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From Jim’s blog again Politics played for keeps: This is not necessarily a good way of removing Trump. Not in 2020, and not in 2024. In the impeachment vote, every Republican voted party line, which is an extraordinary and startling turn around. This is a vote that signals a hope that Democrats will never be… Continue reading Trump has power but choosing to not use it

In regard to my response to Taleb’s article (it’s short but packs a lot of food for thought, which is probably why Taleb is so popular, because his ideas, even if many of them are wrong or unoriginal, at the very least provoke discussion), Taleb also argues that America, unlike most foreign countries, rewards tinkering,… Continue reading Explaining America’s Economic Success: The Concentration of Wealth

So they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come. Well, what about Crooked Hillary, Comey, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, Shifty Schiff, Ohr & Nellie, Steele & all of the others, including even Mueller himself? Didn’t they lie?…. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2019… Continue reading Three words: Pardon Roger Stone

It looks like we have finally come full horseshoe, from a comment posted on Vox Day’s blog: More like Marx Day. Uber is not exploiting anyone, as I discus in 2017 regarding similar complaints by Mr. Money Mustache about Uber, the fast-growing taxi alternative which has become a lightning rod for controversy and class warfare… Continue reading The bipartisan anger against Uber

An article from 2007 by Nassim Taleb recently came to my attention You Can’t Predict Who Will Change The World. Just going by the title of the article, he is wrong. Although anyone can change the world, by in large, it is high IQ people who tend to, through their innovations and creativity. If one… Continue reading Taleb is wrong about IQ and creativity

Things are still kinda slow lately but PredictIt is still giving Trump a 43% chance of being impeached by the end of 2019 and a 77% chance by the end of his first term, which, imho, are absurdly high probabilities. The impeachment inquiry, as I predicted over a month ago, is going to stall and… Continue reading Are prisons a “good deal?” Possibly

There has been a ton of controversy lately online regarding right-wing provocateur Nick Fuentes’ rebuttal of Ben Shapiro. Mr Fuentes is not wrong but i wish he hadn’t done this. All it will accomplish it will accomplish is make both sides dig their heels deeper and exacerbate the culture wars, without resolution of any sort… Continue reading Why debates are pointless

All over the internet, on high-IQ and ‘smart’ communities such as on Reddit, in particular, but also in ‘think pieces’ on Vox and other publications, there are are plethora of stories about college-educated millennials and gen-z being unable to find gainful employment and enter the privileged ranks of ‘middle class,’ but rather are unemployed or… Continue reading How much of the millennial and gen-z job crisis is self-inflicted?

Things have been pretty slow lately, especially on the blog-front. If there is one thing Trump has accomplished, he has sorta unleashed a collective writer’s block on the dozen or so blogs and websites I follow, which has gotten worse over the past year especially. The updates are becoming less frequents, for many niches, not… Continue reading Fuentes’ Groypers

The Quilette article Mediocrity for All! makes some good points about the diluting of America’s education system and lowering of standards In subsequent decades, it became clear that academic greatness is not what generous dollops of self-esteem promote. In 1963, the liminal margin of America’s national experiment in teaching self-love, there began an uninterrupted 18-year… Continue reading Mediocrity for all, and the necessity of realism-based education policy