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The Hidden Message of the Scream Movies: Victimhood Is Toxic
powered by Surfing Waves Every October I binge watch scary movies. I’d never describe myself as a horror movie “fan,” but you can bet that when the autumn colors are in full bloom and pumpkins begin popping up around the neighborhood, I’m watching Silver Bullet , The Shining , The Exorcist , and maybe even some hokey slasher films like Friday the 13th. I don’t remember when this tradition started, or why. A perennial favorite is Scream and its three sequels (and an MTV series that ran between 2015 and 2019 th…
3 Environmental Doomsday Myths, Debunked
powered by Surfing Waves For many, thinking about the future of our planet is terrifying. According to a global survey reported by the BBC, 56 percent of young people believe that humanity is doomed because of climate change and 45 percent say that their anxiety about the climate affects their daily lives. Here in the US, the story is much the same ; three-quarters of Americans believe that climate change will result in the extinction of man, and one in five millennials believe that that extinction will occur w…
Facebook Should Stage Regular Outages to Awaken Its Clueless Critics
powered by Surfing Waves In his excellent new memoir , An Especially Good View , Peter Osnos writes of how he was viewed as the “Best Dressed” reporter at the Washington Post . This designation proved challenging once he was posted to the newspaper’s Moscow bureau. Suits taken to the cleaners came back without buttons. Shoes taken to the cobbler had nails coming up through the insoles. And getting a haircut was a non-starter. The famously well-put-together Osnos was reduced to having his wife cut his …
The Distorted Market for Woke Capitalism
powered by Surfing Waves The founder of modern economics, Adam Smith, was no fan of the merchants of his time. He regarded them as among the most responsible for how “the mercantile system,” as Smith called it, accorded legal privileges to politically connected producers over the interests of consumers. Nor did Milton Friedman have a particularly sympathetic view of the business leaders of late-twentieth-century America. “The two greatest enemies of free enterprise in the United States,” he wrote , “have …
Joseph and Esther Reed: Two Reeds I Want to be Related To
powered by Surfing Waves Anyone who has ever dabbled in genealogy knows that as you go back into family history, the answers to one question always lead to several more—more questions , that is. Genealogy may be the only area of study in which (excuse the joke) “Everything is relative.” Frustrating, too. Using a popular, online ancestry service, I submitted to a DNA test and learned that I am 49 percent Scottish, 28 percent “Germanic Europe,” 8 percent Irish, 8 percent English and 7 percent Norwegian. No big su…
Coal and oil continue domination: Unexpected demand creates global energy havoc
powered by Surfing Waves Coal is no longer the king. Era of Oil is over. Our economies will be Carbon neutral. These are some of the common claims that you might have heard or read in the mainstream media. Many people truly believe that our economies are being decarbonized and getting rid of the dirty coal and evil oil. This is because they have been informed so. However, the ground reality is strikingly different. Not only are fossil fuels still leading the energy mix, their prospects are stronger than ever. …
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