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Best Things of 2025

2025-09-20T18:23:12Z

Rasmusen p1vaim:

See also [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=Best_Things_of_2024 Best Things of 2024] and [[Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2023]] and [[Best Articles 2021]] and [[Top Ten Articles of 2025]].

# <li value="1"> Rouen Cathedral.

# <li value="2"> French food-- restaurants, coffee, grocery stores, bakeries, pastry shops, fishmongers, butchers.

# Leather backpacks-- Marius one.

#[https://www.amazon.com/Scotch-Single-Super-Glue-AD119/dp/B00342VCGM/ref=asc_df_B00342VCGM?mcid=930b08647c80353089b2221d97a80cf7&hvocijid=903390782445903972-B00342VCGM-&hvexpln=73&tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=721245378154&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=903390782445903972&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9016563&hvtargid=pla-2281435177818&th=1 Gel Superglue], which doesn't run onto everything.

#Weimar, game of 1920's German politics

#Soviet Dawn: THe Russian Civil War 1918-1921 solitaire wargame

#Becherel, like Hay on Wye, a bookstore town.

#Shepherds for Sale by Megan Basham

# [https://logeion.uchicago.edu/ https://logeion.uchicago.edu/] Classical and Koine Greek lexicon

#Le Helianthe restaurant in Turquant, Anjou.

# Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb party (1980) is a novel by the English novelist Graham Greene.

#Taste Chinese restaurant in West Lafayette, Indiana.

#The Office

#Built-in GPS in cars-- Dacia and our BMW, and Tesla.

# Travelling in Europe with a Two-Year-Old.

# The New Board of Trustees

#Sleeping in airplanes sitting up

#French roadside "aires"

Movies

2025-08-29T00:10:24Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Movies to Watch */

==Movies Seen==
*''The Surprising World of Cold Cuts'', History Channel, very good.

*''The Imitation Game'', about Alan Turing. Quite false to history, but pretty good.

*Korean dramas Anna and Stranger. Modern dramas, not historical, but still good. Anna (2022) is about a girl who pretends to be a rich girl she meets; Stranger about prosecutors fighting corruption. Both are gripping.

*''Kung Fu Hustle'' (2005). A comedy about a slum tenement warring against the Ax Gang. Pretty good. Cartoonish, which helps with the violence a lot-- sort of Road Runner style. Could be watched twice or more.

*''The Great Gatsby'' movie with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow (1974). Faithful to the book.

*''Hum Do Hamare Do'' (''Two of Us, Two of Ours'') (2021). A sentimental, Hindi comedy with a predictable ending. An orphan software guy needs to come up with temporary parents.

*''Toy Story II'' (1999). Okay, but not up to the standard of ''Toy Story I.''

==Movies to Watch==
*Films as good as or better than the novels, ranked here according to the brilliance of the FILM:
1''. How Green Was My Valley
2. To Kill a Mockingbird
3. The Bridge on the River Kwai
4. ''Doctor Zhivago''
5. ''Billy Budd''
6. Barabbas
7. Great Expectations
8. A Room With a View
9. The Good Earth
10. The Yearling''

*''Tiger and Crane.'' "In the show, Tiangang Hall’s function is to train demon hunters, and it proudly proclaims how righteous it is. It is governed by copious rules, and a Byzantine bureaucracy, all in the further pursuit of the righteous slaying of demons. Without spoiling too much, some of the protagonists begin to suspect that one of the senior figures is, in fact, a demon in disguise. The protagonists have five days to find out the truth."

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30j0jnk549I The Kid], silent, with Charlie Chaplin.

*[https://x.com/megbasham/status/1931922706892534046 TV sows Meg Bashms followers recommends:] ''The Gentleman from Moscow, FROM. Dark, Ballykissangel; Monarch of the Glen. Patriot. Department Q. Ludwig. Vikings. A Hostile Takeover'' (church show)

*''Sweeney TOdd.''

*"There’s this fantastic scene in '''Mephisto,''' the film, about an actor who remains in aggrandized Nazi Germany, greater Germany under the Nazis. He goes on stage and the Nazis rule there, so there are swastikas on the curtains and other indications of the Nazi regime. Someone asks him — this is Klaus Maria Brandauer, the actor who plays the part, just a fantastic film — someone says, “How come you’re doing this, and how come you didn’t leave?”

*''Conspiracy''

*''A Fistful of Dollars''

*Yojimbo

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dil_Se.. Dil Se] famous song.

*The Piano Man

*The Roommate."When college freshman Sara arrives on campus for the first time, she befriends her roommate, Rebecca, unaware that the girl is becoming dangerously obsessed with her."

* In the 1996 film ''Big Night'', culinary genius Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and his ambitious and
entrepreneurial maître d’hotel brother Secondo (Stanley Tucci) are Italian immigrant brothers
who arrive in the U.S. in the 1950s and open a restaurant called Paradise on the New Jersey
shore. Despite serving brilliant and impeccably prepared dishes, the restaurant is out-competed
by its enormously successful neighbor, Pascal’s, which caters to the unsophisticated palates of
the locals by serving massive portions of mediocre food.112 Among the most amusing vignettes
in the film are the constant efforts by Secondo to induce his perfectionist brother to cater to the
unrefined culinary tastes of the boors of the local population.

*''The Blue Max'' and ''Paths of Glory'' nad the 1930 and 1979 ''All Quiet on the Wstern Front'' are recommnded wwI movies.

*''The Zone of Interest'' is what you don’t see: the Jews, the harsh labor, the gas chambers. director Jonathan Glazer parachutes us into the bucolic world adjacent to the world of Auschwitz-Birkenau: the villa inhabited by commandant Rudolf Höss; his wife, Hedwig; and their five children. They’re an upper-middle-class German family doing ordinary things—eating dinner, going to school, going to bed, having a drink—while an extraordinary evil is perpetrated next door.

*''Days of WIne and Roses''

* ''American Fiction'' the story of a hyperintellectual black writer, played by Jeffrey Wright, whose books sell poorly since he doesn’t fit the white liberal view of what a black writer should be. His books are categorized in bookstores as “black writing,” even though the topics aren’t particularly “black” at all,

*"Compared to other historical K-dramas, '''Moon Embracing the Sun''' does a stunning job at making sure that the costumes, set, and even cinematography truly reflect the time period it's in. The story also flowed flawlessly and didn't cause viewers to get bored and tired of its narrative." https://screenrant.com/best-k-dramas-historical-period-piece-ranked/#love-in-the-moonlight-2016

*"The 2015 historical K-drama and medieval TV show, '''Six Flying Dragons''' is seen as a loose prequel to the 2011 drama, Deep Rooted Tree. This is due to the storyline focused on real fictional characters and their foundations in the rise of the Joseon Dynasty. That being said, Six Flying Dragons exceeded its predecessor in terms of its critical acclaim." Ben saw this, I think.

*'''Love in the Moonlight,''' "a scholar named Hong Ra-On gives men dating advice by posing as a eunuch. Eventually, she meets the crown prince who soon gets invested in her."

*''Double Indemnity''

*''The Best Years of Our Lives'' SEE

*''Witness for the Prosecution'' SEE

*[https://movieweb.com/quintessential-french-comedy-films/#la-grande-vadrouille-the-great-stroll-1966 Quintissential French Comedy Films] list, well described.

*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ Steve Sailer on the psychology article on the Big 5 Personality Traits and what movies people like], a very good article in ''Taki'''s (2020). Based on "We Are What We Watch: Movie Plots Predict the Personalities of Those who “Like” Them," Gideon Nave, Marketing Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Jason Rentfrow,Social & Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge, and Sudeep Bhatia. See Supplementary Table 1.

* ''Birth of a Nation (''1915).

*Great old 1946 movie ("''The Stranger''", Orson Welles & Edgar G Robinson)

*https://oldmovietime.com/ and the [https://oldmovietime.com/spellbound.htm better Oldmovietime.com site]

* 1947 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_(1947_film) ''New Orleans'', w]ith BIlly Holiday and Louis Armstrong.

*Leonard Bernstein's classic music TV series.

*''Kiss Me Kate''(not on Amazon Prime)

*The Death of Stalin.

*''Bowfinger King OF Hollywood,'' Steve Martin, eddi Murphy around 9199. (not on Amazon Prime) BOUGHT

* Stnaely Tucci on Italy travel TV show.

*''Crimes of Grundelwald'' looks pretty good. (not on Amazon Prime)
* Polyanna book and the Hallmark movie, not the Disney one.(not on Amazon Prime)

*''The Dam BUsters''
*''Downfall'' (about HItler's last 10 days) and The Last Days of Hitler (Alec Guiness) and The Bunker (Anthony Hopkins) and Valkyrie (assassination plot).

*''Hacksaw Ridge''
*''All QUite on the Western Fron t''(1930)

===To Watch with the Kids===
*''Doctor Strangelove''

*''Free Burma Rangers'', Patrick Scott recommended.

*''2001: A Space Odyssey''

*Cixin Liu’s science fiction masterpiece The Three Body Problem— , the 30-episode Chinese series (available free with Amazon Prime as ''Three Body'')

*The world at War 1973 documentary Lawrence Olivier

*BIll Murray ''Scrooged'' Not worth rewatching.

*"Meet me in St. Louis." The 1944 Judy Garland film is a romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters, and it's rarely met a disapproving critic with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.

*''"A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas"''

*''Chrstimas with the Kranks.''

*''T34'' See that. With Ben. On You-TUbe, with ads.

* 1941 Bill murray JohN Belushi comedy.

* ''The Munsters.''

