…travels to the west coast to learn how to fail bigger.
These Democrat officials are demented.
Category Archives: Law
Bicyclists
How do we get them to obey traffic laws?
I almost hit a guy in my neighborhood this week driving Patricia to the bus stop. I was in a four-way stop intersection, about to pull out, when I catch him coming from the left out of the corner of my eye. He didn’t even slow down for the stop sign, let alone stop. It would have been Darwinian if I’d hit him, but I’d still feel terrible.
Group Loyalty
Thoughts on identity politics versus reductionist politics.
As someone who is often called a racist because I disagree about a policy issue, I am enjoying the hell out of Nancy having the race card pulled on her.
Portlandization
It could happen to a town near you.
I could understand why Nancy left Los Angeles, but not why she moved to Portland.
Lunar Resources
Is there a conflict between science and sustainability?
Meanwhile, there is a symposium on space settlement in DC today. You can follow the livestream.
[Late-afternoon update]
I know this is what you’ve all been waiting for: The Slate article about this crap.
Though most of the symposium was actually useful and interesting, ignoring the nonsense about colonialism in North America.
The Epstein Case
It’s unlike anything Ken White has seen before (which is saying something).
I don’t know whether to be amused or appalled at the degree to which the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are trying to simultaneously hide all of the Democrat/Clinton connections (including Wikipedia), while trying to pin it on Trump.
[Update a while later]
Was Epstein running honey traps to blackmail the power elite? It seems like the most-likely explanation.
J. K. Rowling
Why she may have done more for libertarianism than even Milton Friedman: Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy.
Reparations
…and the racial republic:
In academia it is increasingly common, as Harvard College’s dean Rakesh Khurana told graduates recently, that individual achievement is seen as less important than the “dynastic” forces of race. This underpins the notion that students “of color” need to be treated differently than others. This follows from the notion that “group rights,” not individual rights, are what matters. As one liberal observer noted, the West is “now inculcating in a new generation ideas where the whole concept of an individual who exists apart from group identity is slipping from the discourse. The very Enlightenment principles that underlay the liberal ideal are being largely cast away.”
Once the party of racism, always the party of racism.
Dear Alexandria
Thoughts from a descendant of one of those Ellis Island arrivers who “snuck on to a boat.”
He’s a cruel man, but fair. My grandparents on my father’s side came through as well, a century or so ago.
Insinuendo
Why the Mueller report is so repetitive.
Gee, it’s almost as if Mueller isn’t the “boy scout” that all the right people were telling me he was.