Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Diversity versus viewpoint diversity

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One of the stated purposes of diversity at least used to be to let people of different viewpoints learn from one another. However, the way i...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Live by the political sword, die by the political sword (3)

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The New York Times reports that Obama has left the door open to strong security tactics by Trump: Over and over, Mr. Obama has imposed lim...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

Someone actually said this: Republicans, cities, and small government

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In today's New York Times, we read why Republicans no longer compete in America's big cities and how they could do so: “If you com...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Peter Thiel is no true gay Scotsman.

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A while back, I wrote about the no-true-Scotsman fallacy and its use to argue away dissent in the LGBT community: Orthodox queer people al...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

The rule of blame

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The rule of blame: All of the credit goes to our side; all of the blame goes to someone else. Corollaries: 1. If one politician of the oth...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Schrödinger's Gay Man

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Schrödinger's gay man is extremely picky about whom he's attracted to and simultaneously is willing to sleep with whatever moves. S...
Tuesday, August 16, 2016

People actually say this: Larry Hogan and the blame game

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Now that Maryland has a Republican governor, it is a truth universally acknowledged that everything bad that happens in Maryland is his faul...