*''The Duellists'' (1978) follows two rival French officers through the Napoleonic Wars. A minor insult sets off a decades-long series of duels between the men, neither willing to abandoned his honor.

*''Excalibur'' (1981) condenses several Arthurian legends into a single spectacular epic. One of the most hypnotic and visionary films of all time.

*''The Lady Eve'' (1941) an extremely funny romantic comedy about a beautiful card shark trying to seduce a bumbling millionaire.

*''Russian Ark'' (2002) follows a ghost and his long-dead aristocrat companion through the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, bouncing through several hundred years of shared history and culture. Innovative and beautiful; shot in a single take

*''Брат (Brother)'' follows a recently-discharged Russian conscript as he moves to the big city in Yeltsin-era Russia to follow his hitman brother.Брат 2 (2000) picks up immediately where the first film left off, with the conscript and his brother embarking on a twisted adventure to the South Side of Chicago.

*''Hail the Conquering Hero'' (1944) is about a good-hearted dockworker unable to fight in WW2 due to hayfever, but too ashamed to go home. He is befriended by a squad of recently-returned Marines, whose scheme to return him to his family without losing face quickly snowballs.

*''Unknown Soldier'' (2017) tells the largely-ignored story of the Continuation War, a massive conflict between Finland and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1941-1944. Probably the most realistic depiction of WW2 era infantry combat ever filmed.

*''In the Line of Fire'' (1993) is a thriller in which Clint Eastwood faces off against John Malkovich.
Eastwood plays the sole remaining agent from JFK's secret-service detail. He's tasked with stopping an ex-CIA agent from killing the President.

*''The Counselor'' (2013) was Cormac McCarthy's first ever work for the screen.
It was universally panned by critics. I liked it so much I bought the screenplay.
One must judge the movie on its own terms, rather than expecting "No Country for Old Men 2." It is profound.

*''Maverick'' (1994) is a cocky western comedy starring Mel Gibson as a fast-talking and cowardly gambler trying to scrape together enough money to enter a once-in-a-lifetime poker tournament. Pretty bad. Not worth watching.

*1962 version.(not on Amazon Prime)

==Documentaries==
=== The Battle of the Somme===
Official documentary. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlbdNq1UCE On You-Tube].

==Bajirao Mastani==
Great Maga King Dance, about a Marathi warrior king. (not on Amazon Prime)

==Citizen Kane==
[https://screenrant.com/citizen-kane-best-movie-all-time-why/ "Why Citizen Kane Is Called The Greatest Movie Ever Made"] (2022), a good article.

==Life is Beautiful==
A movie about a father making life better for his child in a Nazi camp. Recommended by friends.

==Our Man in Havana==
A 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Carol Reed, and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs.[2][3][4] The film is adapted from the 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene. (not on Amazon Prime). On You-Tube.

==The Goodies==
(not on Amazon Prime) Available on You-Tube.

==Greyhound==
Forester's THe Good Shepherd put on film. BilL Reilly highly recommends (the tax guy). (not on Amazon Prime)

==Kampf um Rom==
"A 1964 German epic, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampf_um_Rom Kampf Um Rom,] complete with Narses as a dwarf, Justinian played by Orson Welles, stock scenes of Byzantine decadence, and Goths in black leather."(not on Amazon Prime) Not on You-tube with subtitles in English.

==Kurosawa==
{{Quotation| Several prominent directors of Samurai films and Westerns in the 1950s and 60s shared a mutual admiration and openly made their art with direct reference to one another. In Akira Kurosawa’s brilliant movie Yojimbo, for instance, a masterless samurai played by the sublime Toshiro Mifune is standing at a crossroads and throws a stick up in the air to “decide” which direction to go. The scene is a direct reference to the John Ford film Young Mr. Lincoln, in which Ford’s version of the American president does the exact same thing. The Western remake of Kurosawa’s classic The Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven. In fact, the mutual “admiration” between purveyors of the two genres became so intimate that Kurosawa was forced to sue Sergio Leone over the movie A Fistful of Dollars, which was clearly a plagiarized version of Yojimbo by Leone. }} --[https://lawliberty.org/the-embarrassing-eleven/ https://lawliberty.org/the-embarrassing-eleven/], 2020

==Created Equal (Clarence Thomas documentary)==
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10256238/ Created Equal,] the Clarence Thomas documentary by Mr. Pack, is extremely good. Very simple, low budget. The family went over to Bob's House to watch it with him.

==Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)==
#2 - Godzilla vs Destoroyah (second best Godzilla movie)
"It’s impossible to decide what’s most memorable about this final film of the Heisei era. Is it Godzilla’s stunning new “Burning Godzilla” appearance? Could it be the many clever callbacks and references to the original 1954 film? Or maybe it’s the ghastly design of Destoroyah, one of Big G’s all-time scariest opponents? Or perhaps it’s the fact that Godzilla Jr. finally emerges as a decent character? The truth is, it’s all of those things, plus so much more. But what makes this existential epic truly worthy of classic status is its profoundly emotional ending. For the first time in history, you’ll find yourself sobbing in a Godzilla movie as the final credits roll. Compassionately directed by Takao Okawara, “Godzilla vs. Destoroyah” elevates the kaiju genre to the level of Greek tragedy."https://variety.com/lists/godzilla-movies-ranked/godzilla-final-wars-2004/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s

==Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)==
"Here’s a valuable tip for you. Never, under any circumstances, trust a race of sunglass-wearing aliens from Planet X when they arrive on Earth asking to “borrow” Godzilla and Rodan for a little while. One of the all-time craziest sci-fi themed entries in the franchise, this sixth Godzilla movie has a lot going for it, especially the welcome presence of American actor Nick Adams, playing a cocky astronaut who shows the pleather-clad extraterrestrials who’s boss. Adams was no stranger to kaiju movies, having costarred in Toho’s giant monster pic “Frankenstein Conquers the World” shortly before appearing in “Invasion of Astro-Monster.”"

https://variety.com/lists/godzilla-movies-ranked/godzilla-final-wars-2004/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s\

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==Jab We Met (2006) Bollywood (not on Amazon Prime) ==
Very good.

==The Last Man==
"Let's do a film recommendation. F.W. Murnau's 1924 film Der Letzte Mann - which means The Last Man (this side of Twitter's ears perk up), but for whatever reason is called Last Laugh in English. Hitchcock called it a "perfect film."" Silent movie. Emil Janning.

==The Lives of Others==
its depiction of East German speech codes and surveillance state, is probably the most relevant movie around today. Very very good.

== Return to Mayberry==
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091846/?ref_=nmbio_mbio Return to Mayberry], TV Movie(1986).1h 35m

But see The Andy Griffith Show Reunion: Back to Mayberry on YouTube-- interivew ith 4 big people.
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==The Producers==
(not on Amazon Prime)(not on You-Tube)

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==AlphaGo: The Movie==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WXuK6gekU1Y AlphaGo] is a You-Tube documentary about Go.

==State Funeral==
Netherlands, Lithuania, 2019
Documentary, History
155 minutes
Russian
On Stalin's funeral. (not on Amazon Prime) (not on You-Tube)

==Fauci Unmasked, ==
@michaeljknowles
documentary series Fauci Unmasked, (not on You-Tube)
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==Winifried Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975==
In 1975 Syberberg released 'Winifried Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975' - a documentary about Winifred Wagner, wife of Richard Wagner's son Siegfried. (not on You-Tube)

Quotations

2025-08-07T00:25:21Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Glantz, David (reported by) */

==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

*[https://jezebel.com/on-the-origin-of-certain-quotable-african-proverbs-1766664089 "On the Origin of Certain Quotable 'African Proverbs' "], Jia Tolentino ( /23/16).

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==Anonymous==
*"Crescat scientia; vita excolatur (“Let knowledge grow from more to more, and so be human life enriched”) The motto of the University of Chicago.

*"What other people think of me is none of my business.”

*"Do you have 10 years of experience, or are you just living the same year at your job 10 times over? There is a major difference." [https://twitter.com/randomrecruiter/status/1690753402014232576 @randomrecruiter] (2023)

*"I am reminded of a woman who graduated from MIT in 1987 and became a VC. She was the first member of her extended family, French Canadians from the backwoods of Maine, to go to college. The class at the time was ca. 15% female. I asked her about her social life as an undergrad.

::"The odds were good, but the goods were odd" was her reply about the male Beavers at the time.

*"VOCATUS ATQUA NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." (CALLED OR NOT CALLED, GOD IS PRESENT.)

*"The rich man smokes the same sort of cigarettes as the poor man, shaves with the same sort of razor, uses the same sort of telephone, vacuum cleaner, radio, and TV set, has the same sort of lighting and heating equipment in his house, and so on indefinitely. The differences between his automobile and the poor man’s are minor. Essentially they have similar engines, similar fittings. In the early years of the century there was a hierarchy of automobiles." (''Harper's Magazine'' [1957])

*"Conservatives view themselves as underdogs because they are, especially culturally. Liberals view themselves underdogs because although in charge of every significant human institution they have set themselves the impossible egalitarian task of waging war against nature and reality itself - so when results inevitably conflict with their egalitarian ideology - when racial gaps, poverty, sex differences, inequality etc persist - they blame reactionary forces rather than nature (reality)." ''Twitter'' (2023).

*The Hillary defense:
:I didn’t do it.
:You can’t prove it.
:Everybody does it.
:He did it.
:You're just a racist.
:It's old news.
:What difference, at this point, does it make?

*The Russian Teapot defense:
:It isn’t broken
:If it is broken, I didn’t do it
:If I did do it, it was no good anyway

*A canon of legal interpretation: "Specialia generalibus non derogant". Special things don't derogate from the general rule.

