Newmark's Door

I gotta tell you: I did not have out-of-control feral hogs in the U.S. on my 2023 bingo card.

According to this, New York and Hawaii are highest and Alaska and Tennessee are lowest.

Recently there was one of those quintessential Net dustups over conservatives being allegedly unable to define "woke". Here, Freddie deBoer--no conservative but a rare mostly rational Liberal--defines it as much as anyone needs. (My shorter definition: the force behind at least 90% of my discouragement reading the news.) This is a key sentence to me:

. . . woke politics are overwhelmingly concerned with the linguistic, the symbolic, and the emotional to the detriment of the material, the economic, and the real. 

Explains it all: I'm not interested in the symbolic and the emotional and I am interested in the economic and the real.

Related: "Dear Wokesters, You Named Yourselves" and "Don’t Believe the Hype: Woke Is Real and It’s Dangerous".

Academic/economic theory sometimes loses.

An engineer argues that the furious pursuit of "zero tolerance" is rather silly. Economics, properly done, agrees.

"Chimps with Machine Guns".

Five examples of badly done statistics, including one authored by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.

"Part 1 of [14] answers to bad arguments against free speech from Nadine Strossen and Greg Lukianoff".

Related: Glenn Reynolds, "It Should Be Safe to be Unpopular".

Seems true to me: "The difficulty faced by the Austrian critique is the oft-cited requirement that it takes a model to beat a model."

Not seen much in the legacy media, but we apparently dodged a bullet recently.

"Sgt. Mom" comments on the latest version of social levelling in our K-12 schools.

(I'll note that while more blatant than before, this merely continues a long trend. I graduated from a high school, Nova High School in Davie, FL, that was originally conceived to be "experimental". While it kept a significantly above average average faculty and I had above average classmates, by the time I arrived almost all of the experimental aspects of the school had been squeezed out, in part because of the jealousy of other schools: "Why don't we have that?")