Environment
The Seductive Lie of Compostable Plastics
I have been going on about this for years, and still I have to stock compostable cups and lids in the coffee bar that I know are a sham. The seductive lie of compostable plastics
Alfred Holzheu
Covid
The Covid Models Have Been a Sham Since the Beginning
Sweden was supposed to have 95,000 deaths by June 1; it had 4,395. The same goes for virtually every other country on earth. Why do we continually buy into these dystopian nightmares? SimCity-style modeling flunks the real-world test
Liberty
The Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights
We are so toast. How did this happen? The ruling
Reflection
Peak Postmodernism and a Coming Renewal
A shared essay arguing that the plague-era psychodrama is peak postmodernism — and that its retreat will lead to a remodern renewal. Read the essay
Economics
American Institute for Economic Research
A site I returned to often during this period. AIER
Personal
Apology to All Who Were 'Spammed'
To anyone showing up: as promised, from now on — and in deference to the futility of tilting at windmills — the only place I will unburden myself as I watch the destruction of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will be here. Cheers.
General
Lemmings
An image post. (The original image lives in Squarespace storage.)
General
A Challenging Statement
An image post — a bumper sticker I found provocative. (The original image lives in Squarespace storage.)
Ideas
The Challenge
Most people have heard about the Buffett and Gates challenge to the very wealthy to donate half their wealth to charity. Sounds great, but in the end not particularly effective. What if the challenge instead went to the governments of the world: dedicate half of your military budgets to development
Climate
Is There Evidence Linking CO2 to Warming?
Does it matter that there is not one piece of scientific evidence that links CO2 to warming in any sort of causality? Lots of conjecture, lots of statistical linkage — but no clear causal mechanism that I have been able to find. Think about it in common-sense terms: why would something
Energy
I Am Vindicated: Food-Based Ethanol Is Stupid
Finally, someone did the analysis to prove the obvious: growing corn for fuel is fuelish. Sometimes I hate to be right. Photovoltaics beat biofuels
Economics
Random Answers to a Random Huff Post Editorial
My point-by-point reply to an editorial on progressive taxation and the 1%. The world is not static; the playing field will never be perfectly level, and the makeup of the 1% is always in flux, much like a star athlete's career. Gates, Jobs, Brin were not in the