* “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement , il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." [https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa as written by Jomini] (1827).

*When everything works fine, they wonder why they hired you. When everything stops working, they wonder why they hired you.
:I.T. in a nutshell.

*“I don't drink, or cuss, or chew; and I don't go out with girls that do.”

*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*"The plural of outlier is out-and-out-liar".

*"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth".

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*[https://allaboutfrench.com/qui-se-ressemble-sassemble "Qui se ressemble s'assemble"]

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,"as quoted in ''A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own. "

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain".This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan.

It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.

Women will always and forever rely on men.}}

{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==Adams, John==
*"It is dangerous to open So fruitfull a Source of Controversy and Altercation, as would be opened by attempting to alter the Qualifications of Voters. There will be no End of it. New Claims will arise. Women will demand a Vote. Lads from 12 to 21 will think their Rights not enough attended to, and every Man, who has not a Farthing, will demand an equal Voice with any other in all Acts of State." [https://buff.ly/3rFhAzP "From John Adams to James Sullivan"] (26 May 1776).

==Adams, Scott==
*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

*[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1577277568310341632 Twitter, October 4, 2022]:"Elon Musk took control of the Ukraine/Russia endgame by writing the first draft in bullet form and drawing all attention to it.

:You just learned one of the most powerful persuasion techniques in the modern world: Write the first draft and keep it simple."

*I’m not worried about climate change because any species that can predict the average temperature a hundred years in advance won’t have trouble handling it.

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==The African Queen==
Charlie Allnut: What are you being so mean for, Miss? A man takes a drop too much once in a while, it's only human nature.
Rose Sayer : Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.

See [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043265/characters/nm0000031 the IMDB quote page.]

==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.”
Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Allred, Austen==
*"Job descriptions should be strongly opinionated, and should both attract the people you’d want to work with while repelling those you wouldn’t."(Twitter 2023)

==Amin, Idi==
*"There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech."

==Anderson, Robert==
*"It would be nice if people would put (D) or (R) in their profiles so I know whether to retweet or ratio them without having to do a bunch of reading." Twitter (2024).

==Andreessen, Mark==
*"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

*Whitepill #14: Every day, two lists get longer: The things you believe but can't say, and the things you don't believe but must say. (Twitter, 2022)

==Aquinas, Thomas==
*"Nevertheless, sacred doctrine makes use of these authorities as extrinsic and probable arguments; but properly uses the authority of the canonical Scriptures as an incontrovertible proof, and the authority of the doctors of the Church as one that may properly be used, yet merely as probable. For our faith rests upon the revelation made to the apostles and prophets who wrote the canonical books, and not on the revelations (if any such there are) made to other doctors. Hence Augustine says (Epis. ad Hieron. xix, 1): 'Only those books of Scripture which are called canonical have I learned to hold in such honor as to believe their authors have not erred in any way in writing them. But other authors I so read as not to deem everything in their works to be true, merely on account of their having so thought and written, whatever may have been their holiness and learning'" (Summa Theologica,. Part 1, Q. 1, Art. 8).

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
*“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

*"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

*"The other environmental risk factors for schizophrenia are equally hard to change. Poverty? Okay, don’t be poor, thanks for the important life advice. Social defeat? “Doctor, are you saying I have to never let anyone defeat me?” “Yes, it’s my official medical recommendation that you become invincible.” " [https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/its-fair-to-describe-schizophrenia "It's Fair To Describe Schizophrenia As Probably Mostly Genetic"] (Jan. 31, 2024).

==Auden==
*On Kierkegaard:“The Danish Lutheran Church may have been as worldly as Kierkegaard thought it was, but if it had not existed he would never have heard of the Gospels, in which he found the standards by which he condemned it.”

==Augustine==
*“Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave, and that not of one man, but, what is far more grievous, of as many masters as he has vices” (''City of God'', Book IV)

*"If they shall be deprived of all good, they shall no longer be. So long, therefore, as they are, they are good; therefore whatsoever is, is good. That evil, then, which I sought whence it was, is not any substance; for were it a substance, it would be good. For either it would be an incorruptible substance, and so a chief good, or a corruptible substance, which unless it were good it could not be corrupted. I perceived, therefore, and it was made clear to me, that Thou didst make all things good, nor is there any substance at all that was not made by Thee; and because all that Thou hast made are not equal, therefore all things are; because individually they are good, and altogether very good, because our God made all things very good." ''Confessions'', Book 7, chapter 12.

== ==
==Balfour, Arthur==
*“The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which, for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.”

==Bankman-Fried, Sam ==
“...this dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shiboleths and so everyone likes us.” --
"[https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropy Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself]: The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way," ''Vox,'' Kelsey Piper (Nov. 16, 2022).

==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
*“Eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

==The Bible==
*“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” Proverbs 15:1.

*"All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits." Proverbs 16:2.

*"The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Proverbs 16:4.

*"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps." Proverbs 16:9.

==Boghossian, Peter==
*"If a thing's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well." (''Unherd'' panel interview, 2024, ''You-Tube'').

==Booth, William (Salvation Army founder)==
*Asked about the chief dangers for the 20th century, Salvatio Army founder Booth [https://rlhymersjr.com/Online_Sermons/2007/090907_OldEvangelicalismReview.html said], “Religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God and heaven without hell.”

==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

==Bloom, Harold==
*[https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/19/harold-bloom-on-the-school-of-resentment/ Harold Bloom on his agon with “The School of Resentment.”] From [https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2225/the-art-of-criticism-no-1-harold-bloom his 1991 interview with The Paris Review.]:
When I was a young man back in the fifties starting out on what was to be my career, I used to proclaim that my chosen profession seemed to consist of secular clergy or clerisy. I was thinking, of course, of the highly Anglo-Catholic New Criticism under the sponsorship or demigodness of T. S. Eliot. But I realized in latish middle age that, no better or worse, I was surrounded by a pride of displaced social workers, a rabblement of lemmings, all rushing down to the sea carrying their subject down to destruction with them. The school of resentment is an extraordinary sort of mélange of latest-model feminists, Lacanians, that whole semiotic cackle, latest-model pseudo-Marxists, so-called New Historicists, who are neither new nor historicist, and third generation deconstructors, who I believe have no relationship whatever to literary values. . . .

It is tiresome to be encountering myths called “The Social Responsibility of the Critic” or “The Political Responsibility of the Critic.” I would rather walk into a bookstore and find a book called “The Aesthetic Responsibilities of the Statesman,” or “The Literary Responsibilities of the Engineer.” Criticism is not a program for social betterment, not an engine for social change. I don’t see how it possibly could be. . . .

What else is there like Invisible Man? Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God has a kind of superior intensity and firm control. It’s a very fine book indeed. It surprised and delighted me when I first read it and it has sustained several rereadings since. But that and Invisible Man are the only full scale works of fiction I have read by American blacks in this century that have survival possibilities at all. Alice Walker is an extremely inadequate writer, and I think that is giving her the best of it. A book like The Color Purple is of no aesthetic interest or value whatsoever, yet it is exalted and taught in the academies. It clearly is a time in which social and cultural guilt has taken over. . . .

I’m not terribly fond of feminist criticism. The true test is to find work, whether in the past or present, by women writers that we had undervalued, and thus bring it to our attention and teach us to study it more closely or more usefully. By that test they have failed, because they have added not one to the canon. The women writers who mattered—Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and others who have always mattered on aesthetic grounds—still matter. I do not appreciate Elizabeth Bishop or May Swenson any more or less than I would have appreciated them if we had no feminist literary criticism at all.

==Bowles, Michael==
“Construction is a matter of backing yourself into a corner and then fighting your way out.”

==Bukowski, Charles==
*“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence.”

==Burke, Edmund==
* “When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770).

*"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Misattributed. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/12/04/good-men-do/ Quote Investigator.]

==Butler, Samuel (1613-1680)==
. 
He that complies against his Will, 
Is of his own Opinion still. 
(from ''Hudibras'')
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== ==
==CANNON, William==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Caplan, Bryan==
*"When a normal utilitarian concludes that mass murder would maximize social utility, he checks his work! He goes over his calculations with a fine-tooth comb, hoping to discover a way to implement beneficial policy changes without horrific atrocities. The Leninist, in contrast, reasons backwards from the atrocities that emotionally inspire him to the utilitarian argument that morally justifies his atrocities." [https://betonit.substack.com/p/the_roots_of_lehtml The roots of Leninism] (2012)

==Carlin, George==
*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that."

==Carver, George Washington==
*“When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well, George, that's more nearly your size.’

==Carville, James==
*“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”

==St. Charbel Makhlouf==
*[https://www.lightbook.org/53-best-saint-charbel-quotes.html "Your weakness is to be overcome, not to be used as a pilgrimage."]

==Charles III of the United Kingdom==
* 2011 as he [https://www.royal.uk/clarencehouse/speech/speech-hrh-prince-wales-king-james-bible-trust-reception addressed the King James Bible Trust:] “I’ve never really understood who it was that decided that, for people who aren’t very good at reading, the best things to read are those written by people who aren’t very good at writing!”

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*"Chesterton's Fence", 1929 book, ''The Thing,'' “The Drift from Domesticity”:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to challenge his reformist son-in-law. Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” }}

*A man can pretend to be wise; a man cannot pretend to be witty.

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*"
If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization."

*"
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it"--Autobiography

*{{Quotation|We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

==Chicago, University of==
*The University of Chicago's motto is "Crescat scientia; vita excolatur," which means,"Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched."

