How to Take a Stance without Taking a Stance
In this age of uncertainty, you need beliefs and practices but not dogmas and preaching. Develop a stance, but be aware that you're on sand, not a stump.
Tag: COVID
Do You Have a Totalitarian Impulse?
Take the Diocletian Test to find out.
Is COVID Using Your Negativity Bias to Destroy You Emotionally?
People have a distorted view of the world when they are in a negative state of mind. It becomes a cycle where negative thoughts reinforce negative emotions, which in …
Seven Days Make One Weak
We’re at the beginning of a self-publishing gold rush. If you have a lot of publishing cred, you can demand a lot of money from fans. Mark Steyn charges …
So, Were They Eating Pangolins or What?
Today’s TDE entry is, well, brick-a-brac: a selection of items of modest value. If I make you laugh and give you one interesting piece of information, my efforts on …
Seven Days Make One Weak
Expertise is the taurine of the State and intellectuals are its caffeine. Experts and intellectuals make the State think that it can do far, far more than it can.
Seven Days Make One Weak
TDE's Weekly Jeremiad and Recap. The Lockdown Death Rate, COVID hangovers, election recounts.
How Much Liquor Can You Drink with COVID?
Shocker: Every story on the first-page search results cautioned against drinking during the COVID pandemic