Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
How ADHD became the luxury malady of the anxious upper classes. What a coincidence that it’s always the most irritating people who get diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). Sue Perkins, Jamie Oliver, Owen Jones – the list of celebs who have this trendy malady reads like a roll-call of people you’d flee a … Read more
Politicians want to create jobs, “good-paying union jobs,” in existing industries. But that’s not what markets do. The “destructive” part of creative destruction eliminates jobs in existing industries. In a dynamic economy, innovations in division of labor can create good-paying jobs in new industries, but new industries require entrepreneurs, not politicians. Frederic Bastiat had two … Read more
Remy: Pardon My Son Also see “Joe Biden, corrupt career politician, crawls offstage“ Related PostsMaternity wards are closing everywhere because of a lack of babies; the media desperately want to make it a story about abortion bans Hunter Biden To Receive $50K Per Month Salary For Seat On Disinformation Governance Board A bunch … Read more
Apparently consumers are too stupid to know that butter contains milk. Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled almost 80,000 pounds of Costco’s popular store-brand butter due to a crucial labeling error. While the butter listed “cream” as an ingredient, the packaging lacked a critical allergen warning alerting consumers that butter contains … Read more
ROGERS, AR — Nearing the end of what has been a whirlwind election season, one candidate in a race won over what could potentially be the deciding vote, as a 453rd election mailer changed a local man’s mind. Norm Cross had remained staunchly on the fence about the race for a vacant seat on the … Read more
Remy: The Grundy County School Board Related PostsRanking Biden on Economic Policy: A Track Record of Failure The moment Joe Biden finally lost his credibility America’s elites are waging class war on workers and small biz School Choice and Religious Liberty Advocates Just Won Big at the Supreme Court California is in the … Read more
[1.] California recently enacted a new law banning election-related “materially deceptive content” 120 days before and 60 days after an election. “Materially deceptive content” is defined as audio or visual media that is intentionally digitally created or [significantly] modified, which includes, but is not limited to, deepfakes, such that the content would falsely appear to … Read more
Obama and Kamala are both the children of lost black immigrant fathers, raised abroad and then brought into the American elite where they realized that they would have to identify with the blackness of their non-American fathers rather than with the white and Indian heritage of their mothers to get ahead in a culture whose … Read more
Watch Kamala Harris Impersonator Estee Palti on How She Makes Fun of the Dem Nominee’s Absurdity Cackling Kamala and Tampon Tim…. Related PostsVoting intentions Biden and Trump Repulse Voters as GOP Shows Signs of Becoming Normal Again Cities Force Businesses to Oversupply Parking Spaces. A Lawsuit Says That’s Unconstitutional. You Didn’t Build That … Read more
Kamala Harris is hardly even bothering to campaign in the conventional way against Donald Trump. And why should she? Joe Biden beat Trump in 2020 without running a real campaign against him, either. Trump’s three big problems as a candidate are precisely the same qualities that mitigated the worst of what might have been a … Read more
Malice is ever complex and paranoid. Conscious of its own designs, it suspects only malice in others. CR Related PostsThe Case for One More Child A Big (and Deserved?) Tax Increase for Washington, D.C. Princeton’s warning to its campus community: Speak at your own risk Meritocracy conceals elite disdain for the lives of ordinary Americans. … Read more
Fairy tales do not give a child his first idea of bogy. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of the bogy. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to … Read more
Los Angeles Times, Disbarred in Ohio, He Tricked a California Law Firm Into a $250,000 Job Offer: When he applied for a job at a California law firm last September, he identified himself as Christopher “Rich” Miller-Williams and claimed to be an ex-Marine who attended the University of Michigan School of Law. He said he … Read more
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own … Read more
After learning that Joe Biden would not seek a second presidential term, his son Hunter took it upon himself to advise all the foreign governments that had previously sent him bribe money that there would be no refunds. “Sorry, no refunds!” Hunter informed members of the Chinese government. “I believe I made that very clear … Read more
Correlation does not imply causation. Any good scientist Related PostsSin and Evil – G.K. Chesterton Expert shows us why ‘trust the experts’ was always bad advice Thomistic Institute Unveils New ‘Aquinas 101’ Video Series The Unprecedented Death Spiral of 2021 Sex differences in brain structure are present from birth, research shows
Piety is one of the popular virtues, whereas soap and Socialism are two hobbies of the upper middle class. G.K. Chesterton Related PostsOn kneeling Trump’s unconservative ‘American Academy’ Broken Lives Alveda King Sums Up Her Uncle MLK’s Message to America and Likely View of Critical Race Theory COVID-19 Economic Zombification
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it. George Bernard Shaw Related PostsA Mencken for Catholics Unreliable Speed Cameras Line Government Pockets Christian media has a track record of creating hopelessly bad productions, but Dallas Jenkins’ TV series is a cut above. Your Beloved The Bully XL and the fraying … Read more
Recently, I was getting a haircut and teasing my long-term stylist about the lack of inspirational-quote décor in her salon station compared to the one next to hers. Of course, she knows that teasing her is how I show my love and appreciation to her for not re-sculpting my earlobes with her straight razor or … Read more
Occasionally, Biden lies about things that benefit him politically. In the 2012 election campaign, he laughably told a majority African-American audience that Mitt Romney would re-enslave them. As president, he tells young people he is “canceling” their student debt when he is just shoveling their piles of bills onto plumbers and secretaries. He absurdly called … Read more
As Mr. Blatchford says, ‘The world does not want piety, but soap—and Socialism.’ Piety is one of the popular virtues, whereas soap and Socialism are two hobbies of the upper middle class. G.K. Chesterton, “What’s Wrong with the World.” Also see “Ch. 39: The Staleness of the New Schools“ Related PostsDemocrats Talk About Illegal Immigrants … Read more
The UN proudly displays a picture of its top executive getting out of a Gulfstream in Egypt (note the oval windows) Secretary-General @antonioguterres has just arrived in North Sinai, #Egypt. This is his first stop during his annual Ramadan solidarity visit to the region. pic.twitter.com/eCcWIRYKyw — UN Spokesperson (@UN_Spokesperson) March 23, 2024 A first class … Read more
I know because I was one. Last month, conservative news host Jesse Kelly told Megyn Kelly on her podcast that “the mentally ill single woman is the beating heart of the Democrat Party.” He proclaimed over 70 percent of single women vote Democrat. Furthermore, he declared that “studies” show approximately 60 percent of those women … Read more
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.” G.K. Chesterton Related PostsLooking for God in All the Wrong Places “The political anger now enveloping the nation has its roots in the rise of the counterculture in the 1960s.” A Gift The … Read more
They’re doing it again: Some wealthy people are asking governments to tax them more. In an open letter titled “Proud to Pay More” addressed to “global leaders gathering at Davos” for the World Economic Forum, over 250 wealthy people asked, “When will you tax extreme wealth?” They insist, “Not only do we want to be … Read more