I invited guns, booze, and weed to my house — and the results were frightening. — The world is full of scary things, but it’s getting harder and harder to figure out what to be scared of. Fortunately, there are ways to test and evaluate these things. I recently read a letter to the editor about an experiment the author conducted, where he placed a locked-and-loaded…

Alternative title: “Oxford Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Obsessing and Become Ambivalent About the Serial Comma” — When it comes to writing, I have strong opinions. I loathe passive voice, especially when police departments abuse it in their press releases to exonerate their brutality (e.g., “an unarmed man was killed in a police-related shooting”). I encourage all writers to break every arbitrary rule they learned in grammar…

David Bradford, chairman of the Delta County Republican Party, wrote quite the whopper recently. In what is mostly a 5,000-word diatribe about this year’s ballot, Bradford offers one soft-headed take after another about each and every measure. I honestly wouldn’t have read any of this blubbering boomer manifesto (who has…

Murray Rothbard, John Brown, and Timothy McVeigh walk into a bar — and other reasons why the non-aggression principle is an unfunny philosophical joke that libertarians should abandon. — Libertarians often argue about the NAP, or the nonaggression principle for you normies. I don’t personally ascribe to the philosophical construct for a number of reasons, but I’ll focus primarily focus on one: The NAP — or at least the version that libertarians routinely waste their time arguing about —…

Lately, I’m seeing versions of the following rant: “The singular ‘they’ is grammatically incorrect. If you don’t know the gender of the subject, then you should default to ‘he’ or ‘it.’” People often confuse grammar and style. Many think they know the former, when, in reality, they are just reflexively…

Partisans on both sides of the aisle need to take a deep breath, take a step back, and reconsider the recent Supreme Court decision. Let’s talk about the Texas abortion law and the recent Supreme Court decision because I believe there are a couple of things that partisans on both sides of the aisle seem to be missing regarding this specific decision. I’ll do my best to keep the scope of this conversation limited…

What happens if we applied Schrödinger’s thought experiment to modern politics? Erwin Schrödinger is probably the last guy you want to take care of your cats while you’re away. Schrödinger, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, designed a thought experiment to explain the “paradox of quantum superposition.” (Or, in layman’s terms, “don’t look at me; I’m not a physicist.”) Long story short, Schrödinger…

Government, whether at the federal or local, is quite the deadbeat tenant when it comes to housing. — Housing demand is through the roof, but housing supply, like a deadbeat roommate, is refusing to leave the basement. So who’s to blame for our housing shortage? At the risk of sounding like a tinfoil-hat-wearing Dale Gribble, I blame the government. Nationals leaders oh so eagerly want to increase the…

Our declining birth rate may put the squeeze on younger generations. I assumed that there was going to be a pandemic baby boom — a future generation of quaran-teeny boppers. Much to my surprise, the birth rate in the U.S. fell for the sixth year in a row. According to the CDC, the number of births in the U.S. has dropped…