PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash

It’s been years since the COVID craziness, the Shamdemic, where people were locked in their homes, forced to wear ineffective masks & get unproven drugs injected into their bodies. Remember, the government fired workers who wouldn’t conform, and the military kicked out thousands of loyal service members. Corporations, under government instruction, also enforced mandates via firings, including...

At some point, cuffing a child, a light tap on the face, back of the hand or buttocks, has not only become unfashionable, the WHO considers it a crime! It’s a sign of the feminization of the West; corporal punishment is condemned because it makes the child momentarily anxious and uncomfortable, and women tend to evade accountability. That huge issue aside, that stance is also incredibly short-sigh...

For a while now, there has been a growing discrepancy between the SAT scores of students who get prep classes and normal students, so-much-so that high scores are more an indication of wealth than of intelligence. It’s allowed because it cannot be prevented, but it makes standardized testing almost useless to rank a mixed cohort of people. Things got worse since the introduction of concentration &...

86% of high schoolers want to be TikTok stars, more so even than wanting to be a professional athlete or pop star, because it doesn’t take anything special to do it. It’s passe for older generations to point out that becoming a fireman, teacher or businessman would be a better goal, and it falls on deaf ears. To a kid who has had pictures taken of them their whole lives, and are inundated with oth...

The much-touted socialization component of public schools actually caused society’s social decay. Public schooling places innocent, naive, immature children into the orbit of incorrigible, sexualized, frankly stupid people, which includes the teachers. And because there is only 1 adult per 30 children, with little interaction, it means the children are using other children as their role models; ch...

The common myth of a man losing his memory of the past so lives a life of innocence & contentment into the future is an appealing one, but it does reveal an unpleasant truth: memories are what make people unhappy. It’s the opposite of how memories are presented in tradition & cultural, where old people die comforted by the families they’ve raised and the lives they’ve lived. Instead, many...

One of the things we are guaranteed by statistics is that everyone is average in most things; it’s determining the things you’re exceptional at that’s difficult. Using statistical terms, the spread of all people on any general item is called a distribution; most things follow a standard distribution, meaning there are as many people above the median, the center line, as below. By definition, 95% o...

We are in another era of snake oil salesmen, most notable is the artificial intelligence craze. The hype has reached historic proportions of claims of it being an existential threat, approaching the heights of climate alarmism. The nature of the danger, we’re told, is that A.I.s will soon become smarter than humans, then take over the world. However, the dystopian, science fiction sounding claim i...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">31% of American voters identify as Democrats. They are an amalgam of old-style Liberals, Progressives, unions, environmentalists, feminists, and the catchall for every other Special Interest group. They tend to be more idealistic, younger, more demonstrative, more ethnic, more culturally diverse, more agnostic, more union, more educated, more public s...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Republicans are just a Party, and there are only two Parties that count so a host of ideologies find themselves under the same umbrella: old-fashioned GOP stalwarts, Tea Partiers & Libertarians. Their only common trait is a belief that you are responsible for yourself & nobody else is responsible for you. There's also varying degrees of “great...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">What do people think of when you say “social programs”? Welfare? Social Security & Medicare? Child Care? Maternity Leave? Caring for those that cannot care for themselves? These are services that private charities did in the past but we are an evolving, mutable society, and placing the burden for our well-being on other individuals violates their...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Democracy is the biggest danger to liberty. As soon as a large enough constituency develops, it votes in its own self-interest, and if combined with no associated responsibility, the exploitation is especially heinous. A pernicious myth in America, in most of the Western World actually, is that a significant portion of the population can be totally co...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I was often accused of being naive about politics and I plead guilty. I simply believed the specious descriptions of the American experience I was taught in grade school, secondary school, college, church, civic holidays, media, peers, and all the other venues where the mythology of political idealism is propagated. The political system, it was implie...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">That last batch was the closest grouping of controversial concepts we've had so far but with an original take:</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">1. The Constitution puts liberty first, making the United States the only liberty nation.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">2. The success of America's Free Marke...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The ultimate in liberty is choosing whether to end your own life. There are all manner of dogmatic reasons that other people use who would like to take this liberty from you: religion, paternalism & selfishness, but that does not assuage the theft of your choice. A handful of States now allow physician-assisted suicide, called “death with dignity,...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Our society assigns relative values to life, liberty & property, and it uses democracy & The Courts to do it, but there are folks who think their value system supersedes the liberty of others. Specifically I'm referring to the unquenchable hysteria surrounding abortion. Since 2% of women of child-bearing age have abortions every year, it's cer...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The 4th Amendment of the Constitution states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.”</p> <p>Thomas Paine said a patriot was “a citizen who protects his country from his government." Americans do not trust government to be...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Right to Privacy is an implied guarantee, not in the Constitution per se. It's one of those derived Rights cobbled together by The Courts from various whimsical passages & obscure references. The reverence people put on privacy is misplaced because it's not about privacy: like all Rights it's a control issue, and privacy is so intimate & perso...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Freedom of Movement is not in the Constitution per se, it's a derived guarantee, meaning The Courts made it up. It bars needing “papers” to move, or denying benefits based on location, gives access to public beaches, and pretty much built the freeway system. It was also used to justify the Disability Act, and is always in the back of the minds of erst...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">There are many examples of people trying to gain control by making an issue about themselves, only the “I'm offended” crowd is the most spectacularly obvious about it. It's a highly effective tactic that immediately coarsens communication because the accused must either go silent, which is of course what the attacker wants, or must fight back, and tha...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Socialist-type thinkers live in a delusion that most people are egalitarian & altruistic, and that a small group of mean & selfish people have co-opted democracy by making the rest of us think voting isn't worth it, so paternalism naturally leads them to think we should be forced to vote for our best interests, because they know what is best f...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Control is about what other people owe you which is why there is always clamor for some new entitlement or Right. For example, if charity was a Right, you would owe them, it wouldn't be your choice. That's why the battle over Rights is so ferocious: if someone can gain the claim to a new Right, power would have to realign to accommodate the new contro...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">One of the Right's whipping boys is “too many government regulations” but their arguments against regulations are unsophisticated & non-specific. The fact is that the success of America's Free Market commerce is primarily a result of carefully crafted regulations. For example, products & services with a high sensitivity to failure or monopoliz...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Our country was founded on the concepts of freedom & liberty: every person can do whatever they please as long as it does not affect another person, and if it does then the conflict goes to the Courts. Total freedom & liberty, however, means every man is an island, without much hope of rebelling against a troop of Girl Scouts, let alone Great...

<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We had an eclectic mix of new concepts this time, let's review:</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">1. America's schizophrenic involvement in Syria's Civil War is a result of pressures from Israel, Saudia Arabia & Turkey.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">2. ISIL's aspirations of establishment of a relig...