Ideological Capture

For the uninitiated I’m going to review some background that I believe is generally accepted among experts before I get to the real point, so if you prefer to jump to where I actually tell you what I think it all means, click here.  And if you think this post is worth thinking about, don't forget …

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Vox Overstates its Own Reporting

You keep using that word, but I'm not sure you know what it means.... Vox dot com has this article they seem to be recycling once a week or more lately, in which it claims in its headline and tagline that after Australia banned and confiscated certain weapons in 1996, homicides "plummeted."  It was a …

Teen Vogue Writes a Tendentious Article

Turning Critics into Racists My attention was directed to this article published by Teen Vogue, which purports to show that “White male” terrorists are more dangerous than other terrorists. Alas, like most of its kind, this article is riddled with illogic and misleading accounting.  I agree, of course, that we ought to be concerned about …

Unorthodox Ravings is Born

Hello, world. I have been noticing lately that I am upsetting a lot of my friends on Facebook by irrepressibly diving neck-deep into seemingly every one of the most controversial issues of our times without really seeming to change any minds. At the same time, I find many of these issues to be so consequential …