Scientific American and E.O. Wilson

I remember some years ago receiving copies of Scientific American after my brother, he of physics degree, was finished with them. They were mostly confounding to me. I did not have a science background, and being well-read only carries one so far when delving into the...

The Rittenhouse Verdict

The Rittenhouse case was lost during the prosecution. Under state law once a reasonable claim of self-defense was made—and the prosecution(!) videos and witnesses clearly made that case—the burden falls to the DA to prove that it was not self-defense. They...
Noisy Primates releases Empires Fall…

Noisy Primates releases Empires Fall…

In the midst of all this <waves arms around>, I went and did a thing. Maybe because I didn’t know what else to do. If the zeitgeist feels apocalyptic, shouting into the void with music that is political, emotional, and personal seems not wholly...

Ivermectin and the mainstream media

Ivermectin has little proof as a Covid treatment. The first study was found to be falsified, and it’s basically been downhill from there. It is now part of a larger problem, though. Ivermectin was made famous not because there are animal formulations for...

Texas abortion law is terrible law

For decades pro-life efforts to restrict abortion have crashed against the rocks of Roe v. Wade. Besides being extraordinary restrictive (6 weeks), the Texas law uses a novel legal concept to (apparently) escape judicial scrutiny: enforcement is up to private citizens...