Monday, December 16, 2024
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Shelby Foote was an American treasure. Never realized Foote never graduated college. Guessing he had more knowledge of the Civil War than any PhD.
- Peter Attia on the relationship between health anxiety and mortality. Hypochondriacs were found to have a 69% chance of all-cause mortality. Being a hypochondriac is literally bad for your health.
- 25 blogs guaranteed to make you smarter. Following these blogs is really worthwhile.
- Joe Biden never considered the "specifics" of the 1,500 people he commuted. Some of these people are considered "monsters" by their victims and its rumored that the only "specifics" he considered was how much cash they were giving to "the big guy."
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Andrew Huberman has come out in support of ending daylight savings. Now I know my opinion is correct. Think the Democrats missed a huge opportunity in not opposing daylight savings first. Think they could have said "We'll be corrupt as hell but we are 100% against daylight savings" and they would have won elections in a landslide.
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Saturday, December 14, 2024
Good King Wenceslas
Good King Wenceslas is one of my favorite Christmas carols. Did you know that he was a real person and that on September 28, 935 AD he was killed by his brother? Now maybe you can think of that cheery fact every Christmas when you hear the tune. At least you can take comfort in thinking no matter how stressful your family gatherings are at least you probably won't be killed by one of your siblings.
Bill Belichick
Been thinking a lot about Bill Belichick becoming the head football coach at North Carolina.
Have a new post up on Substack about the new Tar Heels head coach.
I fully admit that I'm optimistic about this move but I view success as 9 win seasons and a bowl game every year plus perennially being in contention for an ACC title. If you were a UNC fan wouldn't you have the same standard?
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Today is the 125th annual Army/Navy game held at 3:00 PM on CBS. The game is being held this year at Northwest Stadium in Landover, MD home of the Washington Commanders. Said it before but I highly recommend everyone seeing this game in person at least once in their lives. You can't appreciate the roar, how well behaved the crowd is or the myriad traditions that go into this game on TV. If you do go - get there early and stay until the very end so you can truly take in everything that goes with this game.
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- Now we know how many secret sources the FBI had on the ground Jan 6th - but what did they do?
- Was not aware of the dark history behind the song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
- Travis Hunter is the odds on favorite to win the Heisman too
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Many a truth is said in jest.
- Ho Ho Ho (only its 2024)
- Heh Heh
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Friday, December 13, 2024
Linky Links
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- Leadership lessons from the Army-Navy game. I highly recommend everyone attending this game at least once in their lives.
- VDH: The evaporation of the Obama mystique.
- Its time to break up big medicine. I'd also institute price transparency where providers have to publish costs so patients can shop based upon quality or price. More doctors and nurses and fewer administrators and lawyers.
- I'm sold on Pete Hegseth too. No better friend - no worse enemy should be America's slogan throughout the world.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Something naysayers keep doing regarding Bill Belichick being selected to be the coach at UNC is to say programs like Georgia, Alabama, and Ohio State already have these pro-like amenities and requirements in place. Do these people even hear themselves because suddenly the mere presence of Belichick is elevating lowly North Carolina to the same levels as these blue bloods in their minds. That's a reason to justify the hire - not knock it.
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Thursday, December 12, 2024
Magnum PI
Magnum PI first appeared on TV on this day in 1980. I watched the first show and was hooked. I watched the first couple seasons religiously.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- The failure of the expert class.
- To assess or advocate? The IPCC is at risk of losing its credibility. At risk? They lost their credibility a long time ago.
- What learning by doing looks like. The evolution of polycrystalline drill bits. Long read.
- The Wild world of Democratic ethics. Shame! Tar and feathers are too good.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Not to be lost in all the Belichick to UNC news was the announcement that Randy Moss is fighting liver cancer and is stepping away form his NFL Sunday job at ESPN. I hope this was caught in early stages and has not spread. Guessing Moss's good health and being a former pro athlete may play a part. Liver cancer is no joke and I wish him nothing but the best.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
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- Judge blocks $24 billion Kroger-Albertsons merger. There isn't a Kroger's or Albertsons around me but the are Star Markets and Shaws.
- Timeless lessons from Oregon's Dan Lanning
- Assad's fall has humiliated Washington, "Syrians are free of Assad despite the Biden administration, not because of it."
- Ryan Holiday's best books of 2024. I'm a sucker for book lists. (HT Steve Layman)
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Maybe all this talk about Bill Belichick potentially being the next football coach at North Carolina is just an elaborate ploy to sell tickets to the upcoming Fenway Bowl which features the Tar Heels playing UConn? Bowl organizers know Belichick is big in New England.
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Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Many a truth is said in jest.
- Laugh at this sign every time
- Heh Heh
- The wackiness of bowl season.
