Newmark's Door

I was living in Ft. Lauderdale at the time, so I watched this "up close and personal".

With Jimmy Barnes, INXS.

Quora discussion of a variety of movies.

Joke by comedian Anthony Jeselnik. I felt a little guilty after, but it made me laugh.

No surprise: the secret is mastering your fear.

"Wicked" Wilson Pickett (of course).

An argument that the bad guy wasn't so much Walter O'Malley as it was Robert Moses. But boy, a lot of people in Brooklyn blamed O'Malley:

You are in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Walter O'Malley; and you have a gun with two bullets. So who do you shoot?

And, of course, the Dodgers fans would say: You shoot O'Malley twice.

I think Kathleen Madigan is very funny and in this 3.5 minute clip she introduced me to the practice of noodling.

Of course it is not easy, but I'm seeing more stories that it can be done.

Another dopey project from Liberals wherein a lot of hidden costs are not accounted for.

I would have said this is unbelievable, but in 2023 it seems as though almost anything is possible.

Prediction: after all the cool colleges have junked the SAT, once again--yet again--the Law of Unintended Consequences will return with a vengeance.

More on the weirdness of modern physics.

Related: "Why is quantum mechanics weird? The bomb experiment."

Yes, it would help if the climate warmers were a little more concerned about falsifiability.

If there’s drought in California, it’s climate change! If there are heavy rains in California, it’s climate change! Neat system they have going. 

Rich Lowry writes about Rep. Chip Roy. I've only seen a couple of short YouTube video clips of him, but I liked what I heard.

Jonah Goldberg:

Portland (like Seattle and San Francisco) has many problems common to many American cities, homelessness being just one of them. But it’s different here. I say that as someone who has never lived anywhere without a shameful number of homeless people.

I’ve walked all over downtown Portland, and there are parts that feel like scenes from Escape from New York. When I say “parts” I don’t really mean “neighborhoods” or “sections,” though I’m sure those exist, too. I mean parts of otherwise prosperous blocks. It’s like Portland is a pretty face with pox all over. Not a pretty face with a deformed ear or nose.

If you want to read the whole piece but don't want to register for a free account, here's an ungated piece that Jonah links to: "Everybody hates Portland . . ."

IJ wins another case against a dopey government regulation.

Yesterday, Lafayette County Circuit Court Judge Rhonda L. Lanford ruled that the government may not prevent people from selling homemade, shelf-stable foods directly to consumers. This ruling means that Wisconsinites may use their own home kitchens to support their families with sales of safe foods like fudges, doughnuts, and roasted coffee beans—that is, any food that does not need to be refrigerated for food safety purposes.

Could be yet another bogus story brought to by the legacy media.

Related: "The dangers of fentanyl misinformation: Why the myth that police are overdosing by touching the drug keeps going"

Older clips of the legendary Mr. Lynch speaking about investing, but in the opinion of the poster quite relevant to investing right now. (11.5 minute YouTube video.)

I saw Soylent Green when it first came out. It's the last (non-TV) film Edward G. Robinson appeared in. It is a good movie and this short piece tries to relate how the movie relates to today.

Former Representative Robert Livingston argues that "Congress is broken" and that regular order--instead of omnibus bills and continuing resolutions--should be brought back ASAP.

More on regular order: "Five Facts on Regular Order in Congress".

Prof. Chetty's explanation briefly discussed, too.

"You are probably one of them; #ChatGPT in 2023 is poised the way the World Wide Web was in 1993."

Who knew there would be so much "black ink"? 

But since it is California you probably know how that "if" turned out.

Not good news for Illinois's residents.

"Tinned fish revolution" and four others.

Just a nice story. (3 minute video.)