I went over the November ballot with some friends and applied my new heuristic to some of the measures and candidates and it gave good insight. The heuristic I’m working with is that moving the ...Read More
“There exists a great deal of evidence that, from the time of the pharaohs, state officials looked after themselves and formed an interest group in many instances more influential than the prope...Read More
…But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. William Shakespeare Othello Act III...Read More
Why would the Federal Government print a new health insurance card in two languages. Isn’t this the reason that lots of people don’t like immigration. They know intuitively that it is a lo...Read More
Two weeks ago I wrote: “This is a dirty trick, transparently a dirty trick.” Nothing has happened that has changed my mind and much has happened that has confirmed my original instinct. I ...Read More
Last week after a delicious Erev Rosh Hashanah meal I made the offhand comment that among other things eating organic food starves poor people. One of the other men at the event took issue and questio...Read More
Be careful. The people who are predicting a Democrat landslide this November are the same ones who were predicted a landslide for Hillary Clinton in 2016. ...Read More
How do candidates for political office with obvious character flaws seem more real than bureaucrats with impeccable credentials? Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game And, I might add, make such terrible a...Read More
“It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live (somewhere in Vermont or Northwestern Afghanistan) in a hut or cave isolated from it.” Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game...Read More
The only Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in Oregon I just posted the word empirical in my Words Seldom Seem thread and three thoughts that had been running around in my head separately suddenly came...Read More