November 2015

I saw a lot of this sentiment today in the run-up to and the aftermath of the House vote to suspend the Syrian Refugee program:  Yep, that’s some good old-fashioned savvy Beltway Insider Realpolitik. That’s a man dropping hard truths from tough experience on arrogant and naive dogooders who don’t have the sense to roll […]

I saw a lot of this sentiment today in the run-up to and the aftermath of the House vote to suspend the Syrian Refugee program: ​ Yep, that’s some good old-fashioned savvy Beltway Insider Realpolitik. That’s a man dropping hard truths from tough experience on arrogant and naive dogooders who don’t have the sense to roll down the […]

These days colleges make a big effort to match incoming freshman with compatible roommates. They use computer programs, algorithms, detailed questionnaires and personal interviews to do their best to ensure that kids sharing a dorm room hit it off in a healthy and mutually productive cohabitation. In 1991 at Ohio State they allowed blind sociopaths […]

These days colleges make a big effort to match incoming freshman with compatible roommates. They use computer programs, algorithms, detailed questionnaires and personal interviews to do their best to ensure that kids sharing a dorm room hit it off in a healthy and mutually productive cohabitation. In 1991 at Ohio State they allowed blind sociopaths […]

“Pappy Van Winkle is like liquid gold,” said Jennifer Williams, owner of Weiland’s Market. “ People are so into it. It is smoking hot, mostly because you can’t get it … Consumers are looking for and asking about American whiskeys. Stuff they are reading about, think is cool, or hear is rare.” My capitalist friends […]

I accept that facts can be garbled or lies can be told and that confusion often reigns in highly-charged situations.  But the impulse of people otherwise wholly uninvolved and unfamiliar with a given series of events to rush in and “debunk” is telling. Even pathological. It speaks of someone desperate to shout down a story […]