Gillette CEO: $8 billion loss is ‘price worth paying’ over #MeToo campaign Reads the headline of a recent article in the Washington Examiner. They Tweeted the article with the following comment: “Gillette’s controversial marketing campaign targeted at the #MeToo movement cost the company $8 billion. Still, its CEO says he does not regret a thing….
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Gun Violence in America: Data and Analyses
Note: this article was a part of another, larger article composed in December of 2015. I honestly don’t even know where to begin on the data I’ve looked at over the last week or so. There are so many conversations about homicide, suicide, and guns you could have that any number of different arguments are…
Do You Really Oppose Violence?
Merely to note for posterity the proximate catalyst for this post, this past weekend, a guy was allegedly attacked during a demonstration by a group of a left-wing organization known as antifa (fun fact, nobody knows how this name is supposed to be pronounced). The details that made it to me are obscure. Initial police,…
Rant on an article a sociology postdoc wrote on Flat-Earthers
My friend asked for my thoughts on this article a sociology post-doc (as far as I can tell) wrote on flat-Earthers. This is basically me complaining about the article itself, and offers no real insight on the subject. Posting it anyway, assuming a couple other friends will also read it. It boggles my mind that…
Review of Tim Keller’s Making Sense of God
Tim Keller is the founder and current senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church, a decent-sized multi-campus church in Manhattan with a membership of a bit less than 2,000. Keller is an author of books on Christian apologetics, and he’s come up on my radar from a number of directions, and behest from friends and pastors…
Stop Saying Exercise Cures Depression
Saw this on my news-feed tonight. If I ever take myself out, it’s going to be in a jogging suit in one of these asshole’s offices. Exercise is good for many reasons, and from what I’ve gleaned, we honestly know very little about why it’s good. If you want a good textbook on the science,…
Et Tu, Brute? Why Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” Sucks
If you missed why the aforementioned play is in the news cycle, be glad; it’s stupid reason. But it got me reminiscing. Like many schoolchildren in the Anglosphere, I was compelled by my English teacher to read the play when I was 15. Then, of course, we had to write an essay talking about–I have…
Finland’s Schools Aren’t Special
Finland is an exotic, far-away country in the eyes of Americans; a nation we erroneously classify as Scandinavian and imagine as bedecked with reindeer. Beyond this, we know two things about the Finns: they invented Nokia, and they have the world’s best schools. Well, you know, except for the Asians, but they’re in their own…
Andrew Johnson, America’s Most Hated POTUS
In honor of President’s Day: Andrew Johnson, the 17th POTUS, is way more interesting than he will ever be given credit for because of our tendency to filter history through a lens referred to as the Whig historiography, or in more modern parlance, the “progressive view of history”. I.e. there’s a steady line of improvement…
The Reasons for the Christmas Nativity Story
The two most indelible and widely-known parts of the story of Jesus are certainly the Christmas story, and the Easter story. Even the most casual churchgoer at least gets the basic narratives down. It’s Christmastime at the time of this writing, so I’m in the mood to talk about Christmas. I’ve heard the sermons enough…