"Murder rates would be up to five times higher than they are but for medical developments over the past 40 years...Without this technology, there would be no less than 50,000 and as many as 115,000 homicides annually instead of an actual 15,000 to 20,000" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Here's some really bad news for Christianity in the US. When did 60+ year olds outnumber 18-40 year olds? For the mainline it was around 2000. For evangelicals, Black Protestants, and Catholics - it's right now.

Wikipedia earned $184M from donations last year. Keeping the servers running costs lest than $5M. They don't need your money.

This is exactly the kind of thing that gives a chance for real reform to occur. If I were young and had the skillset that Palantir is looking for, I'd have my application in on day one.

General Washington, this is Henry Knox. He's the most energetic and intelligent officer in the Continental Army outside Boston. His only defect is he's a 26 year old bookseller with no military experience.

"We have inherited the British system, and you see how grievously they have harmed themselves. They say, just nationalise. Oh well, just redistribute wealth. Squeeze the rich until the pips squeak. It sounds wonderful at election time..." Lee Kuan Yew, August 16th, 1981.

By the time you're 30 you have to decide if you're going to get into Civil War History or go some other way. I've chosen old oil & gas annual reports. I've made some of them into iPhone wallpapers cause I like the images, they're super cool. I'm sharing here cause why not (1/5)

It's true. I broke this story last year. And San Francisco still runs the managed alcohol program which serves less than 20 people per year at a cost of $5 million annually. x.com/i/status/17880…

- In 1964, young PhDs with no weapons experience were tasked with creasing a nuclear weapon design using only unclassified information - After 2.5 years, they had come up with a credible design

Congratulations, Braden Boucek, our new US Attorney in Middle Tennessee!

Thinking about how the SAT reading section now has micropassages that can be as short as 25 words. Absolutely howling at this question from an official College Board practice exam. Bro 😭

Von Neumann was the man 🔥🔥

So thankful to finally make it official. Special thanks to Judge Hermandorfer for finding the time for an emergency swearing in on Christmas Eve.

Midnight mass original cover illustration of the 1947 Christmas edition of Journal de Tintin

The Christmas card sent from Gen George Patton to the soldiers of his Third Army, who were bogged down in snow as they hurried to relieve the surrounded 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne. WW2, 1944

The problem with Marxists is they reduce all history to economics and then fail to understand economics.

I was talking to old timers at the family holiday functions and over the course of the conversation it dawned on me that we had completely different parental experiences w/r/t transporting children. To wit, the old timers (either as children or with their own children) would

This is going to stick with me forever

Picture of one rugged individualist standing against the warmth of collectivism on June 5, 1989.

Seven Sins in the Digital World