It is just naked politics
The whole world (well, OK, North America) is talking about bathroom choice. It is the issue of the day. Nothing surprising in that. It is polarizing and very intense. It is a distraction. Again, nothing new.
Author Archives: zorkthehun
Dumbed down science
My conversations on sex and gender are getting more and more bizarre. People are sending me notes about basic biology and links to news items on the politics. How is one supposed to respond to that? Explain yet again that the biology is NOT the question or that might does not make right? Continue reading →
The sexy politics of gender-science
I am not happy to write this post. It is in a way sad that I have to. I believe I made all the arguments and all the explanations in my previous posts (Let’s be careful what we wish for, Why it matters and ‘Scientific’ gender diversity), but it seems that, yet again, I ran into the problems of the ideological divide. Continue reading →
“Scientific” gender diversity
I had a conversation with a couple of scientists a few months ago that I still cannot get over.
They are both biologists by training. She left the field of scientific research decades ago, but he is a world renown geneticist, head of a research lab. They are both, also, left-liberals.
The pedophilia of politics
I was sitting in the living room of a friend, a Hungarian immigrant artist, surrounded by her impeccably leftist artist friends.
She had a serious question for them. She had to introduce it. She found it necessary to emphasize her honesty and genuine desire to get an honest answer to a question that truly troubled her.
One more on taxation
The tax season is over. If you do your taxes yourself, you know how incredibly stupid, complicated and convoluted the system is. Continue reading →
Were you good? BAD boy!
I woke up to the news that our hydro rates are going up. There is nothing new about that. Ontarians already pay the highest rates in North America, but that is no reason why they couldn’t or shouldn’t go even higher. What was news, is the reason behind the rate increase.
Continue reading →
Taxes are worse than theft
I just wrote two posts that seem to contradict the title of this one.
In the first one, I made the point that the state can harm our financial well being in many ways and taxation is not the worst. Focusing on it is short-sighted.
In the second, I exposed the intellectual laziness of the attacks on taxation, pointing out that the real target should be the enablers of those taxes.
Taxes are symptoms
Taxes are not the problem
Taxes are the symptom of problems
Taxation is just the icing on the rotting cake of statism baked by politicians to be served to the morons and zombies who elected them.
Taxation is NOT theft!
What will it take to get it through the thick skulls of libertarians that taxation is NOT theft? Continue reading →
The faces of power
Another police shooting in Toronto.
I learned about it from CP24.
Tag line below the announcer’s picture:
THE VICTIM WAS ARMED
The announcer: The victim was armed with what appeared to be a gun.
Über – Under
The Uber problem is a classical Libertarian one, but not only in the sense you may think it is. Continue reading →
The care bear stare
Someone sent me a link to this Pat Condell video: Human rights travesty, then a day later, with an approving comment, she forwarded to me the following reply she got from a friend:
“He’s clever, and though it’s exaggerated, he’s saying what we all know is approximately true — but he’s leaving a lot out too, like alternatives. Continue reading →
r/K selection theory – the work ahead
My previous post on the subject was extolling the virtues of the theory and the book explaining it; in this one I will talk about the gaps in it. While the value of the theory and the reliability of the evidence supporting it is beyond doubt, there are many questions in need of further answers and explanations. It is a new theory, especially as applied to political ideologies and attitudes. The ‘gaps’ in it are just unanswered or not fully explored questions.
Conspiracy theory
A friend asked me the other day whether I believe that Antonin Scalia was murdered.
I said we’ll never know but I don’t think so. What I should have said is that “I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned out that he was.”