Parts of this blog were made “private”; about 800 posts remain online
As this blog is not read much, in 2025 I removed about 2,000 posts, leaving about 800.
In practice: Transgender day of Remembrance
Using data from GLAAD and HRC, the murder rate of transgender individuals is about 1/2th that of the general population.
Climate: COP30 seems to be suggesting a call for censorship…
“Truth” comes solely from government, academics, and environmental journalists.
Social media has become a Generation bashing forum
Gen Z social media is a cesspool of nonsensical economic claims. The Gen Z I meet and know in real life are actually bright and hard working – but the crowd on social media is not.
Cherrypicking
Cherrypicking 101
Climate: Climate change news coverage of COP has vanished
I noticed this too
Media: CNN displays spacecraft orbit that cannot exist
This is physically not possible ….
Everything is awful: Doomerism in the headlines
The media: Everything is awful and something bad happened to someone, sometime, someplace.
Critical thinking skills MIA
Truthiness from people who should know better says “Bad Bunny” is an immigrant. He is from Puerto Rico, which is part of the United States. He is not an immigrant
Social: The idiocy on X is off scale
The idiocy on X is off scale.
Reporter does not understand amortized mortgages
Reporters should never, ever, be left in a room, by themselves, with a number.