You Loved the Blog. Now there’s a Podcast.

Europa’s Children: the Blog has now been joined by Europa’s Children: the Podcast.  In our first episode I tackle the burning question “Why did you become a White Supremacist?”  All criticism is welcome but please be gentle: I’m still mastering Audacity and learning how to work with a very sensitive microphone in a very noisy […]

Crying Shame

In 2016 39.8% of all Americans were obese: the estimated annual medical cost of this epidemic was some $147 billion.  In response to this crisis, we are cautioned against “fat shaming.” The Battle of Bulge Acceptance has even seen its soldiers fight for the hated Orange Man.  In response to a popular #maralardass tag attached […]

Witches Dismantling Whiteness

Where does one begin with the ever entertaining if rarely enlightening Patheos Pagan portal? If you’re Cyndi Brannen and you’re set on “Dismantling The Widespread White Advantage in Witchcraft” you might start: White advantage is everywhere in modern witchcraft, from pop culture to the common Wheel of the Year. While there is nothing inherently wrong […]

The Escape from Freedom

In my ongoing exploration of Marxist-Freudianism Erich Fromm has come as a welcome respite from Herbert Marcuse and Karl Popper.  Fromm’s vision owes more to Freud than Marx.  While he begins with many of the same preconceptions and goals, Fromm is less strident than Marcuse and more intellectually honest than Popper.  Where they see history as […]

Petitioning Away the Ex-Gay

According to Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out, Living Hope Ministries falsely portrays being gay as an “addiction”, “sickness”, and “sin;” promotes “dangerous, homophobic garbage;” and must be silenced “so LGBT youth won’t be tormented by hateful bigots and bullies.” Apple agrees (as does Amazon).  Google has been less cooperative: despite over 135,000 signatures and counting on a Change.org […]

Othala Means Homeland

Since my last sojourn in Facebook jail, I have been paying very close attention to Warden Zuckerberg’s Community Standards.  My comments have been temperate, my discourse moderated and my memes so bland you might think me a Democratic Socialist.  I have done what I can to be a reformed Facebook citizen.  And then they came for […]

Our Father of Spree Killers

Originally published July 31, 2012 So what’s so compelling about the Joker as a character? It may be that he’s the ungovernable force of horrific violence. Almost all of Batman’s adversaries are deranged fetishists of one kind or another. They’re fixated on money or vengeance, compulsively acting out their obsessions with dualities or riddles or […]

Frith

Every one of you reading this has warrior dead in your line. You wouldn’t be here otherwise. Every one of you has people, men and women both, who made the hard, necessary, and sometimes brutal choices of taking up arms to defend their families, their villages, their traditions. Honoring the military dead … is honoring […]