==Chrysostom, John==
*"Should you hear any one in the public thoroughfare, or in the midst of the forum, blaspheming God; go up to him and rebuke him; and should it be necessary to inflict blows, spare not to do so. Smite him on the face; strike his mouth; sanctify your hand with the blow, and if any should accuse you, and drag you to the place of justice, follow them there; and when the judge on the bench calls you to account, say boldly that the man blasphemed the King of angels! For if it be necessary to punish those who blaspheme an earthly king, much more so those who insult God" ('On the Statues', 1).

== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Coleridge, Samuel==
*"I, for one, do not the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, laws, government, blood — identity in these makes men of one country." ''Table Talk'', May 29, 1830.

==Comfort, Ray==
“Atheists don’t hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don’t exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists — like the painting experts hated the painter — hate God because He does exist.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Covey, Stephen==
*"If you want to get something done, give it to a busy man."

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [--Twitter, 2021]}}

== ==

==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in First THings, 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, ''The Information'')

==Descartes==
See [[Descartes]]
*"Bene qui latuit, bene vixit."
*"He lives well who lies well hidden." I like the English version better. What is it in French? Ovid, Descartes.

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==Dio Cassius==
*"Although he was very practised as a writer of prose and verse and very skilled in all the arts, yet he always mocked the teachers of all the arts on the grounds that he was more learned than they, and despised and humiliated them. With these same [p. 74] professors and philosophers he often competed, taking turns to publish books or poems. Once, indeed, a word used by FavorinusFootnote58 was criticized by Hadrian. Favorinus yielded, which provoked some very agreeable amusement. He was wrong to concede to Hadrian, his friends charged him, over a word which reputable authors had used. ‘You don’t give me good advice, my friends,’ said Favorinus, ‘when you don’t allow me to believe the man who possesses thirty legions to be more learned than anyone else!’ " From [https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/hadrians-rome/content-section-5.1 Birley, A. (trans.) (1976) Lives of the Later Caesars, London, Penguin, pp. 57–87.]

<pre>
To the poet Florus,Footnote61 who wrote to him:

I do not want to be Caesar,
To walk about among the Britons,
To ensure the Scythian hoar-frosts,

he wrote back:

I do not want to be Florus,
To walk about among taverns,
To lurk about among cook-shops,
To put up with the round insects.
</pre>

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
*"Making a mistake is a net positive if you learn more from it than it cost you."

{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

*"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dornbusch, Rudiger==
*"The crisis takes a much longer time coming than you think, and then it happens much faster than you would have thought" (on exchange rate crises)

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

== ==

==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==Einstein, Albert==
"in 1952 he wrote a letter to his friend and fellow physicist Max Born where he admits that even if the astronomical data had gone against general relativity, he would still believe in the theory:"

`Even if there were absolutely no light deflection, no perihelion motion and no redshift, the gravitational equations would still be convincing because they avoid the inertial system... It is really quite strange that humans are usually deaf towards the strongest arguments, while they are constantly inclined to overestimate the accuracy of measurement.'
([https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-einsteins-unification-by-jeroen? "John Psmith" 2024)

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Esolen, Anthony==
*"Bee as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves, says the Lord.

:The converse is what we have now in our elites, in Church, State, education, etc.: People in charge who are as dopey as pigeons, and as malignant as snakes." (Twitter, 2024)

== ==

==Faulkner, William==
*“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feser, Ed==
*"If a doctor says “This is what lung cancer involves, please stop smoking,” no one accuses him of wanting the patient to suffer. But if a theologian says “This is what damnation involves, please stop sinning,” he is accused of wanting people to go to hell." ([https://twitter.com/FeserEdward/status/1665881489354162177 Twitter, 2023])

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
*Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies" "I am the spirit who always says no." Faust part I.

*"I am the spirit that always says no. And how right I am! For surely It’s right that everything that comes to be Should cease to be. And so they do. Still better Would be nothing ever was. Hence sin And havoc and ruin—all you call evil, in sum— For me’s the element in which I swim.”

<pre>"Werd ich zum Augenblicke sagen:
Verweile doch! du bist so schön!
Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen,
Dann will ich gern zugrunde gehn!
</pre>
Faust, Part I. When I to a moment say, Stay a while! You are so fair! Then you may enslave my soul, then I will submit to you. Or something like that.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==Goodstein, David==
"1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

Perhaps it will be wise to approach the subject cautiously. We will begin by considering the simplest meaningful example, the perfect gas, in order to get the central concepts sorted out." ( States of Matter (1985); see https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1651559339067310081)

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*[https://x.com/paulg/status/1874590418463330489 TWITTER:] "A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next."

*"Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign flipped." (2024, X).

*"If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn't written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial." [http://www.paulgraham.com/words.html "Putting Ideas into Words"] (2022).

*"A rare counterexample to the principle of specialization: your site should never seem like it was made by communications people, and the best way to achieve this is for it not to be. This is something founders should continue to micromanage forever."[https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1654765304184971264 Twitter] (2023) ]

*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)

==Grandin, Temple==
*Temple Grandin wrote in ''The Way I See It,'' a book on the experience of autism: "What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done."
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hamblin, Jacob==
*Jacob Hamblin’s "Rules for Dealing with the Indians" from ''Jacob Hamblin among the Indians'' by James Little.

1. I never talk anything but the truth to them.

2. I think it useless to speak of things they cannot comprehend.

3. I strive by all means to never let them see me in a passion.

4. Under no circumstances show fear, thereby showing to them that I have a sound heart and a straight tongue.

5. Never approach them in an austere manner nor use more words than are necessary to convey my ideas, not in a higher tone of voice than to be distinctly heard.

6. Always listen to them when they wish to tell of their grievances, and redress their wrongs, however trifling they may be if possible. If I cannot I let them know I have a desire to do so.

7. I never allow them to hear me use profane or obscene language or take any unbecoming course with them.

8. I never submit to any unjust demands or submit to coercion under any circumstances, thereby showing them that I govern and am governed by the rule of right not by might.

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

==Hart, Daryl==
"D. G. Hart says:
January 12, 2017 at 10:52 am
Zrim, Nero did not violate God’s law if he executed Christians who obeyed God rather than man. If Paul continued to preach after the emperor said he may not, then Nero was doing what God ordained government to do. Christians don’t get a pass from civil law just because they follow a higher law. John Brown is no Christian hero." [https://oldlife.org/2017/01/04/is-donald-trump-mainstreaming-apostasy/#comment-151575 Comments on a blog post of his own] (2017).

==Herrnstein, Robert==
:"Dick recalled the day when, as a young man, he had been awarded tenure. It was his dream fulfilled -- a place in the university he so loved, the chance to follow his research wherever it took him, economic security. For Dick, being a tenured professor at Harvard was not just the perfect job, but the perfect way to live his life. It was too good to be true; there had to be a catch. What's my part of the bargain? he had asked himself. "And I figured it out," he said, looking at me with that benign, gentle half-smile of his. "You have to tell the truth." There was no self-congratulation in his voice, just an answer to my question." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20010421204200/https://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/bell-curve/murray-hstein-obit.html "Richard J. Herrnstein, RIP,"] by Charles Murray, Vol. 46, National Review, 10-10-1994, pp 22.

==Hoffer, Eric==
*[http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/98215-every-great-cause-begins-as-a-movement-becomes-a-business “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”]

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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== Rob Henderson==
*“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” [https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/ Quillette article] (2021).

*"Men bond by insulting each other and not really meaning it; women bond by complimenting each other and not really meaning it."

*"Over the course of human evolutionary history, there may have been some independent-minded women who thought things through and decided to avoid the pain and risks of motherhood. These women are not our ancestors." [https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-story-of-us-9780190883201?cc=gb&lang=en& one of his books], via Twitter.

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==Hippocrates==
"Ars longa, vita brevis" has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."

The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

==Hitchens, Christopher==
*"It will happen to all of us that at some point you'll be tapped on the shoulder and told - not just that the party is over - but slightly worse: the party's going on but you have to leave."

==Hitchens, PETER==
*'I also remember a French high-speed train, on which Mrs Hitchens and I ate a long, time-consuming, four-course picnic lunch, wine included, partly for the joy of it and partly because we were exempt from French mask rules as long as we were eating.
::'An infuriated French ticket inspector chose to lecture us explosively about our irresponsibility — whereupon I donned a large black Polish Army surplus gas mask, which in those days I carried about for satirical purposes.
::‘Take it off!’ he cried. ‘You are trying to frighten people!’ . :‘No,’ I replied, ‘it is you who are trying to frighten people.’ https://mol.im/a/12947665 via @MailOnline"

==Hooker. Richard==
*“It is dangerous for the feeble mind of man to wade too far into the doings of the Most High. Although it is life to know Him and joy to mention His name, our surest knowledge is that we do not know Him as He truly is, nor can we; our safest eloquence is our silence, confessing without confession that His glory is inexplicable and His greatness above our capacity and reach. He is above, and we are on earth; therefore let our words be wary and few.” (''Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity'', Vol. 1, book 1, chapter 2)

==Hochschild, Joshua==
*"It is an academic myth that canonical texts, literary and religious, embody ideology and perpetuate power structures. In the experience of actual readers, canonical texts are typically the means of escaping ideology and challenging power structures." Twitter (2024)

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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== Thomas Jefferson==
" If a parent could find no motive either in his philanthropy or his self-love, for restraining the intemperance of passion towards his slave, it should always be a sufficient one that his child is present. But generally it is not sufficient. The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities. The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances. And with what execration should the statesman be loaded, who permitting one half the citizens thus to trample on the rights of the other, transforms those into despots, and these into enemies, destroys the morals of the one part, and the amor patriæ of the other." [https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/query-xviii-an-excerpt-from-notes-on-the-state-of-virginia-by-thomas-jefferson-1784/ Query 18, Notes from Virginia.]
==Jomini ==
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” (Original: "Quand l'ennemi fait un faux mouvement, il faut se garder de l'interrompre", "When the enemy makes a false move, take care not to interrupt him." as written by Jomini (1827). https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/50164/what-is-the-original-french-for-napoleons-quote-when-your-enemy-is-making-a-fa

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==Kac, Mark==
*"Probability theory is measure theory with a soul." Here is one source. Is there a better one, an original one? [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00086.pdf]

==Karlin, George==
*"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam."

