Almost half of them may be gone within a decade.
Good riddance. This was a bubble waiting to be popped, and the pandemic was the pin.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Lockdown
May have saved no lives, and cost many.
It’s appearing more and more to me that that was the case. It was perhaps the biggest blunder in human history.
George Floyd
Amazon Warehouse Fire
When I saw the headline, I wondered where in LA it was. But the hed is wrong; Redlands is nowhere near LA. It’s east of San Bernardino.
It does look suspicious, though.
Peter Thiel
A long but interesting article on how he’s attempting to transform society in an actual useful direction.
Defunding The Police
Is it libertarian?
Why no, no it’s not. As he points out, there are a number of things we could do to solve the problem that are libertarian, but that isn’t one of them.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Replacing the police department with a “transformative new model.”
Good luck with that.
[Another update a couple minutes later]
Defunding the police would be a disaster for black people in particular.
Why yes, yes it would.
[Noon update]
Four questions for the Democrats, the media, and BLM.
Don’t expect them to have any good answers.
How Did We Stay Sane So Long
Thoughts from Wretchard the Cat.
The Protests
…expose lock downs and social distancing as a farce.
Perhaps the greatest mistake in human history.
Larry Correia
Excoriates the idiot gun grabbers.
The “Public-Health Emergency”
At this point, it’s impossible to take lock-down orders seriously.