established to deter external aggression. The issue of territorial disagreements among NATO member states has never been addressed within the alliance. Here, the position of the Greenland government cannot be ignored: “We accept allied defense, but not an ownership conversation.” Realistically, however, global strategic considerations must override these legal arguments. Any armed conflict within the alliance would undermine the credibility of unified deterrence.

President Trump’s other offer, namely, buying Greenland like it happened with the Danish West Indies on March 31, 1917, for $25 million, primarily for strategic military reasons during World War I, to prevent German control over the three islands, could be problematic because of the 2009 treaty between the Kingdom of Denmark and the self-governing autonomous island with its rights for self-determination. The situation becomes even more complicated when the opinions of the Greenlanders are researched. According to a 2019 poll, almost 70 percent of locals prefer full independence to the current situation. A more recent poll taken in 2025 was even more unambiguous: 84 percent of Greenlanders professed support for full independence.

Thus, President Trump’s offer of purchasing Greenland is presently the most realistic way to solve the Greenland “problem.” The most compelling reason is that nobody can predict the future, and surely not in the long run. Mainly, the Kingdom of Denmark’s legal claim to Greenland has also been tenuous at best. Additionally, its long-standing neglect and mistreatment of the Greenlanders have demonstrated that the Danish people did not care about Greenland’s present and future. Finally, the Kingdom of Denmark cannot legitimately maintain control over Greenland because Greenlanders want independence.

In conclusion, the best solution would be Greenland’s independence, followed by a referendum on remaining independent or joining the United States of America as the 51st state. Yet, the situation is pressing. Therefore, purchasing Greenland now is the most practical and least controversial decision for all concerned.

Frightening CCP Infiltration of the U.S. at All-Time High

 

Everyone complains about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but we all buy their products with the impression that China has become more of a free market country, resulting in a disconnect from the reality of the horrors of the CCP. The CCP is harvesting tens of thousands of organs from dissidents while they are alive in prison, almost always resulting in their deaths. One dissident who recently escaped China after two years in prison merely for practicing his religion (the CCP is atheist and mostly bans religion), told me every week his blood was taken in order to determine if he would be a suitable organ donor.

While China implemented economic reforms beginning in 1978, allowing some private enterprise, the political system retains communist ideology and one-party rule — at best a socialist market economy. Under dictator Xi Jinping, controls have tightened, with increased censorship, surveillance and repression of dissent.

But it doesn’t just end in China. The CCP is increasingly infiltrating the U.S. with political warfare and influence operations, as exposed in a 2024 report from the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. Chairman James Comer (R-KY-01) said the CCP identified the U.S. as its main enemy, since the communists view the U.S. as a threat to their “authoritarian grip.”

The CCP is conducting espionage and intellectual property theft in the U.S, with economic espionage from the CCP — 80 percent of economic espionage — costing the U.S. hundreds of billions of dollars annually. The CCP is stealing trade secrets, military technology and research.

The CCP uses overseas Chinese associations, sister-city programs and student groups like the Chinese Students and Scholars Associations to monitor dissidents, promote CCP narratives and build influence. They harass and threaten Falun Gong practitioners, including their internationally renowned Shen Yun dance and music troupe. Operatives call in bomb threats to Shen Yun’s performances and threaten national governments and venues, resulting in some of them caving and refusing to host Shen Yun. Shen Yun’s breathtaking performances showcase the beauty of Chinese culture and history, but also cover abuses by the CCP.

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Two agents affiliated with the CCP attempted to bribe IRS agents with $50,000 to investigate Shen Yun, but the plot was foiled and they were prosecuted and sentenced. Lawsuits were filed against Shen Yun, making up stories like utilizing child labor and failing to use doctors, but they were baseless and got nowhere. Over 750 current and former Shen Yun artists and production staff members, including almost all current performers and staff, signed a petition condemning the media attacks.  

Falun Gong, which supporters believe has almost 100 million participants worldwide, is a spiritual practice that emerged in the 1990s, combining elements of traditional Chinese qigong, meditation and moral teachings drawn from Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian traditions. While it’s not much different than the spiritual practices associated with yoga, and its adherents believe in a higher being, the CCP has falsely portrayed it as a cult to hurt its reputation. Falun Gong is actually the opposite of a cult, because it has a decentralized, loose structure with no formal membership, fees, temples, rituals or rigid hierarchy. Practitioners have a positive view of other religions, viewing them as historically valuable but with concern that some have become secularized.

 CCP agents are purchasing land near military bases and infiltrating port entries. They plant stories in the mainstream media and threaten U.S. reporters. Mike Forsythe of Bloomberg News had his investigation killed, Bloomberg fired him, and his wife, Leta Hong Fincher, was pressured to stay silent. Reporters in China are sentenced to prison for as long as 10 years. 

