21.2.25

FRIDAY short TAKES.

Precisely.  "The Forgotten Man in East Palestine, western North Carolina and on the subways of New York noticed.  This time he came off the bench and fought back.  DC still doesn’t understand what just happened.  The callous and cavalier abuse of power finally came to a head.  C is tired of A and B telling him what to do for poor, unfortunate X."  “I’m willing to put up with Trump's foul words to get the results.”



The weekly round-up of mostly pithy elaborations on traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.

1Complex adaptive systems doing what comes naturally!  "Predictability has become more challenging."

2Exactly.  "Most Americans got tired of being hectored, lectured, and ridiculed for embracing old-school values like equality, color-blindness, and responsibility."

3Panem farewell?  "If the Flight of the Progressive State includes the multi-millionaire class, then the swamp may truly be draining for the first time in decades -- if ever."

4Paging Joe Stiglitz?  "Frankly, they’re never going to get it because if they actually understood economics, they wouldn’t be Democrats in the first place."

5Defund the unfunded mandates?  “If we want to reduce indirect costs more seriously, we also need to reduce the federal regulatory burden that causes universities to hire so many administrators in the first place.”

6Diamonds amid the glass beads.  "The scientific literature is an essential ocean of knowledge, in which floats an alarming amount of junk."

7What's the point of F.U. money without the occasional F.U?  "To those who think I’m ruining my career by doing it, what part of 'retired' don’t you understand?"

8Cruise night.  "If Drag Racing Is a Problem, Your Streets Are Designed Wrong."

9Weak men produce hard times.  "Americans were looking at 'luxury, effeminacy, and venality' and decided it was going to take a revolution to save the day."

10Life in Illinois.  "They kept voting race and playing the race card and now their public schools are so decrepit that they won’t be able to compete in the new world of the future. Without good education, the ruling class have left them fit only for serfdom or sex workers, and prison."

11Why Democrats lose.  "If you don't want somebody putting a finger in your eye, then treat them like a thinking citizen, not Hitler."

12Sic semper Faucismus.  "You know, some of us warned during the Covid debacle that it was going to drastically hurt the image of science. Well, here you are."


14Kick 'em in the rocks and they're all the same size.  "Their critiques were rooted in a sense of their own moral superiority."  We don’t listen to them anymore. "Why? Because they took their credibility, poured gasoline on it, and set it on fire."


16Let the nomenklatura tremble.  "The left-wing European elite fear even more than they hate the rising populist pushback."

17Stop the charade.  "Cut both discretionary spending and the growth of runaway entitlement spending. And cut any unfair tax loopholes that prevent us from paying for a slightly more modest government."

18Maybe the Department of Education is the problem.  “A third of the eighth graders can’t read ... and now he wants to close the Department of Education?  I’m for USAID, but that makes your coastal Democrats really, really comfortable about our moral principles.  I care about the kids who can’t read.”

19.  The generalization to other agencies is straightforward.  "Democrats are only succeeding in making themselves look ridiculous as they take to the streets in geriatric-led demonstrations to defend these bureaucracies."

20Endorsed.  "He's not my personal chef; he's my president and he works for me."

21Hamas.  "Look what we did.  We humiliated a baby Jew."

22Navigating Port Said?  "It makes Thimble Shoal seem like the open Pacific."

23Bears repeating.  "Hookup culture benefits some men, at the expense of most women."

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