Now that I am 52, I have a totally different consciousness of mortality now. Up until this point, my view had been: 'I have gotten away with a surprising amount of stuff. It's really unfair for me to keep hogging all this being alive, given how bad I am at enjoying it.'

Now I'm…

This new John Mulaney special is brilliant. I feel like he's explained to us why, by the second half of the seventies, we started watching variety shows. Because we wanted to see people we recognized and remembered just taking it easy and not trying too hard.

70s variety TV is…

As we slide deeper into this cultural moment, it's getting pretty clear that nothing can frighten an orthodox person more than an unorthodox person agreeing with them.

5. Naxalt Fallacy:
Smart people tend to use qualifiers like “generally” and “most”, and dumb people tend to ignore them.

“Most people who are pro-choice are also pro-gun-control.”
“Wrong! I’m not!”
“Men are generally taller than women.”
“False! My wife is 7 feet tall!”

11. Noble Cause Corruption:
The greatest evils come not from people seeking to do evil, but people seeking to do good and believing the ends justify the means. Everyone who was on the wrong side of history believed they were on the right side.

13. Postjournalism:
The press lost its monopoly on news when the internet democratized info. To save its business model, it pivoted from journalism into tribalism. The new role of the press is not to inform its readers but to confirm what they already believe.

15. Backwards Law:
The more you pursue happiness, the less likely you are to obtain it, because the focus on acquiring it only reinforces the fact that you don’t have it. Ironically, happiness comes easiest to those who don’t worry about it.

12. Woozle Effect:
When a source makes an unproven claim, is then cited as proof by another, and so on, until the chain of citations looks like evidence.

Evidence that puberty blockers are safe & effective was overestimated because institutions were circularly citing each other:

Thanks to the women and men who came out today to demonstrate that women's sex-based rights are important.

Thanks to Vancouver drivers for showing you agree.

We had a great, deep discussion. Thanks so much for the opportunity!

A boycott with no demands and a laundry list of brands to avoid that is too long for anyone to memorize is not a boycott.

It's a post-political circle jerk of personal purity politics whose payoff is not reduced bread or ground beef prices but the chance to look down your nose…

Prof. Stephen Whittle OBE, PhD, DLaws, FAcSS, The contempt with which gender identity activists treat the few detransitioners who are brave enough to speak out is quite something. But the tide is turning, Stephen, and your callous dismissiveness stands in sharp relief to those who want all young people to receive good care.

Peak Eby BC moment.

'In a phone conversation with Daily Hive, a TransLink spokesperson explained that each bus can be programmed with only a limited amount of messages, and that “go Canucks go” wasn’t “inclusive” enough.'

#bcpoli

dailyhive.com/vancouver/canu…

Imagine how much better they would be doing if the Democrats had gone after medical rather than student debt.

I disagree with Peterson about a lot. But not this.

Cartoons for our times

I had coffee here this morning. I love walking in Dar Es Salaam on a mild breezy day.

Why are people getting so excited about this bear thing? Isn't it just a Louis CK routine from ten years ago?

My latest essay:

'for people like me... it is as though we are watching the kids who used to report us for our protests organizing protests of their own, a bunch of hall monitors creating their own little surveillance state.'

stuartparker.ca/american-campu…

It's not every generation that worries that today's youth are too pro-censorship, too concerned about ideas of public safety and not having enough sex with each other soon enough.

This crystalized for me today because the Economist spammed me this morning with an article…