Official science is, as all reactionaries know, and all progressives deny, a disaster. All progressives also know that official religion is a disaster, despite the fact that progressivism is the official religion. This should make you suspect that official religion is a good thing – unless, of course, it is progressivism. If a meme complex is selected for virulence, if for example if it is transmitted by street corner preaching, …
Stupid U and faking the GPA
Lately universities, especially high status public universities, have been introducing courses in stupid, to accommodate the increasing number of students that have difficulty doing traditional university courses. The students who attend courses in stupid are overwhelmingly female and disproportionately lower class. At the same time, degrees in smart, for example Computer Science, get women and blacks affirmatively actioned into them, and when those students struggle, get quietly and furtively dumbed …
The outer party rolls over
The outer party has rolled over for the inner party and wet themselves. Because they lost, they will be blamed for holding the confrontation at all. Had they won, Democrats would be blamed. In that the Democrats had accepted funding to keep almost all the government open except Obamacare, the Democrats were most of the way to losing. In that the Democrats were starting to call the Republicans crazy, the …
The “shutdownâ€
I have been analyzing the “shutdown†as politics as usual, which is to say, a fake conflict between the inner party and the outer party to give the appearance of democracy. I predicted the Republicans would roll over and wet themselves in a week. It has now been two weeks. I still think it is politics as usual, but the increasingly strident reaction of the inner party organs indicates that …
Lessons from the silk road.
As I said earlier, without providing evidence or explanation, the big flaw was that the server kept the messages in the clear. A recent news report has confirmed this from official sources:
CBO projects deficit under control.
Business insider points out the that the CBO projects the deficit to fall as a percentage of GDP over the next three years, neglecting to recollect that the CBO has been projecting the deficit to fall as a percentage of GDP for quite some time, while it has continued to soar as a percentage of GDP. The CBO has a record similar to that of Anthropogenic Global Warming models. Global …
Obamacare is not the law of the land.
Obamacare is not a law that Congress and the President negotiated together and passed. As Hayek pointed out: Socialism needs a central plan. There are an infinite possible number of different central plans, any one of which will step on the toes of quite a lot of people, so one can never get majority support for any one central plan, or even the support of a significant plurality for any …
The Shutdown problem
The republican party has a big problem: How to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The government has, without quite realizing it, accepted piecemeal funding of everything except Obamacare. There is no shutdown. There is just the government doing occasional bits of petty spitefulness and nastiness to express its hatred of its subjects. Since no shutdown, no reason for the Republicans to pass a bill funding Obamacare. The “shutdown” …
Republicans not folding yet
A week ago I predicted that the Republicans would fold like a cheap deck chair, and and issue a grovelling apology for their evil attempt to implement their election platform merely because they won the House of Representatives. Some of them are apologizing, but so far, no folding.
The underground economy continues
I, and others, have been assuming that the takedown of Silk Road represents competent action by the NSA. Outside In, however, points out the interesting coincidence that the takedown of Silk Road follows, rather than precedes, the appearance of competition to Silk Road. Atlantis, however, appears to have skedaddled with its user’s money, thus this looks like a successful shutdown of the online black market, hence likely to be primarily …