Author Archives: Lawrence Person

About Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. I'm still between jobs. Feel free to hit the tip jar if you're so inclined.

Mark Zuckerberg Has Been A Very Bad Robot Boy

Meta, AKA “The Artist Formerly Known As Facebook,” announced that they just lost $21 billion on their Reality Labs division, AKA the Metaverse, AKA the worst virtual reality environment since January 2022. Meta’s second-quarter earnings showed that Reality Labs, its … Continue reading →

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Bill Maher Interviews Jordan Peterson

Bill Maher is a liberal Democrat who has been increasingly red-pilled following the Flu Manchu lockdowns and his party’s increasing embrace of censorship. So when I saw that he had Jordan Peterson, a veritable walking red-pill dispensing machine, on his … Continue reading →

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Incompetent Uvalde Gun Lawsuit Draws Fines

After every media-hyped shooting, ambulance-chasing lawyers come out of the woodwork to file lawsuits against the manufacturer of whatever gun this month’s eel-brain happened to lay his hands on to do the deed, despite the Protection in Lawful Commerce in … Continue reading →

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Mapping Austin’s Homeless Problem

Despite the camping ban repeal, sprawling camps of drug-addicted transients lured here by departed mayor Steve Adler and the hard left Austin City Council continue to dot the landscape in and around Austin. Indeed, the problem remains so large that … Continue reading →

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Remembering the Rosemary Lehmberg DWI Arrest 10 Years Later

Before linking to my original story from just over ten years ago in this week’s LinkSwarm, I hadn’t thought of the Rosemary Lehmberg DWI case in quite a while. A short summary of the basic facts at the time of … Continue reading →

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Scalps Taken

It’s easy to get discouraged over the obscene metastasis of creeping social justice infecting our institutions. Even though only something like 15% of Americans back radical leftwing social justice, it often gives the impression of moving from victory to victory. … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for July 21, 2022

More Biden corruption, a bit about music, and cute dogs. It’s the Friday LinkSwarm! Here’s a fairly extensive timeline of Biden corruption. 2009 – The Obama-Biden administration takes office November 1, 2013 – China / BHR: Hunter Biden, business associate, … Continue reading →

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Number of Police Austin Adds In New Budget: Zero

Despite a massive deficit in the number of police officers needed to patrol city streets, want to guess how many police Austin’s new budget plans to add? Would you believe zero? Austin's proposed police budget includes: Adding 47.5 civilian FTEs … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: The Death of Stalin

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College Kids: “I’ll Be Making A Six-Figure Salary When I Graduate!” Reality: “LOL!”

There’s a difference between “young and naive” and “young and stupidly naive.” Today’s college jkids thinking they’re automatically going to make six-figure salaries thanks to their college degrees is the latter. Let’s look at this clip from Dave Ramsey’s show: … Continue reading →

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