Why does he think that’s a good idea — even though he concedes we might “hate it too much” to actually do it? The reason, according to Bilyeu, is that removing Social Security “would push the responsibility for old age down to the family level and thus incent...
And it's better than being underweight. So, why are we so convinced that being overweight is dangerous? There are strong correlations between some terminal diseases and being obese. The truth of the matter though, is that no one knows which is the cause and which is the effect. Does ...
My immune system had come a long way but it would need help to get me over this. The flu set me back and this is how I worked it out. There were times when I thought I’d have to give up but I was persistent and am now quite well. I Had to Regain Control This is my story...
Singal, in his Substack piece below, says he’ll provide an analysis of the Leslie et al. paper later, and I’ll be sure to call that to your attention. If you want to read it now, be my guest. At any rate, even if Grant is right, his objections camepost facto, and why didn...
(It would be closer to the mark to regard our planet as though it were a random sample from the subset of planets that did engender intelligent life: this being a crude formulation of one of the sane elements extractable from the motley ore of ideas referred to as the “anthropic ...
One man, George Stephenson, is sometimes called the "father of the railways" although he did not invent either the locomotive or the rails. The basic idea of a "railway" was an old one, mainly used in mines, in the sixteenth century, miners found it was easier to push their loads in...
Clowns (often equated with ‘court jesters’) were the only people who could make fun of the king and get away with it. They would make no bones about their cruel pranks, jests, and crude jokes appropriate only for adults. Even in Shakespeare’s plays (e.g., the gravediggers’ ...
Let’s break it down further… A disposable diaper is practically dripping in oil. Oil is the raw material for the polyethylene plastic in disposables and it takes about 1 cup of crude oil just to make the plastic for 1 disposable diaper. Taking that a bit further, assuming you use at ...
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked why it is that the Woke won’t seem to have a debate or discussion about their views, and I’ve been meaning to write something about it for ages, probably a year at this point. Surely you’ll have noticed that they don’t tend...
17. Again, the conclusions are unsigned but it is assumed de Rus wrote them. 22 As the CRS rightly points out, "The user fees/taxes that support those other [non-HSR transport] modes may not cover their so-called externality costs (that is, costs that those modes impose on other ...