CNN finds a writer willing to acknowledge the racial dimension to the Amanda Knox case: From that interview and many more, I pieced together a picture of a young man who seemed to be acting out some sort of fantasy of a home, a fantasy that perhaps abruptly cracked when Meredith Kercher came home unexpectedly […]
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How we betray our soldiers by omission
One of the worst things about living in a collapsing society is the faithlessness of people. They idealize being entirely self-sufficient. To that end, they refuse to invest themselves emotionally in any idea that lacks self-interest. Nation, culture, religion, nature, marriage and ideology beyond “more rights” get the axe. As part of this, the first […]
The economy is not coming back
When the economy gets ill, people claim it’s a recession and then a depression. What they can’t do is tell you why this happens. The answer is simple: the economy is re-adjusting its own value after having been oversold. Unlike energy, value can be destroyed. If you build your economy up and claim it has […]
Unions are great at exporting jobs to China
An American icon has fallen. Although repellent as a food item, the Twinkie did exemplify America of the old days. In that time, there is no nanny state. If you want to eat a sugar-filled inflated cake, it’s not our job to stop you. That kind of system works only where each person is responsible […]
Election 2012 Part III: Moving forward (but not progressing)
In the unhappy current state of affairs, we have an election that is basically demographic warfare, an electorate that has a tenuous hold on reality, and a great chance of being eliminated when entitlements and amnesty make the population go Soviet Lite. As analyzed in other parts of this series, our civilization is in the […]
How to capture the hearts of a people
Politics — the art of convincing others to do things — presents a rough field of play because it’s half policy and half theater. One can be a good leader, or even a great one, without being a good politician. Like other things in life, learning to be a politician is a skill that succumbs […]
Cultural revolution
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in her choice of methods of change. Today a bizarre battleground was selected for the culture wars: fast food. The story is fairly well-known: CEO makes relatively mild statement about his company’s support for traditional marriage. Liberal lynch mob forms, foaming with hatred over the idea of dissent, and demands […]
Is power the path to self-destruction?
All great empires look the same after they die. They resemble what we might call “third world” living conditions, with a venomous oligarchy ruling behind the curtain of a governmental facade. Living conditions are disorganized, resulting in poor quality and hygiene. The behavior of citizens is random, discoordinated, self-destructive and non-cooperative. What is missing most […]
Funny money
On this blog in the past I have complained about the devaluation of American currency. Right now, they’re blaming it on the housing boom, but it seems to me the housing boom was a symptom. The cause was the Clinton era “fast money” that Robert Rubin and Bill Clinton made into policy. This drove the […]
Race riots
When the symbolic value of an act touches on a larger phenomenon than the act itself, and does so in such a way that a story is convincingly told from at least one point of view, it because a behavioral meme. Take Trayvon Martin. On the surface of it, this is an average story: a […]
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