Author: Jim

party politics

Why Trump is Hitler

You have doubtless seen lots of people arguing that Trump is Hitler. Often “Trump is literally Hitler!” Of course people who read my blog know what “literally” means, and though Trump is obviously not literally Hitler, there is in fact a good argument that Trump is Hitler. But for some strange reason, Democrats never make …

economics

Report on moonshine

About a year ago, I produced thirty liters of moonshine. Tasted as if distilled from dead rats and kerosine Double distilled it. Still tasted as if distilled from dead rats and kerosine. Forgot about it for a year. After a year, tried it again. Not bad at all.

culture

The next big thing in progressivism

Recently there was ass bandits. Then there was transgender. For a while it looked liked the next big thing would be pedophobia – the “anti bullying” campaign sought to protect pre pubescent children of ambiguous sex who had physically affectionate relationships with obviously homosexual middle aged males from being “bullied” and sought to normalize pre …

culture

Patriarchy and fertility

We observe high fertility in those nations and cultures where patriarchy is legally and socially enforced, in particular Muslim Afghanistan and Christian Timor Leste. Affordability of family formation has little effect. Clearly males in patriarchal societies are highly motivated to have children. They will do whatever it takes so that they can afford a family. …

culture

Western Civilization

Western civilization is a bunch of things that tend to come together. Christianity (forget that “Judeo Christian” crap, Judaism still has the problems Jesus complained about) Classic Greek art, culture and philosophy (hey, compare our comic books with Greek statues, then compare with Indian statues or Japanese comic books, and no one except us and …

crypto

Tor compromised

It has long been known that much of the resources for Tor are provided by US spy agencies. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, since they might want a means for communicating that no one can spy on. However, Lucky Green, a key figure in the privacy community, has issued a warrant canary – …