Yet another weird SF fan

Electrical conductivity was discovered in 1729 . What if Isaac Newton had discovered it six decades earlier? Could he have combined it with ...

Earlier this month, the Chinese government pressured a gaming company to suspend a pro gamer who spoke out on the Hong Kong side of the rec...

We have a problem. For some reason, younger voters tend to favor left-wing policies. My best guess that it that's due to left-wing teac...

One reason the Left is so eager to impose their opinions is that, in some sectors, the Right struck first, sometimes without realizing it. F...

If there was a Pride March, should there be marches for other sins? A Greed March on Wall Street, a Wrath March in either Portland or Charl...

Many conservatives think the answer to possible censorship by social networks is to bust them up. I disagree for the following reasons: We ...

A few years ago, I posted that: The Left wants to break down barriers between places and put up barriers between times. The Right wants to...

In addition to Mathstodon , I am also on Liberdon .

According to H. G. Wells : Hitherto a social consciousness had been asleep and not even dreaming in human history. Before it awakened it pr...

The latest excuse for anti-immigration hysteria is that there's genetic evidence for many examples of one population's males replaci...

Meanwhile, in the real world (according to a conservative who's trying to beat the Left at the self-congratulation game ), Non-Western i...

Those of you who haven't forgotten about it by now may recall that many of us Never-Trump conservatives were a little too quick to jump ...

Weren't anti-agathics supposed to be invented this year? Still no sign of Augustus Caesar (aka Francis X. MacHinery). President Crassus...

The above question is asked in The New York Times by Todd May, a philosophy professor. His answer: “I want to suggest, at least tentatively...

Trump lost; Kavanaugh won. The vote for the House of Representatives was a proxy vote for approval of Trump. Approval of Trump was, in turn...

How I came to realize the importance of the 2nd Amendment It was very indirect. It started when I saw Interstellar Migration and the Human ...

A few years ago , I speculated: The leftward drift of formerly-conservative Supreme Court Justices ( discussed here ) can be explained fair...

1978 me: What's occurring in 2018? 2018 me: We might finally get enough judges on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade. They're...

There's a potentially worrisome development : One of the things that is becoming clear, to me at least, is that the layered model ( en....

The Transhumanist Bill of Rights—Version 2.0 (seen via Instapundit ) includes (with my reactions): “All sentient entities should be the be...