Category Archives: For Your Education

When A Poser Meets The Real Deal

Nothing smarts like a poser meeting the real thing. Walesa has earned respect facing off against the Soviets in a Cold War test of wills that could have gone very very badly. A coddled community organizing egghead doesn’t belong in the same league. Continue reading

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Crusader Product Inhibition: Part II: Adaptive Eyewear

There’s a link for donations but they’re not for sale at any price. That’s horrible… Continue reading

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Word For The Day: Crusader Product Inhibition: Part I

A test to see if a product is subject to CPI is to buy it. If a flashy website asks for donations but won’t sell it at any price, then CPI has turned it into a marketing tool. It’ll be a cold day in hell before an actual product is delivered to anyone. Continue reading

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Word For The Day: Punitive Ineffectualism: (A.K.A. 2011 Tour of Reality Denial: Part II)

Punitive Ineffectualism: When a person or organization deliberately chooses to be outrageously incompetent to piss people off. Example; “I’d ask Bill to pick up beer for the hunting trip but he doesn’t drink alcohol and he’d buy Zima or some … Continue reading

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A Post In Which I Give The Other Side A Free Swing

Weer’d World linked to an amusing video at Straw Man, Counter Point. Its a satiric jab at limited government types (myself included!) implying that if you loathe the heavy hand of government you should vacation in Somalia.  Somalia, lacking a … Continue reading

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Word For The Day: TURD Attack

Time to point out a tempest in the teapot that is CNN’s Eatocracy.  Eatocracy posted an innocuous little ditty called “Five Reasons to buy from your local 4H“.  The article should be about as controversial as beige paint. Unexpectedly some … Continue reading

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The Spending Cut Tautology

The Gormogons has a fun response to an NYT article. NYT (a.k.a. the New York Times) was foolish enough to float the following opinion: “It has been obvious all along that cutting government services alone is not a solution to … Continue reading

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Search Term Roundup II

Here is a smattering of search terms that led poor helpless victims readers to my site. i will smite you: No.  I will smite you.  Don’t bet against a Curmudgeon in a fight! freedom to say no to a job:  … Continue reading

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Causation and Correlation

Read this: “…we found that both kinds of debt had positive effects for young people.  It didn’t matter the type of debt, it increased their self-esteem and sense of mastery.” Basically a study found that young people who have lots … Continue reading

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Search Term Roundup

One purpose of the internet is to connect insane Google search terms to irrelevant bloggers.  Here are some search terms that inexplicably pointed my way: annoying bitch text: Yes I’m annoying and I bitch a lot.  You don’t have to … Continue reading

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