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Missing Something
A friend posted a quote and a link to a Jack Shakley opinion piece in the LA Times. In February 2003, 450 economists, including 10 of the 24 living Nobel laureates in economics, made a public plea to...
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I Made a New Word: “Para-Thought”
Further to Morgan’s post, here, and Cylar’s, below: What our liberals are engaging in is what I’ve taken to calling para-thought: a first-approximation, rough-cut, kinda sorta maybe “thinking” that...
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Objections to Para-Thought
Blog-friend and co-blogger Cylar made some good points regarding my post on “para-thought.” I think they deserve a wider airing than they’d get in the comments, so I want to discuss them here: I think...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Both Houses of Congress
Please vote “no” on any so called “assault weapons” ban. Anti-gun advocates are pushing hard in the heat of the moment to rush through legislation that violates the intent of the Second Amendment. In...
View ArticleSame Old Serpent
[the pro-slavery argument] is “the same old serpent that says you work, I eat. You toil, and I will enjoy the fruits of it.” – Abraham Lincoln That serpent is still around, alive and well, tirelessly...
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On the Need for Repetition
Here’s where I disagree with blog-friend Morgan: Some things need to be repeated, ad infinitum, since otherwise our better natures take over and we start giving folks the benefit of the doubt. Here’s...
View ArticleToday’s Suicidally Depressing Thought
As I take stock of the past year and contemplate the year just begun, I’m forced to conclude something horrible: The terrorists really have won. The goal of the 9/11 attacks — the goal of terrorism...
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Let’s Pretend
As they so often do, this post of Morgan’s at his place inspired some thoughts. And, at the risk of becoming (even further) known as the “it all comes back to Marx” guy…. It all comes back to Marx....
View ArticleHitting Below the Belt
I’ve got a pretty good self-test for anyone who wonders if he/she might not be a secret conservative. Let’s say you’ve got a great idea for improving social life, that can be expressed along the lines...
View ArticleThe Greatest Offensive Catcher in Baseball History
Yeah, I know, this is a blog about politics and culture, not baseball. But bear with me: Back in the mid 1980s there was this catcher named Matt Nokes. He came up in the Giants’ system, but I...
View ArticleUnmoored Part I
We took a road trip recently with some friends I’d met on the bus on the way to DC in 2010. Good people. Aunt and uncle of Chris Loesch, it turns out. It was a pleasure trip to go see a concert 450...
View ArticleUnmoored Part II
[continuation of the Unmoored series.] I had a discussion a few years back with a friend where he incredulously explained that bankers created money “out of thin air”. I had never really thought about...
View ArticleUnmoored Part III
[continuation of the Unmoored series] What value did the CDO bond add to the economy? The argument was it allowed lower interest rates to more people so they could afford to by homes and iPods (turns...
View ArticleUnmoored Part IV
[continuation of the Unmoored series] I made an allusion to “baiting hooks” to get people who couldn’t afford them to take out loans. Some of it was with teaser rates. Some of it was with balloon...
View ArticleWar Based On Lies
Surprise. Another article (in our local paper) by a chest-bleating liberal zealot who misses having G.W. Bush to kick around (directly) for the world’s woes … lamenting our collective lack of sack...
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Living Inside the Whale
George Orwell wrote an essay called “Inside the Whale.” It’s mostly a discussion of the works of Henry Miller, then very trendy and banned for sale in the United States because of obscenity. Towards...
View ArticleLiving Inside the Whale, Part II
Words matter. Ideologies matter. The trend of both, for the last thirty years at least, has been to push us ever further inside the whale. Leftists of all stripes are to blame, but they have no more...
View ArticleHorribly Obvious
Monty at Ace of Spades asks: A wage is the cost of labor for a given job. The problem we’re facing is that for millions and millions of people, their labor cost is too high for the skills they can...
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Data
Not that the pundit class is much interested in facts, but this might be a good opportunity to test out some assumptions: As Detroit’s call-it-anything-but-bankruptcy budget crisis drags on and the...
View ArticleCylar’s Memorial Day Message
It’s Memorial Day, and we’re hearing the familiar reminders to “remember the fallen” and “honor the troops” today and all of that. It is often accompanied by pictures of Arlington National Cemetery,...
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