"If the central problem is rent-seeking, abuse of the power of the state, to deliver economic goods to the wealthy and politically powerful, how in the world is more government the answer?"--Cochrane
I've been musing about the night with Pennwriters Tuesday. I may be too old for this.
And I'm getting discouraged with PT.
Kelly, on the other hand, must be dancing. Her Blues were astounding, scoring two goals on four shots in the first and winning their first Cup. I'm sure Boston is shaking its collective head as the game was quite lopsided in their favor--except for the score. (Looked like a Pens loss.)
Two oil tankers were damaged in suspected attacks off the coast of Iran. This kind of thing must alert everyone to the danger that governments hold once they wander out of their lanes. This mindless risk-taking will, of course, stimulate a response by the U.S., disguised as NATO. So these so-called leaders constantly place their poor citizens at risk for some idiotic cause-du-jour.
And....A missile fired by Houthi rebels struck the arrivals hall of an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, injuring 26 people, a Saudi official said.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo made the long-feared jump across borders with three cases confirmed Wednesday in Uganda, including the death of a 5-year-old boy who had the virus.
Another one-liner from Brian:
You don't need a smoke detector; that's what the fire department is for.
Now...if you think that sounds stupid, you know how I feel when you say I don't need a gun.
412 Food Rescue is an organization in Pittsburgh — and is expanding nationwide. They take perishable food that can’t be sold but is still good and deliver it directly to people who need it. It goes to subsidized housing, senior housing and the like. Since 2015 they’ve rescued over 5.5 Million pounds of food. this is Gisele Fetterman's charity and you have to really search the website to find a reference to her.
The free-traders' moral standard is one of equity; no one gets special favors. For some reason "equity" in this instance is one of the rare times it is not hysterically important.
On this day in 323 B.C., Alexander the Great died at the age of 33 in Babylon.
The Killer Instinct
The U.S. women's soccer team beat Thailand 13-0. At the end of the game the Thai girls were just watching. But even at the very end the U.S. team celebrated with the same enthusiasm and honesty as they did on the first goal.
This was a battle where there was no quarter.
One is reminded of Konrad Lorenz, the Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1973. Lorenz is famous for his observations on animal behavior, pioneered the idea of "imprinting" as an early factor in animal behavior and wrote several books--including Man Meets Dog--which opened the field to popular readers. One of his books was a collection of his observations on what he saw as the balance between aggression and inhibition of aggression in animals called On Aggression. Here is where his life gets sticky.
This balance between the competing individual elements Lorenz saw as beginning to tilt to imbalance in humans. In aggression, the animal has an inhibition that is in proportion to his animosity. So a wolf, very aggressive, has also powerful inhibitions regarding his own species whereas a turtle dove, who has no aggression, has no inhibitions. Consequently wolves maintain some social structure through this balance. But turtle doves, if placed in an unusual situation like together in a cage, will slowly and ineptly peck each other to death because they have no instinct not to.
Lorenz felt that the growing facility in human killing was outrunning their inhibitions. A bombardier doesn't even see the target he is destroying and so has no inhibition to do so. Similarly, a sniper. This rather discouraging--and to the materialist meliorians, heretical-- idea immediately drew fire. This was heightened by the revelation that, at one time, Lorenz had joined the Nazi Party.
Anyone interested in the political input influencing modern science need look no further than Lorenz.
Back to soccer. Lorenz felt that modern women were much more dangerous than men because they had no real aggression to inhibit. Thus, when placed in competition, they were merciless. (One of the shocking things when reading about colonial women kidnapped by Indians is how vicious the Indian women were--to everybody.)
Hence, 13-0.
I've been musing about the night with Pennwriters Tuesday. I may be too old for this.
And I'm getting discouraged with PT.
Kelly, on the other hand, must be dancing. Her Blues were astounding, scoring two goals on four shots in the first and winning their first Cup. I'm sure Boston is shaking its collective head as the game was quite lopsided in their favor--except for the score. (Looked like a Pens loss.)
