The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Learning Not to Argue

One of the important lessons in life — and it took me a long time to learn it — is to avoid arguments. That is to say, when you find yourself in a situation where someone is determined to dispute about facts, as opposed to mere opinion, just leave it alone and walk away. You […]

FMJRA 2.0: Function Creep

— compiled by Wombat-socho How Bill Schmalfeldt (@Leonidas_BU) Implicated Himself in Online Fraud Thinking Man’s Zombie The Lonely Conservative Billy Sez The Artisan Craft Blog Regular Right Guy Proof Positive Batshit Crazy News Late Night With Rule 5 Sunday: Tax Loopholes Edition Animal Magnetism Regular Right Guy Ninety Miles from Tyranny Proof Positive A View […]

Now That the Election Is Over …

Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005 — Washington Post Ryan ‘sickened’ by Trump, joint appearance scrapped — Politico Trump on Hot Mic: ‘When You’re a Star … You Can Do Anything’ to Women — NBC News Republican Rep. Barbara Comstock of Virginia urges Trump to drop out of race — Washington […]

In The Mailbox: 10.07.16

— compiled by Wombat-socho No linkagery yesterday since Feedly was down. This is the day on which we celebrate victory against the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto. OVER THE TRANSOM EBL: #FreeDilbert – Scott Adams Shadowbanned On Twitter For Supporting Trump; $TWTR Nosedives – Coincidence? Twitchy: October Surprise? WikiLeaks Drops The First Batch Of […]

Which Is Worse: AIDS or ‘Stigma’?

  Remember the herpes-infected feminists who used the #ShoutYourStatus hashtag to encourage pride in having sexually transmitted diseases? That came to mind when I encountered a chart of AIDS-related terms — promoted by the University of California-San Francisco — comparing “stigmatizing” language (left) versus “empowering” language (right):   You see we must avoid “blame-centric language” […]

The Error of Comparing Group Averages

One of the basic tricks of Lying With Statistics is to use certain characteristics — age, race, sex, etc. — to define a group, and then report some data about the group as an average. CNN does this: Working class white men saw their income drop 9% between 1996 and 2014, according to a new […]

If You Want Books, You Got ‘Em

— by Wombat-socho I was more than a little appalled to realize I hadn’t done any book posts since July, when I wrote about Don Surber’s Trump The Press, Jean Larteguy’s The Praetorians, and even some SF. So in this post I’m going to play catch-up and briefly talk about the new stuff I managed […]

Why Is Sex Making Young People So Sad?

  “The vested interests of our age . . . have constructed a wonderful machine, which we shall call the Great Stereopticon. It is the function of this machine to project selected pictures of life in the hope that what is seen will be imitated. All of us of the West who are within the […]

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