The Feral Eloi

Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.

For all excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

--Benedict Spinoza

The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to.death.

--Steven Pressfield

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

--Beverly Sills

Stop whining.

--Cathy Seipp

May 8, 2014

China Fed Up with North Korea?

Here and here . A decapitation move against NoKo would let Beijing demonstrate its power with minimal counterreaction from the US and its...

A Foreigner Does a Job Americans Won't Do

From the NYT : Angela Merkel expresses in a glance a skepticism that the American media have refused to exercise for seven years.

The Holy Family

Here. (If I knew nothing else about Hillary! , the range of personas she's recently adopted would give me serious pause about her fitn...

April 29, 2014

Amnesty

I comment : GayPatriot reports: Republican Leadership: “If you elect us, we’re not going to repeal Obamacare but we will pass Amnesty” I’ve...

April 26, 2014

Awww, Did I Lose My Temper?

Here: Not every contemporary Palin supporter is a loutish, deceiving, stupid, and/or willfully ignorant kook, but that’s my baseline assumpt...

April 24, 2014

Remote-Controlled Killer Drones Robots

A benchmark along the path to autonomous Terminators? If the optimal design is humanoid, maybe the operators will wear virtual reality suits...

April 23, 2014

Russia and...What's It's Name...Cathay?

I comment : I was just wondering about China. In particular, I’ve been wondering why our governing elites—the very best people from the very...

Ooo! Chelsea Clinton!! Ooo!

Fast Company swoons and sucks up here and here . Ace and Geraghty comment. Given her parents' genes, Chelsea Clinton is almost cer...

April 18, 2014

The Precautionary Principle Encroaches on Science

(The following is extremely crude and needs elaboration & iteration, which I'd never do if I didn't hold my nose and post the cu...

April 17, 2014

Decadence, Pure and Simple

Finland's new sadomasochistic homoerotic stamps . (Via Althouse , who too often seems to feel that the Role of Art is to gross people o...

The Onion Gets It

"...Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States" Well played, AQ. It's unlikely the US would wake up ...

April 13, 2014

White Privilege and "White Privilege": Cui Bono?

In response to this , my opinion : IMO the whites who benefit most from so-called white privilege are white elitists who declaim against it....

Supplements to O'Sullivan's Law

The original form of the law states: All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing. I add: Conservativ...

April 11, 2014

What, Specifically, Has Hillary Achieved?

Hilarious: : It's funny watching the question of Hillary's greatest accomplishment asked and laughingly rejected as ridiculous at fi...

STDs Rampant In USA

A third of the population . (HT: Instapundit .) Good grief. I had accepted sexual liberality as part of progress and modernity, but this g...

April 9, 2014

Jeb Bush Is a David Cameron Wannabe

He gives me the same vibe, i.e. blueblooded but soft. He tried to act corageous: "Jeb Bush: Many illegal immigrants come out of an ‘ac...

April 8, 2014

The Confederate Flag

I agree with this commenter : 1. What’s all the fuss about? Just a few patriots expressing their support for individual liberty and states’ ...

April 7, 2014

Crisis!! Sexism in Silicon Valley!

Instapundit links the NYT and TPM . Ia another Great Moral Crusade sprouting in the astroturf? (Though I have no sympathy for the coll...

Militant Elites

Dinocrat posts and I comment : There certainly are a lot of angry people in the upper crust today. “Transformative justice.” It turns out...

Nurture Your Children Or Go To Jail

Who decides if you're nurturing properly ? The State , of course. And they're not "your" children. Same thing over and o...

April 6, 2014

Made the Switch, Finally

Instapundit : SARAH HOYT HAS A NEW BOOK OUT. I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want to buy it. I can. Before dumping Firefox, I mulled it f...

April 5, 2014

More About Mozilla

1. In the medium term, the Eich defenestration may well cripple the organization's capacity for innovation. In fact I've developed...

A Modest Proposal for Mozilla

Keep your products free, provided the user warrants no to contravene various leftist dogmas. To break the pledge exposes one to liability. ...

Venezuela

A first step toward rationing . The link smacks of apologetics for the socialist government, and yet... I'm not reading about the Ve...

April 2, 2014

NASA Suspends Relations With Russia

Except for the Space Station. They use the occasion to whine for more funding. Not surprisingly, the Russians have several responses avai...