Agents affiliated with the CCP pay protesters to cause division, including disrupting Falun Gong parades, protesting against Israel and creating conflict over illegal immigration policies. Whistleblower notes from a June internal CITIC report revealed that the CCP pushed its agents to “take advantage of the U.S. election and the conflicts between the two parties.” Agents pay social media influencers to spread disinformation and create anonymous accounts.

The CCP goes after all dissenters and religions. Since Falun Gong practitioners abstain from tobacco and alcohol, they are considered ideal organ harvesting candidates. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ-04), co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), said the average age of those executed and immediately harvested is 28. 

Christians are only allowed to worship in state-sanctioned churches that promote the CCP, so they meet in illegal underground homes. Smith said that while they represent a “smaller portion” of harvesting victims, due to their healthier lifestyles and fewer Falun Gong left to harvest from, Christians could become increasingly targeted.

The Tuidang Center for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party tracks how many Chinese have left the CCP and its affiliated organizations. It states that there are now over 456 million deserters.

There is a perception that China is going to surpass the U.S. in influence and power because of its ruthless saturation of the U.S. market with cheap goods. But it’s an illusion. China undercuts U.S. market competition by treating its workers like slaves and forcing unpaid labor on prisoners, not through legitimate means. One dissident told me his roommate was shocked to see the exact products he was forced to produce without pay in prison for sale on Amazon. 

Former FBI Director Christopher Wray described China as the U.S.’s top counterintelligence priority, with new China-related cases opened every 10–12 hours. Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe warned Americans in an op-ed that “China Is National Security Threat No. 1.” 

China is no longer a paper tiger; it is a real threat. While the U.S. may have successfully led the fight to eradicate communism in the former U.S.S.R., which had 286 million people (and granted, modern-day Russia is only somewhat of an improvement), communism in China, with its much greater 1.4 billion population, has arisen to replace it

The Democratic Party Is Becoming the Manson Family

 

I’m just going to say it.  The Democratic Party seems to be turning into a death cult. It reminds me increasingly of the murderous following that developed around the 1960s psychopath, Charles Manson, which came to be known as the Manson Family.

For those too young to remember, or need a short refresher, Charles Manson was a career criminal and amateur musician and songwriter. He lived on the fringes of Los Angeles in the 1960s after spending much of his youth in Ohio and West Virginia committing petty crimes and being incarcerated. He eventually wound up in California and spent time in prison, and then in Washington state, where a fellow inmate taught him to play guitar.

Manson became involved in drug experimentation, including LSD (reportedly as part of a CIA program). While living in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco in the late 1960s, he began to preach his own brand of philosophy that married up scientology, Dale Carnegie, and the Beatles. He attracted a following of mostly female fans, largely by manipulating troubled personalities with drugs and his strange proselytizing. They lived in a communal house in Topanga Canyon near Los Angeles. Combining LSD and mind-control, Manson sought to have all his “family” completely submit to his will.

Beginning in 1969, Manson and his followers committed a series of murders in California, the most notorious of which were the Tate-LaBianca murders. Manson ordered four of his followers, three female and one male, to go to a luxurious home near Beverly Hills that was occupied by 26-year-old film actress Sharon Tate, who was 8 ½ months pregnant, and three of her friends. Manson told his four disciples to “totally destroy” everyone in the house “as gruesome as you can.” Manson’s followers didn’t disappoint.  

The mayhem and murders of the home’s occupants after the Manson followers broke in were incredibly brutal. They were shot, stabbed, beaten and hung.  In addition to Tate and her three friends, the baby in Tate’s womb died, as did a hapless friend of the home’s caretaker who happened to drive up to the property shortly before the start of the rampage.

The following night, Manson ordered his followers to murder supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary, in their Los Angeles area estate. Their murders were equally gruesome.

The perpetrators were soon identified and apprehended, and their trials became a spectacle. Manson would carve an ‘X’ into his forehead, while the female defendants in the murder trials would duplicate the mark on their own foreheads, followed by other members of the Manson Family who were not on trial, but were holding vigils outside the courthouse. (Manson, with his penchant for theatricality, would later turn the ‘X’ into a swastika.)

In August 1969, President Richard Nixon complained that the media were trying to glamorize the Manson Family members, which resonates today, as we see the media glamorize Luigi Mangione, the killer of a healthcare executive. Charles Manson tried to physically attack Judge Charles Older, overseeing his trial, in the courtroom, prompting the judge to arm himself subsequently. Eventually all those charged were convicted and incarcerated for the murders. Manson would die in prison in 2017.

The cultural phenomenon that followed the Manson killings was shocking. Former Weather Underground member, Bernadine Dohrn, who later became a law professor and wife of Barack Obama’s pal, Bill Ayres, said of the murders: “Dig it, first they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they even shoved a fork into the pig Tate's stomach! Wild!"

