The problem with “the Pen and the Phone” is that every president has a pen and any number of phones. What’s easily established is just as easily destroyed. Yesterday, Trump “Pulled out” of the Paris Accords, and I’m going to take a little different approach here and say: The arguments for leaving the Accord were…
Life Imitates Graduate School
So for people who aren’t aware, I’m finishing up a PhD in Health Care Ethics. (It’s bioethics, but the program predates the broad use of that term in the mid-90s so we use the older name.) I’m in the dissertation writing phase (which is why posts here have been so sporadic.) Honestly I’ve been in…
If I Really Wanted To Kill All the Sick People
This is the lefts current claim about AHCA: Republicans just want to kill all the sick people. Let’s skip, for the moment, my qualms about AHCA (which I’m not a fan of for tons of reasons.) Let’s also set aside that it’s unlikely to look anything like it does now when it comes out of…
Postmodernism’s House Of Cards
https://twitter.com/charlescwcooke/status/859750500304121857 So, let’s recap what’s going on here for a moment: Junior philosopher publishes paper suggesting that if you support the idea of transgender then transrace may be on the table more senior (postmodern) philosophers FREAK THE HELL OUT and launch an attack on her The attack hits many marks and may be successful in…
Robespierre Returning
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…
Insert Fancy “US AT WAR” Graphic Here
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…