So, for those of you who aren’t masochistic, you may have skipped the debate last night. Good for you. No seriously. You’re better than I am, and I envy you. For my part I’m only self loathing enough to watch 1 hour of it before going to bed. The internet will be full of hot…
Author: tsrblke
This is (sadly) Not the Onion
So I guess that to protest campus carry some idiot launched a “cocks not glocks” campaign at UT Austin. This is the progressive left in a nutshell (or a nut.) They see themselves as the intellectual (hah!) heirs to Foucault, who, as a professor mine once said can be summed up in one word “transgress!”…
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…
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…
Tentative Thoughts on Academic Freedom
So there’s been a ongoing dustup in my field over an article about a blowjob. No seriously. HuffPo of all places has a decent enough rundown (although a few months old, since then Prof. Dreger became former Professor Dreger by resigning in protest, plus some other back and forth in the Chronicle of Higher Ed that…
“So you burnt down the GOP” or “There is no conservative base.”
I’m seeing a wide variety of reasons for Trump support ranging from CNN’s favorite to broadcast the “I loved him on The Apprentice” (I thought a Kardashian would be our first celebrity president, or Beyoncé) to “I like what he stands for” or “He fights!” or “He has the right people mad.” (These to me…
The “Do Something”(TM) Brigade
On Wednesday CNN did an interview with a former democrat congressman who was petitioning Obama to Do Something(TM) about the refugee crisis. I’ve written in the comments at the HQ about the perils of “Do Something”(TM) before but thought now might be a good time to rehash those arguments in a more visible (and more…
Abrogating Responsibility (an ongoing series?): Charity
Last time in my haste to vent about my bad day, I wrote about abrogating our responsibility of protection and basic neighborly conflict dispute to police. In this post I’d like to look at a considerably larger problem: the shifting of the responsibility of charity onto government. (I’d like to say “this will be a…
Abrogating Responsibility (an ongoing series?)
This blog has only been around for about a week or so. But there’s already one post about cops and police overreach. There will be more. I titled this post “Abrogating Responsibility (an ongoing series?)” because as a broad topic I could probably stretch this out overall several posts: charity, work ethic, willpower, etc. etc….
Yep, the VA is still a failure
Not that anyone reading this blog really expected any different. After all, the VA been in failure mode since before I was born. But, via many sources, we have new information about the VA. Namely that nearly 1/3 of the 850,000 people waiting to get on the waiting list died before their applications were processed. So…