Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a-hunting For fear of little men… William Allingham, “The Fairies” Allingham’s poem isn’t about anything contemporary…or real. But those first four lines spoke to me a few minutes ago. Little men are a problem of immense significance today. And they show their actual …
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Oct 14 2023
Complexities And Human Capability
Today, over at Cold Fury, there’s an excellent and thought-provoking essay by co-contributor SteveF that explores one of the funnier fallacies commonly advanced as an aphorism: (NB: I have no idea who Hanlon is or was and bear him no ill will, but I will say that as a vendor of rose-colored glasses, …
Jun 06 2023
Evidence, Interrupted
Yes, friends, you guessed it: Christopher Wray has refused to surrender the “Biden bribery” FD-1023 after all: Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is afraid its informant who provided information about an alleged bribery scheme by the Biden family will be killed if their identity is exposed. …
Jan 17 2023
Budget? What Budget?
About three decades ago, a reporter for Reason magazine asked a sitting Congressman of conservative inclination, “Will Congress ever pass a budget that’s even one dollar less than the previous year?” The Congressman replied flatly “No.” Well, at least he was candid. And as the years since have demonstrated, he was a realist …
Nov 02 2022
The Cogly Life
“I said it as soon as I got to Elbow: I’m a free man, I didn’t have to come here! . . . We always think it, and say it, but we don’t do it. We keep our initiative tucked away safe in our mind, like a room where we can come and say, …
Jun 29 2022
SCOTUS On A Roll?
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, whose work I first encountered at Noisy Room, has a blockbuster article at Biz Pac Review: It seems overturning Roe v. Wade may not be the biggest decision to come down from the Supreme Court as its ruling on West Virginia v. the Environmental Protection Agency could strip the government and …
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