Blogiversary

As of today, I've been doing this blog for exactly twenty years.  When I started it, I never gave any thought to how long it might last, but I'm sure that if someone had told me it would be this long, I'd have been surprised.  I'm sixty-five now, so the blog has been going for almost a third of my entire life.  There's never been any other single project I stuck with for this long.

I didn't put a huge amount of thought into the name at the time.  "Infidel" refers to my strong anti-religion viewpoint, while 753 refers to 753 BCE, the traditional date of the founding of Rome.  It still fits well enough.  The blog covers a wide range of topics, but Western civilization and opposing religion remain central to my sense of self.

It has evolved over time, of course.  A lot of my early posts were just one or two sentences containing a link to something I found interesting.  I started the weekly link round-ups so I would have someplace to put all the links instead of cluttering up the blog with a separate post for each one.

The blog probably won't last another twenty years, since I myself probably won't.  But I have no plans to stop any time soon.  The blog will probably last as long as I do.

Video of the day -- our country, our rules

Perhaps Maher's best commentary ever.  Yes, there is a distinct Western civilization with a distinct culture and values.  Yes, they are better than the culture and values of other civilizations (some of which hardly even merit that title).  Yes, we need to insist that immigrants assimilate to our culture and not vice-versa.  The melting pot not the salad bowl.

Truths and inspirations for 17 August 2026

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[For the link round-up, click here.]

To me, this looks very winnable for Osborn.

I checked and the lawsuit story is true.

"AI" is screwing up things that shouldn't even be possible to screw up.

But this is a reality from which we can easily escape.  I've never had an account on any social media platform, and you don't need them either.  Just close them.  No "but I only use it for.....", just close them.

I've thought of the New Testament as Christian mythology for years.  The Old Testament is various ancient Middle Eastern mythology and folk tales mixed with a small amount of real history toward the end.

How can you see a cow up close and still want to drink or eat anything that comes from that thing?

I'm sure all those activists will get right on this as soon as they figure out how to use it to make Israel look bad.