Explaining Trump to Brits
The question of how would I explain the Donald Trump Presidency to a British person appeared in my social media feed. As it happens, I actually did try to explain the Trump phenomenon, except in 2016. I was with my wife on a trip to Dublin. I was sitting on a bench in...
Green Alert
Environmental it-girl Greta Thunberg found herself stuck in Chile with nothing to do, after the nation cancelled its plans to host the 2019 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, aka COP25. The reason for the cancellation should give pause to Greta and...
Muh Roads!
A funny Twitter rant came across my feed today, ...you fucking level one rookie bitch-ass commentators on Twitter - I don't understand it - you not foolin' a libertarian by bringing up them bitch-ass roads! Indeed. The dismissive critics of libertarianism, and they...
Warren’s Health Care Delusion
Elizabeth Warren has many plans. Chief among them is her plan to nationalize one-seventh of America's economy, by eliminating private health insurance in favor of what she calls "Medicare for All." According to her, she'll manage this by taxing the snot out of a few...
Omar’s Dirty Hands
Freshman Congresswoman and "Squad" member Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was the lone Democrat not to vote in favor of a recent House resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support (that 11 Republicans voted against it merits its own...
The Seven Trillion Dollar Question
There is a range of estimates on what we've spent on the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Seven trillion dollars is a ballpark figure (what's a trifling trillion or two nowadays?). By the time all the veterans get the care they are due, we might add as much as another...
Why the Left Hates Trump
I've had occasion several times over the last three years to wonder why the Left, American and not just American, hates Donald Trump with a level of passion so intense that they're perfectly willing to bring the United States to its knees to get rid of him. Initially,...
The TERFs Were Right
Four years ago, I lamented the coercive homogenization of how we think that was born of the morphing of "political correctness" into "propaganda compliance." Part of that lament was the emergence of an internecine battle between feminists and transgender activists....
Punitive Solutions Preferred
I recently finished binge-watching Red Oaks, a very pleasant comedy set in and around a New Jersey country club in the mid-late 1980s. Those of a certain age will remember that was the era of the emergence of Japanese business as a global powerhouse, and of American...
Can Ignorance Be Excused?
Consider the word "ignorance." Ignorance is, simply put, lack of knowledge or information. It differs from stupidity, or idiocy, or foolishness, in that it's not a descriptor of a person, but merely of the information that a person possesses. As such, it's easily...
Social Distortion
Last week I opined on the dysfunction of Higher Ed — or rather, one particular aspect of it, since Academia is broken in so many ways. I began by trying to impress upon my readers the utter passivity of the freshmen students in my Introduction to Music (a required...
Low Prices Are Not A Luxury
CNN, taking a break from its "Trump Sucks, All The Time" programming, recently offered a breathless hand-wringing about Costco's $4.99 rotisserie chicken. Apparently, the item is hugely popular, and a big attraction for customers. CNN devoted much digital ink to the...
That’s It For Her
Those among you who fear a last-minute Hillary Clinton entry into the Democratic Primary, as the "sane" candidate who will save the party from its crazy-left lurch, take heart. Her recent bizarre rant about how Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian puppet has put those concerns...
Dealing With Social Breakdown: The Case of Inner Cities
I doubt that we are ever going to deal effectively with lone shooters, especially if policing breaks down like it did in Parkland. We can, however, ameliorate the problem, including especially in inner cities where the real mass shootings occur: Almost sixty just in...
So, You Want To Save The World
A friend shared this Twitter snippet, which apparently crossed her facebook feed, presumably shared by a friend of leftist leanings. Her (wholly accurate) rebuttal offered that actually believing this, but choosing to share a meme instead of "storming their houses,"...
The Syrian Suck and the Peshmerga Perseverance
With rancor and recriminations over America's withdrawing our protection to the Kurds in Syria (the Peshmerga) that resulting in the Turkish invasion now underway, it is illuminating to reflect on how we got into Syria in the first place. But the grand-strategy view...
The Ma’am With The Plan
An article I recently perused discussed visits to flyover country, where the Republicans that the Left loves to stereotype (see: deplorables, bitter clingers) live their lives. Among the many observations was the fact of manners - that everyone was taught, from a...
Buying Blind
Thoughts on Higher Education, Part 1 When Peter invited me to contribute to Pigs and Sheep, I asked if he would prefer that I write about anything in particular. "Write about what you know, as long as it is freedom-related" was the reply. So today I will write about...
Columbus and Binary Moralizing
Social media, the place where every fleeting thought becomes a set-in-stone opinion whose rejection is tantamount to eating raw baby seals in front of a kindergarten class, was (of course) awash in the usual virtue-signaling and Starbucks-stool erudition about...
Paying For Pain
CNN contributor Bakari Sellers recently opined that: Climate change should be a definitive issue for Black voters, but it isn’t. He went on to blame the whiteness of environmental activist groups. He has a point... sort of. A survey by The Atlantic found that people...
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