The World Economy Disengages From the Dollar

Gently, gently (HT: GayPatriot ). Businessweek: Bundesbank, PBOC in Pact to Turn Frankfurt Into Renminbi Hub . Xinhua : BERLIN, March 28...

March 31, 2014

Teh Wimminz Shud Rool

So says WA saintly Senator Patty Murray: If women ruled the country, the government wouldn't be on the brink of shutting down or defau...

March 30, 2014

" Senate Democrats struggle to define a message that can save their majority"

The above headline is copied from the Washington Post (HT: Instapundit ). According to WaPo, the Democrat strategy is to focus on their bas...

March 28, 2014

Jen Psaki, You Go Grrl!!

She responded to Russian aggression in Ukraine with... a tweeted selfie . Who, you ask, is Jen Psaki ?--- State Department spokeswoman Jen P...

March 25, 2014

High Tech Rigs Recruitng to Hold Down Salaries

Here . CEO salaries, stock options, and perks, not so much. There was a piece on this some time ago by a Silicon Valley reporter, but not th...

Embarrassing

There's the montage of Putin vs. Obama. That was assembled to make Barry look bad. It's hard to make that excuse for Michelle vs....

March 24, 2014

Top Web Comics

The site, which ranks indie webcomics via online polls, is here . It surprised me that the great majority of protagonists are female. (I r...

March 20, 2014

All-Encompassing Regulation, Selective Enforcement

That's the governing philosophy I associate with today's PC Left and with many on the Right. David French : For much of my life as a...

Sex Work: Live and Let Live?

Live and let live has been my attitude, but I've been reading about feminist Duke student Belle Knox / Miriam Weeks 's porn gigs. T...

March 18, 2014

Bravo, Mr. President!

With the kerfluffles in Ukraine, Iran and Venezuela adroitly attended to & with better, more economical healthcare in place, Barry can r...

March 14, 2014

Why Is Downton Abbey Popular with the PBS Viewership?

Because it's a pretext for watching an all-white show? I'm such a cynic (who hasn't watched the series).

'No Compulsion in Religion''

Should a binding oath to this effect be a precondition for residency or citizenship? (With the risk of losing citizenship if the violation...

Obama Tops Carter's Giving Away the Panama Canal

He's giving away the Internet . (After all the hanky-panky by US spy agencies, he may not have much choice. See this and this .) Mean...

March 11, 2014

Preaching to the Choir, Not Making Converts

That's the trouble with conservative & libertarian media, IMHO. Suggestion : ...it might be useful to have awards recognizing people...

_ _ & Rand Paul & Ted Cruz

Paul and Cruz are running for President. (Paul won the CPAC straw poll for the second year in a row.) First-term senators with politicall...

March 7, 2014

Don't Give Them Ideas, Rep. Polis

After Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) called for a federal ban on bitcoins, Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) proposed that the government ban ...

Ukraine Is a Trifle

Yours truly, at Dinocrat : 2. This crisis is nothing compared to what looms ahead. Russia’s GDP is about 12% of that of the USA or EU; Chin...

March 3, 2014

Unusual K-12 Malpractice

The narrative is not unusual : elementary school traumatizes disabled child, punishes him, gets parents in trouble with authorities for susp...

February 25, 2014

Trolls Are Not the Worst People Online

Recent reports indicate that trolls can be sadistic, narcissistic psychopaths (Google: "internet trolls are psychopaths" ). Ev...

February 24, 2014

Ukraine and Venezuela

Unless common decency is overriden by something like fear of a despot, a country's military and police may refuse to fire on their own ...

February 21, 2014

Why Was Microaggression "Discovered"?

Because the multiculti Left is no longer content to monitor speech. They want to monitor facial expressions and body language too.

February 15, 2014

Heartachingly Poignant

For some time it's been understood that some women submit to sex when all they want is intimacy. Now a few men are paying online sex ...

Opposites Attract

That's the title of a WSJ piece stating that couples with traditional male-female roles have better sex lives (HT: Instapundit ). Taran...

February 13, 2014

Is Amazon Stock A Table-Pounding Short?

Down over 10% from the high...price/earnings of 600 (internet bubble territory...owner distracted by a space company, the Washingtn Post, an...