*"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."

*"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

*"Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body."

*"When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts."

*"I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it."

==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

*[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

==Keller, Timothy==
*"A possible way to start a conversation with someone who is not a believer:
'Tell me the God you don't believe in because chances are I don't believe in that God either.' "
*"Few people live up to their own standards, let alone an objective one. Either way we come up short on our own accord."
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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==Keynes, John==
* “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.”

==Khan, Razib==
:*"The reason we need nerds is that they jump all over little lies, and drown them in the bathtub before the lies can grow up and become invincible monsters." [https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1675204182679207936 Twitter (2023).]

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

== KIPLING, Rudyard==
. 
In August was the jackal born, 
The rains fell in September. 
"Now such a fearful flood as this," 
Says he, "I can't remember!" [http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/second-jungle-book/7/ "The Undertakers"] The 2nd Jungle Book.

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==Kosinski, Jerzy==
* "The principle of true art is not to portray, but to evoke."

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==Lindsay, James==
*On the Christian method, which is good for redpilling wokers too: 
::1) Proclaim the truth (tell without coercion or force) 
::2) Remind them that everyone is a sinner (so everyone makes mistakes) 
::3) Invite them to repent in their own time (accept your past error as wrong and move forward productively).

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted , Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

*"The idea that any man or writer should be opaque to those who lived in the same culture, spoke the same language, shared the same habitual imagery and unconscious assumptions, and yet be transparent to those who have none of these advantages, is in my opinion preposterous. " ([https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern Seed speech])

*From "The Abolition of Man": 'When all that says "It is good" has been debunked, what says "I want" remains.'

* "The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

*“His education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

*“If education is beaten by training, civilization dies.”

*A man who has spent his youth and manhood in the minute study of New Testament texts and of other people’s studies of them, whose literary experience of those texts lacks any standard of comparison such as can only grow from a wide and deep and genial experience of literature in general, is, I should think, very likely to miss the obvious thing about them. If he tells me that something in a Gospel is legend or romance, I want to know how many legends and romances he has read, how well his palate is trained in detecting them by the flavour; not how many years he has spent on that Gospel...

:I have been reading poems, romances, vision-literature, legends, myths all my life. I know what they are like. I know that not one of them is like this. Of this text there are only two possible views. Either this is reportage—though it may no doubt contain errors—pretty close up to the facts; nearly as close as Boswell. Or else, some unknown writer in the second century, without known predecessors or successors, suddenly anticipated the whole technique of modern, novelistic, realistic narrative
-- CS Lewis. https://orthodox-web.tripod.com/papers/fern_seed.html Fern-Seed and Elephants," Originally entitled 'Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism'.

==Long, Earl (Governor of Louisiana, brother of Huey Long)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

==Long, Russell (Senator from Indiana, son of Huey Long)==
*"Don’t tax you. Don’t tax me. Tax the man behind the tree." [improved] See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/tag/russell-b-long/]

==Long, Rob==
"I was nonplussed — the actual definition of nonplussed, which is baffled, rather than what it sounds like and will eventually come to mean, which is unimpressed." (2024)

==Lovecraft, H.P.==
" The organic things --Italo-Semitico-Mongoloid-- inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal; vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. They—- or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed—seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness." (from [https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1671175712265388035 a letter] and [https://areomagazine.com/2019/03/05/lovecrafts-otherworldly-xenophobia/ a magazine article about it.]

==Luther, Martin==
* "Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it."

:"This is a murky Luther quote that seems like something he would have said, yet finding an exact reference isn't easy. A couple of people have searched for this quote uncovering interesting clues and theories of its origin (see for instance, About That Great Luther Quote and also the discussion here). Piggybacking on their efforts, I have my own theory of how this quote became popular: it's in the form it's in because singer-song writer Derek Webb was quoting Charles Spurgeon quoting Luther... whether he knew it or not!" https://beggarsallreformation.blogspot.com/2020/08/luther-every-week-i-preach.html

* “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan." --Book IV of The Prince}}

*"A question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may
be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person it is
much safer to be feared than loved, when only one is possible. The reason for this is that in general men
are ungrateful, inconstant, false, cowardly, and greedy. As long as you succeed, they are yours entirely -
they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, when the need is far distant. But when the
need approaches, they turn against you. A prince who, relying entirely on their promises, has neglected
other ways of protecting himself, will be ruined. Friendships that are obtained by payments, and not by
greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be earned, but they are not secured, and in time of need cannot
be relied upon. Men are less worried about offending one who is loved than one who is feared. Love is
preserved by the link of gratefulness which, owing to the weak nature of men, is broken at every
opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a fear of punishment which never fails." Chapter 17, [https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Il_Principe/Capitolo_XVIII The Prince], Machiavelli.

*"Questo una disputa, s'e' gli è meglio essere amato che temuto o e converso. Rispondesi che si vorrebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perché e' gli è difficile accozzarli insieme, è molto più sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbi a mancare dell'uno de' dua. Perché degli uomini si può dire questo, generalmente, che sieno ingrati, volubili, simulatori e dissimulatori, fuggitori de' pericoli, cupidi del guadagno; e mentre fai loro bene e' sono tutti tua, offeronti el sangue, la roba, la vita, e' figliuoli, come di sopra dissi, quando el bisogno è discosto: ma quando ti si appressa, si rivoltono, e quello principe che si è tutto fondato in su le parole loro, trovandosi nudo di altre preparazioni, ruina. Perché le amicizie che si acquistono col prezzo, e non con grandezza e nobilità di animo, si meritano, ma elle non si hanno, e alli tempi non si possono spendere; e li uomini hanno meno rispetto a offendere uno che si facci amare, che uno che si facci temere: perché lo amore è tenuto da uno vinculo di obligo, il quale, per essere gl'uomini tristi, da ogni occasione di propria utilità è rotto, ma il timore è tenuto da una paura di pena che non ti abbandona mai." Ch. 7. [http://www.bibliotecaitaliana.it/testo/bibit000214 Il Principe], Machiavelli.

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
*“The materials for an amusing narrative are immense. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.” (Letter to Napier, November 5, 1841, p. 103 of Trevelyan's ''The Life and Letters..., Vol. 2'')

*"The doctrine which from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words, and stripped of rhetorical disguise is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Sir James Macintosh"

*From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Mahler Gustav==
*From [https://deepstash.com/article/203717/jean-jaurs-the-true-way-to-honour-the-past Deepstash, Jean Jaures said,] "Ce n'est pas en vain que tous les foyers des générations humaines ont flambé, ont rayonné ; mais c'est nous, parce que nous marchons, parce que nous luttons pour un idéal nouveau, c'est nous qui sommes les vrais héritiers du foyer des aïeux ; nous en avons pris la flamme, vous n'en avez gardé que la cendre." From [https://latoilescoute.net/de-la-tradition-il-faut-garder-la Latoilescoute.net: ] janvier 1910, à Paris, Chambre des députés in Pages choisies, éd. Rieder, paru en 1922, p. 115.

"It is not in vain that all the homes of human generations have burned, have blazed; but it is us - because we walk forward, because we fight for a new ideal - it is us who are the true heirs of the home of the ancestors; we took the flame, you only kept the ashes."

*From [https://x.com/DurhamWASP/status/1942000048822268127 Twitter] and [https://www.wienerzeitung.at/h/irrwege-einer-metapher Irrwege einer Metapher, of Gerald Krieghofer: Gustav Mahler said, ""Tradition ist nicht die Anbetung der Asche, sondern die Weitergabe des Feuers", Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire."

That's different and better enough for me to award the credit to Mahler. Mr. Krieghofer might show me to be wrong, though; I don't speak German.

==Mao Tse-Tung==
In ''Khruschev Remembers'', Soviet leader Krushchev [https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/quotations-peoples-republic/ talks about] a 1957 meeting.

"Mao spoke about the war at this meeting . His speech content was roughly this: Do not be afraid of war. Do not be afraid of either the atomic bomb or the weapons. No matter what kind of war, we socialist countries will win. When it comes to China specifically, he claimed: 'If the imperialist impose war on us, we now have 600 million people, even if we lose 300 million, so what, this is war. Years later, we nurture new, and the population will be restored.' After he spoke, the meeting room was in a tomb-like silence."

==de Marenches, Alexandre==
Jack Jolis:"
Reminds me of something the late, (pro-American) former French spy-boss Alexandre de Marenches once said to my late dad (in my presence):

:"That man Reagan-- he may not know much, but he understands everything"
"(Cet homme Reagan – il sait peut-être peu, mais il a tout compris”).

==Marx, Karl==
:"In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the materials it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest. The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income. Now-a-days atheism is culpa levis as compared with criticism of existing property relations." --[https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/p1.htm Capital], volume 1, Preface.

* "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness." Introduction, 1844, in Marx's own journal Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher.

