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I Just Made $100 off Some Dead Kids, and That’s the Problem
Examining the Media / Mass Shooter Symbiosis Mass shooters and the media are a symbiotic meme. Each reinforces the other, and some ride this symbiosis to riches while others die. And nobody…
The Curious Rationalist Magic of Essential Oils
My wife Buffy loved essential oils. They were a big part of her life before she passed on, and I never really understood how big until she was gone. I think that…
Sam Tripoli Podcast — All Guns
I was a bit apprehensive about this podcast, because Sam is pretty out there, but I think it turned out fabulous. Discussion begins 9 minutes in. NSFW warning, the language on Sam’s…
Newsweek‘s Bogus Gun Rhetoric Misses an Amazing Find
Newsweek dropped a really ripe one today, full of misleading statistics and bogus rhetoric. But there’s a fascinating gem in the study itself that really needs to be highlighted. Let’s go through…
Ghosts of the Dead
Buffy believed in ghosts. Our children do as well, and I think I might. She told some of her friends, in her final weeks before she passed on, that she “didn’t want…
Doctors are Wrong about Firearm Effectiveness in Mass Shootings
So let’s just have some real talk about whether AR-15s are the most effective weapon for a mass shooting, and why they’re being used.
April HWFO Housekeeping, and Remembering Buffy
I’ve mentioned before that my wife was battling early onset colon cancer. She passed away on April 4th. I haven’t had much time to write since then, and the time I have…
Can Fortnite Rescue Humanity from the Attention Economy War?
…by winning it? This article is weird. Please bear with me, because it’s hopeful, and hope is good, and in woefully short supply even among the people like you and I who…
Visualizing the Costs of Government in “Border Walls”
If the numbers quoted in that article are to be believed (I haven’t vetted them) then the Green New Deal will cost the same as 16,298 Border Walls.