Category: Opinions
The Trends Paradox
With the popularity of Stranger Things, “The Girl” has been watching 80s music videos recently and it made me aware of a trend I hadn’t noticed before now: most of these music videos and movies had heavy industrial themes. There’s an incongruity in seeing musicians playing “instruments of the future”…
We Need Small Government
Pretty sure I say this every year but… If you’re terrified for the future of the country if a certain person gets elected to the presidency, then the president has too much authority. We need to reduce what the POTUS is authorized to do. https://reason.com/2024/10/28/smaller-government-can-protect-against-a-vengeful-president
More Medical Dipshittery
This stuff doesn’t even surprise me anymore, but it’s still funny in a way. So for two months, I’ve been getting bills from McLaren Greater Lansing to pay an $80 copay on a lab test that hasn’t been performed. I tried calling my doctor (who ordered the test at my…
CVS [doesn’t care]’mark
I have always prided myself on being pretty libertarian in my beliefs, but a single experience calling CVS Caremark (our prescription drug insurance) has made me decide to lobby with the Leftists to get the entire industry out of business. Here’s the back story: wife needed an eye surgery and…
Making Google Money
Every time I get one of these “your edit helped,” emails from Google, I just think, “I did free work and helped make Google $62 billion last year.” This is why, for the most part, I stick to editing on OpenStreetMap. Much less restrictive usage policy and it’s not directly…
Part of the #tripledemic
I still don’t know if we had flu, RSV, COVID, or something else, but my family got hit by part of this #tripledemic in the American Mid-West and were collectively down for about two weeks leading up to Christmas. Thankfully we had nothing in our lungs and were never short…
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