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…
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Happy New Year!
We here at Cut,Jib.Newsletter (and I guess by “we” I mostly mean I) would like to wish you and yours a Happy New Year as we approach midnight in a matter of hours (depending on time zone.) My 2017 be slightly less interesting than 2016!
Science “Journalism” Continues To Be A Mess
Headline: Many GMO studies have financial conflicts of interest. Opening Paragraph: Financial conflicts of interest were found in 40 percent of published research articles on the genetically modified crops, also known as GMO crops, French researchers said this week. OMG, it’s a science apocalypse. Now I’ve noted before, one should fully expect that companies will…
Lessons Are Never Learned By The Left
This may be axiomatic at this blog, but I think it bears repeating. Today’s lesson: Government provided income chains you to government. LinkedIn decided to put some dreck in my email agitating for a “Universal Basic Income.” (UBI) I tweeted about it, and someone with an autosearch function spit this back at me: Is that also…
Professor Watchlists Are Stupid, So Is The Response To Them By The Left
Hello 3 readers we have left since I’ve been forced to post sporadically. Via @PeetySDee and @Aggierican I have this…Uhh Screed against that “Professor Watch List” somebody started that I’ve only heard of because of the number of people complaining about it. (Seriously, I haven’t heard anyone actually promoting it, just people complaining.) Now for my part,…
Financial Regulation As A Template For Journalistic Transparency
(Reposted from Ace of Spades) Look at any financial or economic report from the research arm of an American investment bank and you will discover a bewildering array of disclosures, mandated by the Federal government as part of its never-ending drive to level the playing field of investing and – possibly more important to the…
And So It Begins: The Great Unknown–How Will Donald Trump Govern?
And aside from two issues….I don’t much care (for now). I want a goddamned wall built and our immigration laws forcefully enforced. I want national carry permits. Everything else will follow if he does these two things. If not, then the only positive to come out of the election is that the drunken kleptocrat with…
President-Elect Trump
So…That happened. Sorry, busy couple of days aside for the election (still work on that dissertation, even though I fully expect the backlash from academia to basically keep me in exile for at least another 4 years even though I supported a giant space rock.) I will confess to being a bit cautiously optimistic here….
“Choose The Form Of Your Destroyer”
So it’s finally here, the end to this shitty ass cycle. Consider this the clip show version of a blog post to fill the day. Honestly, I have no predictions, other than I think Blunt holds his seat in my home state. Past that, this is like nothing I’ve seen in my short time on…
Progressive Virtue Signaling And Taxing “Sin”
So, let’s turn a bit local for a second. The MO constitution is insanely easy to amend (something I hope the MO Legislature will fix some day) effectively making it a “dumping ground” for whatever the idea du jour is. Enter Missouri Amendment 3, a tobacco tax of fairly epic proportions (considering MO’s low tobacco…