the game of life
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Analysis or “Analysis”
Scott Adams nails it “No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first–verdict afterwards.” Tip from the Instapundit. Read more
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The Man with an Orange for a Head
“…no narrative structure is big enough to contain the infinite perversity of the human heart.” Read more
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Not the conversation he expected, is it?
When he was campaigning for election, Barack Obama said the country needed to have a “conversation about race.” In the wake of the Martin-Zimmerman tragedy, we’re getting it, but I don’t think it’s the I-talk-you-shut-up-and-listen conversation he imagined. Black folks are disenchanted, and some white folks are tired of shutting up. The President may have Read more
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Talkin’ ’bout my g-g-g-generation
The bloom is off the Boomers: Collectively the Boomers continued to follow ideals they associated with youth and individualism: fulfillment and “creativity” rather than endurance and commitment. Boomer spouses dropped families because relationships with spouses or children or mortgage payments no longer “fulfilled” them; Boomer society tolerated the most selfish and immature behavior in its Read more
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Bayesian Gaydar
Sanjay Srivastava describes The Precisely Fuzzy Science of Gaydar: “…, a quick calculation tells us that for a randomly-selected member of the population, if your gaydar says “GAY” there is a 9% chance that you are right. Eerily accurate? Not so much. If you rely too much on your gaydar, you are going to make Read more
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You’re not bored, you’re boring
Brian Jay Stanley explains–better than I ever could–why I’ve been saying this for years. Tip from the Instapundit, who’s always “making the dumbest sh** interesting.” Read more
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Hey, Big Spender
An anonymous White House source has dropped a dime on Michelle Obama’s vacation spending habits. Apparently it’s so bad even Barack-0 is alarmed …Mrs Obama, whose fashion choices are widely followed, had been going on ‘wild shopping sprees’, much to the distress of her husband, who, its sources reveal, is ‘absolutely furious’ at his wife’s Read more
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“We need more Texans.”
Gary Jones sums up the recent discussion about Rick Perry and the Texas job market, and explains why working beats living on the dole: The chief defect is “social death”. You may have a safety net, welfare payments and rationed health care but you don’t have a job. You have no career, no status, no Read more
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“I don’t know.”
Penn Jillette is the opposite of a Know-It-All: It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral self-righteous bullying Read more
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Over-rated virtues
It turns out that benevolence, like nice, is totally overrated. I’m plumping for thrift and courage, myself. Update (10 August). Silly me. I forgot industry, a sure sign that I’ve been goofing off. Read more
The Random Texan 