Author Archive: Charlie Martin
March 11, 2019
March 10, 2019
IT’S NOT THE VOTE THAT COUNTS; IT’S WHO MANUFACTURES THE VOTES: Don’t take my Constitutional republic away from me.
WHAT IF WE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, WANTED TO IMPROVE TRANSPORTATION? Welcome to the No Green New Deal Future.
The GND would make transportation worse but would cost lots of money. Let’s not do that.
March 7, 2019
HERE’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON’T DO ARITHMETIC: Life in the GND “Paradise”? Nasty, Brutish, and Short.
March 6, 2019
BOOK PLUG FOR A FRIEND: Anna David’s How to Get Successful by F*cking Up Your Life: Essays on Addiction and Recovery comes out today. Many of you were fans of Red Eye on Fox when Greg Gutfield was the host; Anna was a guest many times.
“How I got sober” books can be kind of dreadful, but this one isn’t: Anna is funny, self-deprecating, and insightful. It’s worth a read.
March 3, 2019
THE LEFT CAN’T UNDERSTAND TRUMP VOTERS BECAUSE THEY CAN’T CONCEIVE OF WHAT MOTIVATES TRUMP VOTERS: They’re Dancing on a Powder Keg.
February 24, 2019
A PRODUCT PEOPLE WANT TO BUY, AT A PRICE THEY”RE WILLING TO PAY: Make Big Money Writing Fiction
I know, this is my new mantram, sort of business dharma.
February 20, 2019
IS YOUR FAVORITE GOOGLE SERVICE GOING AWAY? With the upcoming demise of Google+ — not that it was anyone’s actual favorite — it’s worth keeping an eye on Did Google Shutdown ___ Yet?
February 17, 2019
IT ALL REALLY COMES FROM ONE ERROR: The One Wrong Premise At the Center of American Politics Today
February 13, 2019
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?
February 10, 2019
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.
February 8, 2019
YOU CAN’T SAVE THE BUGGY WHIP INDUSTRY: The Publisher Is Dead! Long Live Publishing!
February 7, 2019
THE INTERNET IS FOREVER: The Green New Deal FAQ is still available on documentcloud.
February 6, 2019
A LOT OF TALK ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IS WILDLY WRONG: 6 Facts About Artificial Intelligence That Nobody Told You About
With drunken Data.
January 31, 2019
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.
January 29, 2019
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.”
A PRODUCT PEOPLE WANT TO BUY FOR A PRICE THEY’RE WILLING TO PAY: What Big Media Learned This Week.
January 27, 2019
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.””
January 25, 2019
FROM THE DAY JOB: Is legacy software keeping you from disrupting your industry?
Some of you may actually be interested. The rest of you, it makes me look good with the boss.
SPOILER ALERT—IT’S WHEN THERE’S POLITICAL POWER IN IT: When is a Climate Model “Useful”?
THE REAL QUESTION IS WHETHER SPLC CAN COLLECT MORE MONEY ON IT: SPLC Blames ‘Privileged’ Covington Catholic Teen for Native American ‘Anguish’
Honestly, someday in the future, the Southern Poverty Law Center is going to be remembered as one of the most successful scams of all time.
January 19, 2019
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.
October 26, 2018
DON’T BUY INTO THE NARRATIVE: Don’t let the media and Democrats get away with it.
October 25, 2018
I WONDER IF TWITTER WILL CALL THIS ‘TARGETED HARASSMENT’:Russian trolls get DM from US Cyber Command: We know who you are. Stop it
October 23, 2018
TAMING THE INTERNET OF THINGS: A new post for the day job.


