Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

YEP, YEP, YEP. SAME AS IT EVER WAS. THEY STILL THINK THE GOOD GUYS LOST. OF COURSE THE AUTHOR OF THE NYT PIECE ALSO THINKS THE TERM CHICOM TO APPLY TO CHINESE COMMUNISTS IS RACIST. SHE MIGHT HAVE HER OWN PROBLEMS:  Apollo 11 Celebration Brings Out Inner Soviet In Media.

MALTHUS IS DEAD, PAUL EHRLICH WAS WRONG, AND EVEN THE VERY FUNNY COMMENTERS ARE ASSUMING THAT CENSUSES IN AFRICA ARE REAL AND THE POPULATION IS EXPLODING THERE: I don’t know whether to pat them on the head for their trust in governments that are net recipients of aid per-capita, or be in awe of their confidence that tribal, screwed up Africa could get an accurate count if they wanted to (note, we don’t, and pad the censuses with all sorts of “uncountable” people).  And that’s before I ARGH at the fact they don’t seem to notice the massive deaths from AIDS (which was actually an heterosexual disease there, for various cultural reasons and an epidemic) were never shown in the count.  But overall, their hearts are in the right place.  You can have our burgers when you pry them out of our cold, dead hands.

AT LEAST NO ONE HAS TO EXPLAIN TO THEIR LITTLE KIDS — NOW — WHY ALL ADULTS BLUSH AT THE MENTION OF CIGARS AND BLUE DRESSES:  Trump is Teaching Our Children All the Bad Things.

Note that the presidents I used (and only parts of their bios) as role models for my kids were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the more expurgated parts of Benjamin Franklin (Until they got old enough to savor double entendres.)  And that as a libertarian my response to the Clinton mess was “Aye, very good. It’s only sex. And if the president submits to his private life being on pay-perview he can just sex as much as he wants. And we can pay the national debt.” It’s the hypocrisy that annoys me.

AND AS FOR THE IDEA THAT IT WOULD BE A KINDNESS TO BRING IN THE DISPOSSESSED OF THE WORLD:  Charity That Kills.

CAN STILL BE TAKEN OUT BY AN AVERAGE-FIT HIGH SCHOOL BOY: “Super-Strong” Women?

Women shouldn’t be trying to compete with men in physical strength. Women have strength and qualities of their own. Pushing women towards being (bad) imitation men is not good for women, men or civilization.