We are now witnessing a shocking celebratory reaction of Charlie Kirk’s horrifying public assassination among many on America’s left and in the Democratic Party.  Teachers, professors, physicians, lawyers, and corporate executives have mocked or praised Kirk’s murder. Indeed, the No. 1 demographic celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder is reportedly professors and teachers. One can find countless videos posted to social media of disgusting displays of individuals celebrating the brutal slaying of this man, whose uniquely effective debating skills were too much for them to bear.

New polling data reveals a stunning level of acceptance of political violence on the part of American liberals. The question, “Do you generally consider it to be acceptable or unacceptable for a person to be happy about the death of a public figure they oppose?” was met with nearly a quarter of individuals who identified as “very liberal” – 24 percent – responding that it was “always or usually acceptable.” Three percent of those who identified as “very conservative” agreed with that sentiment.

Some Republicans have expressed concern about the potential development on the American left of an “assassination culture” in America.

Just as Charles Manson’s “family” of drug-addled psychopaths had been conditioned to completely submit to the will of their leader, too many Democrats seem to have lost their humanity and have been conditioned to embrace or accept homicide as a tactic in realizing their goals. The same penchants for narcissism, nihilism and public spectacle that drove Manson are what we are witnessing among much of America’s left today.  

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Charlie Kirk was the nice guy on the conservative side who thought that his political opponents could be reasoned with by using logical arguments.  It cost him his life. My fervent hope is that the Democratic Party does not continue its descent into Manson-like psychopathy. Better yet, maybe many of its members will wake up and leave that party altogether.

Charlie Kirk’s Bold Mission to Rescue a Lost Generation

 I

’d like to comment on the legacy of the late Charlie Kirk and why he is going to be remembered and what he accomplished.

There’s been a lot of encomia about him, but I think one of the most unusual things that he did was he changed politics, but he didn’t address political issues first. In other words, he saw politics as a reflection of deeper social, economic, and cultural issues.

I talked to him in late August, and what he was intent on was trying to tell a new generation of Americans that they were suffering from prolonged adolescence, and part of that wasn’t their fault.

He was arguing that the Republican Party cannot empower people like [New York City mayoral candidate] Zohran Mamdani and the socialist Left, who have no solutions and will make things worse, but they have to address why they are popular.

Some of it, of course, is ignorance, but what he was trying to say is that people who cannot afford a home, they cannot afford energy, they cannot afford gasoline, they can’t afford to buy a car, they prolong their adolescence. They do not get married, or they’ve been indoctrinated in college that the nuclear family is toxic, or they don’t understand the beauty of child raising or raising children. And in a larger sense, these personal decisions they’re making are not only making them unhappy, but they’re hurting the country.

In other words, we’re suffering from 1.6 fertility, a radical drop in the last quarter century from 2.0 at the turn of the millennium.

And what he was also trying to say is that there were solutions to these problems in sort of the red state paradigm in places like Florida, in places like Texas, in places like Arizona, in places somewhat like Nevada, where people were moving to—4 million, 6 million people a year—and they felt they could afford insurance, they could buy a car, it was safe, homes were affordable, they could get married at an earlier age, they could rediscover traditional norms of their grandparents.

So, he was concentrated, not in those areas, but in the swing states, especially in the 2024 election—Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, not Minnesota so much, but Michigan, somewhat Minnesota—and then blue states because he thought the battle had been won.

We turned to common sense in half the country, but he was going as an emissary into hostile territory and telling people:

There is a reason why you’re leaving in the millions. There is a reason why you’re not buying houses. We have to look at zoning laws. We have to look at energy production. We have to unleash people’s individual talent to produce more goods and services at an affordable price.

We have to champion the idea that a two-parent family is not aberrant. It was the historical norm for 2,500 years. It’s a good thing to have two or three children. It’s a good thing to be a young person and wanna buy a house in your 20s and not in your 40s, or to have a child in your 20s and not in your late 30s.

Nothing wrong with the latter, but he was trying to offer a different paradigm that had proved successful.

The second thing, very quickly, about him is his methodology was as varied as his message. In other words, to get that message across that there were cultural, social, economic factors that reflected one’s political view, and if you’re gonna win people over to the conservative politics, you have to explain socially, culturally, and economically why they’re not receptive at first and what can be done about it. But he also was a good orator.

He spoke extemporaneously. He had one year of college, and he waded into Oxford and Cambridge and took on people at, supposedly, the most prestigious universities in the English-speaking world. He could write. He created this huge organization, $100 million budget, somebody—we don’t do that in America without an MBA or a B.A. So, he was a multitalented figure.

And then, finally, as Aristotle said, courage is the most important of all virtues. And he was not afraid of his person. He was not afraid of getting into arguments with people. He was not intimidated by Ph.D.s, J.D.s, MBAs.

