Another day another supposed academic making a fool of himself on twitter: https://twitter.com/LarsMaischak/status/851261987262611457 https://twitter.com/LarsMaischak/status/851262275738517509 Whatever you’re thoughts of Trump, thus far it seems hard to name any crimes that would rise to the level of execution as punishment. I suppose maybe if he coordinated with the Russians to the level of treason (frankly something I don’t see…
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You know the media had them ready to go. I’m going to take a page out of ‘ette MWR’s book here: I honestly don't know how I feel abt the missile strikes on Syria last night. I have the luxury of being able to ruminate on the situation. — Where are we? Nowhere (@nowhere_nh) April…
Intellectual Honesty And Pot
So, three weeks? Sorry to my readers. Today’s topic was put in my mind by the infamous ONT at Ace’s place. Via our Marginally Honorable Chairman and profane podcast personality Brent Cochran we have this idea I will say this about legal pot: I’m in favor. I’ve been really really drunk. I’ve been really really…
The Hypocrisy Of California
Some background: Consider now that California is raising it’s minimum wage to $15/hour. Now consider this quote from a Marketplace story on Trump and Small businesses: Ryssdal: So you’re skipping way down on my list of questions to ask, but since we’re on that now … immigration. Let’s say you want to make an apple pie,…
Science Is About To Discover Leftists Have No Allies, Only Pawns
Hello everybody! I see we’re recycling content from the HQ now. So Sorry, busy busy busy. (Deadlines for Graduation approach.) Nevertheless, something has appeared on my radar that is to big to ignore and that’s the pending Science March! Now as a guy who’s been blessed to be listed as co-author on a couple of…
Open Letter To William Kristol
Bill Kristol at AEI: “Replace the White Working Class” pic.twitter.com/jqB4J2qETk — Andrew Quackson (@AndrewQuackson) February 9, 2017 A National Embarrassment To: Mr. William Kristol, Editor at Large, Weekly Standard It is now the middle of February, the election is over 3 months behind us, and it has been almost one month since Donald Trump…
President Donald Trump
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…
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…