From a comment on iSteve, a useful mnemonic for what appears to be the increasing and increasingly dire problem of the homeless: CATO 4321 C - Crazies. 40% of the homeless A - Addicts. 30% of the homeless T - Tramps. 20% of the homeless O - Out of Luck. 10% of the homeless The …
Author: theantignostic
Remembrance Day
If you want to get a glimpse of older Anglo-Celt America, that is, the actual American nation, Jerry Clower ("English: occupational name for a nailer, from an agent derivative of Old French clou 'nail'") is somebody to look up. Here's Jerry at Mississippi State in 1947, proudly playing SEC football after helping defeat the Japanese …
Happy Memorial Day
Or really, just a vehicle to talk about inertia--the tendency of things to remain as they are--further to my theme of sunk costs. The concept is practically archetypal to government agencies such as the US military. However, one service branch seems to be doing more than the others to acknowledge the new reality. WASHINGTON — The …
The Very Slowly Falling Building
Or, as I'll explain, Sunk Costs. In 2010, the owners of a a 58-story condominium in San Francisco learned that their building was sinking at the rate of 1.5 to 2 inches per year. The building has sunk 17 inches since construction and tilts 14 inches off center. There are cracks in the basement, deviations …
Real news
Two bits of reality managed to intrude on the Narrative this week. First, Caster Semenya is a man. This is all much simpler than the Narrators have been telling you. Semenya apparently has an XY chromosomal pair, no ovaries, no vagina terminating in a uterus, and no mammary glands. I'm not sure why this was ever …