So, he was a rare individual. And I don’t think we’re gonna see anybody like him. I can’t think of anybody on the conservative or the Left that has that many skills and that many talents and that much energy, and more importantly, saw that the problem with America is not whether you’re conservative or liberal per se, not necessarily, but why you are.

And people who have some faith and some vision of being economically viable, and they can marry at an age at which they want to, they can have as many children as they please, they can buy a home, they are happier people. And the Republican Party in the past has not always ensured that they have that opportunity, and he was trying to address it.

A new install of Batocera Linux 41 over 33 would erase everything

 

I have Batocera Linux 33 with linux kernel 5.15 from 2022 and everything seems to work great except for Wii U emulator of Mario Kart 8. Off the Batocera Linux website, it said it would reformat the hard drive and I would loose all the ISOs and Roms on the hard drive meaning I can’t update to Batocera 41 with Linux Kernel 6.11 and lots of upgrades. The roms pretty much work from 2022 up to PS3 playing Ridge Racer 7 and Castlevania for PS3. Its already playable on Batocera 33. It beat theres a frame rate increase with Linux kernel 6.11 over 5.15. I can’t do it.

Top 100 Christian Albums

 

1. A Liturgy, A Legacy, A Ragamuffin Band – Rich Mullins – 1993

2. Only Visiting This Planet – Larry Norman – 1972

3. Jesus Freak – Dctalk – 1995

4. Self-Titled – Jars of Clay – 1995

5. Lead Me On – Amy Grant – 1988

6. The Beautiful Letdown – Switchfoot – 2003

7. For Them Who Have Ears – Keith Green– 1977

8. Take Me To Your Leader – The Newsboys– 1996

9. The End Is Not The End – House of Heroes – 2008

10. Freedom – Whiteheart – 1989

11. A Collision – David Crowder Band – 2005

12. Sixpence None The Richer – Sixpence None The Richer – 1997

13. Relient K – MmHmm – 2004

14. This Means War – Petra – 1987

15. To Hell With The Devil – Stryper – 1986

16. Love Broke Thru – Phil Keaggy – 1976

17. Motor Cycle – Daniel Amos – 1993

18. Dig – Adam Again 1992

19. Free At Last – Dctalk – 1992

20. Satellite – P.O.D. – 2001

21. This Beautiful Mess – Sixpence None The Richer – 1995

22. The 77’s – The 77’s – 1987

23. Awaiting Your Reply – Resurrection Band – 1978

24. The Everglow – Mae – 2005

25. Anybody Out There? – Burlap to Cashmere- 1998

26. Jesus Record – Rich Mullins – 1998

27. Cities – Anberlin – 2007

28. I 2 Eye – Michael W. Smith – 1988

29. Russ Taff – Russ Taff – 1987

30. Winds Of Heaven Stuff Of Earth – Rich Mullins – 1988

31. Circleslide– The Choir – 1990

32. Much Afraid – Jars of Clay – 1997

33. The Big Picture – Michael W. Smith – 1986

34. Welcome to Paradise – Randy Stonehill – 1976

35. Nothing is Sound – Switchfoot 2005

36. Sticks & Stones – The 77s – 1990

37. Self-Titled – All Star United – 1997

38. The Great Adventure – Steven Curtis Chapman – 1992

39. No Compromise – Keith Green – 1978

40. Forget & Not Slow Down – Relient K – 2009

41. Brother, Sister – Mewithoutyou – 2006

42. They’re Only Chasing Safety – Underoath – 2004

43. Body & Soul – Jon Gibson -1989

44. Secondhand – Mark Heard – 1991

45. Rebel – Lecrae – 2008

46. The Praise Album – Maranatha Singers – 1974

47. I Predict 1990 – Steve Taylor – 1987

48. Life In General – MxPx – 1995

49. Bloom – Audio Adrenaline – 1996

50. The Rebirth of Kirk Franklin – Kirk Franklin – 2002

51. Crooked – Propaganda – 2017

52. Keep On Singin’ – Andre Crouch & His Disciples – 1971

53. Alarma! – Daniel Amos – 1981

54. Mylon – Mylone Lefevre – 1970

55. Heart In Motion – Amy Grant – 1991

56. Third Day – Third Day – 1996

57. Wide Eyed & Mystified – Downhere – 2006

58. Speechless – Steven Curtis Chapman – 1999

59. Behold – My Epic – 2013

60. Sound Of Melodies – Leeland – 2006

61. Mercury – The Prayer Chain – 1995

62. Into the Sea – Attalus – 2015

63. Age To Age – Amy Grant – 1982

64. Mercury & Lightning – John Mark McMillan- 2017

65. Heaven – BeBe & CeCe Winans – 1988

66. 40 Acres – Caedmon’s Call – 1999

67. Straight On – Degarmo & Key – 1978

68. Immigrants Daughter – Margaret Becker – 1989

69. Silence – Blindside – 2002

70. The End is Near – Five Iron Frenzy (2003)

71. Them – PFR – 1996

72. Smash – One Bad Pig 1989

73. Love Song – Love Song – 1972

74. Stay – Jeremy Camp – 2002

75. Welcome to Diversity – Tobymac – 2004

76. Going Public – Newsboys – 1994

77. Beyond Belief – Petra – 1990

78. How The West Was Won – 2nd Chapter of Acts – 1977

79. Lie Down In The Grass – Charlie Peacock – 1984

80. Kansas – Jennifer Knapp (1998)

81. Phil Keaggy and Sunday’s Child – Phil Keaggy – 1988

