Stupid Vogue
The gym has Fox television on, and perhaps I should be grateful, because otherwise it would not have dawned on me just how popular and widely embraced stupid is.
Teacher for a Day
The chance to sit down with them during a real school day and supervise the process of learning in a homeschool setting was a rare treat, and something I would wish on every homeschool dad, who often feels that professional responsibilities shut him out of the schooling process, writes Jeff Tucker.
How to Improve the Culture
The next time someone complains about what the market is doing to the culture, ask that person what he or she has done to enter the market and make a difference.
Didn’t make the front page
And you have to read pretty deeply to find that the new home-sales report from the Census Bureau “fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 355,000 in November, an 11.3 percent drop from October and its lowest rate since April. The numbers were much lower than analysts had predicted and seemed to belie trends in other housing data that gave hope the industry was stabilizing.”
Thanks for the Tax Cut, Sort Of
Every good libertarian should favor tax cuts. The money belongs to us in the first place, and it should be an occasion to celebrate when Washington wises up and gives some back. We’ve been promised a tax cut as long as memory serves, but it never seems to arrive. At last, here it is, thanks to Bush having pushed so hard for this as an economic stimulus measure.
The Gay Adoption Conundrum
Closely linked to the issue of gay marriage is the issue of gay adoption. The subject raises the stakes in the current national controversy, and, as usual, state intervention complicates the picture enormously.
Sticking to the Official Narrative
In a politicized society, it seems to me that the true believers really don’t have conversations as much as they deliver monologues of talking points. For example, a colleague of mine recently told me that “global warming” has become such a crisis that “new hurricanes are being created every 13 seconds.” This would mean that more than a million hurricanes appear in the Atlantic every year — a claim that is preposterous on its face — but this does not seem to faze her.
The Marxian Virus in American Thought
Many ideas that have achieved widespread acceptance on the part of people who have no sympathy with communism are derived directly from Marxist doctrine, but people are ignorant of their source.
Conserving conserves nothing
Maybe it was the holiday spirit. Or maybe it was the impatient line of holiday shoppers anxiously waiting for me to finish paying the cashier. Regardless, I let an economic fallacy slide without comment.
As the cashier was totaling my bill, she asked if she could pack some of my goods in the plastic bag I was holding; a plastic bag that previously held an item I had returned upon entering the store.
“Certainly,” I replied.
Father’s Day: A Reluctant Defense
I know no father who cares a whit about Father’s Day. We are pleased to be doted on by our families of course, but we have no longing to be “appreciated” for our special role in the world. Fathers consider what they do to be carrying out the normal duties and requirements of life itself, not some enormous sacrifice for others that periodically needs to be recognized.