- Heh Heh
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Glenn Reynolds: The Clock Strikes Thirteen.
- Preemptive Pardons are a Terrible Idea. If it wasn't for bad ideas Joe would have no ideas at all.
- VDH: Biden's Paranoid Pardons and Leftist Morality. Hunter's pardon begs the question, "At long last have you no decency?"
- Suspected shooter of UniterHeathcare CEO nabbed at PA McDonald's. An ex-Ivy Leaguer and fan of the Unabomber if his first public words weren't "I'm a patsy" he missed a big opportunity.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Bill Belichick may actually take the North Carolina job and if he does it wouldn't be a surprise if he brings in his son Steve in as his defensive coordinator and heir apparent. Get the popcorn ready to see if this happens.
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Monday, December 09, 2024
More Linky Links
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- Jake Tapper and CNN lose major motions in defamation case brought by Navy veteran. Know who I'm rooting for in this case.
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- Joni Ernst is making news for all the wrong reasons.
- Mets land Juan Soto. The new $765 million man.
- Learn something new every day: The philosopher George Gurdjieff. "Here there are neither Russians nor English, Jews nor Christians, but only those who pursue one aim - to be able to be." This may only be trivia.
- Syria after Assad. Worth a read.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
The final college football seeding for a 12-team playoff field was released yesterday and while most oxygen is being spent on 3-loss Alabama or Ole Miss not getting in I think the bigger controversy was that Notre Dame almost went undefeated and being ranked 2nd in the polls. The Fighting Irish finished 11-1 because they unexpectedly lost to unranked NIU. They easily could have been undefeated but still denied having a first round bye. The committee dodged a bullet on that one.
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Sunday, December 08, 2024
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Linky Links
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- US GDP metro data by county and cities. First thing I noticed is how most growth areas tend to be in warmer climates.
- This is great - never knew it existed before.
- Notre Dame cathedral in Paris has reopened. This was part of the re-opening ceremony - beautiful!
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
While you were sleeping - the Assad Government in Syria fell and the Israeli's later launched air strikes against the country's military asset. Whereabouts' about Assad are unknown, Football won't be the only thing to pay attention to today.
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Saturday, December 07, 2024
Farnam Street Knowledge
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast
Only problem for me is I no longer eat breakfast. I wait to at least 10:30 am to have my first meal of the day.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Three steps to fix the FBI. Start by moving the FBI HQ to Salt Lake City,
- When Norm Macdonald met Bob Dylan
- The suicide of the main stream media. There's a reason trust in the media is at its lowest point in my lifetime. (HT Execupundit)
- Biden Administration quietly revokes veteran's hiring preference for civil service jobs. There's a reason many are considering Joe Biden as the worst President in history.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Today is the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor "a day that will live in infamy." I am bugged by how little remembrance is paid to the day. Also bugged by how the day 9/11 has become just another day on the calendar. Guess this is one of America's strengths - how we don't dwell on the past but are always moving forward. Still it does bug me.
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Friday, December 06, 2024
John Marshall
"Marshall's political views crystalized by this time. His pragmatic nature resisted the adoption of a large number of a priori principles, but on four issues his views were firm. He believed in a strong central government, the supremacy of the constitution, the necessity for an independent judiciary, and the inalienable right to possess, enjoy, and augment private property. Marshall's views were consistent with the major current of eighteenth-century American thought. Locke, Blackstone, Hume, and Montesquieu - the writers most cited in postcolonial America - stressed that the purpose of government was to protect private rights, especially the right to property, and that the tyranny of the majority was as much to be feared as the tyranny of the crown." - John Marshall by Jean Edward Smith
This brings up two excellent question. What is the purpose of a government? We've become so used to just having one we've lost the meaning of their purpose. Second, how does the inalienable right to property jive with the government coercing the de-banking of an individual?
Linky Links
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- Behold the hundreds of crimes for which Hunter Biden just got pardoned. The guy is pure evil and the pardon has done nothing but bring scrutiny on how truly bad the family is. Where was the media during all these misdeeds?
- The leadership lessons in Winnie the Pooh's enchanted forest,
- Learn something new every day: All bacon is cured bacon.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Have long held that we should have something like a Constitution Society to protect citizens rights as set forth in the constitution - especially in the Bill of Rights. This ACLU used to be such an organization but they've long since morphed into a fund raising arm of the DNC.
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Thursday, December 05, 2024
The Power of Tiny Gains
Oh Canada
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Many celebrities and lefties (but I repeat myself) vowed to move to Canada if Donald Trump was elected. While these were mostly empty threats from people who live in a world of make believe - these people also mostly live in states that do not require ID's to vote in federal elections. Canada does.
