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News & Commentary
Jessica Krug: A White professor says she has been pretending to be Black for her entire professional career – CNN
White is the new Black
What the Critics of Colorblindness Get Wrong
The choice is one of common humanity vs. tribalism.
Can Our Common Humanity Unite Us?
Memento mori.
Preventing California megafires
We know how—we have the science!—but we’re getting it wrong.
The Joy of Appropriation
Cultural appropriation is among the dumbest parts of today’s “woke” movement.
Democratic National Convention, night 1
My takes on the first night. Mostly good.
Obesity, COVID-19, and BMI
BMI isn’t perfect, but it’s a useful diagnostic tool regardless of race
George Floyd: New bodycam video
Everybody deserves their day in court, but this is about as damning as can be.
The Wikipedia War Over Kamala Harris’ Race
The identity wars continue.
Oregon says it will track coronavirus positivity rate consistently across state reports
“Math is hard,” says OHA.
Essays
Election 2000: Brains on Display
I attempt the political punditry equivalent of Evel Knievel's jump over the Snake River. Will I land safely on the other side by successfully predicting presidential election returns for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia? Or will my guesses turn out to be a crash and burn? Does a Nader victory equal an early parachute deployment? Will I ever stop with this lame stuntman metaphor and just get on with it? Sure thing. I've stated previously on several occasions that...
Ty’s Oregon Voters’ Guide 2000
Want somebody to tell you how to vote? Of course you do! You probably just don't want it to be me. Oh well, one out of two ain't bad. I've long been opposed to those MTV-style "Rock the Vote" efforts which, for my money, only encourage ignorant people who otherwise wouldn't vote to sign up and to cast a presumably uninformed ballot that's bound to negate the vote of someone—like me, frankly—who's spent time studying the issues. For the record, I have no problem with the...
Well, Windoze Me!
Windoze /Win'doz/ v. 1. To be completely and utterly screwed, usually by Microsoft. Ex: My operating system just crashed (again). I sure am Windozed. Given a world of approximately six billion unique individuals, it never stops amazing me that so many people are such total lemmings. Granted that the wide variety of forces—cultural, historical, etc.—which play upon human beings enforce a certain amount of homogeneousness, but sometimes I think we'd see more intellectual...
Vive la France! Vive la Différence!
Compiled during seven weeks in France during the summer of 2000. I attack all manner of topics from the vantage point of an American in Paris, a status made obvious by my white tennis shoes, lack of a poodle, and inability to keep from showering once a day. The resulting treatise is both required reading for doctorate level Franco-American political science students and the reason France pulled out of NATO. Okay, item number one: Parisians drive around their town like...