Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her...
Category: Politics
Charles Krauthammer RIP
"You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think, and you don’t say it honestly and...
Perplexed
In Russia today Stalin is the bad guy. The dead Tsar is a Saint. Lenin who killed the Tsar is still a hero. Putin is a...
Journalists
"Journalists worry considerably more about the opinion of other journalists than the judgment of their...
The Limits of Power
What is the limit on the government’s power to make you do things for your own good?...
Flashback about Politics
I'm often wrong and I was very wrong in August 2008 when I wrote: "We are well into the election season and I along...
The Ice Bucket Challenge for Straws
Howard Rotter Diving in the Philippines In 2014 while my good friend, Howard, was wasting away from the progressive...
Plastic for the Poor
Plastic has made poor peoples lives better. It has given them access to containers for liquid that they previously...
Where Did the Turtle get the Plastic Straw?
I Googled "Straws and Pollution" and on the first page of results there were a lot of ads and links that said roughly...
Straw Math
This is not a simple story with a shockingly memorable video. It is a collection of facts. I want to persuade you to...
