Read it. Now that’s comedy.

Jonah Goldberg is always worth reading.

Mark Steyn on Redacted.

Read it. As Will Rogers once said, the problem is that a lot of what people “know” ain’t so.

Tyler Cowan reviews the economy.

Steve Sailer is always worth reading.

Read it. Apparently Hitchens has stopped smoking. You can believe as much or as little of that as you care to.

Read it. An intriguing idea.

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Have you wondered how corporate scandals can go on for so long?:

Philip Soergel, a parent who complained to Howard schools administrators about the principal’s offer, said: “We were aghast. I had never heard of this. Kids are getting these kinds of lessons in how to tattle on one another.”

Read it. A view from abroad.

Read it. An important point that bears repeating. Far too many people thing that “innovation” and “invention” are synonyms.

Read it. Is it just me, or does Giuliani not look like the ideal Lex Luthor?

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Peggy Noonan takes a look at Hillary and Barak.

Read it. Take whatever action you think is appropriate.

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Read it. Pawlenty is being talked about as a possible Republican VP candidate. I think he’s more useful where he is.

Christopher Hitchens is always worth reading.

Read it. Just because we have all of this technology available to us doesn’t necessarily mean that we ought to be using it 24/7.

Read it. I gather that Bill Gates will be retiring from Microsoft soon. Time to sell the Microsoft stock, then. Unless they hire Steve Jobs.

Does Bill Gates look like an over-the-hill English professor, or is that just me?

Read it. Primarily because it doesn’t soak the rich, so the government can’t make as much money unless it turns the screws tighter than most people will accept.

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David Friedman is always worth reading.

Read it. Sometimes one encounters a situation for which “genius” is an inadequate characterization.

Read it. More about language and writing in the Tribal World.

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Watch it.

Mencius Moldbug explains it all to you.

First, finance is not a science. Secondly, finance is not intrinsically complicated. And third, unless you are a physicist, your life will be pretty much the same whether you understand relativity or not. “You may not be interested in war,” Trotsky once said, “but war is interested in you.” The same is surely true of finance.

To actually understand all of modern finance, you would need a brain the size of a beachball. This would certainly attract notice, and you might have some trouble getting laid.

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Read it at your own risk. I like this stuff. Others feel differently.

Read it. If there isn’t anything to hide, why are they so determined to hide it?

Kausfiles contains many delightful things. Today’s treat:

Letting the presidential nominee be picked by the Iowa caucusers is like letting your antiwar tactics be picked by the last people left at the end of a 4-hour SDS meeting in 1970.

Whoa, that brings back memories. But he’s absolutely right.

Read it. The world is not as they tell you it is. But you knew that.

Steve Sailer just keeps on coming up with good stuff.

I’m a morning person. My wife is a night person. My late first wife was a night person, often excessively so. Both of my brothers are night people. I think I may be adopted.

Steve Sailer keeps coming up with all this great stuff.

Read it. Markets surface even where you don’t want them to.

Peggy Noonan.

We just want a reasonable person. We would like a candidate who does not appear to be obviously insane.

Hm. That doesn’t leave a lot.

Read it. This reiterates the vital distinction between invention and innovation. Coming up with a clever idea is fun but not important. What’s important is getting it out there to make people’s lives better. This is why more people speak European languages than Chinese.

Read it. Not a whole lot, apparently.

Read it. If you understand it, please explain it to me.

Read it. Economists like to arrange things neatly. This includes thoughts. I like this approach.

Read it. Sometimes when you push the envelope, the envelope pushes back.

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Steve Sailer takes a look at cultural anthropology, which appears to have fallen out of fashion.

Yaacov ben Moshe looks at the left through the eyes of Basil Fawlty. It is not a pretty sight.

It is sad because it causes so much harm. The Basil Fawlty governments of the west who simply can’t force themselves to bring up the subjects of Palestinian bad faith, mis-management and terror as thy keep pouring aid into Palestinian Authority in spite of the proven correlation between that aid and terrorism aimed at innocent Israelis is a perfect example.

Oh, say it ain’t so….

It should come as no surprise that members of the honor-shame culture of Caliphate Islam are subject to this kind of tantrum. This is what honor-shame is all about. They will win the upper hand by any means that they think will work. They are, emotionally labile and see honor as a mere matter of having the upper hand. They are, by definition, The People of the Tantrum.

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Before we let Uncle Sam into our kitchens, at school or at home, these questions deserve some exploration.

Indeed. Bet you don’t find any Democrats asking those questions.

Read it. China’s traditional culture eventually swallows everything. It worked with the Mongols, it worked with the Manchus, and it’s working with Communism.

Read it. Yet another attempt by “progressives” to sweep an issue under the rug by making it a ThoughtCrime.

Steve Sailer ponders why people don’t want to live in the most pleasant place in the country.

Steve Sailer draws an interesting parallel.

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