==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

==Mather, Increase==
*"When the Knowledge of the Tongues and Arts Revived, Religion had a Revival with it: And though some Unlearned men have been useful to the Interests of Religion, yet no man ever decried Learning, but what was, an Enemy to Religion, whether he knew it or no."

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==Matjaž Leonardis==
If 0.1mg dose of a drug can massively alter the behaviour of a 100kg human (nine orders of magnitude ratio) then the idea small groups of individuals can change massive social systems should seem at least plausible. (2022, Twitter)
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==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*"As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

*About Pres. Roosevelt and his 1936 opponent Gov. Landon: Landon “probably knows a great deal less than the Hon. Mr. Roosevelt, but much more of what he knows is true.” (from [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Roosevelt_Sweeps_Nation/9qq-EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mencken+++++1936++Landon,++%22probably+knows+a+great+deal+less+than+the+Hon+.+Mr.+Roosevelt+,+but+much+more+of+what+he+knows+is+true%22&pg=PT399&printsec=frontcover Pietruza's book])

*"I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey."

*"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

*"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup."

*"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

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==Eric Moody==
*[https://x.com/therealmissjo/status/1935709339567726688 From X:]
“Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.”
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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

*"When you hear the names of legislation or anything done by the government, it is worth remembering that the group that sent so many people to the guillotine during the French Revolution was called “The Committee of Public Safety”, not the “Cut Off Their Heads Committee” " Twitter (2024)

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Newman, John==
*"It is not the way to learn to swim in troubled waters, never to have gone into them.” — “Duties of the Church towards Knowledge,” in ''The Idea of a University'' (1852).

Improved: "You won't learn to swim in troubled waters by avoiding bathtubs."

==Ngo, Richard==
*"To improve the world most in the short term, make the worst country better. To improve the world most in the long term, make the best country better." Twitter, 2025.

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Orwell, George==
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Orwell, [https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/140.html ''1984''.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

==Prince Philip==
*“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

*“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

*“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

* “It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

* “If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

*“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

*“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

*“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

*“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

*“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

*“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

* “It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

* “It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/

==Steven PINKER==
*"Historically, positions were distributed by hereditary privilege, family ties, patronage to cronies, or sale to the highest bidder. These are not far from the system we have here." ([https://www.thecrimson.com/column/council-on-academic-freedom-at-harvard/article/2024/1/29/pinker-harvard-legacy-admissions/ of Harvard student admissions, 2024])

==Plato==
*"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter" ([https://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php?topic=280790.0 in Greek:] μηδείς ἀγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μου τὴν στέγην," « mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn »). Engraved above the door of Plato's Academy in Athens. [https://www.dialogues-de-platon.org/faq/faq009.htm Bernard Suzanne] says "an anonymous scholion in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides whose author, according to him, might be the fourth century orator Sopatros, which mentions the full text of the inscription, adding that ageômetrètos has been put in place of anisos kai adikos ("unfair and unjust"), sometimes used in similar inscriptions at the entrance of sacred places, and
:"Johannes Tzetzes' Chiliades, whose text is as follows:
Pro tôn prothurôn tôn hautou grapsas hupèrche Platôn
Mèdeis ageômetrètos eisitô mou tèn stegèn
Toutestin, adikos mèdeis paresierchestô tèide
Isotès gar kai dikaion esti geômetria.
("Plato had written at the front door of his house: "Let no one who is not geometer enter under my roof", that is, "Let non one unjust sneak in here", because geometry is equality/fairness and justice/righteousness")."

==Pope, Alexander==
==="An Essay on Criticism"===
<pre>
*Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang’rous is th’ offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;

‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

In poets as true genius is but rare,
True taste as seldom is the critic’s share;
Both must alike from Heav’n derive their light,
These born to judge, as well as those to write.

Yet if we look more closely we shall find
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind;
Nature affords at least a glimm’ring light;
The lines, tho’ touch’d but faintly, are drawn right.
But as the slightest sketch, if justly trac’d,
Is by ill colouring but the more disgrac’d,
So by false learning is good sense defac’d;
Some are bewilder’d in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs Nature meant but fools.
</pre>

==Popper, Karl==
*[https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/09/30/popper-to-aron-letter-on-adorno-and-habermas/ Letter of Popper to Aron in 1970]:
"I can only say that when I read either Adorno or Habermas, I feel as if lunatics were speaking.
I have translated some of their German sentences into simple German. It turns out to be either trivial or tautological or sheer pretentious nonsense. I completely fail to see why Habermas is reputed to have “talent”. I do not think that he was born less intelligent than other people; but he certainly did not have the good sense to resist the influence of a pretentious, lying, and intelligence destroying University education.
Sociology is in a bad way — even here in England. There seems to be an interesting law: bad and pretentious language drives out good and simple language. And once human language is destroyed, we shall return to the beasts."

==Alex Priou==
*"Interpretation of a great work is first and foremost decompression of information and not compression.

:A summary of Plato or Aristotle that did faith to the nerve of their thought would require their near equal, and it would have to be an appropriate task for the times."

==Putin, Vladimir==
“The culture of cancellation is the cancellation of culture.” From [https://nationalfile.com/putin-skewers-cancel-culture-in-latest-moscow-speech/ an October 2022 speech. ]

== ==

==Ramsey, Dave==
*"Tell the money where to go instead of wondering where it went."

==Ramseyer, J. Mark==
"Harvard is a vastly less tolerant place than it was when I arrived in 1998. The intolerance is a function of an increasingly large fraction of our colleagues. And we – the rest of us on the Harvard faculty – let it happen. The cancelling, the punishments, the DEI bureaucracy, the DEI statements, the endless list that we could all recite – all this happened on our watch. We saw it happen, but we did nothing. We were too busy. We were scared to speak up. We – we on the faculty – let Harvard become what it is. The Harvard that we have is the result of our own collective moral failure.

'''The alumni who are furious are not trying to turn Harvard into something we do not want. They are trying to rescue Harvard from what we let it become.'''
We as a faculty failed. That is why the alumni are speaking up. That is why we formed the Council on Academic Freedom in the first place."

==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].
*"When someone gives you lemons, make lemonade." Synonym for "Every cloud has a silver lining."

*"A model should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." I think I used in my [https://rasmusen.org/GI/ ''Games and Information''], and attributed it to Alfred Einstein. The original saying is “Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler,” and while it is attributed to Einstein, it’s [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/ highly questionable] whether he ever said it.

*"Wiggle words weaken writing." Don't use "maybe" or "perhaps" or "to some extent" or "quite" or "often" or "sometimes" if you don't have to.

*"The humanities are just as hard at math; the difference is, in the humanities you're so lost you don't even know you got the answer wrong. "
*"The only things worse than a dumb bureaucrat handling your problem is a smart computer."

*"The hand that does the daycare ruins the world."

*"For scholars, destroying data is like cutting down giant sequoia trees; it goes against all our instincts. For administrators, destroying data is like cleaning your house before a party so nobody can see what a slob you are; it accords with all their instincts. "

*"Without perspicaciousness, what good is perspicuity?"

*"Delight expressed is delight enhanced. That's why I do not restrain my chuckles of pleasure when I hear a speaker say something witty or surprising. (Also, because I know from experience that audience feedback helps.)"

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks" or "He was so mean he didn't need bug spray to repel ticks."

*"Loving someone is less often to encourage them to do what they desire to do than to desire what they ought to do."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"One of the blessings of having a father is that you can call him when you have a minor car crash. One of the blessings of being a father is that someone thinks you're worth calling, and they're right."

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==Ratzinger (Pope Benedict)==
*“A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music, and nature can be dangerous since blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental: they necessarily are reflected in his theology.” ~Ratzinger (April 16,
1927-December 31, 2022).

==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

::[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

::Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

::English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Will Rogers==
*It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rorty, Richard==
*"The contemporary cultural Left urges that America should not be a melting pot, because we need to respect one another in our differences. This Left wants to preserve otherness rather than ignore it." (From Achieving Our... (1997))

==Routledge, Clay==
*We are living in an era of woke capitalism in which companies pretend to care about social justice to sell products to people who pretend to hate capitalism.

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Russell, Bertrand==
* “Marx pretended that he wanted the happiness of the proletariat. What he really wanted was the unhappiness of the bourgeois.”
--[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/08/a-life-of-disagreement/641018/ A Life of Disagreement] television programs , half-hour conversation by BERTRAND RUSSELL with Romney Wheeler, filmed in London by the National Broadcasting Company and shown over the NBC network and BBC-TV on the occasion of Earl Russell’s eightieth birthday (1952).

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

== ==

==Sabien, Duncan==
*"If you've spent your entire life being told you were wrong and being proven right (b/c you were smarter than the people around you), then when you run into another genius who tells you that you're wrong, you have a LOT of memetic antibodies that will make it easier-than-it-should-be to write them off or dismiss them."

==Sailer, Steve==
*"Steve Sailer ... losing the war of public opinion since 1990.

But the crazier the conventional wisdom gets, the more hilarious material I have to write about.

So at least there's that.

Too bad about society, though." ([https://twitter.com/Steve_Sailer/status/1644853299387199489 Twitter, 2023])

*"When it comes to human behavior, there mostly aren’t systematic differences between what your lying eyes tell you and what The Science says. There’s a continuum between anecdote, anecdata, and data....

:If there’s a strong statistical pattern in the numbers, you should be able to come up with vivid real-life examples of it. And if you can think of several examples suggesting a pattern, you might well be able to find large-scale data for it.