February 2, 2014

Framing 'Inequality'

Framing the discussion in terms of economic inequality obscures the growth of government size and power that has accompanied the growth of e...

January 24, 2014

Comments January 2014

• On Geithner and the S&P prosecution (gs Jan 23, 2014 @ 13:49:27): Moody’s, which like S&P was up to its nose in the mortgage disa...

January 19, 2014

The Fallen Mighty: Little Green Footballs

In 2004 the blog influenced the course of the Presidential election by helping to debunk the forgery of debunk Bush's National Guard ev...

January 13, 2014

SCOTUS and ACA

Imagine that Roberts had voted to find Obamacare unconstitutional. To this day, the media would be saturated with fury and anguish about Uto...

Bello's Bellows

Actress-"activist" Maria Bello recently announced she is lesbian "whatever". Her ex and 12-year-old son, "with a ...

January 11, 2014

Sports Team Names Deemed Racist

The race card crossed my mind when the Florida State Seminoles won the national championship in football, and sure enough ... (HT: LI ) Ho...

January 10, 2014

Sustainability of Apartheid and "Apartheid"

Iirc apartheid South Africa claimed a right to their territory because whites supposedly arrived on the land just before southward-migrating...

January 3, 2014

The Ban on Incandescent Light Bulbs

It's self-evident that Big Business and the regulatory state have created a predatory arrangement against the consumer. Even so, it'...

January 1, 2014

Internal Developments in China

25 years ago Deng Hsiao-ping ended struggle sessions . Chinese citizens are allowed to travel abroad as tourists. "Reeducation" la...

Applause for Mugabe?!

At the Mandela memorial service . He wrecked his country, but, hey, he stood up to the West by wrecking his country . Huzzah!! Addendum...

December 30, 2013

Belated Thought About the Obama Selfie Incident

At the Mandela memorial service, Obama took a selfie with the attractive Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt. It's disputed w...

December 28, 2013

The WW1 Christmas Truce & US Partisanship

Worthwhile read about the truce here (HT: Ace ). Two reactions: 1. Note that the truce only happened early in the war. Subsequently high ...

December 24, 2013

"Inequality: Government Is a Perp, Not a Bystander"

That's the title of Dean Baker's piece posted by a leftist think tank (HT: Instapundit ). Public choice theory is not mentioned; u...

December 12, 2013

Appalling, If True

A cancer patient who complained about his health insurance coverage being dropped, and an activist who tried to help him, have both been has...

December 2, 2013

Orbital Tourism for ~$150K?

Eventually, according to Elon Musk . Wow. And he'd like to get to Mars for $500K. Though I wonder if the biological challenges, e....

November 28, 2013

Norman Rockwell's Refugee Thanksgiving

Here. God bless America.

November 26, 2013

Self-Recording Police?

No-brainer! Yes! , I say. Federal Judge Shira A. Scheindlin (HT: Instapundit ) agrees: she required that stop-and-frisk encounters be recor...

November 14, 2013

Obama's Insurance Turnabout

I'm seeing claims that insurance companies can't adjust their business plans fast enough to correct the situation, even though they...

Unfortunately True

This (boldface in the last sentence is mine): Words that think for us An accusation of “denial” is serious, suggesting either deliberate d...

November 6, 2013

Cuccinelli Lost. Good!

Today's news: the sun rose in the east, and the Stupid Party stupidly lost another election they should have won. Upon learning about ...

November 5, 2013

PJ Media Gets An Early Jump

Normally the Right waits until after they blow a winnable election to complain that Democrats cheat, but PJ Media's Bryan Preston makes...

For Mayor-Elect de Blasio's Urgent Attention

I gather that deB will end or rein in the program because of racial profiling...and yet, African-Americans are, um, overrepresented in vio...

November 1, 2013

Unfortunately This Great Idea Has Not Yet Been Implemented Properly

Marxism? Well, that too, but I meant Obamacare . Maybe this post should have been titled Nobody Ever Lost Money By Underestimating the Int...

October 30, 2013

Narratives

The old: The buck stops here. The new: What difference, at this point, does it make where the buck stops? The newest: Whatever. Adden...

October 24, 2013

Civilizational Suicide: The Latest Fashion

Disdain and shaming of couples with more than two children. Instapundit calls it fecundophobia ( here too). Before the financial crisis,...