82. She Must And Shall Go Free – Derek Webb – 2003

83. Meltdown – Steve Taylor – 1984

84. One More Song For You – The Imperials – 1979

85. The Warrior Is A Child – Twila Paris – 1984

86. Sin Disease – Scaterd Few – 1990

87. Beauty Will Rise – Steven Curtis Chapman – 2009

88. 10 Songs – Adam Again – 1988

89. Because He Lives – Bill Gaither Trio – 1971

90. Go West Young Man – Michael W. Smith – 1990

91. Crimson & Blue – Phil Keaggy – 1993

92. Drawing Black Lines – Project 86 – 2000

93. Love, War, & The Sea Between – Josh Garrels – 2011

94. Look Up, Child – Lauren Daigle – 2018

95. King Of Fools – Delirious – 1997

96. Light For The Lost Boy – Andrew Peterson- 2012

97. I am origami Pt. 2: Every Power Wide Awake – John Van Deusen – 2018

98. GLM (Gut Level Music) – The Altar Boys – 1986

99. Kaleidoscope Superior – Earthsuit – 2000

100. Falling Up – Falling Up (2015)

Democrats Betray Democracy to Stop Trump review

 

The Democrats have a new narrative, the Left in general does, that they are saving democracy from President Donald Trump. And that justifies “almost any means” necessary to achieve the end of destroying or preventing Donald Trump from governing effectively.

The problem with all of this is they are destroying democracy to destroy Donald Trump.

What do I mean? One of the issues that they are agitating is the redistricting of congressional districts in Texas and California now. And the general problem the Left has is, if you look at gerrymandering to make these jigsaw puzzle piece-like districts, the Left is way ahead of the Right. In other words, states that have proportions of 30% to 40% to 50% for Donald Trump do not have that level of representation in the Congress.

And there’s been sophisticated studies of gerrymandering. And it boils down to the Republicans are short some six to 10 seats in the House, based on the proportion of the national vote they have received.

The Democrats know that, but they’re angry about the Texas reapportionment and gerrymandering. And their attitude is: “We’ve already gerrymandered our states to the maximum. Don’t dare try to emulate us.”

James Carville said that they have to get tougher. That’s the new mantra: Gotta get tougher. Gotta get meaner. Sen. Cory Booker screams and yells and throws a fit about every three weeks in the Senate. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries picks up his baseball bat. There’s usually a video with “the squad” or representatives using the word “s—” or the F-word, kind of pornographic. Rep. Jasmine Crockett periodically calls Donald Trump names that can’t be repeated on air. But you can see the anger.

And now the new idea is that they haven’t been tough enough. They have been too tough.

There’s been three great scandals in the 21st century. The first was the Russian collusion hoax that was prompted by Hillary Clinton and facilitated by the Obama administration on its way out. That almost destroyed the Trump campaign, sabotaged his transition, and ate up 22 months of his first two years.

The second was the Biden FBI and CIA—but especially the CIA and the intelligence agencies—got 51 people, former intelligence authorities, to lie to the American people on the eve of the second debate to affect the 2020 election, and claim, falsely, that Donald Trump was lying about the laptop of Hunter Biden, that it was “fake,” that it was a “Russian production,” and Donald Trump then was colluding, again, with the Russians.

That was a complete lie. It was Hunter’s laptop. We know because the FBI had it in its possession and authenticated it.

And finally, the great scandal that the Democratic Party and the obsequious media knew that President Joe Biden was non compos mentis, he was not cognitively able to fulfill the office of the presidency. And they kept that from the American people, until they could no longer keep it, when he finally challenged Donald Trump to a debate and melted before our very eyes. Sort of like the Wicked Witch in “The Wizard of Oz.” He melted into a non-entity.

So, my point is, if you look at the Democrats, they have staged three great scandals to try to destroy the Trump administration and by extension, democracy.

They impeached Donald Trump twice. No one’s ever done that. They tried him as a private citizen. Nobody’s ever done that. They raided his home in Mar-a-Lago. That is a terrible precedent for an ex-president. No one’s ever done that. They tried to get him off the ballot in 25 states. No one had ever done that. There were two assassination attempts during the campaign. That had never happened before. They tried to debank him and make it impossible for Donald Trump to write a check, whether from Morgan Stanley or Bank of America, or any bank.

