March 11, 2025

What went wrong with the Democrats?

The answer is a delight. I am surely not alone in thinking the Democrat party has, historically, been sneaky and cunning and totally rotten.  But the main thing is, they weren’t dumb.  Who’d have thought they could ...

July 17, 2024

Do good guys raise, kill, and eat animals?

Let us follow Bentham and say we seek the greatest good for the greatest number (cows included).  You can’t get more bleeding-heart than that. Let us look at it from the point of view of the cow.  Humans are looking after...

July 19, 2023

The peculiar racism of the Ivy League

If you got your degree from a prestigious Ivy League college such as Harvard or Yale, then the tendrils of Ivy League privilege swirl about you like an expensive cologne for the rest of your life.  And you want your children to smell just a...

May 21, 2020

If you want to get sick, go to a bar

We seem to have got into the wrong universe by accident.  We really should be in the one where the medical profession is broadly educated and gives us good advice.  Let us not speak of the food pyramid and other shining examples; ...

May 11, 2020

Viewed from abroad, New York's COVID-19 response looks appalling

Does New York know that its coronavirus response is being watched all over the world? Maybe that ought to be worth something, given its phenomenal casualty rate and its seeming obliviousness to the official decisions that caused so many of its...

April 14, 2020

Do Medical Masks Work?

We are told that, on the one hand, heads should roll for not providing health-care workers with enough masks to save their lives, and on the other, that masks will not aid us the people in trying to survive the virus. We smell a rat. Further, the fra...