Hollywood’s Diversity Sham
My morning news perusals brought me a nifty little snippet from the increasingly moribund Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), an organization seemingly unable to balance its reliance on the masses to which it provides entertainment against the giant...
Joe and The Mayors
Apparently, it took a shift in the polls to wake Joe Biden and the Democrats up to the fact that Americans are unhappy with the violence raging in many big cities. To put it mildly. Biden emerged from his basement bunker to deliver an "unequivocal" condemnation of...
Looters’ Lives Matter?
Back in 2014, a "writer, editor, and agitator" named Vicky Osterweil wrote an essay titled "In Defense of Looting," and published it during the unrest following the death-by-cop of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri (for the record, the local grand jury chose not to...
“I’m Not Him”
What an interesting time we live in. With just over seventy days until the election, we are faced with a choice between a boorish wild-man Untethered Orange Id (TM) and a senescent lifetime swamp rat. The President, who managed to have a good first year despite coming...
Big Cities and Black Swans
A long-running hallmark of progressive politics is urban planning - the idea that the Best-and-Brightest (TM) should organize our physical lives in a fashion that advances certain goals. Those goals are purported to include efficiency, environmental stewardship,...
The Many Panes of Broken Windows
The aftermath of George Floyd's death under the knee of a police officer has cast a much-needed light on over-policing in our communities. The philosophical basis for that over-policing is the "broken windows" theory, which holds that degradation in small things will...
Another Lost Opportunity
A window of opportunity opened, shortly after George Floyd's death, to make some real and good changes in policing, changes that would not only improve relations with minority communities, but would benefit policing as well. I discussed some of those changes in this...
A Place For My Trouble
Every morning I wake up, holding my breath while I turn on my phone to see the latest news. I think to myself, 'It can’t be worse than yesterday.' But when the news loads, I think, 'Ohhhhh, yes, it is worse.' Thus spake Barbra Streisand, legendary singer, movie star,...
A Tale of Two Memes
Ponder the meme above. What do you see? Is it violent and thuggish government agents dispersing a peaceful protest? Or is it properly equipped law enforcement officers protecting individual and property rights from a violent mob? The meme's author is looking to make a...
When Seconds Count…
This past December, a "good guy with a gun" stopped a mass shooting in a northeastern Texas town, putting (again) the lie to the anti-gun dismissiveness about civilians stopping crime. Right on cue, nanny-billionaire Mike Bloomberg chimed in with his trademark...
The End of the Middle
An old adage tells us, "the truth usually lies somewhere in the middle." Some old adages give us truth and wisdom. This isn't one of them. In fact, it's so not one of them that it nomenclated a couple logical fallacies (yeah, yeah, nomenclated is not a real word, but...
Cloward-Piven and Cullors-Garza
The social and cultural reverberations of the George Floyd killing continue, in ever-more-worrisome form. Major cities around the nation are devolving into criminal chaos, with shootings, homicides, vandalism, and looting spiking. Urban flight is increasing, with home...
Biden’s Law-And-Order Gambit
Where's-Waldo Biden surprised a good number of my political friends (and me) and picked Kamala Harris to run with him against Trump (and, many speculate, to be President should he not complete his term). Given her unlikeability and her spectacular (and well-deserved)...
Manners Make The Peace
What are manners? Manners are the things that we agree to do, but we are not forced to do. This is the heart of the mask argument: if people don't do it because it's "just the right thing," it's not really possible to make them do it from on-high. When "no spitting"...
SALTy Balls
One of the great truths of life is that politicians have virtually no shame, no matter how much they morally preen and scold others. I was reminded of this in reading that NY Senator Chuck Schumer and Congressman Thomas Suozzi are pushing to include a removal of the...
COVID Cojones
There are times, in my blogging, that I am surprised by the degree of response to a particular topic. One such surprise was, and continues to be, the polarization around the wearing of masks in public places to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, the advocacy...
Cancel Culture and the NAP
By now, I'm sure you've heard of "cancel culture," the social phenomenon where aggressive defenders of the oppressed will not only criticize you should you act, write, or speak in a manner that doesn't conform to their demands, but will actively seek to punish you,...
Mask Manners
Would you find a politically-charged controversy about looking both ways before crossing the street perplexing? Would you be puzzled by its polarizing by political party, with finger-pointing across the aisle? Would you wonder what law (on the most lawed-upon people...
Stealing Speech
Nigh-on twenty years ago, when I was living in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, NY, and working with my family at our restaurant, I put a Libertarian Party sticker on the back window of my SUV. It was a beast of a truck, a Chevy Suburban K2500 in black, with a...
Peacefully Radical Transformations
The Black Lives Matter protests, with their accompanying riots and all the sequels that brought them about, bring to the fore Leftist demands for fundamental changes to the American way of the classical liberal order. Let's review what that order gained us, and the...
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