So, my point is this, when James Carville says, “We’re gonna get tough. We’re gonna get really tough. And we’re gonna let in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., to get four senators. Or we might have to pack the court to 13 justices,” I’m thinking, “Well, you always were going to do that.”

You were gonna pack to 15. In fact, if you had not lost the House and Senate during the Biden administration, had you had a normal president that was in control of his mental and physical abilities, then you would have not only packed the court and not only, as you promised, let in two states, but in addition, you would’ve gotten rid of the Electoral College by the hook and crook of the national voter compact. And more importantly, you would’ve abolished the Senate.

So the problem, James Carville and Democrats, is that you have sabotaged democracy. And you’ve done things that no one has ever done before to an oppositional candidate, presidential transition, and president.

And now you’re furious because you’re on the 40% side of every issue that’s dear to you—from the trans issue to the border issue, to the crime issue, to the Green New Deal issue, to foreign policy. And you have no political power. You don’t have the White House, you don’t have the Congress, you don’t have the Supreme Court. And your institutional power—the media, academia, the foundation—they are under assault.

And so, you’re frustrated and you’ve created this completely false narrative that you have to get tough, and you’ve been very Marquess of Queensberry rules-like. In fact, the opposite is true, everybody. You have been the most vicious and the most abject subverts of democracy, all for the short-term gain of destroying Donald Trump. And now that’s boomeranging upon you. And you don’t like to see it happen to you—what you tried to do to Donald Trump.

And there’s a whole vocabulary, cross-culturally, for what is happening to you now. It’s called payback is a “blank,” karma, boomerang, do unto others as you should do unto you, only eye for an eye, tooth for tooth. But this is called retribution. And it’s fully earned for what you’ve done to democracy, as long as it’s legal and it’s necessary.

But you’re angry because you’re impotent, and you’ve created false narratives that Donald Trump is doing what you have actually done. And what is that? Destroying democracy.

Trump’s Counterrevolution Is Succeeding Beyond Expectations

 

We’re watching the greatest counterrevolution in some 90 years. We have not seen any president try to radically change the political calculus and the nature of government since Franklin D. Roosevelt did it, from the Left, during the New Deal of the mid-1930s.

And what do I mean by that? President Donald Trump closed the border. Nobody thought he could. He closed it. He has now deported over 100,000 criminal illegal aliens and 1 million have self-deported, of all statuses, who were here illegally.

He’s basically declared war on DEI. And he’s winning that argument. He has barred biological males from competing in women’s sports. He has full public support for doing that and he’s making enormous inroads.

The universities are rushing and competing with each other to cut a deal with Donald Trump, and to agree to not gouge the federal government on federal grants through their surcharges of way over 40% or 50%; to follow civil rights legislation, the Supreme Court, and not discriminate by race or gender, as they do in admissions, hiring, promotion, tenure; and to be disinterested and be fair and follow, as I said, free speech canons in the Bill of Rights on campus.

What am I getting at? Donald Trump is winning on all of these social and cultural issues.

Abroad, we see that Iran no longer poses a nuclear threat for the immediate future; that Israel’s enemies—whether Hezbollah or Hamas or Houthis—are in disarray or severely attrited; Iran is no longer a threat to the Gulf states or Israel, at least for the immediate future; and we see some progress with Ukrainian war.

People are angry about this counterrevolution for two reasons: It’s succeeding and it’s succeeding beyond anybody’s wild expectation.

Naysayers, The Wall Street Journal news page said we would be in a recession now, the tariffs would cause a trade war, and we would see the stock market collapse. The opposite has happened: $15 trillion of foreign investment promised and $300 billion in tariff revenue anticipated.

We don’t know the eventual effects of these new tariffs, but for now, all of our economists who predicted gloom and doom were wrong. All of our cultural critics who said the universities would be destroyed by Donald Trump, that he would arrest innocent people who just happened to forget to get a visa, and he wouldn’t go after criminals—they are wrong too.

So, people are angry about this counterrevolution because it’s working. But there’s another reason why they’re angry. He’s not addressing the symptoms, as he did in the first administration.

He doesn’t have people around him, as he did in the first administration—a Rex Tillerson; a Bill Barr, a good man, but Bill Barr was not on the MAGA agenda; Jim Mattis; people like “anonymous” Omarosa Manigault Newman—all of these people who thought that they knew better than Donald Trump and they would either stop what he was trying to do or reinterpret what he was trying to do.

In other words, he has a team that is devoted to his counterrevolution, and more importantly, to the symptoms of the progressive project.

The symptoms of the progressive project are not just the Democrats exercising power in Congress or holding the White House, it’s how they get that power.

