Boomers are to blame.
Not me, personally, but yes, my generation has been awful, compared to our parents’ generation.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
My Close Call With The Ambulance
Anyway, feeling much better today. Just sore left arm, like I’d been overdoing something with it yesterday. Which in a sense, I had been.
BMI
Not news to regular readers here, but BMI is BS.
Things like this are what gives me such low confidence in the health profession.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Portland State is going to sanction a professor for exposing academic fraud in grievance studies. Of course it is.
Those “Impossible” Burgers
It may be a surprise to some, but not to me, that they are neither healthier for the eater or for the environment.
I’d like to eat actual lab-grown meat, but it has to be cost effective, and nutritionally equivalent to the stuff on the hoof (or claw).
[Update a couple minutes later]
In reading, as is often the case, part of the health claim derives from the false notion that eating “red meat,” and particularly saturated fat, is unhealthy. There is zero scientific evidence for either. So they’re basically proposing to replace something humans have been eating since the dawn of humanity with some lab-produced glop about which we are completely ignorant of its nutritional effects.
The “Republican” Brain
A refutation of a stupid thesis (including a dumb book by Chris Mooney). If I had time, I’d write a book called “The Democrats’ War On Science.” It would have a more solid basis than Mooney’s.
Oh, and this once again puts paid to the notion of “peer review” as having any value.
[Update a few minutes later]
“Consensus,” and politics disguised as science.
AOC Gets Her Head Stuck In A Bucket
This is cruel (to the media as much or more than to her), but hilarious.
The Moral Case For Capitalism
It’s tragic that we have to reteach this lesson, that these children in adult bodies should have learned in school and college.
The University Of Michigan
This kind of thing makes me ashamed to be an alumnus. It makes me wish I were a donor, so I could threaten to stop donating. And good for Tarnow.
California
America’s first Third World state.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Why are there so many homeless in LA?
Roger actually did live in LA. In the South Bay where we live, it’s a problem, but nothing like downtown or Hollywood.