It isn't just ISIS. It seems like most of the terrorists have very considerately halted operations while we were getting COVID under control.

It is getting subtler all the time. I believe now that experiencing unconscious bias towards marginalized groups might qualify. Luckily you can take an Implicit Bias test online at Harvard which will tell you if you are one. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html Or you can just file i...

So how long will it be before a wokester proclaims that no one will take his mask until they pry it from his/her/zir/them cold, dead hands?

Tom, thanks for the exhaustive list. That's too much for me to do, but I am going to think about how I could apply the 80/20 principle to it. This is a really important point. The only way to do it right is to make it your new all consuming hobby. You might have to drop a few of your old hobbies to...

And yet they are still giving that bastard Fred Rogers a pass.

Even if there were hundreds of violent Christian militias just waiting to take over, they would only be people who failed to understand Christianity.

Failed Christians.

Other potentially violent groups we have seen recently, not so much.

They are following their philosophies to the letter.

It's time to talk about people killed by airbags and mice who chase cats. We can't wait any longer.

Impossible. Fads are temporary by definition.

Even if you get a second passport, everyone you know and love is still left behind. Will new life abroad be that rosy with this knowledge?

This thread needs to be retitled:

Who still supports Starbucks after this?

Most people who support black lives matter are supporting a movement and not an organization, or rather conflating the two. Whenever I see a black lives matter sign I want to pull out a Sharpie and amend it:

"Don't sign on till you have read their mission statement."

This is a great butternut squash soup recipe which has a secret ingredient which makes this soup epic and indescribable. (The secret ingredient is tart green apples, which, it turns out, is something that butternut squash needs.) I don't follow this recipe exactly, as I like to roast everything at t...

I think Vinny was just having fun with Newspeak. No. It's a phrase it seems I've recently frequently heard. Vinny Of course you have heard that in the Democrat party media. Maybe you should stop watching, listening to, or reading such propaganda. I stand corrected. Meanwhile. Look, a crazy man. htt...

I think Vinny was just having fun with Newspeak.

So, I'm working on a book, and for the first time, I am dictating it to my phone and transcribing it, and was recently pretty bummed about how long it was going to take, until I figured out how to get Google Docs to convert a voice file to a document. Mostly it works really well, and the assumption ...

It certainly changes your world view in a way that doesn't allow you to go back. But as of this year, even a head-in-the-sand-type person would be hard pressed to avoid seeing that something seriously nefarious has been going on. True enough. You might like this interview with Tom O'Neill on a pret...

the citing of Alex and Hannah be the epitome of anecdotal "proof" and entirely un-scientific? And, am I an outlier since I don't use a cell phone for talking, keep my wired phone unplugged at home, hardly ever use my office phone, preferring either email or face-to-face communications? It...

A counterpoint to her ideas might be the work of Simon Baron Cohen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEYy1GXaNNY https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/may/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview6 Why do most men use the phone to exchange information rather than have a chat? Why do so many women love talki...

I heard a recent rebroadcast of an interview with McGowan in which he said that in the past, he thought the phrase 'ignorance is bliss' was generally a putdown, and that after all the years of studying the things he has studied, he was beginning to rethink that assumption. He wondered out loud wheth...

@WiseOne You are right, that article was conflation nation, and the author is one confused soul. It was like he was trying to say everything at once in one go. I think he was sneakily trying to redefine meritocracy as code for white privilege without having to say it. Just give up your privilege, de...

This is very confusing. I thought white people were supposed to check their privilege. Instead you have white men dominating the proceedings by yelling "Point of personal privilege" and then complaining that people are whispering to their friends. Is this a loophole that I can exploit? As ...

Interesting take by James Kunstler at his blog. https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/a-purview-of-dust/ Who imagined that in the climactic scene of the blockbuster RussiaGate fantasy, when the curtain was ripped away, the Wizard at the controls would turn out to be… Captain Queeg! Robert Mueller ...

I was a Golden State Warriors fan as a kid, and that was a pretty tough thing to be for years, seeing as how the Warriors had a talent for drafting players, then trading them away to teams that would go on to win the championship; they also had a talent for passing in the draft on players who would ...

I went to business school *not recently* and in the 1980s we were reading case histories that argued that companies that did not engage all of their employees fully performed worse. Why is that hard to believe? And why does it bother you? If I have a V8 engine, I need all eight to fire when needed....