Category: Rants
Mr. Wow and I Are Both Right: Part One
I’ve always been a big fan of Mr. Wow. When it comes to personal finance, he’s playing 4D chess while I’m playing checkers. And when it comes to the issue of healthcare, he’s playing 4D chess as well. The few times I’ve talked to him about the issue, he really opened my eyes to the…
Love in the Time of Cancel Culture
When I met Mrs. Groovy, she was the typical Manhattanite. She had a very cosmopolitan worldview and was a strong believer in energetic government. In other words, she was a communist who didn’t know she was a communist. As a freedomist, of course, I had every right to “cancel” the pre-Mrs. Groovy from my life.…
New York State and Crony Socialism
Don’t ask me why, but my high-powered brain turned toward education this week, and I decided to compare my birth state to my adoptive state. Check out the following tables: New York spends a lot more than North Carolina on public education—$14,663 more per pupil, to be precise. But New York doesn’t allocate its education…
Gentiles and Jews and Blacks and Whites
I’m going to describe my bright high school years, and I want to know if my high school experience reminds you of another social dynamic that exists in the United States today. Here we go. Bright High School Years I went to high school on Long Island in the late 70s. The town I lived…
Don’t Watch, Read, or Listen to Any Mainstream News
For the longest time, I thought the secret to being a responsible consumer of news was to consume news from a variety of ideologically diverse news sources. Watch Fox News and MSNBC, listen to Rush Limbaugh and NPR, and be a frequent visitor of aggregation sites such as Real Clear Politics, Real Clear Markets, and…