Man is Wolf to Man.

Paladin is neither a deep thinker nor a deep reader. Paladin revels in a firm grasp of the superficial.  If other pundits, sooth-douches and journalistic sex-perps would only embrace the cursory, the frivolous and the one-dimensional – the world would be a better place. Why? Because, nothing gets you into more trouble, hurts more people or is more destructive than being self-reverential, sophisticated or nuanced.

Phony scandal after scandal, fake news story after fake news story, the nit-pick of each sandcastle made of Scat Francisco, Lost Angeles human feces – the endless nonsense dished out daily by the goose-stepping media for human consumption – is wholly produced by self-reverential mediocrities.

Let’s call them Smuglings, pompous twerps whose first thought when they wake up every morning is, “I am Special. I am Deep. Everyone is Below Me.”

The entire class of elite egghead Ruling Caste can be encapsulated into a single man and a single quote. The Pomp and Circumstance Award goes to Paul Krugman.  His prediction for the stock market on the night of DJT’s election never gets old, when asked, “If the question is when the markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

There’s your average arrogant, high-priest, Caligula smug, and then there’s Elite Hollywood/Acela Corridor/DC Smug. That’s smug of an infinite greater magnitude.

Click through to this MSN article about our “Wise Latina” breaking some Supreme Court Rule or other.  Take some time to look at this photo, by photographer Greg Nash, of our “Wise Latina” – the deep smugness of her smile.  She is without fear, without doubt, without pause; her boldness and the downturned smile signify her godlikeomniscience. Her self–evident superiority informs and inflates every aspect of her life. This is not a humble woman. This is a creature eager to justify the acts of anything or anyone who serves her political views and lust for power. Indulge in a Lord of the Rings analogy – Soto Moto’s face is the face of Saruman. Saruman – one of the great Deceivers of the Tolkien trilogy.

Now look at Associate Justice Samuel Alito beside her.  This is a tired old man consumed with doubt and exhaustion, unable to shoulder the burdens thrust upon him. His is the Face of Théoden before his great awakening. But in Alito’s case, don’t wait for Gandalf to cure him of his wasting disease. He is intellectually, emotionally, and publicly terminal.

If the Supreme Supremo is clearly tired of battle, our Wise Latina relishes it. Her inner Wolf runs free. When Man is Wolf to Man, she will be first at the table. She may couch her words and thoughts with great subtlety but her rapacious nature is self-evident at a glance.  

Homo Homini Lupus est.  

Man is Wolf to Man.  

The Wise Latina knows it well . . .the Wolf has no subtlety.  

Paladin is not talking about Konrad Lorenz – or canine anthropology mate-for-life women-who run with whatever crap is au courante – Paladin is talking about the mythical, terrifying wolf, the wolf that resides in every man’s soul, even the catamites and eunuchs among us.

This Wolf is the conscious, subconscious and unconscious power that lurks in the dark of the forest waiting only for the chance to strike. Paladin is talking about Little Red Riding Hood’s Wolf. An animal that will cunningly disguise itself as a harmless Granny simply to get about its next meal.

The DC Sewer is riddled with these types, and it’s Paladin’s final hope that in the end, you DC Smuglings make a feast of yourselves, leaving only your entrails behind for, “When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows,” Paladin will have peace with you.

Featured Photo is work by Gustave Dore, provided under CC BY-SA 3.0 . Additional photo by Greg Nash, cropped & altered from the original.

Paladin is an Entertainment/IP Warfare Rōnin and self-identifies as a Y-chromosome Victory Girl.