The Smallest Minority

I posted a link to this story of a 70 year old man defending his wife from an attacker who broke through the front door of their home.  He ...

Judge Mike McHaney for Appellate Court Mike McHaney is a judge on the Illinois Fourth Judicial Circuit Court. He was appointed to fill...

From Facebook: If you want to have an economy it is because you want grandma to die, except when Cuomo signed off on an order that actual...

Back in April, 2006 I wrote a piece titled RCOB™ .  It was a fisking of an op-ed by a writer named Nina Burleigh, who I later discovered was...

I first heard about this man on a Joe Rogan podcast where a guest mentioned him in relation to this quote: With my family, I am a Communis...

I am a pessimist by nature, shocking admission, I know.  But being a pessimist I am very seldom disappointed, and occasionally pleasantly su...

From his recent Uncommon Knowledge interview on his new book How Innovation Works : The late Hans Rosling , who is one of the so-called ...

I joined Quora back in 2013.  In late July of 2019 I opened a personal "Space" there, which I cleverly titled "The Smallest M...

May 14, 2003 I put up my first post here at TSM .  That means this blog is now (carry the one...) seventeen years old. In seventeen years I...

Another Quora question.  Lots of post inspiration over there.  Here's my answer: I’m 58 years old. That means that in 1974 I was 12. I...

There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental pro...

[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional...

I was recently asked to answer the question: “ What do you think of John Solomon? Is he the evil mastermind of the right wing narrative? ” M...

I was asked to answer the question " Is it accurate to say that the left is intolerant of the right's ideas while the right is into...

Slightly scatalogical. You've been warned. This is not my story. If it had been, I'm not sure I'd be telling it. I ...

I need to start reading The Bleat regularly again.  Today's gem comes from today's post : My favorite term is "free-dumbs,...

Those of us on the putative "Right" are often - and loudly - accused of "anti-intellectualism."  One of their favorite m...

From Jeff Greason, seen on Facebook: There's a scene in one of the Lord Darcy books, where Darcy uncovers the spy. They are discussing...

AITA for showing my 13 year old daughter footage of WW2 concentration camps? Excerpt: Schools are shut, we’re in lockdown and I’m playin...