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.

Rolling Stone: Ivermectin Overdoses Overwhelm Oklahoma ERs! Follow-Up: By “Overwhelm” We Mean “Zero Cases”

Rolling Stone put up a piece that painted a devastating portrait of the horrors unapproved use of Ivermectin to fight Flu Manchu has wrought in Oklahoma: The rise in people using ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug usually reserved for deworming horses … Continue reading →

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A Short Video History Of The Holodomor

I’ve written about the Holodomor, the Ukrainian terror of 1930-33, before, as part of coverage of just how many people communism killed. If you don’t have time to read Robert Conquest’s The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for September 3, 2021

Greetings, and welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! I’m going to coral all the Afghan Debacle news for separate post, probably next week. In the meantime: Texans are winning political battles, and Australians are losing their damn minds. Texas finally passes … Continue reading →

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China Tries To Limit Video Games

If you think the War on Drugs is futile, China aims to one-up us by banning teenagers from playing more than three hours of video games a week: China has a new rule for the country’s hundreds of millions of … Continue reading →

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Has Austin Started Enforcing The Homeless Camping Ban?

Some developments in the clearing of illegal Austin transient camps. Today the statewide homeless camping ban went into effect: Beginning Wednesday, there will be a second law prohibiting homeless camping in Austin — this one in the form of a … Continue reading →

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Coal Power Vs. Wind Power

Coal power vs. wind power. Which will win? Holy.. 👀 pic.twitter.com/FL5g6F345J — BaldPrivilege 🍉🍍🥝🥭👊👊👊 (@Baldprivilege) August 30, 2021 That happened yesterday in Luling, Texas. Fortunately no one was seriously injured. I love the smell of a concrete metaphor in the … Continue reading →

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Vice Media Lays Off Writers

Vice Media is laying off workers, so let’s have a moment of silenceOK that’s enough. Aw, who am I kidding? Break out the tiny violin! “Thursday’s layoffs mainly came from Refinery29.” I had honestly forgotten that Vice owned that feminist … Continue reading →

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Taliban Blocks Dog Rescue

This is going to angry up your blood: Human life means nothing to jihadis. It would follow that their barbarity towards humans, which is constantly on display, would extend to animals. Farthing “warned the pets will bake to death in … Continue reading →

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One Day To Flatten the Curve

Gavin Newsom thinks we only need one day to flatten the curve, and he knows just the day to do it on…

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LinkSwarm for August 28, 2021

Greetings, and welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! Biden’s Afghan debacle continues to top the news: At least 90 people, including 13 American soldiers, were killed in in a bombing at an entrance to the Kabul airport. Un-Fucking believable: “U.S. officials … Continue reading →

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