Half Sigma finds that religiosity is correlated with fertility, and nothing else makes much difference. In particular, intelligence makes little difference, except that smart people tend to be less religious by the measure of religiosity used. But
Author: Jim
Correction: Tea Party Express not wholly left entryist
Earlier I accused the Tea Party Express as being left entryist, on the basis that its emailings tend to analyze the political spectrum as Democrats, right wing Democrats, moderate republicans, and conservative republicans, language that treats the left as normality and truth, and everyone else as deviations from normality and truth. However, emailings have recently …
29% of British hospital deaths murder by the state
The Liverpool Care Pathway. Which consists of heavily drugging them, and giving them no food or water. This will kill a healthy person in less than a week, and kill someone with breathing difficulties, for example an elderly person with pneumonia, in a few hours. The average life expectancy on the Liverpool Care Pathway is …
The PC trajectory
Nazis, neo nazis, and white nationalists think the nineteen thirties or early nineteen forties was lovely, that Franklin D. Roosevelt and social security was the greatest thing since sliced bread, and there is nothing wrong with social security that soaking the rich could not fix, but that things went too far left once Jews were encouraged to convert to progressivism and join the ruling elite and promptly launched the civil rights movement. They don’t think there was any such thing as political correctness in the early twentieth century.
But everything that is going wrong today was visible in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Inflation
If we believe the official inflation figures, supposedly living standards in the US are rising: Yet the proportion of people with cars is falling, the proportion of households with a car is falling faster, and the amount of meat people are eating is falling – consistent with a cpi rising at about the rate that …
Tea Party Express is far left entryist
In its mailings, the Tea Party Express conceptualizes the political landscape of the US as “conservative republicansâ€, “moderate republicansâ€, “right wing democratsâ€, and just plain “democratsâ€.  There is, it seems, only one liberal democrat, and no liberal or left wing republicans. Thus betraying the writer’s real viewpoint – that the far left is normal and …
Not the cognitive elite
Theoretically elite colleges select people with very high scores on the college entrance exam, thus select very smart people, thus our ruling elite is composed of very smart people. There are two problems with this story. One is that they do not in fact select people with very high scores on the college entrance exam, …
More clueless conservatives
The Volokh Conspiracy naively, or pretending to be naive, piously asks about the Brett Kimberlin incidents: One thing I do not comprehend about either story is the apparent reticence of local authorities. I would think local law enforcement would move heaven and earth to uncover who sicced SWAT on Patterico’s home and it is unconscionable …
Anonymized funding for terrorists
I was outraged to hear that Fidelity and Schwab had seemingly funded Kimberlin, but held off mentioning it because I suspected that they had merely been laundering other people’s money in their role as financial institutions – which turned out to be the case. It looks like some people funding Kimberlin unsurprisingly did not wish …
Clueless conservatives.
In response to Brett Kimberlin’s attacks, clueless conservatives want to conserve a system that is fundamentally broken, entirely hostile against them, and inherently structured to move ever leftwards at an ever increasing rate.Â