In regard to the Minnesota riots and Black Lives Matter protests, it’s funny how the rules of social distancing and mask wearing do not apply to the causes that the left cares about. Why isn’t anyone scolding BLM for not practicing social distancing, yet hair salon…
Trump is threatening to ‘“strongly regulate” or close down social media platforms’ for bias against conservatives, after Twitter appended special fact-checking notices to two of his tweets in regard to mail-in ballots, which is the first time Twitter has ever attempted to ‘correct’ a tweet…
I keep seeing stories about Only Fans, which has seen a surge in popularity attributable to the pandemic. The smart-left and smart-right are unified in opposing moralizing in regard to onylfans usage. Rather than moralizing , which implies imposing one’s values of how society ought…
As I have been saying on the blog for years, I don’t believe there will be any deterioration of US-China relations beyond the usual tariffs and hawkish rhetoric. The media, on either side of the aisle, is hoping for US-China relations to suddenly take a…
Interesting finding Cognitive Capitalism: The Effect of Cognitive Ability on Wealth, as Mediated Through Scientific Achievement and Economic Freedom, by Heiner Rindermann and James Thompson, 2011. Average national IQ correlates well with GDP per capita and other measures of development. But is average national IQ…
People talk a lot about government failures, but the private sector is no stranger to failure either, although, overall, in spite of such failures capitalism is superior to communism (again, assuming one much choose between either or, which is never the case anyway), but I…
Interesting video by Ramz Gates Paul, “Communism Sucks” The problem is, Ramz defaults to a false dichotomy that one must choose between capitalism or communism, when in reality most governments are a mix of social welfare and private enterprise, with varying amounts of regulation and…
Cold War Now or Hot War Later I don’t believe China is a threat to the US, and I would be willing to put money on the line that China-US relations will not deteriorate over the next decade. For decades pundits have been predicting such…
Most of the arguments, on either side of the Covid debate, are petty bad, which is why I have criticized both sides, whether it’s criticizing RamzPaul, who is vehemently anti-quarantine, or Nassism Taleb on the other extreme. People get basic facts wrong, make reasoning errors,…
The pandemic and ensuing market crash and joblessness has called into doubt the viability of the FIRE (financial independence, retire early) movement: Self-made millionaire says the concept of retiring early ‘will disappear’ due to the coronavirus pandemic However, such fears are unfounded, and adherents of…