:My main one weird trick for coming up with enough insights to make a living as an unfashionable pundit for 22 years has been to assume that private life facts and public life facts are one and the same. Most pundits assume public controversies, such as BLM, are of a higher realm than daily life, so that what they notice about “safe neighborhoods” and “good schools” when they are making real estate decisions for themselves couldn’t possibly have any relevance to the great issues of the day they discuss in the media." ([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I am told that we shouldn’t mention the truth because either:

:—The facts have no possible policy implications, or

:—The facts have overwhelmingly horrible policy implications, such as the logical necessity of reimposing slavery or instituting genocide.

:The former strikes me as obtuse and the latter as insane and/or evil.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*There’s no need for everybody to continue to pretend ever since the 1978 Bakke decision that exalted “diversity” as the excuse for violating the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection of the laws that affirmative action makes colleges more intellectually stimulating when obviously the opposite has proven true. Quotas have helped make colleges minefields of cancel culture by bringing onto campus insecure and resentful masses of racially preferred students out to punish anyone who alludes to the race gaps that are American society’s central fact. Instead, underqualified preference beneficiaries should be told to be thankful for their privilege.([https://www.takimag.com/article/what-if-im-right-2/ Taki's Magazine, 2022])

*"I quoted this letter at length because it seems like such a vivid example of the mindset of the current day: reality is determined by words, that honest words threaten the marginalized with violence, and asking the marginalized to improve their behavior is unthinkable." ([https://www.unz.com/isteve/nyc-health-czar-takes-strong-action-against-monkeypox-demands-who-change-the-name-of-monkeypox-to-an-incomprehensible-string-of-characters/Column on renaming monkeypox], 2022)

*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*"How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

:The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

:Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general." [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*"The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world."

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Salisbury, Lord==
See https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Gascoyne-Cecil,_3rd_Marquess_of_Salisbury

*"Within certain limits of intelligence, honesty and knowledge of the law, one man would make as good a judge as another and a Tory mentality is ipso facto more trustworthy than a Liberal one."

*First-rate men will not canvass mobs; and if they did, the mobs would not elect the first-rate men.
'Democracy on its Trial', Quarterly Review, vol. 110 (July & October 1861), p. 281

*The conflict between Socialism and existing civilisation must be a death-struggle. If the combat is once commenced, one or other of the combatants must perish. It is idle to plead that the schemes of these men are their religion. There are religions so hostile to morality, so poisonous to the life-springs of society, that they are outside the pale of human tolerance.
'The Commune and the Internationale', Quarterly Review, vol. 131 (July & October 1871), p. 562

*It was a part of a budget which even three months had proved to be a mass of miscalculation; it was the pet scheme of a cosmopolitan school who love England little, and whom England loves less, whose sympathies are half-American and half-French; and it was the first application of a theory of combined taxation and reform, according to which the poor were exclusively to fix the revenue which the rich were exclusively to pay.
‘The Conservative Reaction’, Quarterly Review, vol. 108 (July & October 1860), p. 276

*"Not the number of noses, but the magnitude of interests, should furnish the elements by which the proportion of representation should be computed...The classes that represent civilisation, the holders of accumulated capital and accumulated thought have a right to require securities to protect them from being overwhelmed by hordes who have neither knowledge to guide them nor stake in the Commonwealth to control them."
'English Politics and Parties', Bentley's Quarterly Review, vol. I (March & July 1859), pp. 28-29

* In men of genius, as a rule, the imagination or the
passions are too strongly developed to suffer them
to reach the highest standard of practical states-
, manship. They follow some poetical ideal, they
are under the spell of some fascinating chapter of
past history, they are the slaves of some talismanic
phrase which their generation has taken up, or
they have made to themselves a system to which
all men and all circumstances must be bent. Something there almost always is that beguiles
them away from the plain, prosaic, business-like
view ofthe concerns of this prosaic world. Consequently the mass of mankind, who have a dull but
surefooted instinct of their own interest, feel an
uncomfortable misgiving when they see a genius at
the head oftheir affairs. They are aware that firstrate brilliancy cannot be had without something of
distortion ; but it is no consolation to them that the
illusions which are luring him on to ruin lend in
the mean time an exquisite charm to the eloquence
by which he induces them to accompany him on
the road. On the other hand, the clever world is
very intolerant of plain, practical statesmen. It
maintains, sometimes with very good reason, that
where the imagination is stunted, it is merely
because the whole mind is stunted too ; and that
the claim to practical common sense is often only
a euphemism for a narrow intelligence straitened
by an abject regard for precedents and for routine.
As a rule, both sides are right in the suspicions
they entertain. It is rare to meet with a fervid
imagination which is drilled to reserve its flights
for efforts of oratory, and to give place entirely to
more sober faculties in council. It is still rarer to
see an absolutely unimaginative mind possessed of
the energy and of the breadth of view indispensable
in the statesman of a troubled period. Both kinds
of excellence produce great and successful rulers,
where they occur ; and both are apt to meet, in
those around them, with incredulity that such combinations of opposite qualities can exist.

'Lord Castlereagh', Quarterly Review, vol. 111 (January & April 1862), p. 204 https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QafmXADIh0jnPZqj11iTfMIuIdFT-DZWwP1q0zQiA4yBrYcBXaRXhl4wAaaOcH-1ovmPhezfBeCx0TdkJoRN9AA_GFoAY4s2keT-CwZl1Ac4Hi372YcAOvsu39xIf9x-9EnByraZe58fXqGcaJXEPxzQgDRgCT4Tmx6dycMZDk2BYr8nEVHvroFVV0BBgbmci9-5NQXLe-_TADxWoaHFbQLTkZ_S6X7gooGS2WS2hjnVU9k8TJvQcgrZPgRvcxDa635thiwS18ib2JkrJsBzJpxawXgcLHhLf7Y6EZsBbphBqpbBMgw

==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Scalia, son==
[https://twitter.com/StuffForSisters/status/1581430850159542272 At Scalia's Funeral:]
"We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us—known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many—scorned by others. A man known for great controversy & for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth."

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shakespeare, William==
*"Ten masts deep make not the altitude from which though has perpendicularly fell." King Lear, Edgar to Gloucester.

===Insults===
From Cultural Tutor on Twitter:
1) "Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon."
~Timon of Athens

2) "You, minion, are too saucy."
~The Two Gentleman of Verona

3) "Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat."
~Henry V

4) "The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril."
~The Merry Wives of Windsor

5) "Thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
~Troilus and Cressida

10) "I’ll beat thee, but I would infect my hands."
~Timon of Athens

11) "More of your conversation would infect my brain."
~Coriolanus

12) "There’s no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
~Henry IV, Part 1

14) "Thou leathern-jerkin, crystal-button, knot-pated, agatering, puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, Spanish pouch!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

18) "This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
~Henry IV, Part 1

23) "Some report a sea-maid spawn’d him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
~Measure for Measure

25) "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
~King Lear

31) "Away thou rag, thou quantity, thou remnant."
~The Taming of the Shrew

46) "A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave, one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition."
~King Lear

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king.
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
*“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
*"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

*"The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him," ''Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays''

*“Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'social justice'.” The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
*“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” In english: "To understand all is to forgive all." 
[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

*“Madame,” the general informed the lady in question, “I do not want women mixed up in politics.” “You are perfectly right,” came the reply, “but in a country where their heads are cut off, it is only natural for them to want to know why.” (Exchange between Napoleon Bonaparte and Madame de Staël, J. Christopher Herold’s ''The Mind of Napoleon''.)

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
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<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
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==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

==Sutton, Willy==
When asked why he robbed banks, Sutton replied, “Because that’s where the money is."

== ==

==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

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==TACITUS==
*Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset." 
“All would have agreed that he was capable of being emperor, if only he had never been it.” 
So wrote Tacitus of Galba.

==Taft, William==
*"The opportunity freely and publicly to criticize judicial action is of vastly more iportance to the body politic than the immunity of courts and judges from unjust aspersions and attack. Nothing tends more to render judges careful in their decisions and anxiously solicitous to do exact justice than the consciousness that every act of theirs is to be subjected to the intelligent scrutiny and candid criticism of their fellow-men. Such criticism is beneficial in proportion as it is fair, dispassionate, discriminating, and based on a knowledge of sound legal principles. The comments made by learned text writers and by the acute editors of the various law reviews upon judicial decisions are therefore highly useful. Such critics constitute more or less impartial tribunals of professional opinion before which each judgment is made to stand or fall on its merits, and thus exert a strong influence to secure uniformity of decision. But non-professional criticism also is by no means without its uses, even if accompanied, as it often is, by a direct attack upon the judicial fairness and motives of the occupants of the bench; for if the law is but the essence of common sense, the protest of many average men may evidence a defect in a judicial conclusion, though based on the nicest legal reasoning and profoundest learning. The two important elements of moral character in a judge are an earnest desire to reach a just conclusion and courage to enforce it. In so far as fear of public comment does not affect the courage of a judge, but only spurs him on to search his conscience and to reach the result which approves itself to his inmost heart such comment serves a useful purpose. There are few men, whether they are judges for life or for a shorter term, who do not prefer to earn and hold the respect of all, and who can not be reached and made to pause and deliberate by hostile public criticism. In the case of judges having a life tenure, indeed their very independence makes the right freely to comment on their decisions of greater importance, because it is the only practical and available instrument in the hands of a free people to keep such judges alive to the reasonable demands of those they serve." (1895) As [http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/state-of-the-union-1906.php cited by Pres. Roosevelt] in 1906.

==Tate, Jeremy==
*"Jeremy Wayne Tate (@JeremyTate41) tweeted at 9:15 AM on Sun, Feb 18, 2024:
“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” CS Lewis.

