As conservatives, we’re completely at home with a Republican organization that has no spine and the worst marketing department in the history of marketing. Conservatives, by their very nature, don’t usually protest. They’re too busy going to work, earning money for themselves and their families, and living their lives. They do their protesting at the voting booth. And with that voting, they’ve always expected that they could hire Republican representatives who would not only stick up for the cause, but go on offense and push it forward. However, conservatives have only been trained to be disappointed. While they have…
COVID thoughts: so, are we winning?
Remember when people used to come to work with a cold or flu, and we’d all get annoyed and tell them to go home. Then they wouldn’t, and we’d move on. Then we’d get sick and do the same thing. I wonder how that’s going to go, when we all get back to work. If this is a war, haven’t we already surrendered? Isn’t that what cowering in our homes represents? Why do we allow smoking, drinking, marijuana, driving, and ice cream? They all kill us, don’t they? It may not be as quickly as coronavirus, but… How come…
In other news… Apple blows the new SE
There’s simply too much coronavirus news out there. So let’s take a break from that, and talk about a terribly missed opportunity… For those of us who know the 2016 iPhone SE to be their best phone to date, you’re going to be disappointed in the recent announcement of the 2020 version of the SE. Unfortunately, Apple has never made a better design than this: The most important element of this phone is represented by the sideview in the image above. This is a phone with a literal edge, making this the easiest phone to handle, and not drop,…
What the hell are we doing? Time to get back to work!
I was speaking with a tax professional today, and we were talking about all of her clients. She was telling me tales of real people who had saved up to start businesses that are now gone. She was recounting those who made investments in their business that will probably not come to fruition before the money runs out. We shut down the government out of fear that the coronavirus would ravage the country and kill… what? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Millions? Who knows? It was all based on projections made before we knew hardly anything about it? But what…
Masks: the latest evidence that politics is personality
The Washington Post observed on Saturday that whether or not people wear masks can be an indicator of their politics. It’s more foundational than that. This site was started largely under the premise that personality determines politics, and people’s behaviors indicate whether or not they are conservative or liberal (not Republican or Democrat). Of course conservatives are reluctant to wear a mask. Conservatives are inherently skeptical – especially of government, bureaucracy, and group think. Democrats mischaracterize conservatives as anti-science, but it’s quite the opposite. The wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth that is the media’s reporting on coronavirus…
The government disconnect persists
It wasn’t too long ago that I wrote about why conservatives have a natural suspicion, if not dislike, of government. Keeping it simple: Government has completely lost sight of who they work for. Adding to this, the people have completely lost sight of who the government works for. We don’t hold our government accountable, and we don’t know how to tell them when enough’s enough. Because of our government, we’re all staying home to “flatten the curve.” But all that means is giving the hospitals time to prepare for when the virus really does a number on us. Well,…
Who saw this coming? No one.
The simple truth of the coronavirus is that no one saw it coming. There’s not a person in our government, at any level, who predicted six months ago, a year ago, four years ago, that we would be hit soon with a pandemic. And certainly no one predicted we would shut down one of the strongest economies in the history of our country because of it. It’s that simple. That some pundits, politicians, and members of the media are trying to cast blame tells us that this isn’t so deadly that we can’t make it political. And so, the…
Covid gone wild
In March, Florida hosted it’s annual slate of college Spring break parties and events. If past numbers are any indication, that means nearly 1,000,000 kids descended upon the state to party, hang out, and do what kids do during Spring break. Florida took it on the chin for letting it go on this year. There was a public outcry against how thoughtless and irresponsible it was to let this go on. Over the past few days, I was wondering if anyone tracked just how many kids died because they attended Florida’s Spring break. So I searched Google (as one…
Lockdown is just kicking the can down the road
It is not at all unusual for politicians to kick the can down the road. How many times have we heard our congressional representatives unveil plans that will make social security solvent in 2034, relieve on our dependence on oil by 2045, balance our budget by 2027, stop the oceans from rising by 2038, etcetera, etcetera… And the great irony of this approach? They always assume things will be static, just like they are today, when the coronavirus pandemic, and subsequent reaction, should teach us just the opposite. Consider our plan to confront this pandemic. We decided to lock…
Quick thoughts II: Nation of bandits
Yesterday, the news said there are more than 560,000 coronavirus cases with 32,000 recoveries and 22,000 deaths. That’s since we started collecting data (roughly one-to-two months after the virus had started infecting the country). How come we never hear what’s up with the 506,000 people who’ve had the disease for the past few months? The Swine Flu, our nation’s last pandemic, killed 12,000 US residents. 80,000 US residents died during the 2017-18 flu season. My question, where’s the line between flu and coronavirus? In other words, what’s the magic line between business as usual and shut down the entire…