Swift Reviews: Coming Apart

Coming Apart is the latest book from the highly controversial author, Charles Murray. It is definitely food for thought as well as quite alarming. Murray shows how the upper class and lower class of the United States have diverged in… Continue reading

Jon Stewart on the IRS scandal

While Jon Stewart and The Daily Show certainly lean left, I do appreciate his willingness to make fun of the left when the time calls. With the cornucopia of recent government scandals, this would be the perfect oppurtunity, and he doesn’t disappoint:… Continue reading

DIY Disasters: Part 3

And so we continue. This one’s a bit hard to see, but look carefully at what this door opens into to:

Well at least that’s to code, this is a wee bit more questionable:

At least this one isn’t, umm,… Continue reading

Are Liberals Really Pro-Choice?

So this is a slightly older piece from ReasonTV that took place during the Democratic National Convention, but it is absolutely hilarious. It seems that liberals have a bit of a bad habit of saying they support things they actually… Continue reading

DIY Disasters: Part 2

In my continuing series of things that people did themselves, but should not have (part 1 here), we have a whole host of new ways over zealous people have screwed up some of the most mundane things. Sometimes a… Continue reading

Swift Reviews: Great by Choice

I consider Jim Collins to be the gold standard when it comes to business management literature. He has previously authored the bestselling and highly informative Built to Last, Good to Great and How the Mighty Fall. This time,… Continue reading

“Only Government Can Make the Roads” or However that Argument Goes

Here Stefan Molyneux reads a half hilarious, half infuriating article about almost incomprehensible government incompetence regarding those roads only they can pave (just for the record, private roads  exist today and have existed in all sorts of ways in the past… Continue reading

DIY Disasters: Part 1

For my real job in the non-cyber world, I invest in real estate (yes, it was a bit hairy circa 2007) in Kansas City. While I’m no fan of licences and permit laws (John Stossel and Walter Williams have a… Continue reading

The Sugar Scam

So sugar is horrible for your health. And what does our wonderful government do? Of course, it massively subsidizes sugar which increases the prices of sugar for all of us so much it incentivizes the use of things like corn syrup… Continue reading

5 Really Depressing Charts

Here’s the first one:

You can find the rest here at www.ecominoes.com.

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