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A Dago’s Perspective on Diversity and White Privilege

by | Apr 4, 2017 |

If you are a member of the campus thought police and offended by the word “dago,” too bad.  Here are some other offensive synonyms for “Italian:” wop, greaseball, greaser, goombah, mobster, and garlic eater. I grew up being called all of those slurs.  But until recent times, I was never called a privileged white.  It takes a special kind of stupidity and cultural insensitivity by academics and their fellow Mao-style cultural revolutionaries to mash together scores of distinct ethnic groups, shades of skin color, nationalities, and socioeconomic classes into one glob and then to say that...

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NFL Announces Raiders Move to North Korea

by | Mar 28, 2017 |

Scottsdale, Ariz. - National Football League bigshots, meeting here to drive drunk and get in fights in Old Town nightclubs, in the longstanding tradition of college and professional football players who visit this resort city, announced today that they had voted unanimously to allow the Oakland Raiders to move to North Korea. NFL spokesman Dennis Rodman said that N. Korea epitomizes the league’s values—and, increasingly, America’s values.  “The North Koreans have taken sports socialism to the next level,” said a beaming Rodman. Under the terms of the agreement, the Raiders will not only get...

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Michelangelo and ObamaCare Reform

by | Mar 25, 2017 |

It was almost a certainty that ObamaCare would not be replaced or reformed enough to restore a consumer market in medical care/insurance, one in which the consumer is at the top of the pyramid instead of the bottom. Why was it almost a certainty? Because the government has been chipping away at a consumer market in medical care/insurance for at least 75 years, so that what remains today has little resemblance to a market.  To use an analogy, it’s as if a vandal had chipped away for days on Michelangelo’s statue of David and left behind a badly marred chunk of unrecognizable marble.  Even if...

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Not a Police State Yet but Getting There

by | Mar 24, 2017 |

“The First 48” is an excellent reality TV show that follows homicide detectives in various cities as they try to solve murders, most of which seem to be committed primarily by blacks and secondarily by Latins, typically over drug dealing. The show is not sanitized by political correctness.  It shows the moral depravity of a frightening element of society, one in which young men and teens, mostly raised in households devoid of fathers, have no qualms or remorse about killing someone over a drug deal gone awry or because they were disrespected.  Oftentimes innocent people get caught in the...

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The Science of Fat vs. the Science of Global Warming

by | Mar 22, 2017 |

For over a half-century, the government and those in the medical and science community who fed at its richly nutritious teats of grants and subsidies had declared that it was a scientific fact that dietary fats were a primary cause of heart disease, obesity and related diseases.  They were as sure of this as the government and the science community are today about the causes and consequences of global warming. But they were dead wrong about fats, and millions of people have died prematurely because of their faulty science.  But now we are expected to believe their hypotheses about global...

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The Truth about Losing “Healthcare”

by | Mar 15, 2017 |

Media reports say that 20 million Americans will lose their “healthcare” under the Republican plan to replace ObamaCare, as if healthcare is like a cellphone, wallet, or item of clothing unintentionally left somewhere or stolen by someone. Such confusion about “healthcare” stems from the misuse of the word itself.  In common usage, the word “healthcare” is used as a synonym for “medical care” and “medical insurance,” although these words have widely different meanings.  This is more than an issue of semantics.  There are serious policy implications of using the wrong words, and the misuse...

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Poor Productivity Is the Pink Elephant in the Economy

by | Mar 8, 2017 |

Trump is another president in a long line of presidents with a magical plan to restore the economy to high growth, especially for the working class.  But other than some temporary blips, the nation hasn’t seen sustained high growth since the economic glory years that ran from the early 1950s to 1973. Those years saw high growth because they were years of high productivity.  Unfortunately, productivity has languished since then, with the notable exception of the early years of the new millennium.  This has been the case not only in the USA but also in Europe and Japan, in spite of...

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SOTUS: Great Theater, Great Performance, Great Pot of Pabulum

by | Mar 1, 2017 |

Wow, what great theater last night!  What a great performance! It’s as if Trump had studied the State of the Union speeches of past presidents and taken ingredients from each to come up with a policy feast for a hungry public.  The cooks in his policy kitchen are apparently Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. Unfortunately, the result was a porridge of protectionism, a soufflé of statism, a cake of contradictions, a pie of platitudes, a rump roast of regulations, a dollop of...

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