Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I’m still clearing out the inbox, but I’ve also got some current stuff in here, so I consider this a round-up. I’ll just dive in, with the stuff presented here in pretty random order: Last Sunday, a New York Times op-ed addressed “Why People Don’t Donate Their Kidneys.” Sally Satel,
Continue readingAmerica’s educational institutions aren’t taking antisemitism seriously — despite the mount of proof (often from the killers themselves) showing that tens of millions have died from antisemitism over the centuries. Meanwhile, as antisemitism surges unchecked on America’s campuses, schools are taking very seriously fracking, even in the absence of any
Continue readingSaturdays just slip away from me. Now you see ’em, now you don’t. Suddenly, it’s 1:30, and I’ve accomplished nothing more than making another batch of haroset, which I’m trying to eat in lieu of ice cream. There are things, though, that I’d like to share with you: The first
Continue readingSpring break is over and real life resumes. The kids weren’t thrilled to return to school, but I’m pretty pleased to have my life back on schedule. As you could probably tell from last week’s lethargic blogging, I don’t do well without some boundaries to my days. I’m off to
Continue readingI have learned something about myself over the past 5.5 weeks: I will never master crutches. After all this time, I still fall going up the stairs, get vertigo going down the stairs, topple over when trying to reach light switches, get abrasions on my skin, and exhaust my injured
Continue readingIt’s raining!!! In California, that’s cause for celebration. Rain in Marin doesn’t mean it’s raining elsewhere, but it certainly matters to use Marin-ites — we have our own reservoir system, so we’re wholly dependent on local rainfall. Ironically, the rain is slowing down our major yard renovation, and we have
Continue readingI’ve written before about Mark Steyn’s epic battle and equally epic Answer and Counterclaim in the suit that discredited “Hockey Stick” artiste, Michael Mann filed against him and the National Review. What I forgot to tell you is that there is a way you can help Mark Steyn, who
Continue readingThe other day, I wasn’t able to get to my desktop computer, which is where I write with ease and fluidity. I was also was quite depressed that day. Thinking about it, I told my sister that I wasn’t depressed because life is temporarily inconvenient. I was depressed, instead, because
Continue readingBack in October, I wrote about one of my children’s classmates at high school. This kid is handsome, athletic, and extremely popular. He also made disparaging remarks about Obamacare and illegal aliens without getting push-back from either students or teachers. Such is the power of popularity. That kid’s at it
Continue readingNPR didn’t mean to offer a perfect example of how an unfalsifiable, infallible theory works. It’s stated goal was to have people better understand what a polar vortex is. However, when it chose to interview “Andrew Freedman, senior science writer for Climate Central, an independent non-profit organization that researches and
Continue readingWinter break this year was very pleasant. As I may have written before, while I’m not a big fan of small children, I really like teenagers, especially the teenagers my kids bring home. We live in a tight-knit community and my house is often a gathering spot for the kids
Continue readingWork and family call, but that doesn’t mean I’m not sneaking quick peeks at articles that I can then share with you. Is the global warming tipping point nearing? It will inevitably happen, but far too late to save the billions of dollars wasted, the lives lost in revolutions it
Continue readingI’ve had a very nice Christmas, both Eve and Day. I also had a very Marin Christmas. I was at a party this afternoon and met some very nice people. In a discussion about rising college prices, one man told me that this problem resulted from income inequality. He was
Continue readingFor a decade, those liberals who know that I think that anthropogenic global warming is a scam that was invented to make some people very rich (AlBore, is that you?), even while it transfers vast sums of wealth from the First World to the Third World, have called me some
Continue readingOne of the things that drives me bonkers-nutso about the green movement is the way that it subsidizes rich people when they make “green” purchases. I dislike subsidies generally, because they’re a form of wealth redistribution. But I really dislike it when government takes taxpayer money and hands it over
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