The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Shylock, back in May 2011 : "Guantanamo, the Saudi Secret Police, or a Predator Drone. Pick one." Former head of the CIA Mich...

One of things that Mencius Moldbug likes to emphasise is that most Western countries increasingly aren't democracies in a meaningful se...

Step 1. Go to websites like Healthgrades  or RateMDs  and check out the ratings of doctors in your area Step 2. Read through the reviews, ...

Not forced segregation, mind you. Like so many reactionary ideas (some of which were good, some of which, like this one, were not) it's ...

Okay, as soon as I wrote that I realized that there’s probably dozens of sneakier ones I don’t know about, but this one I have at least ob...

Like anybody raised outside the US, the metric system of measurements seems self-evidently better than the ludicrous imperial system. The ...

One of my hobbies is to try to imitate foreign accents. It's often convenient for humor purposes to be able to portray a generic person ...

My corner solution song of the moment is 'Hyperactive', by the Dollyrots. Imagine everything you secretly like about Avril Lavigne,...

The American/British version, not the Russian/French one. Check it out . It starts here , and is up to part 9 so far. Do yourself a favor ...

I tend to only see my own aging as a matter of hindsight. I suspect I am not alone in this regard. Every day you get one day older, but many...

If there is a more reliable way to produce contentment than to graze under a large mulberry tree for 20 minutes and slowly eat one's way...

I was heading back to Australia recently, and true to my disorganised form, hadn't actually figured out the address of the place I was g...

You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the conten...

I always enjoy when someone's choice of words reveal things about them that they almost certainly didn't intend to convey. A great...

I find myself somewhat conflicted on the subject of mixed martial arts, like the Ultimate Fighting Championships . Far and away the best t...

At the risk of being entirely self-obsessed (the peanut gallery: a blogger? No!), I found myself thinking about  something I wrote the other...

-A thoroughly fascinating description of how to interact with corrupt police in third world countries from John McAfee, who's had to te...

The heuristic for identifying native Turkish speakers has gotten an out-of-sample confirmation - my tailor is indeed Turkish. You know wh...

I saw the Lincoln movie the other day. Regarding the earlier sort-of-prediction, you sure got the point, but not the counterpoint . I felt...

Out of interest, I decided to try being vegetarian for a month. (Not vegan though - that $#!^ is wack , yo.) Partly this is due to lingering...

One of my minor hobbies is trying to guess where people were born based on small details about them. A fun way of doing this is with langu...

If I had to nominate my favourite aspect of the internet, it's the ability to come across writers with uniquely interesting perspectives...

I know the libertarians like Radley Balko will tell you, and not without some justification, that there's already too much  trust in th...

I logged on to facebook today for the first time in months, and I had to scroll through several pages of updates before coming across the fi...

I ended up watching '500 Days of Summer' the other day. After checking my testes at the door, it actually wasn't that bad. For...

LA passes a law mandating the use of condoms in porn videos . Genius! As if the industry weren't unprofitable enough already, let'...

Mencius Moldbug once opined that for a westerner to not believe in democracy in the 21st century is somewhat akin to not believing in God in...

On televised poker shows, they often display the probability that each player is likely to win the hand. This leads to games being essential...

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Psychological constraints are real constraints. People act as if they're not - because you can't see the process driving them, you s...