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Growing Up

So, Once Great Britain is going to grant the vote to sixteen year olds.

Upon reading this a friend pointed out it was the opposite of the reason to give the vote to eighteen year olds. After all, eighteen year olds could drink, get married, go to war, but not vote.

I’ll note since that justification was brought up, eighteen year olds have lost the right to drink. And the fact that they lost it because supposedly their brains aren’t yet fully developed must, of necessity, cause one’s e...

A Decent Respect

I know many of you are frustrated.

Okay, that undersells it. I know many of you are flat on the floor, kicking and screaming “I was promised arrests.”

I understand. In my mind I’m doing exactly the same thing. And in my emotions it makes perfect sense. We went through Obama’s years, seeing things get worse and worse as they piled corruption on corruption and made it more and more unlikely we’d ever have our country back as a constitutional republic. Then we had four years under Trump w...

Prisoners of Lies

Again, from the top: if there was some experiment done in the twentieth century which forms the basis of lefty beliefs there is a high chance it was faked.

At the very least, the methodology is wrong and the data improperly collected. But actually, at least judging from the Mouse Utopia and the Stanford Prison Experiment?

It’s made up from whole cloth.

The Stanford Prison Experiment was supposed to explain how the horrors of Nazi Germany happened in the (at the time) most civilized...

Decadence and Wealth

When discussing the experiment of the Mouse Utopia, which, again, to recap, was completely faked, probably tried various habitats to get the results that fit with his preconceived notions (Calhoun’s Mouse Utopia) a friend suggested perhaps the mouse utopia suggested that having everything handed to you and not having to struggle was what caused the problems.

That I know this was never suggested as the meaning of Calhoun’s Utopia. Though, honestly, that’s probably only because they never t...

Okay, I have to say this

So, I’ve come, once more, to ask you to please get some awareness of when external forces are spinning you up for their own purposes.

No, I’m not talking about the regulars in this blog — not by and large — but about “the right” at large.

When a big firestorm comes out of nowhere, weeks — months — after other people were — rightly — outraged, and just as the left is losing its shield of corrupt judges and the administration is making some inroads — why would anyone think it was natural...

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Smelling A Rat

By now, if you’re not looking suspicioustly at all the “scientific” experiments of the twentieth century that proved that communism was scientific and the left’s ideas about humans were right, you are a beautiful soul, full of trust and the milk of human kindness.

Also you should seek help for that massive concussion and the attendant mental confusion.

Look, in the nineteenth century, science as defined mostly by engineering brought an amazing improvement on the general quality of life...

In Search Of Missing Time

I’ve mentioned before that there is a wild theory on youtube that we somehow stopped in… the early oughts. I think. Or maybe the nineties.

Look, I wasn’t paying attention, there were cats, and furthermore there probably are theories about every decade since the nineties.

The idea is crazy — though perhaps slightly less crazy than Phillip K. Dick’s idea that time stopped in the first century A.D. and we’ve been hallucinating everything this — but what they are seeing is true. It’s just ...

Unevenly Distributed

There was a sentence in a PJ O’Rourke book. I can’t remember which book, and I can’t quote the sentence exactly, but it was something like “The future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”

The fact is the future/progress/innovation is always unevenly distributed.

It’s only in books and movies that you get a new thing and everyone adopts it or starts using it, everywhere at once. That has never happened, ever.

And it’s not just a being able to afford it, or even a matter of being...