…is financially ruining an entire class of investors. I agree with Ron Paul that it needs an honest audit.
What Doesn’t Kill Christopher Hitchens
…doesn’t make him stronger. A mordant and sobering essay on his cancer treatment, and mortality. It remains tragic that we can’t do better than this in the second decade of the third millennium.
Why Men Have Bigger Brains Than Women
Spatial reasoning. Really, is this a surprise?
We Lazy And Soft Americans
…just don’t deserve a demi-god like Barack Obama:
Maybe it’s time for us to really take a look at ourselves and ask: Is Obama actually a great president, and we’re just a lousy country?
It’s not really that radical a question. I mean, look at him: He’s a bright, Harvard-educated man who’s not only been to other countries but has actually lived in them — he knows cultures and viewpoints beyond the narrow ones we have here. And he surrounds himself with the greatest minds on earth. And who are we, compared to him? We’re a bunch of slobs, really. Kind of ignorant. Maybe a little racist. And we surround ourselves with bowls of flavored corn chips. But the country’s problems are supposed to be his fault? Does that make sense?
Look at what Obama did to try and get our economy going. He had this big, hundreds of billions of dollars stimulus that was designed by all the great economists who work in his administration — the top minds. It should have worked. The economy should be roaring right now and unemployment a thing of the past. America should be a utopia. So what was missing from the equation? That the people the stimulus was used on are a bunch of lazy dimwits. Obama did everything he possibly could, but apparently Americans just aren’t very good at running businesses and creating jobs. Obama has given us so many advantages that even chimpanzees should have been able to create jobs, but we just sit there like useless blobs while our companies crumble around us. We’re failing the country. We’re failing him.
I’ve been saying for years that we’re just not worthy of him.
The Tebow Phenomenon
Dan Foster and Rich Lowry have some thoughts on why there is so much hostility to the openly Christian quarterback.
As a non-believer (but not a fundamentalist atheist), I think that he raises hackles in two different groups of people — those who are bigoted against Christians in general (and they are legion — it is the last acceptable bigotry in our society) and those Christians who feel guilty because he sets the bar too high (and there is actually a non-zero intersection of those two sets). I would think of him as the Ned Flanders of the NFL, the completely unironic guy who is made fun of because in living up to his beliefs rather than down to his impulses, he makes everyone else look bad. And because he’ll continue to do so, he won’t care. Which will just make them all the angrier.
When A Choice Isn’t A Choice
Thoughts on sex-selective abortions. It really does seem like the objective goal of the “pro-choicers” is to maximize the number of terminated pregnancies, not offer women real choices.
Death To Pennies
I’ve wanted to get rid of it for at least thirty years. When you can’t purchase something with a single coin, it’s time to end it, and with the penny, it’s long past time.
Righting An Old Tragic Wrong
As his hundredth birthday approaches, there is growing demand for a pardon for Alan Turing. His treatment really was barbarous.
Hey, NFL!
1985 called. They want their Superbowl half-time performer back.
Hatching Giant Black Swans
The problem with “too big to fail.” It’s just another example of the knowledge problem.