Decision Dysfunction
Many readers of a certain age know and are fond of the movie Office Space, with its many quotable lines and memorable moments, but I have a greater nostalgia for a similarly named but somewhat older movie, called Head Office. In the latter, a young Judge Reinhold is...
The Tariff Trap
Trump, in what can now be dubbed "classic" Trump style, has thrown the realm of international trade into chaos. He's both threatened and enacted tariffs against our biggest trading partners, he's ramped up already over-blown rhetoric, and he's thrown down a gauntlet...
So Who Is the Authoritarian, Again?
The first presidential election I fully participated in was in 1980. I spent a fair bit of time watching the evening news, and learning from them that Ronald Reagan was willing, nay eager, to start a nuclear war. Furthermore, he had authoritarian tendencies comparable...
Contracts, Marriage, and The State
An under-the-radar Supreme Court Decision, handed down a couple days ago, offers another "be careful what you wish for" lesson to those who support government involvement in our individual interactions. The case, Sveen Et Al. v. Melin, centers on a state law in...
The Rage and The Irony
With Trump in the midst of a very consequential span of business (G-7, North Korea), and significant questions as to the effectiveness and prudence of his unorthodox style (to put it politely) abounding, it's worth stepping back a moment and contemplating his...
Some Animals Are More Equal…
Amidst all the brouhaha, folderol, bewailing, and Tier 3+ spinning in regard to the Masterpiece Bake Shop Supreme Court ruling (my take on it is here), we find two words that provide total clarity into the deep rift that exists between today's Left and the rest of us....
Thin Batter
On Monday, the Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated ruling in the Masterpiece Cake Shop "gay wedding cake" matter. The Court found in favor of the baker, reversing both the Colorado Civil Rights Commission's ruling against the baker and the various lower court...
“Safe Sites” And The Addict’s Ecosystem
The number of drug addicts in the USA is on the rise, and opioid overdoses are killing Americans at rate where policy must adapt. Adapt, because our attempt to incarcerate our way out of this problem has resulted in what is the greatest jailing of people in the...
Because “Freedom”
Like all proper thinking libertarians (No True Scotsman notwithstanding), I welcomed and applauded the recent passage of the Right To Try bill. Naturally, given that Trump specifically promoted passage of the bill in his State of the Union address, the left-o-sphere...
Taxing Health
A recent Wall Street Journal "Best of the Web" column included an amusing bit of snark: Paul R. Ehrlich, Call Your Office - World faces 'staggering obesity challenge: study." For those unaware, Paul R. Ehrlich wrote a book called The Population Bomb, wherein he...
Kill. Rape. Control.
The Salvadoran gang MS-13 recently splashed all over the headlines because, bizarrely, the press and the TDS blogosphere decided to go non-linear over Trump's calling some of them "animals." In an exemplar of the modern media's tendentiousness, Trump's use of the...
Power and Peril
With the appointment of Barbara Underwood, New York's solicitor general, to the position of interim NY State Attorney General, the public aspect of the Eric Schneiderman imbroglio has come to a close. As a reminder, Schneiderman, a self-styled champion of the women's...
The Right To Protest
The NFL (or "No Fun League," as some have dubbed it) got caught between a rock and a hard place when Colin Kaepernick decided to sit during the playing of the National Anthem before games, to protest racism. A major chunk of the NFL's fan base is very much America and...
Presidential Turpitude
Browsing channels the other day, I landed on some police drama (Law and Order? Blue Bloods?) that focused on a "fight club" atmosphere in the world of high finance and hedge funds. The trope is a familiar and common one: the high-testosterone machismo atmosphere, the...
The Irrelevance of the Medical Marijuana Debate
As pot legalization continues to move apace, I've started to notice a greater frequency of assertions about the benefits of pot or cannabidoil, and a greater frequency of rebuttals to assertions about the efficacy of marijuana for medicinal and health purposes. Some...
Weaponized Bureaucracies
The latest allegation in the perpetually sordid deconstruction of this past election is that the FBI planted a mole inside Trump's campaign. Concurrently, a preview of a pending report by the Inspector General is said to slam the FBI for foot-dragging its review of a...
Impassioned Indifference
Prince Harry married Meghan Markle last weekend, and my social media feed exploded. There was representation at every point on the spectrum, from full-on gushing joy to full-on raging hatred. The joy I get - a royal wedding is a spectacle, many people love a princess...
Unmanning Our Boys
Friday brought us the horror of yet another school shooting incident, one that, unlike an attempt a few days earlier that was thwarted by an armed resource officer, claimed ten lives. The usual voices of outrage and anger mouthed their usual statements and demands for...
Recipe: Oven Roasted Pork Carnitas
And now for something off the beaten path: a recipe I've been asked to share a number of times. I got interested in learning the technique for this dish after finding myself ordering it time and again at my favorite Mexican restaurant. My version varies somewhat from...
Walking the Woke Walk
It is said that there are no atheists in foxholes. The implication therein is, of course, that times of stress and personal risk bring out the truth in each of us. While noted atheist Penn Jillette has offered a rebuttal that there are only atheists in foxholes,...
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