Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- What metformin may be dong to your blood.
- VDH: The Progressives Pantheon of Pathetic Heroes. He's not wrong.
- Self-Contempt is Not Harmless. An interesting look at immigration and loving your country.
- Jonathan Turley: The UK hate speech laws basically outlawing comedy.
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile." - Patrick O'Brien
"We must reject the ideas that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." - Ronald Reagan
"History is written by the winners... except on Wikipedia." - Elon Musk
"A winner is someone who recognizes his God given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals." - Larry Bird
Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.
"It is not philosophy we are after, but the behavior of real things." - Richard Feynman
"There's only one standard of justice in the field of economics: the verdict of a free market." - Ayn Rand
"Very little is needed to make a happy life." - Marcus Aurelius Antonius
"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves." - Alan Watts
"The more serious you take yourself, the unhappier you're going to be." - Naval Ravikant
"Love your country, but never trust its government." - Robert Heinlein
The point? I distilled from the press coverage and the crowds and the punditry yesterday that for all too many suddenly a vote for Obama redeems America. Now, to paraphrase Michelle Obama, for the first time in their lives they are apparently proud of the United States. (Had we not had the financial meltdown in mid-September, and had Obama stayed three points back in the polls, would millions have stayed soured on America and now in sullen silence licked their wounds?).