Why it’s becoming drenched in it.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Politics And Pschology
Some thoughts on Jonathan Haidt’s work.
Note all the umbrage in comments from “liberals” (they’re not really — they’re leftists). But I’ve never seen them address the issue of why conservatives and libertarians are so much better at predicting a “liberal” viewpoint than the other way around.
[Update a few minutes later]
Bad link. Fixed now.
A World Without Commas
…is hilarious. Slightly NSFW.
Making Things On The Internet
This is pretty hilarious.
[Update a few minutes later]
Yeah, I should have put up a “slightly NSFW” warning on that.
How Smoggy Is Beijing?
So much so that they’re showing sunrises on outdoor big screens.
Home Schooling Is Not For Everyone
…and neither is public schooling:
…unlike those who wish to suppress homeschooling, homeschool parents are rarely if ever heard demanding that the government pass a law demanding that every other family in the country do things the way they do. Unlike our German friends, homeschool parents do not wish to seize custody of other people’s children simply because they prefer a different model of education. The irony here is that more than a few of our public schools are so dangerous and dysfunctional that sending one’s children there really ought to be considered an act of neglect, if not for the fact that those poor parents have practically no choice in the matter.
It’s not about education. It’s about control.
A Mayor Against Illegal Guns
Schiliro had had police bring 20-year-old Nicholas Dorsam to his home to drink wine, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer. When Dorman attempted to leave, Schiliro prevented him from doing so, shooting the gun into a stack of papers and threatened to kill himself. Schiliro later credited Dorsam with helping save his life.
It’s almost as though these anti-gun nuts who want to take away our guns are projecting on us their own lack of control and irresponsibility.
The Peter Principle
Could it explain the Fermi paradox?
Dedication To Going To Mars
This guy’s so determined he’s willing to leave his wife and four kids.
Sneering Anti-Technologists
Lileks is unimpressed:
Honestly: would you rather they hadn’t invented clothes-washing machines? Radio? Would you rather that one member of a household spend their entire day over a washtub with nothing but the sound from the street through the screen window for company?
It’s comforting for some, apparently, to think that people in the past just stared slack-jawed at flickering images and rose like zombies when the Consumption Instructions were finished, and spent their life in agitated dissatisfaction until the useless, needless object was acquired and installed. I’d like to know if these people have microwave ovens.
I’m thinking they write their ignorant snark on computers that they don’t really need.