EVERYTHING MOVED AROUND US
I think Americans, as individuals and as the institutions we create, are very bad at learning lessons from our mistakes. The media, for example, appears to have learned very little from its plethora of...
View ArticleTHREE OUTCOMES
At any moment I am persuaded by one of the following three outcomes tomorrow, depending on my mood and the last piece of information I thought about. First and foremost, since about a billion people...
View ArticleIT WORKED, WHY ARE YOU SAD
Biden won, or will win shortly, but nobody seems very happy. That's understandable. The next four weeks and then the next four years are going to be miserable. Everyone can see it. But what many of you...
View ArticleSPOILED FOR CHOICE
The time draws near for the annual Lieberman Award winner, the world's foremost award for being the absolute worst human being in a calendar year. And while I could (and do) plausibly say this every...
View Article2020 LIEBERMAN AWARD WINNER: RON DeSANTIS
(Ed: please see the previous post for a discussion of how the choices for this year were narrowed down. See also Jeb Lund in the New Republic, who scooped me on DeSantis as the Least Valuable Player of...
View ArticleBUY LOCAL, BUT ALSO FUCK OFF
One of the pains in the ass of moving to a new place is finding a new one of all the basic things you don't need often but need more often than Never. Eye doctors are a great example. Is the eye doctor...
View ArticleMAKE IT OBVIOUS
Mitt Romney recently proposed a plan for child care benefits that received a ton of positive attention – the quest for Good Republicans never rests – for being even more generous than the one Biden...
View ArticleSOMETIMES FAITH TAKES OVER
I am generally a deeply cynical person when it comes to politics, but there is a part of me that is always trying to have a little bit of faith that they will get it right. That faith is rarely...
View ArticleNOTHING TO NEGOTIATE
It is vanishingly rare in public life for a male and female figure to behave similarly and the man receives more criticism than the woman. The opposite is almost universally true. But in terms of the...
View ArticleED vs LOGICAL FALLACIES: BASE RATE FALLACY
Boy howdy, has it been a long time since we've done one of these. If you recognize the format of that title you are officially OG Gin and Tacos. Well done. I laud your staying power. It takes a lot to...
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