Here are the voting requirements in Canada to vote in national elections:
- Present a government issued ID with name and address.
- Otherwise you have to show two pieces of ID - at least one must show your current address.
- If you lack proper ID you can declare your name and address in writing and someone with proper ID who lives in the polling location can vouch for you.
The hypocrisy - it burns!
Linky Links
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- Idaho and regulations. In amazing graph representation. We should do this on a national level
- Jonathan Turley on why the Hunter pardon may not be as complete as Joe hoped. "The single most premeditated unethical act in history."
- The decline of the Russian Ruble. Wait - I had been told the sanctions weren't working. Now what should I believe?
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Barack Obama once famously said, "Never underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up." I think with this poorly thought out pardon of Hunter Biden we see this wasn't said in jest.
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Wednesday, December 04, 2024
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- The real Hunter Biden scandal. Tough to argue he's wrong.
- Mike Schmidt is the best 3rd baseman of my lifetime. Want to see this documentary.
- Mayor Adams now wants illegal immigrants charged with crimes deported from NYC.
- Meanwhile California and Gavin Newsome doubles down on being anti-Trump. Prediction - Newsome will be removed from office before the 2028 election.
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Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Learn something new every day: I did not know that not only were Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson (our 3rd President) and John Marshall (our longest serving Chief Justice) cousins but they did not like each other.
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Tuesday, December 03, 2024
Poor Charlie's Almanac
"You must have the confidence to override people with more credentials than you whose cognition is impaired by incentive-caused bias or some similar psychology force that is obviously present."
"In fact, anytime anybody offers you anything with a big commission and a 200-page prospectus, don't buy it. Occasionally you will be wrong if you adopt Munger's rule. However, over a lifetime, you'll be a long way ahead - and will miss a lot of unhappy experiences that might otherwise reduce your love for your fellow man."
"And it makes sense to load up on the very few good insights you have instead of pretending to know everything about everything at all times."
"You have to figure out where you've got an edge. And you've got to play within your own circle of competence."
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- Leadership lessons from Steve Jobs and Simon Sinek.
- Tim Ferriss on the 80/20 rule.
- Jonathan Turley on the Biden pardon. You can't argue that he's wrong.
- Voyager 1 regains its voice and NASA restores communications.47 years old and 15.4 billion miles and counting.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Would be interesting if they held a vote of each Canadian province to become a new state in the US under Donald Trump or remain in Canada governed by Justin Trudeau and his ilk from Ottawa how that would turn out. Also we could have a vote in all the states that don't require an ID to vote and if they don't approve ID's - that state gets traded to Canada. I think as a result all states would vote for ID's.
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Monday, December 02, 2024
Linky Links
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- Frances Pekins the woman who brought us the weekend.
- Did Bernie Sanders really just say that Elon Musk is right and that cuts are needed? Still say that if any federal department fails an audit they should have their budget cut but that amount since those funds obviously aren't important enough for them to keep track of.
- The debanking of America.. A bank account is a requirement for many government departments and utilities so this can be a political cudgel.
- Poet justice for Jay Bhattacharyya. One of my favorites of Trump's picks.
Spancil Hill - Shane MacGown and Christy Moore
It's been a year since we lost Shane but he's still missed by many (including me).
Joe Biden's Pardon of Hunter Biden
Some thoughts on the Presidential pardon of Hunter Biden:
- The pardon is retroactive to 2014 well before Joe Biden became President but corresponds with Hunter with no experience but being named to Burisma's board of directors.
- This gives Donald Trump just cause to pardon anyone convicted of Jan 6th crimes, anyone jailed for abortion protests and many others as simple victims of "lawfare" because their political beliefs didn't align with the "ruling class."
- This also puts shade on the reputations of the DOJ, the FBI, the intelligence community, the press, and anyone who supported Joe Biden (or Kamala Harris).
- Reminder
- Supposed to be funny but more sad because it's true.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Joe Biden's Presidential pardon of Hunter is not only expected - it is both a big FU to the Democratic Party on his way out the White House door but also a way of slanting any pardon by Donald Trump of those convicted of Jan 6th crimes as being politically motivated.
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Sunday, December 01, 2024
Linky Links
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- VDH: Universities have a 2025 rendezvous with reality.
- Andrew Luck to be Stanford football's new GM.
- The greatest media psy-op in history? Hard to argue he's wrong either.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Yesterday was a tale of two kickers in unranked Michigan's 13-10 win over 2nd ranked Ohio State. Wolverines Dominic Zvada seemingly couldn't miss going a perfect 2-2 including a 54-yarder while poor Buckeyes kicker Jayden Fielding was just 1-3 and seemingly had the yips. Made the observation at the time that Zvada definitely got laid last night but I worry if Fielding can even appear on campus now.
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