Yes, I have joined the crowd. All previous posts—all 3,000 of ’em—will remain here and, for the sake of maintaining a complete record, I’ll also be posting the newbies here as well, or at least most of them. Enjoy!
Only Nixon could go to China? Donald Trump says “Hold my Diet Coke”! Here’s a news flash, America: Money talks! And so do, you know, rare earths!
Yeah, scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium are real blabber mouths, and The Great One is listening. And talking, though the New York Times sounds skeptical, to say the least—Trump Touts ‘Fantastic Trade Deals’ With China, but Details Are Scarce. But when has…
Okay, is THIS the stoopidist story the New York Times has ever published? Probably not.
Two Harvard Law professors walk into a bar and write a stoopid article comparing The Donald with FDR and the New York Times publishes it. But why? Yeah, that’s the gist of my next “Yo, New York Times! How stoopid can you get?” entry, a contribution of two Harvard Law plug-uglies, Jack Goldsmith and Samuel…
Is This the Stoopidest Story the New York Times Has Ever Published? Probably Not.
Nikole Hannah-Jones glorifies murder as long as it’s for a good cause and involves attractive young women. Yes, the Times keeps breaking huuuge stories about Donald Trump and Iran, Joe Biden and immigration, and John Roberts and the “shadow docket”, but at the same time they keep pushing out disgraceful, deceitful misinformation/disinformation along the lines…
Why Oh Why can’t we have better UCal Berkeley Economics Professors? Brad DeLong Mixes Apples with Camera Film, and Things Get Ugly.
A few weeks ago, UCal Berkeley Economics Professor Brad DeLong ran a post, The Vibe-Horsing Coal-&-Steam Revolution of the 1700s,1 remarking on the “Jevons paradox”—the observation of 19th century2 British economist William Jevons that technological improvements in the efficiency of steam engines increased their use to the extent that the demand for coal increased as…
Jake Sullum, the Misinformation Man When good libertarians go bad.
If you read Reason magazine as often as I do—and I read it a lot, because it has lots of excellent articles—you’ve probably noticed a distinct fly in the ointment—the compulsive need of Reason folk to “explain” to you that everything “bad” that Trump does, well, the Democrats did it too—though I don’t remember Barack…
Is Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics at Cornell University Eswar Prasad, you know, stoopid? No, he’s just lazy.
I’m currently reading Doom Loop, a book by Eswar Prasad, Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics at Cornell University, explaining why “globalism”, which only a short 25 years ago promised a world of unprecedented global progress and prosperity, has created its opposite, “anti-globalism”, a world of suspicion, oppression, and fear. So…
“Einstein”: Writing about AI with AI!
ChatGPT says it loves my new novel, Einstein. But is it telling, you know, “the truth”? As a seriously obscure novelist, I have always believed that the best advice you can give an incipient author of fiction is “write about what you know.” In my new novel, Einstein (available, naturally, from Amazon), I wrote about…
The Problematic Triumph of Bari Weiss: Is the new head of CBS late to the party? It sure looks like it!
Poor Bari Weiss! She’s rich, definitely, getting $150 million for the Free Press, which she and her sister Suzi and her wife Nellie Bowles created from nothing, and she’s “powerful”, definitely, now head of CBS news, one of the most storied media powerhouses around, but so what? Just as Bari Weiss grasped the controls of…
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a hideous tragedy and a horrifying crime. But Charlie Kirk was an unscrupulous, racist mouthpiece for MAGA “rage”
The left-wing morons celebrating his death are disgusting; but so is Donald Trump and he’s president and they aren’t. Charlie Kirk’s murder was a horrifying crime and a great personal tragedy for his family. The now-familiar pattern of “passionate” lefties either finding a convenient moral in the murder of a right-wing big-shot—when they don’t celebrate…
Yo, virtue-signaling “progressive” leotards*! Uber and Lyft drivers are not exploited!
It’s become a “thing” for left-thinking “progressives” to exclaim, with suitably “passionate” outrage, “Did you know that Uber and Lyft drivers receive only 25% of price of a trip?” Well, I do now, of course, but here’s the good news for the righteously enraged: You can do something about that all by yourself! Yes, yes,…