Author Archive: Charlie Martin

LIBERALS LOVE TRAINS, HATE ARITHMETIC: @AOC and the Magic Choo Choo

What if we had a transportation system that could go anywhere in the country at 500 miles an hour, and the right of way was as free as air?

WHERE DO WE DRAW THE LINE? But Is It Human?

Surely there’s some time between conception and being eligible to vote where we can draw a line.

THE INTERNET IS FOREVER: The Green New Deal FAQ is still available on documentcloud.

FRIEND OF THE BLOG AND PJ TONI AIRAKSINEN:

Toni was being too conservative (you won’t hear that phrase often here) with her original request. Now that she’s discovered what her treatment is REALLY going to cost, she’s been forced to reopen her Go Fund Me.

You all may recall that a GFM saved me a few years ago, and I had exactly the same experience. I commend this to you.

MAGIC EIGHT BALL SAYS “ARE YOU NUTS?” Can You Trust the Personal Internet of Things? “[A] few years back, in the TV series Homeland, the US Vice President was assassinated by a terrorist who hacked into his heart pacemaker.

“Could that really happen? Yes.”

IN DEFENSE OF SPACE BOOBIES: The Left Are Annoying Puritans. “For a while now, I’ve been expecting the left to start wearing poke bonnets and naming their kids “Eschew Material Gain Jones” or “Thou Shalt Not Objectify Women Smith” or perhaps “Excoriate the Cishet White Male Harris.””

WE’LL MAKE YOU AGREE: Lysenkoism and Climate Change Heresy.

Insisting that scientific truth must agree with what’s current political truth never works out well for either.

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS FAKE NEWS AND THE PRESS AREN’T DEMOCRATS WITH BYLINES: Remember the furor over Trump saying Robert E. Lee was a great general? Reported with great disdain by NBC, CNN, et al.?

Well, two days later, NBC corrects.