The Global Exclaimer

📰 What is The Global Exclaimer and Why Might You Care?

Hello and welcome to The Global Exclaimer, the news site that dares to exist.
In a world where stuff happens, one news source, The Global Exclaimer, is one.

What will you find here?

Stuff that needs exclaiming. A perspective just left of that first star in the night, you know, the one you always looked at as a kid when you still felt wonder. A take on the world that some will call conservative, some will call insane, and some will never read.
The Obvious revealed and Confusion encouraged. Because you will want to resolve the confusion and find the obvious.

📚 What Shows Up Here?

Posts fall loosely into a handful of sections:

• Globservations – Observations from The Glob. Globservations. See what I did there? Things that jump out and deserve a quick exclamation—usually something like “What in tarnation, Ethel?!”

• Opinion & Cultural Takes – Similar to the above, only deeper, more patient, and occasionally supported by cogent argument. Exclaiming done only after consideration. Usually.

• Theological Armory – Where soldiers on the battlefield of ideas may go for training and armament. Expect faith, reason, the occasional Latin phrase, and maybe the True, the Good, and the Beautiful.

• Fiction & Lore – Sometimes it takes fiction to make sense of truth. Sometimes you just need a break. Sometimes you want something weird and unsettling. Sometimes... you want mystery. Sometime you want to go where somebody knows your name. That would be Kindly Bob at The Sign of the Screaming Monkey’s Head.

• Reviews & Criticism – Thoughts on other people’s work—books, articles, movies, meals—filtered through the peculiar lens of The Glob. Often respectful…

• Podcasts – Conversations, monologues, and audio digressions from the mouth of The Glob and Friends. Think of it as exactly not Fox & Friends.

• [Hidden] – Yeah.

My hope is that sometimes you will read something that will haunt you, that will keep poking at you, that you will mull over long after you forgot where you read it.

🎯 Who Is This For?

For anybody really. It helps if you have made your peace with the idea that there is objective truth. And for anyone who believes that such a thing is worth defending.

Also, for me.
I partly write to find out what I think. You’re welcome to come along.

🕵️ Who’s Behind It?

I’m Mark Connolly—
Husband, father, grandfather, dilletante philosopher.
I hold a Master’s in Theological Studies. I’m Catholic, Aristotelian-Thomist in theory, wanna be Stoic in practice where those all align with Catholic Social Teaching.
Some say I’m conservative. I say I like old things, old ideas that work. I’m not opposed to new. But some things are just what Frater Cowculus calls “axe handle technology.” If you’ve ever swung a well made axe for more than an hour, you know what that means.
Also I smoke cigars and drink whiskey.

💨 What About Subscriptions?

You don’t have to pay. Not yet.

But if I ever hit 100 real subscribers (bots excluded), I may open paid tiers.
You can pledge early if you'd like to fund the occasional Arturo Fuente 8-5-8.
It costs about seven dollars, give or take tax and inflation.

You can also make a one-time donation by clicking the cigar below.
If you do, I’ll write a post about it. Possibly while smoking.

Some other stuff:

• The Writing Manifesto

• Tag Index - coming soon

• Other stuff you may never see.

Welcome to The Glob.

The Global Exclaimer is a product of the Shadowy Global Organization known as The Hermetic Order Of The Ruminantia™. Frater Bovious, 9th Level Adept, works toward his own goals shrouded in mystery and confusion.
About this, nothing more may be said.

“The Eye is Open”™

Ψ THOOTR ☼™

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