He Fit the Description

I fit the description…. A first-person account by Steve Locke, a black college professor, about being stopped and questioned by the police for a crime he didn’t commit, is going viral. The article has a racial angle, implying that white officers are deliberately singling out blacks just for sport or due to prejudice. Yes, it… Continue reading He Fit the Description

Collapse can wait

From David Stockman: Why This Sucker Is Going Down…….Again! In a word, with a printing press. But what happened today is that Draghi showed he is out of tricks and Yellen confessed she is out of excuses. Yes, this sucker is going down. And this time all the misguided economics professors turned central bankers in… Continue reading Collapse can wait

Thoughts on Kaczynski’s Manifesto

Roosh V peruses the Kaczynski manifesto. From the manifesto: Leftism is collectivist; it seeks to bind together the entire world (both nature and the human race) into a unified whole. But this implies management of nature and of human life by organized society, and it requires advanced technology. You can’t have a united world without… Continue reading Thoughts on Kaczynski’s Manifesto

Good Tweets

Shooters not white, not a Tea Partier, not Republican, not an NRA member, not Presbyterian, so this time, it's the gun's fault. — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) December 3, 2015 This is what they teach in college now pic.twitter.com/gGkk61xjQn — str_thry (@StrThry) November 25, 2015 Yikes @reallucasneff is a shameless race baiter who uses human tragedy… Continue reading Good Tweets

On Not Letting Cognitive Capital Go To Waste

Using IQ tests to identify gifted students – because poor kids should get a good education, even if they're smart https://t.co/TXw4IouWms — SteveStewartWilliams (@SteveStuWill) November 29, 2015 America’s cognitive capital may be it’s important resource, and it should not be squandered, which is why we need more funding for gifted education. Or as some call… Continue reading On Not Letting Cognitive Capital Go To Waste

How to be a Superforecaster

There is some buzz over superforrcasting and superforecasters, related to a 2015 book by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner about superforecasters – people with an above average ability to forecast events and outcomes. Blurb from Wikipedia: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction is a book by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner released… Continue reading How to be a Superforecaster

Investing Recap for 2015: What worked and what didn’t

Time for an end year assessment of various investments and prognostications: The good: Consumer discretionary and large cap tech ETFs post large gains in an otherwise flat market, as I predicted. Emerging markets, energy, and commodity stocks fall, also agreement with my predictions. Web 2.0 valuations surge, with notable examples being Snapchat, Uber, and Air… Continue reading Investing Recap for 2015: What worked and what didn’t

Against the Ubermensch

In the past year or so, we’re seeing a re-branding or transformation of NRx…less Nietzsche’s ubermensch as embodied by John Galt (and the Californian ideology) and more like Oswald Spengler or Pat Buchanan. Maybe the old, pre-2014 NRx may have put too much emphasis on capitalism, individualism, and technology and not enough on culture and… Continue reading Against the Ubermensch

David Gelernter on Millennials and the State of Higher Education

From Isegoria America-Lite: I’m a teacher of college students. I’m lucky to be at one of the best colleges in the world, at Yale. Our students are as smart as any in the world. They work very hard to get here. They are eager, they’re likable. My generation is getting a chip on its shoulder,… Continue reading David Gelernter on Millennials and the State of Higher Education