Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Three Graphs

You can't outrun your DNA--sports analyst on a player in March Madness

Collusion of Mass Destruction: So, no treasonous collusion with the dreaded Russians. My bet is that we will not be treated to domestic relief and peace but, in the true mindset of the socialist, we will just try harder, in this instance to get Trump on something. Anything. It is hard to believe that these people were so invested in this clearly politically motivated mugging, regardless of how unattractive the victim. Why does anybody take these guys seriously?

One curious problem that seems to be recurring in the complex world  is the problem of failure. Freedom does not encourage failure but it does permit it. A recent article used the increase of drug addiction as evidence of failure of the free market. Much of the problems with government seems to be the difficulty many have with this evidence of individual bad choices; they call these the "collateral damage of capitalism" when really they are personal failures in a free context.
Incidentally, many of those failures would not happen were there religious, cultural or family guardrails in place.

I saw this Peterson guy that is getting so much press on a couple of YouTube clips and understand why he is so upsetting to the Left: He is thoughtful, reflective and comfortable with ambiguity. He is a radical's nightmare and they become frantic when they encounter him. He also, despite a large library of knowledge, does not wander off point.

Ned sent a fascinating Harvard Case Study of a student uprising at Wesleyan.

A New Mexico archbishop is renewing his call for Catholics to stop worshiping the skeleton folk saint known as La Santa Muerte, or "Our Lady of Holy Death," saying he fears some mistakenly believe the Grim Reaper-like figure is a Roman Catholic Church-sanctioned saint. there  are a lot of symbols and symbolic colors. Here is an all-purpose one: 


Politicians are not pilots of a ship of state, and yet public rhetoric makes them appear to be just that. Actually, there is little politicians can do actively to promote human flourishing other than secure peace, keep taxes low, and administer justice tolerably well. If they stick to this recipe, they will avoid inserting harm into society. That is the best situation any society can attain.(Wagner)
If that is indeed a description of the charge of government, it is a giant one. And imagine how lovely our world would be if the government actually tried to achieve these delegations.


Apple became a tech colossus by pioneering a mobile phone that transformed technology, but can no longer count on it for growth. That’s why CEO Tim Cook is making a dramatic pivot to services—an area filled with risks and competition. On Monday, it will announce revamped video- and news-subscription services.(wsj)

On this day in 1979, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed a historic peace agreement, ending three decades of hostilities between Egypt and Israel and establishing diplomatic and commercial ties. For their efforts they won the Nobel Prize and Sadat got assassinated.

                                             Three Graphs

Here's an interesting comparison between New York and Florida from somewhere.






And here is an unfair graph assuming all sorts of causes and effects:
relates to Apple Money, Big Solar and the Happiness Factor




Putting recent stock market moves into perspective


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