I need to write about this in depth some time, but "diversity" and "inclusion" needs to be defined more broadly. I'm more of a libertarian (small "l") than a Progressive or Conservative, but neither diversity nor inclusion, at the moment, have room for differing political perspectives. It's selective.

If you're curious about the impact of climate change on extreme flooding, here's a good analysis. Climate change IS real. Flooding is NOT getting worse. Using this catastrophe to push for changes in energy policy is disingenuous. There are other ways to honestly fight for changes in our policies, but don't be an uninformed partisan or people are going to quit trusting you. open.substack.com/pub/rogerp…

I took an autonomous cab ride in Scottsdale, and the best thing about it was not having to talk to the driver. I did anyway, and it didn't disagree with a single one of my political views.

Never realized how much the Chiefs depended on funding from USAID

I was driving north out of San Fran last month, and it was still totally odd to see a 100% autonomous vehicle doing its thing on Market Street. It's going to take a bit for humans to get used to seeing something like that in rural America.

I did not vote for the asshole DJT, but so far I like 45% of what he's done, and 5% of the way he's doing it. At least someone is actually in charge, instead of signing whatever the interns are passing in front of him just a month ago. The same interns who cannot read the room.

I didn't watch all of the ads carefully, but I wasn't moved by any of them. I also don't think we need to keep giving men what I call the "episodic TV treatment," where they are unsophisticated idiots without a role in the world, always standing in the way of progress, and especially women's progress. Sure, some are, but it's to the point where you can't be proud of being masculine without someone thinking you're sexist or racist or in a conservative cult. Men need to learn how to be kind, confident men who aren't how they are portrayed, often, as incompetent backward idiots. If men were, largely, like the stereotypical men portrayed on sitcoms, I wouldn't want anything to do with them, either, but they are not. And I'm just tired of that portrayal.

I hate the Eagles and I'm tired of the Chiefs, so that combo made for a boring game b/c I find it hard to cheer for the Eagles, even though they have spectacular talent. I found the HT show to be vacuous. If you love Lamar and know the words, it would be awesome, but 10% of the population were ecstatic and the rest of us were. Uh? Lada Gaga was great.

I'm going to start being myself on here. I would recommend that you unfollow me for your own sanity.

Coaches bailing a day after winning league titles. Teams pulling out of bowl because so many players have transferred. Players on playoff teams entering the portal. Playoff teams hosting portal visitors week of the game. Portal agents working the phones. Nothing to see here.

Since the start of the 2011 season, Texans have won 8 AFC South titles, more than the Colts (2), Titans (2) and Jags (2) combined.

This comment comes from someone who knows what they are talking about. If you know, you know...

In her new article, "The Myth of Female Agency," @Louise_m_perry argues that “very few people are highly agentic.” I would say that almost all people have the capacity to be highly agentic, but many are prevented from realizing their agency because they have an external locus of control, in part reinforced by cultural messages that diminish personal agency—such as referring to it as a myth. She also states that not being highly agentic isn't a bad thing, which I disagree with. Extensive research has found a significant link between having an external locus of control—believing that life is shaped by forces beyond your control—and mental illness. I think we should reject the views that perpetuate an external locus of control and encourage others to adopt an internal locus of control—the belief that we have agency over our lives.

I thought speech was violence? nypost.com/2024/12/15/us-new…

I'm rethinking my citizenship. One of them blabbering about nothing and pardoning everyone suggested by the interns, and the other selling perfume and Xmas ornaments. Some other country make me an offer, please.

I wanted to love this post, and then I read all the tweets you posted—even in the last week—that countered your advice. Nevertheless, I wish you the best and hope that you escape all this in peace.

If you're all giddy about Trump's win, and you crossing your fingers that this time he'll be the adult in the room, I offer you this from Matt Labash: "One thing we’ve learned from the past decade is that Trump has changed everybody else much more than everybody else has changed Trump."

It may be too early for an election retrospective. It's still election night, and technically things haven't been called. It's a good time to speak candidly, though: There is not a single moment this election that I felt heard or represented by Kamala Harris. Not one. But—people, and especially leftists, will say—you're a centrist! she ran to the center, did she not? spoke of unity, focused on fundamentals, stayed disciplined? And I confess: she did. But let's consider the nature of that "running to the center": well-oiled, precisely tuned gears of the Machine, turning and calculating that to win the vote, they needed to present as Normal. Not that they were ever wrong. Not that any of their priorities were mistaken, that they had ever seriously overstepped, that they needed any serious re-examination. Just that they needed to slow-walk things, to be calm, to rely on running against Trump and repeating platitudes to waltz into the presidency. "What will you do differently from Joe Biden?" A bold answer from Kamala: I'm not him, and I'm not Trump. Great. "What are we to make of your positions during the 2020 primary?" Well, it's not 2019 anymore, is it? "Did you ever, even once, go too far?" A laugh and a charming slice-of-life quip. The Democrats tried to run an election on vibes alone. Kamala is brat. Kamala is normal. Kamala is all things to all people. Kamala is with the good guys and against the bad guys, with the good things and against the bad things, and shouldn't that be enough? Look, I've been adamantly against Trump from the day he entered the national scene. I have never wavered on that. But I spend my time and my energy writing, shouting, begging someone to listen that people do not trust the Machine, and they do not trust it for good reason. Young, educated professionals are far to the left of the average American, and they are the ones in control of every institution. Institutions systematically represent their views, treating them as natural and everyone else as aberrant. I'm on the fringes of that group, right-wing by young, educated professional standards, dead center by the standards of the country. And it's frustrating, alienating on a deep level, to go to law school and watch prison abolitionists and Hamas supporters and people who want to tear gifted education down treated as sane and normal and Respectable while knowing that if I don't voice perspectives sympathetic to the majority of the country, nobody will voice them at all. Kamala Harris never represented me. The Democrats never signaled to me that they heard and understood my voice and voices like mine, only that they wanted to pull the right levers and press the right buttons and twist the right knobs to convince that mystical creature, the Centrist, that they were on their side. I don't know what will happen under what looks to be four more years of Trump. I don't think it will be as dire as the worst predictions, and hope it won't be, but I remain now as ever wholly convinced that he is temperamentally unfit to be President and the country is a more volatile and uncertain place with him in charge. But what I hope is this: the Democrats don't take this moment to lament to themselves how everyone fell victim to misinformation and imagined grievances, that they were fine and good and the people were the problem, that their problem is they were simply not pure-Left enough. Now is the time for recognition that they fundamentally, wholly failed to understand and reach the frustrated center. They have four years to get serious about doing so.