On Investing and Shorting
If January's story of Reddit Robin Hoods and hedge funds has taught us anything, it is how unbelievably powerful economics have been in shaping and steering the course of superficially…
It’s Time to Consider Keeping Women Out Of Government
How's that for a controversial headline? To be totally honest, keeping women out of politics -- because they are women -- is not the sort of thing I would have…
Fourth Generation War in Action
I'll try to keep this short, because I don't have much to offer as far as details go, regarding the GameStop stock ambush. Tim Pool, the Podcast of the Lotus…
Review: Fire In the Dark
I've never been religious [...] none of it ever stuck. But I'll tell you, in the last three, four, five years, I am most open towards some sort of spiritual…
Condemning Disavowal
"I disavow" has become almost a joke these days. In internet circles -- and YouTube in particular -- sometimes the "I" is dropped and the speaker simply says "disavow," after…
Christian Pacifism Grows Over Time
Earlier today, John Lovell of the Warrior-Poet Society put out a short video on Instagram where he said: If the mob silences you and you hide your morality from the…
Review of Holy Nihilism
Eric Grant Claussen from Cultivate Virtue reviews Holy Nihilism: The Moral and Spiritual Case Against Christianity: I’ve read most of the anti-Christian authors worth their salt.Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and others.This…
Caffeine & Philosophy: Year-in-Review
Overall, 2020 has been a modest improvement for this blog. 30,438 is up from 30,012 in 2019, and 15,621 in 2018. The most popular posts from this year were "Post…
The Christmas Bomb in Nashville
When you're aloneAnd life is making you lonely,You can always goDowntown... Anthony Warner, the man behind the enormous bombing in downtown Nashville on Christmas, purportedly blared "Downtown" by Petula Clark…
An Autopsy of COVID-Science
This morning, Google prompted me with this story: "Oh interesting," I thought. Maybe, in spite of the Danish mask study and Ivor Cummins' research on anti-COVID measures generally, they found…