Liberty and The Police

Liberty and The Police

by | May 31, 2020 | Culture, Drug Policy, Guns, Politics

The protests (warranted) and riots (unjustifiable) prompted by the horrific death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer produce all sorts of stupidity masquerading as truth-to-power armchair wisdom. This morning, I found my email in-box loaded with half a...
The New Sixty

The New Sixty

by | May 30, 2020 | Economics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation

Joe Biden was born on November 20, 1942. Donald Trump was born June 14, 1946. Barring a seismic shift in the political landscape, America’s next president will be either 78 or 74 on Inauguration Day 2021. This will be a record, breaking the previous record (that...
Language is Power

Language is Power

by | May 10, 2020 | Culture, Opinion

Language is information. Information is power. Therefore, language is power. My wife and I are working our way through Season 2 of Killing Eve these days, and a recent episode involved Villanelle (the main character who’s not named “Eve”) conversing,...
Collapsing Context

Collapsing Context

by | May 7, 2020 | Culture, Education, Health, Opinion

Fond as I am of coining fun or memorable phrases, and amused as I am by the social justice Left’s language gymnastics, I’ve developed a tendency to note the really good ones, of both the pithy and roll-your-eyes sort. Among my favorites of the pithy sort...
The Sell-Out Cop-Out

The Sell-Out Cop-Out

by | Apr 30, 2020 | Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics

Political filmmaker Michael Moore’s new movie Planet of the Humans contains a refreshing bit of honesty: that wind and solar are not the enviro-panacea that greens, carbon-haters, climate catastrophists, and various other enviro-fetishists have long claimed....