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Now we must rely on Bill Maher as the voice of reason on the left?

But the Democratic party now follows Gen Z like a puppy on the road to perdition.

Source: Mises Institute.

The writer’s observations are interesting in several ways.

First, they validate the hierarchy of government systems Plato asserted 2,000 years ago: Monarchy, Aristocracy, Democracy, Tyranny.

Second, they show that self-interest operates in a government system just as it does in a market system.

Third, they suggest that government may have a natural, but absolute, size limit.

if you are hesitating to get a Covid-19 vaccination.

Source: Substack.

The word engram refers to “a presumed encoding in neural tissue that provides a physical basis for the persistence of memory.”

Neuroscientists presume that engrams exist in the same way that biologists once presumed that a feature of living cells contained the mechanism of inheritance. Since we know that memories are persistent, there must be a molecule or substance that records and stores them. That would be the engram, but we haven’t found it yet.

Continue reading “Is This the Most Interesting Idea in All of Science?” →

Election law scholar Rick Hasen calls out state legislatures for not only changing voting laws because the guy at the top of the ticket lost, but for changing the way votes may be counted.

Continue reading “NYT: Republicans Aren’t Done Messing With Elections” →

Source: The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall).

Stumble Joe made a foolish promise yesterday when he proposed reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by half of their 2005 levels in the next nine years.

Continue reading “Biden’s 10-Year Climate Plan” →

Suspicions confirmed.

And away we go.

Something recently occurred to me and I think it might be beneficial to redefine the two intractable sides here. We all saw the same thing: a cop knelt on a face-down, handcuffed man for almost nine minutes despite his pleas that he couldn’t breath, until he did in fact stop breathing, lost control of his bladder, and died face-down in the street in a puddle of his own piss…

Continue reading “My attempt to distill the opinions on the Floyd incident.” →

Source: Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0.0.3), 2009.

We had a discussion yesterday about the meaning of the word investment. I don’t wish to rehash it, but I’d like to share my dictionary’s entry because it is interesting in its own right.

Continue reading “Definition of Investment” →

My go to pundits on legal matters seem to agree that Chauvin’s trial was fair and the rule of law was upheld. I am very glad to hear that.

For what it’s worth, I disagree with the verdict. It seems to me that drugs, poor health and his own reckless behavior are the actual causes of Floyd’s death. I think it unfair for Chauvin to bear the brunt of blame under these circumstances.

I accept that justice doesn’t belong to me, but I see little cause for optimism in this particular verdict.