Two oil tankers were damaged in suspected attacks off the coast of Iran. This kind of thing must alert everyone to the danger that governments hold once they wander out of their lanes. This mindless risk-taking will, of course, stimulate a response by the U.S., disguised as NATO. So these so-called leaders constantly place their poor citizens at risk for some idiotic cause-du-jour.
And....A missile fired by Houthi rebels struck the arrivals hall of an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, injuring 26 people, a Saudi official said.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo made the long-feared jump across borders with three cases confirmed Wednesday in Uganda, including the death of a 5-year-old boy who had the virus.
The World Health Organization and Ugandan health authorities said Tuesday that the Congolese boy had traveled from Congo on Sunday and entered Uganda with his family and sought medical care.
Apparently open borders are not always good.
Six men have been arrested in the ambush shooting of Boston Red Sox icon David "Big Papi" Ortiz that occurred at a crowded nightclub in the Dominican Republic. Prosecutors and police said Wednesday that the suspects set out to kill the retired baseball player to collect an $8,000 bounty placed on his head.
Minnesota campaign finance officials said last week that Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar misused campaign funds in violation of state rules. They also revealed that she had filed joint tax returns with her husband years before they were legally married and at a time when she was married to another man. But don't worry; it will be okay.
Chicago wages a regulatory war against food entrepreneurs with food truck rules that are the strictest in the country and responsible for driving 40% of Chicago food trucks out of business in the last six years.
Another one-liner from Brian:
You don't need a smoke detector; that's what the fire department is for.
Now...if you think that sounds stupid, you know how I feel when you say I don't need a gun.
412 Food Rescue is an organization in Pittsburgh — and is expanding nationwide. They take perishable food that can’t be sold but is still good and deliver it directly to people who need it. It goes to subsidized housing, senior housing and the like. Since 2015 they’ve rescued over 5.5 Million pounds of food. this is Gisele Fetterman's charity and you have to really search the website to find a reference to her.
The free-traders' moral standard is one of equity; no one gets special favors. For some reason "equity" in this instance is one of the rare times it is not hysterically important.
On this day in 323 B.C., Alexander the Great died at the age of 33 in Babylon.
The Killer Instinct
The U.S. women's soccer team beat Thailand 13-0. At the end of the game the Thai girls were just watching. But even at the very end the U.S. team celebrated with the same enthusiasm and honesty as they did on the first goal.
This was a battle where there was no quarter.
One is reminded of Konrad Lorenz, the Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1973. Lorenz is famous for his observations on animal behavior, pioneered the idea of "imprinting" as an early factor in animal behavior and wrote several books--including Man Meets Dog--which opened the field to popular readers. One of his books was a collection of his observations on what he saw as the balance between aggression and inhibition of aggression in animals called On Aggression. Here is where his life gets sticky.
This balance between the competing individual elements Lorenz saw as beginning to tilt to imbalance in humans. In aggression, the animal has an inhibition that is in proportion to his animosity. So a wolf, very aggressive, has also powerful inhibitions regarding his own species whereas a turtle dove, who has no aggression, has no inhibitions. Consequently wolves maintain some social structure through this balance. But turtle doves, if placed in an unusual situation like together in a cage, will slowly and ineptly peck each other to death because they have no instinct not to.
Lorenz felt that the growing facility in human killing was outrunning their inhibitions. A bombardier doesn't even see the target he is destroying and so has no inhibition to do so. Similarly, a sniper. This rather discouraging--and to the materialist meliorians, heretical-- idea immediately drew fire. This was heightened by the revelation that, at one time, Lorenz had joined the Nazi Party.
Anyone interested in the political input influencing modern science need look no further than Lorenz.
Back to soccer. Lorenz felt that modern women were much more dangerous than men because they had no real aggression to inhibit. Thus, when placed in competition, they were merciless. (One of the shocking things when reading about colonial women kidnapped by Indians is how vicious the Indian women were--to everybody.)
Hence, 13-0.
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