December 27, 2016

Frustrated with The Advocate (understandably) not posting Our Views online during these holidays, I want to bloviate here my reaction to a day’s opinions and news. I’ll start with December 27, 2016. Comments on my comments are welcomed.

Our Views: Grace after the flood. Three human needs respecting close quarters: etiquette, privacy, and appreciation. Humans require individual-independence and mutually appreciate the privacy needed to pursue real-no-harm personal interests.

Clemons on Electoral College. Omitted from the metaphor: The reprobates got only 0.11 vote/person whereas the others had 0.5 votes/person. In real life, for a vote with more weight, move to Wyoming. See thegreenpapers.com/Census10/HouseAndElectors.phtml, and calculate Electors/person for each California and Wyoming. IMO, thank goodness California does not rule the USA!

Doyle on parallels. Perhaps these are the times when the right person for president is the one who responds spontaneously to apparent mendacity, relying on humility rather than perfection. In other words, takes the lumps when in error. I perceived Trump as humbly proficient and serene in this speech the day after the final debate:  youtube.com/watch?v=b9n7g8rTiaY .

Dana Millbank. Perhaps it’s time to get a clue: Trump does not give clues.

Thomas Sowell. A liberal-sociologist can decide to prove that concealed-carry is responsible for crime in the USA and design questions and choose respondents to prove the point. However, the statistics the intent-sociologist produces will be void of common sense, and certainly not worth the expense, except to be used to influence believers. Sociology is practically a religion promoted by social democrats. A more proper label for the practice might be: sociology is social statistics. But a people need civic morality (common sense) rather than social morality (conformity to a regime or system).