On Tuesday we looked at how academia had become nonsensical. Yesterday we looked at how NYC is trying purposefully trying do away with academic excellence. A lot of people look the other way at stuff like this recalling how little education…
I thought it a cliché – the idea that socialism leveled the playing field by tearing down excellence. I thought the real issue with socialism was simply demotivating excellence. Ambition died when outcomes were always the same. Turns out I…
Haven’t really written much about Iran this week because there has not been much news and I am not expert. All I know is every time I get news out of that nation it is bad, really bad. The numbers are staggering. The efforts and methods used…
As we are witnessing, violently and vocally, in Minneapolis blue states are resistant to the changes being wrought by a Republican president, elected by the nation. Minnesota is not alone in its resistance. The rhetoric certainly matches some…
The situation has grown completely out-of-hand. Social media is, in some circles, full of memes that amount to death threats aimed at anyone involved in the unfortunate deaths in Minneapolis in recent days – up to and including the POTUS. In a…
Yesterday I was just apoplectic at the news out of Iran that they killed over 30,000 in the crackdown – a number comparable to the Nazis. That’s double the 15,000 number that had commonly been running around. Yesterday, thankfully, the New…
Christians have fought Christians throughout history. Rome v Constantinople…Catholic v Protestant…Presbyterians v The Church of England…German Lutheran provinces v German Catholic provinces – the list is interminable. More often than not these…
They are finding lots of new oil and gas in Texas, while California is shuttering its few remaining refineries. That might go a long way to explain why a gallon at the pump in Texas is about half the price of that same gallon in California,…
If we learned anything from the pandemic it is that science is not our savior. It can be wrong. Moreover, science does not consider everything. While it projected deaths and disaster, it failed to account for what would come from the social…
Before his death, I had a sporadic, long-standing debate with friend of the show, and literature professor, David Allen White about comic books. I had heard David lecture on the great historical epics and argued that comic books sat in the same…
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