And they get that power through PBS and NPR, now defunded; cable news and slanted network news, now under assault when they lie and defame and face court ramifications; the universities that indoctrinate people, now facing large fines, tax on their endowments, a renewed way of a new government attention toward student loans, $1.7 trillion program surcharges, as I said, and segregation on campus in dorms, graduation ceremonies. The universities are now under scrutiny. We’re seeing the Department of Education itself being questioned.

And I mentioned before, in addition to education and the media, Donald Trump is attacking the very idea that residency is synonymous with citizenship. That if you came here illegally, if you reside illegally, then you are eventually going to face a deportation—even if you have not been a violent criminal, and even if you haven’t been served with deportation papers.

So, what he is trying to do is tell the American people that the Left exercises power, even when they do not control government, any branch of government. And they exercise power, even though on most of the issues, if not all of them, their constituency is only 40%. The majority of the American people oppose their agenda.

And they do this through the bureaucracies, through the media, through the universities, through the popular culture. And these are the very sources that Donald Trump is asking them to reform. And the government is going to shrink. The government’s gonna get out of the media business. The government’s gonna take a hard look at universities who want and obtain federal funds.

And we’re going to see the counterrevolution, I think, succeed, with one caveat. We’re going to see in the next year a frenzy, a frantic, almost out-of-mind reaction from the Left because they know that if this counterrevolution succeeds, it’ll be very difficult for them to push down an unpopular agenda down the throats of the American people.

So, brace yourself. We’re looking at the resistance coming up to the counterrevolution, and it’s going to be fierce and unhinged.

I am glad I put in the hours.

 I am glad I played 25 of my 50 playstation 5 games. I am glad I wrote 580 internet movie database reviews. I am glad I wrote 290 album reviews at Discogs since 2011. I am glad I was on bluray.com and had 1090 posts since 2011. I am glad I uploaded archive.org memories in 100 videos and 7000 JPEGs. I am glad I wrote 500 game reviews and 300 blog entries on my blog and gamespot blog. I am glad I wrote 100 book reviews at Goodreads and have 4900 friends. Now people can be friends with me or marry me someday.

My Top 8 Games of 1995

 

Note: Though no one knew it at the time, 1995 was the beginning of a major change in the video game industry. Once dominated by Nintendo and Sega, 1995 saw the release of the Sony PlayStation. Nintendo and Sega still dominated the conversation for much of the year, but change was coming.

Note (2): I realized today (11/13/2024) that the list I use to pull these games had placed Secret of Evermore in 1996 when it actually launched in the US in 1995. As a result, I initially omitted it from this list. I’ve now revised the list, placing Secret of Evermore in its proper place.

Honorable Mentions:
– Arcade: Marvel Super Heroes
– Sega Genesis / Super NES: Primal Rage, Spider-Man
– Sega Saturn / Sega CD: Panzer Dragoon, Lunar: Eternal Blue
– PlayStation: Gex, Rayman
– Super NES / Super Famicom: Breath of Fire II, C2: Judgment Clay, Earthbound, Secret of the Stars, Ys V: Lost Kefin, Kingdom of Sand

8. Kirby’s Dream Land 2 (Gameboy)(Tie)
Building off of the original Gameboy title as well the NES classic, Kirby’s Adventure, Kirby’s Dream Land 2 offers excellent platforming levels along with an array of powers for Kirby to take advantage of. Complimenting these powers are three new animal friends that Kirby can ride, with each offering their own take on Kirby’s acquired power(s). Kirby’s Dream Land 2 is also compatible with the Super Gameboy adapter for the Super NES, meaning the title would have it’s own color scheme and border when played via said adapter.

8. Super Adventure Island 2 (Super NES)(Tie)
You can read more about this title in my previous two entries covering the Adventure Island franchise, but in summation, Super Adventure Island 2 throws out most of what you knew about the series in favor of gameplay more in line with the latter Wonder Boy titles. This title is far more open world than previous entries and sees Captain Higgins armed with a sword and sporting a suit of armor. Levels will need to be revisited (via an overworld map) as you find new abilities. I’m a fan of both the Adventure Island and Wonder Boy series, and this title pulls positive elements for both.

8. Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety (Super NES)(Sega Genesis)(Tie)
The sequel to Maximum Carnage had some big shoes to fill, and while Separation Anxiety falls short of its predecessor, it is still plenty of fun to play through, due in no small part to the fact that you can now pick to play as either Venom or Spider-Man, or play along with a friend, utilizing both. Separation Anxiety brings back the hero cameos from Maximum Carnage, but reduces the variety by a bit. While this is disappointing, an entirely new array of enemies shake things up. My brother and I spent countless joyful hours playing through this and beat it a number of times.

