Normal People and Evil Assholes
Two evil assholes murdered several dozen people in New Zealand the other day. Beyond the usual responses, we are witnessing much discussion about their "manifesto," and its true intent. Was it anti-this or anti-that? Was it deliberately trolling? Was it intended to do...
Environmental Obstinacy
Despite an increasing number of past climate doomsday predictions falling flat, proving exaggerated, or simply not materializing at all, the drumbeat for action to remediate the global warming caused by human carbon emissions continues. And, in the fashion of Chicken...
Angels and Money
The great thinker Milton Friedman, in a seminal interview with Phil Donahue, exposed one of the great, under-addressed flaws in the premise of socialism and its other central-planning variants: the fact that the people in charge are no different than the people they...
The Whataboutism Telltale
Regular readers of this blog will recall that I've written of a grievance hierarchy, where competing identity groups sort themselves (or are sorted by the progressive taste-makers) into a sort of dog-pile, with those on top getting more protection and deference than...
Burdening Others Through The Social Contract
When was the last time you heard someone use the phrase "social contract?" It used to be the go-to justification for all the things the big government types demanded government do and we accede to. It seems to have been replaced by euphemisms like "that's what taxes...
Incentivizing Devolution
I caught a clip of a Joe Rogan podcast with evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein on Youtube, recently, where Weinstein went into the underpinnings of "beautiful" vs "hot" from an instinctual/genetic coding basis. Weinstein went on to detail male reproductive...
Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland…!
The Democratic Party's leftward lurch, led by Bernie Sanders' heir-apparent, "it-girl" Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has hit a few internecine bumps in the road of late, with AOC threatening to primary the "moderates" who aren't all-in on the Green new Deal, and Nancy...
Narcissism and The Flounce
Social media has provided us with many wonderful things. Among the most delicious, in my opinion, is its update of the "flounce." The traditional definition of the word includes "to move with exaggerated jerky or bouncy motions," "to move so as to draw attention to...
Patriots and Prostitutes
A months-long investigation into prostitution and human trafficking at some Florida massage parlors got elevated to front-page status with the announcement that among the "johns" charged was Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots football team. While Kraft...
The Apogee of Woke?
Presidential election politics typically follow a predictable arc. Candidates throw their hats into the ring, offering up a litany of lip service to the party's hard-core. This means feeding whatever "edge" views are in vogue among the politically active, in order to...
Elevator Urinators
Lynne Patton, the regional director of the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, is planning to actually live, for a few weeks, in some of the buildings in her charge. This is newsworthy enough to be worth a blog post on its own, and I tip my hat to the...
Zero-Sum Feminism
A friend recently took his kids (three girls and a boy) to see the new Lego movie, and then dropped me a text linking this Slate article. The article, which he affirmed as accurate, discusses how the movie portrays an alternative to the boundaries set by traditional...
Nothing To Lose
Much hay was made about how Nancy Pelosi got the better of Trump when he agreed to end the government shut-down a few weeks ago without getting his wall money. That was a bit premature, since all they did was kick the can down the road a couple weeks. It's now a...
The New York-Amazon Free Market Fallacy
Amazon's much-ballyhooed "competition" for its next major headquarters locations has been quite a spectacle. After months of one of the world's four most valuable companies basically asking cities and states for handouts and special treatment, it settled on two rather...
Get it Right?… Or Win The Fight?
An article over at Forbes attempts to answer the question "why don't greens and progressives embrace nuclear power as a solution to global warming?" Some who actually think about things do, but they are few, and they are typically ignored. The article suggests the...
Maximum Pluck
NY Governor Andrew Cuomo has been all over the news lately, with complaints and warnings regarding a tax revenue shortfall that's threatening his progressive agenda. He points the finger of blame (something he may or may not have learned from the...
Evangeline Below The Sum Line
EDITOR'S NOTE: This essay is the second in a series about the plight of street people and how our system mishandles them. The USA spends twice on healthcare what the next highest spender in the world does (with poor results). The healthcare industry is the largest...
Tom Brady and the Politics of Envy
This past Sunday, the New England Patriots disappointed most of the nation by winning their sixth Super Bowl, all with Tom Brady at quarterback. For the first time in I don't know how long, I didn't watch the game. Something about it all just didn't appeal to me,...
Broken Windows and New Deals
By now, everyone who pays attention to politics has heard of the Green New Deal being proposed by the left-end of the Democratic Party. Being flogged as not only an environmental necessity, but as a means of achieving social justice and support for the poor by it-girl...
Shooting The Moon
Now that more and more people are throwing their hats into the Democratic presidential nomination ring, and now that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become the "it-girl" of the Left's political rhetoric, serious people are starting to question the leftward shift of the...
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