Can removing them cause anxiety later in life?
I still have mine, and I suspect that a lot of these procedures (if not all of them) are unnecessary and even harmful.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Ireland’s Hatred For Israel
I hadn’t been aware of the degree of anti-Semitism in the Emerald Isle. It makes me less inclined to want to revisit it.
The Years Of Madness
Are they (finally) ending? Many seem to think so.
Team Players And Groupthink
An interesting discussion that has great explanatory power (including perhaps the most recent election results).
What Are They, and Whose?
Four possible drone explanations.
Related thoughts from Roger Kimball.
Irish Anti-Semitism
Sadly, it’s not a new thing.
If you re interested in why Ireland is so weirdly, unreasonably antisemitic and antiIsrael, here is some of the answer….
— S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) December 16, 2024
In 1997, I made a tv series @Channel4 about Ireland, Irish nationalism and antisemitism. It happened that my own family were Jewish immigrants to…
The American University
…is rotting from within. And it’s been doing so for decades, and the stench is starting to get overwhelming.
The Fate We Avoided
From Marc Andreeson.
A glimpse into @pmarca’s alternate timeline that we barely avoided
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) December 11, 2024
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BTW, I’m in DC this week at events, so posting will be light.
The Clock Strikes Thirteen
The preference cascade has arrived.
I certainly feel it.
I’m going to DC tomorrow, so posting may be sporadic, but I hope to find out what’s going on. So posting may be light this week.
The Gundo
I’ve lived here for over four decades, but I hadn’t noticed that it’s apparently become a major new tech hub, with a new nickname, despite the hostile California business environment. El Segundo itself is too small to contain all of the new innovation, so it’s spilling over into Hawthorne, Torrance, and even down to Long Beach. But it seems emblematic that SpaceX started here, over two decades ago, before they outgrew it.
[Update a while later]
Sort of related: How American entrepreneurs can keep us ahead of China in space. General Kwast told me a few years ago that he keeps a copy of my book on his desk.
[Noon update]
Another story about El Segundo.