Newmark's Door

Yet another well-intentioned but now obsolete and costly Liberal policy that should stop.

"Amy Comet Barrett, Superstar".

"Amy Coney Barrett a Clear 2nd Amendment Backer".

Good question.

See also "Heiresses on the Barricades: From Jane Fonda to Clara Kraebber, spoiled rich children find it easy to play at rebellion."

What may be coming--the past doesn't repeat but it rhymes--real soon.

I remember waiting in a huge line at my college for the shot when they handed out a paper listing possible side effects. There were many horrible effects listed. (With no probabilities attached, of course.) As this was my first time seeing such a warning, I got out of line and didn't get the shot.

I'm much older now and I've been given a number of such warnings. Heck, listen to ads for drugs on network TV in which they about half the ad listing all the terrible things that may happen if you take the drug. Again, with no probabilities of any kind given. Excuse me, but I think such "information" is worthless. Maybe worse than worthless.

A piece by noted economist John Cochrane that will ruin your week: maybe the slower growth of the last few decades is due to regulation. Even worse the market doesn't seem to be correcting it.

If all this adds up, though, it asks the question just why "policy-making" technocratic elite, who have been so wrong about so much for so long remain able to impose such things on the rest of us. Why are they so immune from competition? 

By Malcolm Kendrick, Scottish doctor. Argues that a part of the imperfect COVID response is simply terminological confusion.

Why are these figures so all over the place? It is because we are using horribly inaccurate terminology. We are comparing apples with pomegranates to tell us how many bananas we have. Our experts are, essentially, talking gibberish, and the mainstream media is lapping it up. They are defining asymptomatic swabs as cases, and no-one is calling them out on it. Why?

See also this summary of an discussion with one Harvard and two Stanford professors.

Great question: "So just what is a promise in business—and in politics too? Where do we draw the line between hyperbole and fraud?"

Get back to me ASAP with the answer.

That's a heckuva forecast.

Life in 2020 America.

"All you need to know about California drought and wildfires".