7. Mega Man 7 (Super NES)
Oddly enough, Mega Man 7 almost didn’t see the light of day. Finished in 1994, it was shelved in favor of the Mega Man X series, and was only released after backlash from fans of the series. This is made more baffling by the fact that Mega Man 7 received largely positive reviews. While it wasn’t compared favorably to the X series, it was compared favorably to previous entries in the Mega Man series. Mega Man 7 also includes numerous secrets to discover, including the Rush Adapter introduced in Mega Man 6, an upgrade that, in my opinion, completely changes the game for the better once it is acquired. Mega Man 7 is also the first time Bass and Treble are seen in the series.

6. Castlevania: Dracula X (Super NES)
Dracula X for the Super NES is an odd title. While not a direct port of the TurboGrafx-16 title, Rondo of Blood, it does share some levels and has a near identical plot. It doesn’t include all of the levels from Rondo, but does add levels that are new to Dracula X. This was done due to the limitation of the Super NES compared to the TG-16 as well as licensing agreements involving Rondo of Blood. While Dracula X is an enjoyable title, I’ve never felt that the controls were as tight as they could have been, and some of the level design left me cold. Still, this is a traditional, level based Castlevania title, and it does play as such. Even with a few shortcomings, it is well worth your time to give it a chance, especially if you’ve never had the opportunity to do so before.

5. Chrono Trigger (Super NES)
Let’s get this out of the way right here. While I genuinely like this game, I never got out of it what many others have. I’ve never been sure why given my love of this genre. It may be due to the fact that I didn’t get to play this until it was re-released on the PlayStation some years later. Regardless, this is yet another classic RPG on the Super NES. Plot heavy with many numerous characters, Chrono Triggers sees you jumping through time to stop an upcoming calamity. Chrono Trigger is unique in that, at a certain point, you are able to challenge the final boss at a time of your choosing, allowing for a dozen different endings. Chrono Trigger remains a popular game even today, and is one I should truly revisit myself.

4. Addams Family Values (Super NES)
If you’ve been following my blog journey through the years, then you know I’ll occasionally pick a game that most people would never mention. For 1995, this is that title. While most people probably considered this a cash-in on the movie, a write-up in Nintendo Power convinced me to try this game, and it is far better than it has any right to be. While the plot of the game is similar to the film, it is vastly expanded upon. Addams Family Values tasks you, as Uncle Fester, with tracking down baby Pubert, who is being held somewhere on the Addams estate by Debbie Jelinsky. Addams Family Values plays almost identically to A Link to the Past, with a vast overworld, multiple “dungeons,” numerous items to find, and secrets aplenty. Truly, the only downside of this game is the use of a password system, given to you by a family member that is not always easily found. In the age of emulation and save states, this has become a moot point (even when using the original cart on a system such as the Retron5).

3. Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island (Super NES)
With Yoshi’s Island, Nintendo showed that they were not afraid to play with their most famous franchise. Instead of simply offering a direct gameplay sequel to Super Mario World, Yoshi’s Island instead puts you in the role of one of a number of Yoshis, trying to get Baby Mario to an imprisoned Baby Luigi, who is being held by Kamek and Baby Bowser. Yoshi’s Island is wildly imaginative in its level design, and uses a pastel and chalk aesthetic that have allowed the visuals to age extremely well. While I don’t prefer this title to Super Mario World (though it seems most gamers do), it is still an excellent game with ageless level design.

2. Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy’s Kong Quest (Super NES)
As good as Donkey Kong Country is, I think that Diddy’s Kong Quest is actually a superior experience. In this title, Donkey Kong has been captured and it is up to Diddy and Dixie Kong to rescue him. Diddy and Dixie play very similarly. Both are small, quick, and extremely agile. The primary (and maybe only) difference is that Dixie can float down slowly by spinning her hair, a lifesaver in a game with some very tight platforming sections. DKC 2 adds a few new gimmicks to the levels while pulling some from DKC. It also brings back the animal crates that were so crucial to surviving in DKC. It takes true genius to top Nintendo’s in-house games, and Rare was up to the challenge with DKC 2.

1. Secret or Evermore (Super NES)
I’ve written about this game a couple of times now because it is a game I adore. I originally purchased Evermore because I came across it for $20.00 at Wal-Mart and it looked intriguing. I had no clue at the time that I was buying a game that I would complete numerous times and would still go back to play nearly thirty years later. Evermore is an action RPG title that plays much like Secret of Mana, though I feel that Evermore controls a bit better. You, as the main character, along with your dog (also controllable) are pulled into a fantasy world by an odd machine you encounter in an abandoned mansion. After initially landing at a space station, you are ejected to a jungle area and are off to determine what has happened to you and to find a way to return to your own land. Evermore is a sprawling game that sends you through multiple themed areas. Weapons, items, and magic (called Alchemy in Evermore) are all present, as you would expect of a game in this genre. I love this game. Again, it’s one of those games that I come back to every couple of years because it gives me joy in a way that many games can’t. Anytime I can put a spotlight on it anywhere, I jump at the chance, and I’m happy to do so here (again) by making it my #1 game of 1995.

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