50+ Old Fashioned Insults We Should Bring Back.
I live in Texas, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised – but I hear a few of these used on a fairly-regular basis. “All Hat and No Cattle” – almost every day.
The Single Reason Why People Can’t Write, According to a Harvard Psychologist
This common affliction is behind so much unclear and confusing writing in the world today.
Never Forget the COVID Facists:
I submit to you that the COVID policies—shutdowns and lockdowns; “stay home, stay safe;” mandatory masking, social distancing, testing, and vaccines; and so on—perpetuated by the American left and those like-minded were the greatest demonstration of fascism the United States has ever known. In the nearly 250-year history of the U.S., never before has the American government exercised such power over its citizenry as it did in the name of “slowing the spread,” “following the science,” and the like. And never before in the history of the U.S. has the exercise of government power been so misinformed and misguided, with such disastrous results.
Want to be happy? Don’t follow your gut.
A data scientist on what truly makes us happy.
Read This Piece by James Lileks.
I’m just a bit older – but I remember being afraid of the end of the world when I was a kid. It was atomic war, of course that scared me. The “duck and cover” drills at school didn’t help. For ten years I had repetitive, awful nightmares about sentient atomic bombs (they looked like dirigibles) in the sky, searching for me… especially for me.
Regret can be all-consuming – a neurobehavioral scientist explains how people can overcome it
Regret can increase stress and negatively affect one’s physical health.
Decline in Americans’ quality of life just keeps accelerating
Scrolling Twitter–a practice I detest but is required for the job–does have its upside. I occasionally have an “aha” moment spurred on by an insight thrown out into the world by somebody else. It almost makes the drudgery of sorting the wheat from the chaff bearable. Almost.
Bill Chance 