Inaugurated on schedule as expected, despite attempts to derail it with strange parliamentary tricks. I’ll be brief so we can all return to your lives as usual (and yes, we’ll all return to your lives as usual.) It seems to me, and I don’t want to give them any ideas, that the progressive left is…
Month: January 2017
Lies, Damned Lies And Statistics
https://twitter.com/Beer__Wolf/status/820989799574175744 I have an theory actually, but I suspect people won’t like it. It’s actually related to “And that’s how you got Trump!” Every time people point to crime problems you get that familiar refrain “Actually, crime rates are down.” And yes, this is factually true at a broad level, but not necessarily true for…
Et tu, Cleveland Clinic?
In the rush to the intellectual bottom, it’s painful to see once respectable Cleveland Clinic is racing to the bottom. Frankly this article doesn’t just border on screed, it is one. Phenomenally stupid, but needs a quick amount of picking apart in areas that are empirically wrong. We live in a toxic soup. There are over…
Ah…Fascism Rears Its Ugly Head…Again
The too cozy relationship between tech companies and the myriad law-enforcement arms of the US government is troubling. But when government pays employees in those tech companies to do what is essentially free-lance snooping, it is beyond the pale. The O.C. Weekly writes about United States of America v. Mark A. Rettenmaier. Rettenmaier is a…
Trigger Alert: Do You Know Someone Who Owns A Pickup Truck?
John Ekdahl asked a deceptively simple question of the nattering class on Twitter, and their collective head exploded. Based on the uniformity of the answers, they really do share a single brain….or maybe even just a single thought. And that thought is one that is immensely, profoundly, singlemindedly contemptuous of anything that smacks of Middle…