“The plural of anecdote is data.”
Well, that’s what UC Berkeley professor, Raymond Wolfinger, said, and it makes some sense.
Category: Culture (Page 4 of 13)
The exchange came within the first 15 minutes, and suddenly, fears about Biden’s age and acuity, concerns that were once only whispered among Democrats, were being discussed openly on the left. Before the night was over observers ranging from Andrew Yang, who competed with him for the Democratic Party nomination in 2020, to Van Jones, a CNN contributor who previously worked in the Obama administration, said it was time for Democrats to look for another nominee.
Joe Rogan has been talking about this for a few years, yet it comes as a surprise to people who rely on NPR and the NYT. Rogan has no college degrees, but has wide ranging interests. He is a successful comedian, actor, taekwondo champion, sports commentator and podcaster. Rogan describes himself as a liberal, but thinks for himself.
The corporate media doesn’t think for themselves, and take a reliable progressive party line. They aren’t honest. Rogan is correct on major issues, more often than NPR or the NYT.
In 2018, the NYT ran an opinion piece on the intellectual dark web. Anyone not following a few of these people are wrong or uninformed about the major issues in America.
The intellectual dark web is not an actual group of affiliated people, but a number of public, heterodox individuals. People often named are Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Glenn Greenwald, Sam Harris, Heather Heying, Claire Lehmann, Bill Maher, Douglas Murray, Maajid Nawaz, Camille Paglia, Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, Joe Rogan, Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, Michael Shermer, Christina Hoff Sommers, Bret Weinstein, and Eric Weinstein.
If you aren’t following at least a few of these people, then modern American is a mystery to you.
WSJ: Go Woke, Go Broke. Ben and Jerry’s
WSJ: Go Woke, Go Broke. Ben and Jerry’s
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are about as well known for their progressive politics as they are for quirky ice cream flavors like Chunky Monkey and Phish Food.
Their experiment in melding business with social justice for years seemed like a model to which many in the corporate world were warming up. And then attitudes cooled.
Ben and Jerry are old people who don’t realize the world has changed. When they started making ice cream, crunchy progressives wanted to save the whales, recycle and wear hemp clothing.
Ben and Jerry didn’t notice that modern progressives are antisemitic, despise law and order, and insist on libraries bringing in deviant sex clowns to read queerotic porn to children.
I’d like to believe that the corporate world is less interested in pushing a divisive progressive agenda.
This survey on tipping is interesting because nobody knows what they are supposed to do. Tipping etiquette used to be an element of American culture, but “tipping culture” wasn’t a thing. With social media, someone says the rules have changed, it goes viral, and becomes part of tipping culture.
Everything you need to know is on this graph.
Sixteen thousand people erupted into rapture when Donald J. Trump walked into the Prudential Center in Newark at 10 p.m. Saturday to attend an Ultimate Fighting Championship match.
UFC doesn’t appeal to me, and this article about Trump’s attendance isn’t illuminating, but it did get me thinking about other presidents.
Where would Joe Biden go to revel in the embrace of his most avid fan base?
Vox: Companies don’t care about Woke.
Have you ever wondered why people you know to be smart and reasonable, can be so politically different from you? People get their information from different sources and this article is a perfect example. Nothing is necessarily wrong, it just misses the point and leaves out some important parts.
The concept of nudging has become popular in the past few years—using psychological tactics to subtly steer people toward making better decisions that are aligned with their own interests or societal goals.
City Journal: Unscientific American
My fourth year teaching at Normandy, I was the department chair. My department was concerned that students didn’t know the scientific method. I taught all Physics and Honors Physics, so figured my kids certainly knew how science worked. Sure, they could list some steps, but they couldn’t really think scientifically.
Around the same time, John Stossel, at ABC News, had done a special on pseudoscience, called, The Power of Belief. It seems a little quaint now, but it was an engaging look at unscientific beliefs that were popular in the culture. Magic crystals, past lives, faith healing, past lives, that sort of thing.
Because I just finished The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt, the World Happiness Report is of interest.
The US is ranked #23 on the Happiness Index. Only two spots up from Mexico, and 8 spots below Canada. I’ve been to Canada, it ain’t so great.
“Forever renting is very much a movement. It’s a lifestyle.
The article emphasizes that renters should squirrel away as much as possible in an index fund or other investments. Millennials and Gen Z need an article like this to tell them that renting is a lifestyle choice, so it’s okay to do.
My sophisticated aunt and uncle never owned a home. I’d like to ask my uncle why. He had a steady job as a teacher and she was an office manager. My uncle liked building things and working on projects, but must have done that all at school. It wasn’t the money. They bought a vacation property in the Poconos and had plenty of investments. The apartment they’d rented for decades was in a good neighborhood, nicely furnished and rather mundane.