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.

Labour Kicked In The Yarbles Yet Again

The UK just had their 2021 local elections, and once again Labour got kicked in the yarbles: The Conservatives have continued to sweep aside Labour in its traditional north-eastern English heartland. The party lost control of Durham County Council, which … Continue reading →

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Flu Manchu Wallops India

India seems to be getting hit particularly badly by the Wuhan coronavirus right now, with over 400,000 new cases in 24 hours. The weird thing about India is that the peak curves differ from those of the U.S. American cases … Continue reading →

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Trump Red-Pilled Hispanics

For almost as long as I’ve been following politics, Democratic Party analysts like Ruy Teixeira have been confidently predicting a new, permanent Democratic majority based on the the demographic trend of rising numbers of minority voters, which explains why Democrats … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for May 7, 2021

Greetings, and welcome to another Friday LinkSwarm! The Biden economy kicks in, China behaves badly (again), and rock stars are fed up with woke. Let’s lead off with this weird photo people have been taking about all week: How did … Continue reading →

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Texas House Passes “Urban Camping” Ban

On top of Austin voters banning “Urban Camping” (i.e., garbage strewn tent cities of transient drug addicts), the State of Texas has also banned it: In a rebuke over a year in the making, the Texas House of Representatives gave … Continue reading →

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CRT Opponents Win School Board Seats

Some good news amidst the gloom: Two candidates opposed to teaching critical race theory (CRT) in public school classes have been elected to a Texas school board. Nine months after Hannah Smith and Cameron “Cam” Bryan introduced a proposal to … Continue reading →

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Hollywood: “Turgid, Sanctimonious, Predictable, Joyless, and Boring.”

Last week there were two events that I used to pay attention to that this year I ended up ignoring entirely: The Oscars and the NFL Draft. The NFL draft I ignored because of the league’s “getting woke” (though the … Continue reading →

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When Boomstick Booms Wrong

Today I’m doing something I don’t think I’ve ever done before: Take a video I’ve already linked from a LinkSwarm and put it up here, because there are a lot of important lessons to learn. You should watch all of … Continue reading →

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Austin Voters Reject Bumsville

You expect Austin voters to embrace crazy leftwing policies, but turning every grassy median and underpass in the city into a garbage-strewn 24/7 amusement park for drug-addicted transients (with side order of arson and mayhem) was too much even for … Continue reading →

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Remember: May 1st is Victims of Communism Day

Today is May 1st, which means that once again it’s time to observe Victims of Communism Day, remembering that a false, brutal ideology killed over 100 million people. Here’s a list of memorials to the victims of communism. Here’s a … Continue reading →

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