Remember That Time When Jeff Bezos, Sam Walton, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie …...
A lovely story: To generate “settlers,” the government reinstated the hated system of domestic passports that had been banned after the 1917 Bolshevik coup. Almost immediately, police throughout the...
View ArticleOn the Eve of the 2017 Inauguration – the Storm Clouds Roll In
Oh, I meant 1937: I was impressed as never before by the utter lack of logic of the man, the scantiness of his precise knowledge of things that he was talking about, by the gross inaccuracies in his...
View ArticleQ Anon
1937 New Dealers Edition. Seems like FDR was off his rocker. In the midst of these defeats, and the rising unemployment, Roosevelt became more explicit in describing a conspiracy of businessmen trying...
View ArticleInfective Heredity and Intellectual Shut Down
The purpose of science is not to be “settled” as nothing can be settled – unless you claim to have met the “maker” of the universe. Those of us who claim to be in pursuit of capital “T” truth are also...
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Ban Plastic Pics
So, many drink companies have replaced their plastic straws with paper ones. No biggie I guess, I don’t use straws. But for some, the other benefit of a plastic straw seems to have been that it is...
View ArticleThey Think We Are Stupid
Your politicians and the elites who move them think the American people are stupid. Policy has to be dumbed down to make it understandable and supportable by the masses. That, itself, is, to be frank,...
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Who Enjoyed the Lockdowns?
Courtesy of the Morning Consult: In other research via Marginal Revolution: Bureaucratic politics is a politics of privilege. By 1956, the wages of the highest-ranking party and government personnel...
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Saturday Mirthiness – Pittsford Power
Reposted from my Next Door app. Only 13 years and counting to get a single apartment complex built. No excuses. Now imagine building out Terawatt scales of new electrical power in the next three...
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Tony Timpa.
Why Don’t You Know His Name? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X4PUwrq8tA&feature=emb_logo “Help me!” “Help me!” As cars drive by, fellow officers watch, knee on back. He “settles down” at 11:30....
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Worth While
Arnold Kling hits this one out of the park. Here he is on “creating worthlessness”: The gap between the college-educated and the less-educated is arguably due to differential treatment by government...
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Free Our Friend, Bobo Nge
World Politics Hitting Close to Home. PLEASE HELP FREE MY FRIEND AND FORMER COLLEAGUE. Bobo is a friend and fellow employee at the institution I worked at before I got to the U of Rochester. He is one...
View ArticleAfter the Seas Have Been Parted … the Schools Shall Be “Mostly” Reopened
“White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that Biden’s goal is for more than 50% of schools to have “some teaching” in person “at least one day a week” – not necessarily fully reopened – by...
View ArticleOn Self-Delusion
From the excellent James Baldwin: “The importance of a writer is continuous; I think it’s socially debatable and usually socially not terribly rewarding, but that’s not the point; his importance, I...
View ArticleTrusting the Science
https://mythreadreader.com/wintercow20/1365293275377197061 Pasted from Twitter, sorry it can use a lot of editing … So, no one is willing to have an open and public conversation about who, exactly, is...
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A Glimpse of (Federal) Minimum Wage History
What that image depicts is what share of an “adequate family of four budget” that a minimum wage earner would make if she worked full-time (52 weeks @ 40 hours). That budget was determined by the...
View ArticleLet’s Go Red!
Wherein Cornell tries to put the locomotive back on the tracks. I doubt it will do much, it may be performative too, but at least they are recognizing the cancer. Cornell Policy Statement on Academic...
View ArticleQuantum Superposition and Race
Black Americans disproportionately suffer from kidney disease. Our current policy bans any market incentives from helping them out. By any definition of racism from Kendi and others, therefore having...
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Climate Economics Bombshell
I will refer you later to a much larger work I’ve put together on “everything you need to know about the economics of climate change” … and among the key uncertainties are: What is the equilibrium...
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