nooses

I'm having a hard time talking about the Enoch murders.

It's absolutely horrible and so triggering. Basically an LDS father of 5, shot and killed his wife, his kids, his mother-in-law, and himself earlier this week. ...

Groundhog Day style house.

The media is all in a tizzy about the inability of Kevin McCarthy to get a majority, saying it represents a failure of democracy. Well, no. It faithfully repres...

Rest in Peace, lefty pitcher Curt Simmons.

The last surviving member of the 1950 Phillies "Whiz Kids," and a member of the Cardinals 1964 World Series Champs. Several guys from that team are still around...

Pointless diversion feat Pool.

Yesterday, armed with a heavy pool cue that a friend got for me as a Christmas present a couple of years ago, I had runs of 32, 25, 25, and 22 consecutive balls...

We've gotta address Canada's euthanasia policy.

Parameters as preface, I do think that these united States are a bit behind when it comes to assisted suicide. If you're an elderly person in chronic pain from ...

I'm pretty excited about 2023.

https://youtu.be/gFcSfqYqHs4 Now, I'm quite sure there's much more awful, stupid stuff that's going to come our way as a result of what's happening in China and...

Economics is everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/blMWpjHk4-g Here is Alabama coach Nick Saban demonstrating that he doesn't understand marginal analysis. This is a very self-serv...

Dealing with people who’s help you need.

Sometimes people are helpful because they are nice, sometimes they are helpful because it is in their interest to be helpful. If they work for a company motivat...

I've never been in favor of vandalism.

I think I've been in favor of irreverence, in general, through most of my adult life. So, the whole issue of people tearing down statues, built with tax money, ...

The CEO of Twitter would like you to know that you are brainwashed if you believe or participate in any of the following things:

1) Gay people are people, with full human and constitutional rights. 2) Trans people are people with full human and constitutional rights. 3) Muslims are people...

Some of my reading this year.

Enjoyment can't help but praise. I hit another goldmine of wisdom and amusement in 2022, and the book/reading list below was a large part of that. 1. Sir Gawain...

Here's how I use a diet-tracking app for fun and weight loss

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Merry Christmas!

We just finished my favourite musical, and one of my all time favourite movies: Fiddler on the Roof. It is heart breakingly beautiful. There is, of course, no o...

Twitter and other government agencies.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1606701399710257152 The FBI's non-rebuttal - parroted by the same people who have done nothing but run cover for flagrant abu...

To all the "over-educated" women reading this:

Outside of a handful of hateful boomers and misogynist dullards... we love and appreciate you. We appreciate the times you've been our mentors, we appreciate yo...

I suspect the state/social media alliance is currently implementing a psyop and encouraging people to say negative things about Elon.

We can disagree about, you know... tax policy or cultural issues or whatever the latest decision from the fed happens to be and all that. But if you hear about ...

What is "Hurtful"?

John McWhorter wrote an excellent column that appeared in today's NY Times. I highly recommend reading it: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/opinion/purdue-cha...

I've never been a woman, a Jew, or a Spartan; but, I've played them all on stage.

Believe it or not, I have some experience in this area. It's been more than a decade and a half since my last performance on stage. It's also been a while since...

Kids intuitively play together better than adults.

When I was a kid, I loved that playing with a lightsaber meant that it made you invulnerable to any of kind of toy gun. There wasn't any debate about that. It w...

It is impossible to tell the truth about demographics in this country without being branded as a bigot.

A typical liberal despises Trump for silly things that were made artificially important by the press; making fun of journalists, naming people like "low energy ...