The Glorious Purpose of Action Figures
This is the golden age of adult collector figures. The best part about action figures is the diversity of offerings.
Author: Russell Michaels
The UN: What’s the Bloody Point?
The UN has become a bunch of nations argue themselves into pretzel knots to avoid confronting the clearly evil bastards among them.
Fatalism and Why It Sucks
Fatalism is the idea that what currently exists is what will always exist. Or, in effect, complete codswallop.
The Month In Movies: In Theaters For August 2021
The way this works is simple. I talk about every movie I saw in theaters in the month in question, in order. This month, 13 movies.
Hayek III: Free Will and Freedom to Choose
Your ideas depend on other people implementing them. Practically speaking, your system must leave free will alone to have any chance to succeed.
Armchair Generals
We can play armchair generals until our faces turn blue, but, at the end of the day, this was Biden’s evacuation plan and his alone
Institutional Trust and Trade-Offs
Institutional trust is a problem. Congress, the media, and various segments of the federal bureaucracy have horrendously bad approval ratings
The Suicide Squad: Bloody Good Fun
LIGHT SPOILERS AHEAD!! James Gunn brought it! Perhaps the best movie in the DCEU (Shazam! will make it a fight,) but easily the best of the R-rated ones (Joker is technically not part...
Marketing is Everything and Everything is Marketing
Marketing is a discourse that is rarely done well, largely due to small-minded people who think marketing is glorified brainwashing
Money For Nothing: Inflation Is Not Free
There is a point where deficit spending has negative effects, inflation being the most obvious example. You can’t run up debt forever
The Year in Movies, As Of Right Now
I, being the Nerd of the People, want to talk about the year in movies; the nine best and the three worst movies this year so far
Altruism, Empathy, Incentives, and Selfishness
From the Marshmallow Test to lottery tickets for getting the COVID vaccine, people respond to the incentives presented to them
Hayek II!
Hayek argued consistently on “social” being a bad adjective, making whatever word that follows the opposite of what that word means by itself
A Spoiler-filled Reaction to the Loki Season Finale
There are no words to describe how truly excited I am for Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe…and now we know the big bad
Us vs Them
In practice, “us vs them” makes everything you believe is good and true, while everything the opposition favors is scum of the earth evil
Economic Lesson VI: Investment
You think an idea is good? Make it a reality. Will it make a good return on investment or ROI? The investor sure hopes so!
Hanlon’s Razor, Revisited
Politicians lie and do so purposefully. Lying is the coin of the realm. And the lies just snowball.
Werewolves Within: The Best Video Game Movie
Werewolves Within proves a cardinal rule of adaptations: Pick something no one likes and have a ball with it.
Nerd Of The People
I bring this up to delineate what separates a nerd of the people from a regular nerd. I am not just an enjoyer of things, but a creator of them.
“Weird Al” Yankovic: A Gift To Humanity
What makes “Weird Al” Yankovic so amazing is that he largely avoids politics, is genuinely charming in interviews, and treats his fans well.
