Sarah Palin has issued a typically brilliant and insightful speech, while still teasing on the issue of whether she is going to run. I think at this stage, getting a bit late to run, better carry on in her lucrative career as a public intellectual, saying the things officially accredited public intellectuals cannot say. Read the rest of this entry »
Sarah Palin’s speech
September 7th, 2011FHFA sues Goldman Sachs
September 6th, 2011Until recently, it has been near impossible to see daylight between the Obama regime and the Banksters, but now, banksters are being thrown overboard.
The FHFA sues Goldman Sachs for common law fraud.
I conjecture this is in preparation for the 2012 elections Read the rest of this entry »
Gay Marriage: A modest proposal
September 5th, 2011It is apparent that the modern institution of marriage is profoundly ill suited for producing and raising one’s biological children. I suggest, therefore, that just as we no longer use the word “gay” to mean merry and light hearted, we introduce a new word and new kind of contract, reproductive contracts, for people who intend to have children together and raise them. And for “marriage”, allow anyone to marry anyone, or any group of people or animals, for any length of time five minutes or longer. Thus three men, a horse, and a dog, could marry for seven minutes to have sex in the alley between Van Ness and Polk Gulch, but let us have a different word, and a different contract, for the case where the intent is to bear and raise children. Read the rest of this entry »
Did the banksters steal the five trillion?
September 5th, 2011Taleb, a very smart guy for whom I have immense respect, says the five trillion in effect wound up being stolen by the banksters.
If we just look at events over the last few years, that is obviously untrue. Read the rest of this entry »
How best to buy gold?
September 4th, 2011I don’t evaluate the situation as so serious yet that one needs to buy physical gold and sit on it, but one needs to buy claims on gold that can be turned into physical gold that one can sit on should the situation deteriorate further, as it most likely will. Can anyone tell me what gold investments most plausibly make such a promise?
A lot of gold funds are investments in promises to deliver gold, rather than investments in gold capable of being delivered. The time is fast approaching when they are not going to deliver. Today, the credibility of gold funds is not so important, but may well become important rather suddenly.
The price of silver
September 2nd, 2011A lot of people are wondering why silver is not going up.
It is quite simple. Gold is money, the one and only true money. Silver is not money, ceased to be money around 1870 or so. People are buying gold in expectation of an increase in monetary demand. The imminent collapse of fiat moneys will boost demand for gold, not silver.
Why is gold money? Network effects. It is money because it is money, and silver is not money because it is not money. Gold is money because large numbers of people expect large numbers of other people to treat it as money.
Why democracy will always elect a new people
September 1st, 2011Lately Mencius Moldbug has been off his best, so, looking back to his greatest hits, here is a golden oldie
The democratic state needs votes, to give it legitimacy, so is always looking for ignorant stupid cheap voters that it can buy to bulk up its astroturf. And so the franchise expands. And when it can expand no more, then fresh voters are purchased from outside. Read the rest of this entry »
Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful?
August 30th, 2011Progressives suggest it is because Finland is so wonderfully progressive.
However, a refugee from Finland took a look at that article, and reports that it is because progressives lie like rugs: Read the rest of this entry »
Seven felonies a day
August 29th, 2011A few years back I remarked that the average respectable middle class male had committed hundreds of felonies, each worth many years jail time. Things have become worse since then: Read the rest of this entry »
Global warming causes mandatory evacuation
August 28th, 2011Or rather the ideology of global warming causes mandatory evacuation. The actual weather was merely an unusually wet and windy weekend, slippery roads and slightly more falling trees than usual. In New York, the storm caused subways to shut down and loss of power – well actually the storm did not cause either one. Politicians panicked by fear of the wrath of Gaea shut down power and subways.