In this Age of Idiocy, let us revel in a moment of sanity. Unanimously delivered to us by – are you sitting down? – the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Appeals Court Throws Out Antitrust Ruling In the world of judges and Justices – this is exceedingly embarrassing: “A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court…
Hypocrisy – is a part of being human. Human nature is immutable. So occasional lapses into hypocrisy are understandable. That doesn’t entirely excuse hypocrisy. Nor does it inoculate those engaging in it from criticism. 17th Century French writer François de La Rochefoucauld wisely noted: “Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.” To wit:…
Imagine you’re mugged. The thief takes all your cash – and vamooses. The police (God bless them) catch the guy. And off to court you go – to ensure the larcenist receives what he’s judicially due. And in court, in his defense, the thief asserts: “If you punish me for stealing money – people will…
In this, the Age of Social Media, everything said – must be said curtly and quickly. It is tough to be subtle in less than 280 characters. And sadly, the combination of government schools and social media has rendered most of us stupid – with infinitesimal attention spans. To grab majority attention – one must…
There are very few things in life more annoying than someone who is at once condescending and wrong. Included therein are people who pretend they are helping us – while they’re screwing us. Or even worse: They know we know they’re screwing us – and they continue to pretend they’re helping us while they screw…
Yesterday we wrote this: “I’m sure you think it. And feel it. “We the People are currently awash in insanity. Nothing makes sense. No one is behaving rationally. “It is because the Left is currently running things. They have been rapidly advancing – and almost no one is doing anything to stop them.” The Left’s…
And that means the government participating – where it ordinarily should not. We less government types are loathe to see government do anything on anything of a private sector, commercial nature. The private sector does just fine all by itself, thank you. In fact, it does better and better the less government involves itself. Where…
The Marxist morons burning, looting and destroying large swaths of our nation – are a lot of really awful things. One thing on which they are absolutely awful? Respect for private property. A flaw they share with many elected Democrats. These masked marauders can’t destroy private property – and/or steal it to establish myriad CHOP/CHAZ…
Very few people dislike Communist China as much as do I. At least amongst those who haven’t had first-hand experience with its utter brutality. Communism is antithetical to human nature. Thus – Communism is anti-human. Which is why Communism spent the 20th Century murdering 100 million people. Because Communists won’t admit Communism and humanity are…
I just engaged in said Web search. (Though not using Google’s nigh-monopoly search engine, I’d like to point out.) And here’s what I found: “(In US copyright law) the doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the…
