Two posts in two days; when was the last time I did that? Anyway… ONE. The Charlie Kirk assassination: Initially it seemed the killer had gotten clean away and so I inferred that he was part of an operation of the deep state left. The facts that have emerged since then make it pretty clear … Continue reading "Miscellany 44. No joking sub-title for this one"| Neurotoxin
It is a mistake to talk about what happens “if” or “when” a civil war starts. Entering a civil war is like crossing the event horizon of a black hole: You don’t notice…| Neurotoxin
Posting may be light(er than usual) until this gets sorted out.| Neurotoxin
Stop screeching at the Fed to hit the gas pedal by lowering interest rates. Unemployment is 4.2% as of July 2025, which is about a point and a half below our long-run mean of 5.8%. I.e. it’s …| Neurotoxin
That is, all sports push people to the limits of what human biology, and the human psychology of obsession, can accomplish. Terminology: I mention figure skating below, but I don’t really think of figure skating as a “sport” – part of the definition of a “sport,” in my mind, is that you’re directly competing against … Continue reading "All sports are equally hard in equilibrium"| Neurotoxin
This sounds like the most utterly insufferable pile of crap. Naturally they made the novel into a movie. I forget how I stumbled upon this, but whatever. Per Wikipedia: The barf-inducing cutesy cen…| Neurotoxin
Via the indispendable Chris Bray, a Politico piece from 3/17/24 titled In on the Joke: The Comedic Trick Trump Uses to Normalize His Behavior. Subheading: His supporters love it. Critics call it a …| Neurotoxin
One. The main theme of the works of Joyce is the role of the reader as artist. That’s a sentence I like from this random po-mo generator. Though it randomly re-generates every time you load t…| Neurotoxin
Apparently there’s an old wives’ tale that if you turn a mattress on a Friday you’ll have bad dreams. Stupid, right? And how about this one: I have a friend who went to a college where the students had a superstition about a certain brick in a sidewalk on the campus: if you ever step … Continue reading "Superstition Has Rational Evolutionary Roots"| Neurotoxin
At Jim’s Blog there has been a debate about just how explicitly classical liberalism asserts, or covertly implies, “Death to Whitey!” By Classical Liberalism (CL) I mean e.g. the …| Neurotoxin
(1) This may be rhetorically helpful in resisting lawless judicial “rulings”: In the military, soldiers are required to obey “all lawful orders.” No one is obligated to obey…| Neurotoxin
