Fear Theater: Danger on Paper
Your perception of danger contrasts rhetoric with experience.
Repost: Freya India, "Nobody Has A Personality Anymore"
Society is teaching people their personality is a disorder.
Harm Reduction 2 + Repost: Quillette, "Rethinking Harm Reduction"
Another friend gone. Harm reduction isn’t enough.
Physics Doesn't Make Sense
A story about aftershock.
Master of Buzzwords & Acronyms
The Marginal Benefit Acquired from an MBA May Be Avoidable.
Repost: Jeff Schmitt of Poets and Quants, "Goofiest Terms You Learn in Business School"
“a robust set of synergies that enable students to gain traction, build bandwidth, and leverage their learning.”
Repost: NYT on Goebbels Censoring Comedy (1939)
Banning Wit, Then and Now
NYT Just Defended Animal Torture Because Trump Opposed It
For NYT, opposing Trump means backing monkey torture.
Peaceniks vs Martyrs + Repost of John Cleese (1987), "The Advantages of Extremism"
Radical inclusion and radical exclusion are polar opposites. Both define themselves as peaceful ideologies.