Much has been said recently of the NRA’s hyperbolic statement that doctors need to “stay in their lane.” The freakoutery over this is thick, and palpable, and almost entirely misses the most…
Benjamin Boyce Podcast
I did a podcast. It was pretty fun.
The Violence Will Increase No Matter Who Wins
HWFO November Housekeeping will take place in two sections. First, we’ll unravel a recent study by Nathan Kalmoe and Lilliana Mason, from LSU and the University of Maryland, respectively, that puts some…
Social Justice is a Crowdsourced Religion
Future historians chronicling the Grand American Culture War of the Twenty Teens will identify three mostly distinct factions. The Blue Tribe, who vies for control so they may push Blue values on…
The Freakoutery about Kavanaugh is a Sociobiological Outburst
Everyone’s triggered, everything’s fucked, and there’s no good way out of this mess. The reason why this one is deeper, and uglier, and more FUBAR than most or all previous culture war…
On the “Universe is a Simulation” Garbage
For some reason, this has become a hot topic among physicists, astrophysicists, astronomers, and philosophers, and I have to admit I simply don’t understand why. Here’s Nick Bostrom, in 2003, laying the…
Is Burning Man a Hotbed for Suicide? Not Really.
I don’t go to burns, but my brother and sister in law are pretty heavily baked into the local southeastern burner culture. And since burners talk about burns about as much as…
The Two Confusing Definitions of Racism
Logic is math, and if two logical people apply logic to the same sets of givens, then they must come to the same conclusions. Most disagreements in my experience boil down either…
Conversations with Progressives
How Democrats have “Wedged” themselves out of Red State Elections Herein, we analyze internal ideological barriers that prevent Democrats from winning electoral races in Red states, by talking to them. Preface: The…
Stop Freaking Out About 3D Printed Guns
The latest Handwaving Freakoutery over guns appears to be the news that Cody Wilson won his court settlement against the US State Department over his 3D printed gun plans. This has been…