Why women stopped menstruating upon arrival at the Nazi death camps.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Environmentalism
…is a fundamentalist religion.
Yup.
The Student-Loan Disaster Continues
Thoughts on the perversity of the incentives.
What We’ve All Been Waiting For
History Taught Backwards
…and the educational crisis.
I think that our educational system lies at the heart of all of our other problems. We can’t expect to get good leadership when the people who vote for them are so ill informed.
The Rice Speech
Today is the sixtieth anniversary. I wrote this on the fortieth anniversary, and it holds up pretty well, I think. “Because it is hard” is a dumb reason to do something.
The Worst Form Of Government
…is “our democracy.”
Compare And Contrast
The Covid Fascists
Despite the Democrats’ desires, never forget them, or what they did, especially to the children.
Particularly, remember when you vote in a few weeks.
Twenty-One Years On
The anniversary is old enough to drink, and as Glenn implies, it could use one.
[Update a couple minutes later]
The forgetting of 911.
I think that Pearl Harbor remained much more foremost in peoples’ thoughts in 1962 than 911 does today, even though it wasn’t a living memory for the huge generation of Baby Boomers.