Feuding and ideological extremism have driven some of the US’s flagship leftwing radio stations to the brink of collapse, according to two veteran broadcasters. Source: ‘This is the end’: leftwing Pacifica Radio affiliates enter protracted death spiral | Media | The Guardian As indicated previously, leftist psychology fascinates me. On one hand, when faced with…
Month: September 2015
We Have Our Chamberlain…But Who Is Our Hitler?
This isn’t news; Obama has destroyed our standing in the world, particularly in the Middle East, where three millenia of strife has taught us that a power vacuum is always filled rapidly. We have squandered our blood and treasure in that violent cesspit, and have left our only ally in the region to fend for…
Then I took a Kenneth Arrow to the knee
Blog host CBD asks us is healthcare demand really elastic? The answer is a complicated mess of “yes, sometimes, but not always” that’s worth exploring. If you ask a liberal to discuss the inelasticity of healthcare cost my experience is they will ramble on for chapters incoherently about Kenneth Arrow and market failures. You can actually read Arrow’s…
The Craft Beer Illusionists…
Much like Donald Trump, who identifies a marketing opportunity and capitalizes upon it, ultimately making a monster of it, InBev has feverishly been working to beat the (and if you can’t beat ’em buy ’em,) craft beer market…and no, I don’t like pumpkin beers nor handlebar mustaches. Anheuser-Busch InBev is currently in merger talks with…
A Study In Contrasts: Tim Tebow vs. Michael Sam
Thanks @Eagles and Coach Kelly for giving me the opportunity to play the game I love! Romans 8:28 #Blessed — Tim Tebow (@TimTebow) September 5, 2015 I have always been impressed by Tebow’s affability, and his refusal to play the tit-for-tat game that modern media insists upon. I have no idea whether Tebow is good…
Shorter CNN: “John Paul Who?”
Let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way first: yes, I watch CNN, for a variety of reasons. (I don’t particularly like FoxNews’s format and I’m not watching MSNBC. Although lately I’ve been watching that One America News Network, but it can’t keep up with breaking news.) Anyway. My wife and I…
Once In A Lifetime
…Now I have precisely the right instrument, at precisely the right moment of history and exactly the right place… This will change too, very quickly. Like a planet spinning off into the universe. A moment like this won’t come again for a thousand years… As I contemplate the dire state of our nation and the world, and the current presidential aspirations…
This Anti-Islamic Microaggression Shall Not Stand: “Stampede” Refers To Animals, Not People
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, and a host of other major newspapers and other media have insulted Islam with their ignorant or intentional use of the word “stampede.” The Oxford English Dictionary’s first definition clearly states that stampede is: A sudden panicked rush of a number…
Is Health Care Demand Really Elastic?
In an otherwise unremarkable article about what everyone who is paying any attention has seen, and remarked upon, The Washington Post repeats a claim that seems more and more suspicious to me. Higher deductibles are a tool to reduce unnecessary health-care use, because people are more likely to think twice about seeing a doctor or…
Yogi Berra: 1925-2015
I have nothing new to say about Laurence Peter Berra. I never met him, have no relationship with The NY Yankees other than being a fan, and never even saw him play, although my grandfather took me to a Mets game when Berra was managing in the early 1970s, so I have some connection! But…