"To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets…and your coffee-house talkers"– Benjamin Franklin
Contrarian thoughts from the San Francisco Bay area:
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Contrarian thoughts from the Portland area
maybe-dont-go-to-russia The simple solution to Russia's abduction habit published 2024-08-01 10:04
uva-rape-hoax-remembered Now do the Duke lacrosse case published 2024-07-21 09:37
regime-media-problem-solved Regime media heavily invested in Biden leaving published 2024-07-09 12:08
santa-cruz-grand-jury-24-czu For the Grand Jury, problems with Cal Fire are confidential published 2024-07-08 21:00
ca-ab-886 Why Californians can't have nice things, media edition published 2024-07-01 20:31
regime-media-vs-the-regime Will they toe the line? published 2024-06-29 06:33
Cancel Culture & Mutually Assured Destruction, redux The way to end cancel culture is to visit it upon its advocates published 2024-06-26 17:18
braggs-conviction-could-prove-short-lived Bragg & his backers don't care if they lose on appeal published 2024-06-24 17:57
fox-butterfield Mistaking cause and effect for a paradox published 2024-05-29 17:43
be-wary-of-the-celebrity-scientist The moral panic du jour published 2024-05-11 15:35
liz-truss-was-shocked Did she really not know this? updated 2024-04-17 12:24 , originally published 2024-04-17 12:24
why-ca-cant-have-nice-things A vignette illustrating California's difficulty doing... anything published 2024-04-15 17:20
protests-on-the-golden-gate ...and the very people complaining can do that published 2024-04-15 10:41
china-turns-on-the-charm Will our elites be swayed? updated 2024-03-30 16:58 , originally published 2024-03-30 16:58
daniel-penny-not-available Nor Senator Cotton published 2024-03-09 17:43
483-days-for-120-square-feet Awful... but still. published 2024-03-05 14:06
climate-change-is-there-anything-it-cant-do The catch-all excuse for government failures published 2024-02-23 17:29
is-the-media-prepared Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event? updated 2024-02-14 17:42 , originally published 2024-02-14 17:42
the-dei-industrial-complex DEI for fun & profit published 2024-02-09 09:17
lots-of-things-to-stop-them The Federal bureaucracy is intrinsically biased published 2024-02-01 17:50
48-hills-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud Everyone knows CEQA lawsuits are extortion published 2024-02-01 17:33
very-serious-good-post Universities are not on the level published 2024-01-17 17:03
esg-is-now-a-dirty-word Our Betters Are Undeterred updated 2024-01-09 18:19 , originally published 2024-01-09 18:19
nyt-two-time-killer-charged-again-at-83 Where does one even begin? published 2024-01-07 16:21
pritzkers-sure-get-around The Prittzkers are showing-up a lot, these days published 2024-01-07 15:37
times-needs-two-months The Times needed a two month investigation, but repeats Hamas statements uncritically published 2023-12-30 16:19
The WSJ Publishes a Very Odd Piece No one except the reporter seems to want to evacuate Hamas "fighters" published 2023-12-28 17:42
nyt-a-hamas-propoganda-outlet They continue to not merely repeat Hamas lies, but augment them published 2023-12-04 17:41
Judges Are Above the Fray Our betters in the judiciary reject democratic oversight published 2023-11-22 09:24
Cancel Culture & Mutually Assured Destruction The way to end cancel culture is to visit it upon its advocates published 2023-11-22 08:59
china-becomes-a-no-go-zone Reality in China catches-up with our elites published 2023-11-22 08:07
sf-doesnt-need-to-explain To whom shall they explain their behavior? published 2023-11-21 17:45
wrong-audience-2023-11-14 Jim Geraghty's writing for the wrong audience, this morning published 2023-11-14 10:04
The Media Didn't Get the Hospital Explosion Wrong Many have bemoaned the media's failures; they fail to aprehend the problem published 2023-10-30 17:10
state-may-have-options-but-we-dont A very misleading article from CalMatters published 2023-06-18 07:57
santa-cruz-affordable-lottery Affordable housing creates a few lucky winners and many losers published 2023-06-17 08:14
Why they hate Tucker Our elites created the conditions for Tucker Carlson to be so popular, as well as others updated 2023-06-08 17:03 , originally published 2023-06-08 17:03
what-happened-to-criminal-justice-reform Nicholas Goldberg wonders what happened to criminal justice reform published 2023-06-05 17:38
California Spent $17 Billion on Homelessness. It’s Not Working. The Wall Street Journal Whiffs published 2023-06-03 07:58
Thoughts on Stanford's War Against Its Own Students A few glaring omissions in an otherwise excellent article updated 2023-03-25 10:20 , originally published 2023-03-25 10:20
the-mob-comes-for-tech Mike Solana points out that the mob has come for tech published 2023-03-14 15:33
mark-mobius-is-shocked The guy who's been telling us to invest in China can't get his money out published 2023-03-07 19:35
A Few Obervations on Elite Monoculture A trio of articles on elite monoculture dropped recently; I have a few observations published 2023-03-04 16:08
open-letters-to-bruce-mcpherson-2 Powerful letters from CZU fire survivors published 2023-03-02 17:27
Oberlin College Refuses To Pay A recent news story reminds me of an instructive episode updated 2022-09-04 17:24 , originally published 2022-09-04 17:24
About Those Thermostats A reply to "Denver residents lose control of thermostats to fight energy crisis" updated 2022-09-04 16:46 , originally published 2022-09-04 16:46
Test Tagging Michael Shellenberger Testing POSSE-ing to Twitter by tagging Michael Shellenberger published 2022-07-17 16:42
On Shellenberger's "Anti-Nuke Greens Menace Europe" A few thoughts on Shellenberger's "Anit-Nuke Greens Menace Europe" published 2022-07-16 20:52
The Passion of the Sinclairs They Questioned Gender-Affirming Care. Then Their Kids Were Kicked Out of School. published 2022-07-16 20:50