Like many Americans, I recently found myself obligated to go through “Anti-Racism training”. Now, even though I stay abreast of the news and have seen some of the rather abysmal, struggle session type training courses, I know that not all of them are like that. …

When I was younger, I used to read Bill Watterson’s celebrated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. It’s often considered the last great comic strip. …

The morass of toxicity known as Twitter has a surprising number of people, who frequently have anime avatars and always have pronouns, claiming that they want to adopt socialism. Which is bothersome to Gen-Xers like me. And Boomers who lived through the Cold War. And Silent Generation types like my…

What started out as what appeared to be a massive Twitter troll by Elon Musk has turned into a massive tender offer to buy Twitter. Which kind of feels like an even more massive troll (a $43 billion dollar troll), given how badly it’s triggering people. So Elon is buying…

Now that Vladimir Putin has invaded Ukraine for…some reason, the rest of the free world appears to be willing to push back against him. The Nord Stream 2 pipeline was halted. Access to things like Visa transactions and SWIFT transactions are cut off. Corporations around the world are joining in…

So I had a call from one of the many people who started their own side business during COVID to make up for lost income elsewhere. There are a lot of people starting businesses and side-hustles, and they often are very excited about it until letters from the state and…

There was a time where Rudy Guiliani was one of the most popular, well-liked politicians in the country. This may seem strange (especially to younger people), because to many on the right and left he comes off like a slightly kooky, off-his-rocker old man these days. But shortly after the…

Recently on Twitter, I saw various blue checks trumpeting economic growth purportedly produced by President Biden. They were mostly retweeting an article in Washington Monthly claiming that there’s a Biden Boom and no one has noticed yet. Apparently, we have record employment and GDP growth. …

Since I discovered a while ago that the news media is increasingly unreliable, I decided to follow the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse directly by occasionally watching the actual trial and testimony. …