October 23, 2013

I Didn't Know This

From a reader review of Harvey Silverglate's Three Felonies a Day : ... between 2001 and 2007 the Department of Justice (DoJ) opened in...

Denmark Is a Happy Place

In fact, supposedly the happiest country in the world, according to HuffPo . Why? Gender equality and support for families, among other th...

They Named It the WHAT?!

Nowadays my life is a solitary one. I neither get out much nor keep up with trends. Nevertheless, passing by a McDonald's, I was stupe...

October 22, 2013

America's Future: California Shows the Way

Poverty . California's is highest in the nation. (HT: Instapundit .) The GOP's corporatism is little better, if what I read about ...

October 20, 2013

Obamacare and Obama GOTV

Legal Insurrection notes the discrepancy. I couldn't say it as well as David Gerstman did. In fact I didn't say it as well, but ...

October 17, 2013

A Religious Kook, I Suspect

A stenographer disrupted the House. Instapundit says she sounds like an Obama supporter. From the biblical flavor of her rantings, I'm g...

October 15, 2013

Here'a a Crazy Thought

The USA wouldn't be tied up in knots about the debt crisis if the government didn't have any debt. Completely nuts, I admit. If an...

October 10, 2013

Planning for the Shutdown

Dinocrat notes that detailed planning was required to set up the annoying, visible, and unnecessary shutdowns. Who did it? Who gave the ord...

The Queen of Self-Reliance Didn't Tell Me This

States most affected by the federal shutdown include : —D.C., Maryland, Alaska , Hawaii and Virginia have the most federal workers per capit...

October 9, 2013

On Commenting in the Blogosphere

Thoughts here : Yes, some people behave as though being too toxic to interact with means they “win”. A thought or few have lodged in my br...

October 6, 2013

A Simple Reason Why Republicans Lose

Here: ... swing voters distrust both parties wrt hidden agendas. That being so, they understandably vote for the party that offers them free...

October 4, 2013

WWII Memorial Wired Shut

Disgusting. Sometimes a little thing is more revealing than a big thing.

Miriam Carey

1. Carey was the individual shot by DC law enforcement. An investigation should be conducted to determine whether unnecessary force was use...

October 3, 2013

The Bush-Rove-Delay-Lott Crowd's True Colors, Again

My post at LI: Trent Lott trashed Ted Cruz…to a Mother Jones reporter. The prominence of people like Lott and Rove in the previous admini...

Oh Yeah, the Snowden Affair

I haven't joined the Republican screeching about Snowden's accusations because I recall that Bush started, or accelerated, this stu...

September 24, 2013

Conventional Wisdom

Geniuses and fools disregard conventional wisdom.

September 18, 2013

Bush and Obama

Both had failed Presidencies, and there are no grades such as F+ and F-. Nevertheless, a distinction can be made: During a placid interval...

Pigs Attack Chicken

Chicken, Alaska, population 17 , was swarmed by an armed government "task force" in body armor. (HT: Instapundit and Fox News .)

Hegel, Insight, and Hindsight

Thread here at ATH. Is criticism of Hegel overdone because Marx adapted him? Dunno. In any event, the line The owl of Minerva takes flight ...

September 12, 2013

Marissa Mayer, Microsoft CEO?

It sounds improbable, but aspects of her personality seem Gatesian : the intelligence, the arrogance, the relentlessness, the insane workaho...

September 11, 2013

Never Forget

August 23, 2013

Very Belated Thoughts on the NBA Finals

1. I don't begrudge high salaries to people who excel. Too many professional athletes don't excel, and collect anyway. Too many are ...

August 21, 2013

Coptic Self-Determination? Arm the Copts?

Makes sense to me, but not to the doofi or worse who are ignoring the Iranian Green Movement. Bad as their situation is, the Copts may be...

August 18, 2013

The Religious Right: A Glimmer of Sanity?

Maybe. Rising Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore acknowledges that the Religious Right has lost the culture wars. (HT: Rick Moran/PJ Me...

Speed Traps Are Sooo 20th Century

Why issue a ticket when you can seize the car and everything in it? In Tenaha, TX for example . The ACLU Apparently has stepped in. (The f...

August 17, 2013

Intelligence and Ideology

Unfortunately, the point is not whether liberals are smarter than conservatives/libertarians (or vice versa ). The point is under what kind ...

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