When you only take your kids to Church when it is convenient you teach them that the faith is moderately important."
(https://twitter.com/JeremyTate41/status/1759220201189519814?t=81pNkKJPdORtjhYnfmigNg&s=03)

==Taylor, Charles==
*As reported [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/04/westafrica.qanda by The Guardian]: "He killed my Ma, he killed my Pa, but I will vote for him." Running successfully for President of Liberia.

==Teller, Edward==
*"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us."

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
*Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

* His election rerunning announcement speech:
Michael Tracey@mtracey·14hSorry to break it to you, but Trump was spot-on with this one: “They say the ocean will rise 1/8 of an inch over the next 200 to 300 years, but don’t worry about nuclear weapons that can take out entire countries with one shot. Something is wrong with their thinking.”

:This is an example of how he exaggerates in the hope that someone will correct him and make his point for him (1/8 inch corrected to 2 inches, still tiny).

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*"Always do right — this will gratify some and astonish the rest." — Mark Twain, message to Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 1901.

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

*"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 

Often quoted in W. H. Auden's translation,‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’, but the French is so easy, an Anglophone might as well use the original phrase. See also "Le code n'est jamais fini, seulement termine." 

Valery didn't actually say this, though it is what is commonly quoted in France. Pierre Vinclair tells us about that in [https://poezibao.typepad.com/files/ashbery-9.pdf «Portrait d’une énigme dans un miroir convexe», "9. et fin. Clack"], [https://www.poesibao.fr/ ''Poezibao'']
[https://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2020/11/feuilleton-critique-portrait-dune-%C3%A9nigme-dans-un-miroir-convexe-9-et-fin-clack-par-pierre-vinclair.html archive] (2020):

"Et l’on connaît la célèbre formule de Valéry : « un poème n’est jamais fini, seulement abandonné ». Dicton apocryphe, qui trouve sans doute son origine dans cette page de «Littérature»:

::Une œuvre dont l’achèvement — le jugement qui la déclare achevée, est uniquement subordonné à la condition qu’elle nous plaise — n’est jamais achevée. […]
:: Un poème n’est jamais achevé — c’est toujours un accident qui le termine, c’est-àdire qui le donne au public.
::Ce sont la lassitude, la demande de l’éditeur, — la poussée d’un autre poème.
::Mais jamais l’état même de l’ouvrage (si l’auteur n’est pas un sot) ne montre qu’il ne pourrait être poussé, changé, considéré comme première approximation, ou origine d’une recherche nouvelle.
::Je conçois, quant à moi, que le même sujet et presque les mêmes mots pourraient être repris indéfiniment et occuper toute une vie.
::« Perfection »
::c’est travail. 

Notre premier bumper soit donc Paul Valéry, selon qui l’œuvre ne s’achève jamais
(car la perfection qu’elle cherche est asymptotique) : seul un accident extérieur peut
l’interrompre. Or, des trois causes qu’il nomme — lassitude, demande de l’éditeur,
poussée d’un autre poème — aucune ne ressemble au tarissement dont parle
Ashbery. C’est sans doute que, pour celui-ci, le poème n’est pas l’objet d’un travail
infini visant la perfection, la confection maniaque d’une œuvre aussi proche que
possible de l’idéal."

Paul Valéry, «Littérature» in Tel Quel, Gallimard, 1941, p. 154. "

==Vaughan, Sarah==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
[https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html Easy Street]

==Von Neumann, John==
*“In mathematics you don’t understand things. You get used to them.”

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== ==

==Wang, John==
@johnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Watson, Thomas==
* After talking about the Prodigal Son: “Before a man can come to Christ he must first come to himself. . . . A man must first recognize and consider what his sin is, and know the plague of his heart, before he can be duly humbled for it.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

*“Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive” ''The Doctrine of Repentance.'' (1668).

*“Christ is never loved till sin be loathed.” ''The Doctrine of Repentance'' (1668).

==Watt, Peter==
*"Judy Holliday said. "Never do nothing you wouldn't want printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''. In Hunter Biden's case it seems that nothing he does will ever be printed on the front page of ''The New York Times''."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

==Wilde, Oscar==
*"Algernon: “All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.” 
:Jack: “Is that clever?” 
:Algernon: “It is perfectly phrased! and quite as true as any observation in civilized life should be.” " 
::(from ''The Importance of Being Earnest'')

===[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phrases_and_Philosophies_for_the_Use_of_the_Young "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young"], ''Chameleon'' magazine, (1894)===

*Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.

*A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.

*If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

*It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

*Only the shallow know themselves.

*One should always be a little improbable.

*The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

*One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

*The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

==Will, George==
"The ancients had asked, What is the highest attainment of which mankind is capable and how can we pursue this? Hobbes and subsequent moderns asked, What is the worst that can happen and how can we avoid it?" (TCS, p 19)

==Williams, Robin==
“As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.”

==Wolfe, Humbert==
[https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-british-journalist-by-humbert-wolfe-f9r6pb9hb07 The London Times]:

. 
You cannot ever bribe or twist 
The freeborn British journalist 
Seeing what, unbribed, he’ll do 
You realize there’s no reason to

==Warhol, Andrew==
*“The President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”

— Andy Warhol, 1975,

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zeto, Salena==
*<> [https://www.thefp.com/p/my-decade-with-donald-trump-salena-zito?utm_campaign=email-post&r=fjeib&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "My Decade with Donald Trump,"] Salena Zito, ''The Free Press'' (2025), linking to her article, [https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/ "Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally",] ''The Atlantic'' (2016).

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

*************************** -->

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True Grid: Three Case Studies of Moral Accounting
Volume 14, Issue 2
Harro Maas

This article examines and compares three grids that were designed to serve explicit moral accounting goals: the calculation and improvement of character. The examples are tables which fall under a broad definition of diagrams. The examples follow another in time, but it is not the article’s intention to suggest a historical lineage between them. Rather, it is the intention to clarify the interplay between grids and the precepts or keys to their use. The first case is the so-called ledger of merit and demerit that was propagated by Yuan Huang, a scholar and bureaucrat of the late Ming-period, who recommended its use for moral improvement in four letters to his son, of which the most famous letter was on the improvement of one’s own fate. The second is Benjamin Franklin’s Art of Virtue, which Franklin in his autobiographical letter to his son equally described as a tool of moral improvement. The third is the so-called moral thermometer, or biometer, a tool developed by the French revolutionary and pedagogical innovator Marc-Antoine Jullien, who described this tool as a moral mirror and compass that would be especially of use in preparing and educating adolescents for their adult lives. All three represent generic methods of producing knowledge about an individual’s (moral) character, knowledge on which the users of these tables could act. Their differences have to do with the perceived relation of moral conduct to other spheres of life, religious, social, and economic, or all of these combined, but also with the different precepts to their use.

"The texts were written in the form of letters to his son and published under his
scholarly name, Liaofan, which he had adopted after being converted to the use of the
so-called ledgers of merit and demerit. The ledgers served to calculate the moral
balance of a person’s deeds by registering their numerical values. Yuan Huang originally probably intended his letters only for use within the family circle, just as the
Yuanshi jiaxun (Yuan Family Instructions) of his ancestor Yuan Ho was likely intended
but which was also published, around 1479. Both are examples of the Chinese genre of
morality books, a genre that sought to educate readers about the rules of proper moral
conduct. 2"

East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (2020) 14:309–330
DOI 10.1215/18752160-8538670

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*[[Filibusters]] and [[Fraud in Government Programs]] and [[Free Speech]]
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*[[Government Design]] (constitutions, civil service, etc.)
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*[[Hate hoaxes]] and [[Healthcare Policy]] and [[History and Political Tactics for Our Time]]
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*[[Identity Politics/Tribalism]] and [[Immigration]] and [[Impeachment]] and [[The Imperial Presidency]] and [[Indiana Politics]] and [[Indiana University]] and [[Inequality]] and [[Israel]]
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*The January 6 incident: [[2020 Capitol Crowd]] and [[Judges]]
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*[[Kamala Harris As Prostitute]]
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*[[Liberals]] and [[Letter to People Who Might Vote for Biden]] and [[Liberals and Beauty]] and [[Luxury Beliefs]]
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*[[The Media]] and [[Military Spending]]
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*[[The Nation]] and [[Nazis]] and [[Nixon]] and [[Nuclear power]]
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*[[Parliamentary Procedure]] and [[Pedophiles]] and [[Personality and Politics]] and [[Political philosophy]] and [[Political Prisoners in the US]] and [[Political Tactics]] and [[Politicians]] and [[Politics generally]] and [[Politics]] and [[Polls]] and [[Pontius Pilate As Politician]]
*[[Practical Tips on Woke Mobbing]] and [[Presidents]]
*[[The Press as an arm of the Democratic Party]]
*[[Public Intellectuals]]
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*[[Race]] and [[Redistricting]] and [[Richard II, Rebellion, and Right]] and [[Riker Book]] and [[Russia]]
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*[[Social Policy]] and the [[Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)]] and [[Spies and Spying]] and [[Subversion]]
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*[[Tactics to Fight Cancelling]] and [["This Land Is My Land"]] and [[Transexuals]]
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*[[U.K. Politics]] and the [[Ukraine]]
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*[[Virtue]] and [[Vote Fraud]] and [[Voting]]
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*[[War]] and [[Wikipedia]] and [[Wokefolk]]
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==People==
*[[Marx]]
*[[Presidents]]

==Religion==
*[[Notes on Religion]]
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*[[Abortion]] and [[Anti-Semitism]]
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*[[The Bible]] and [[Bible Translations]] and [[Useful Bible Verses]] and [[Bloomington Churches]] and [[Books]]
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*[[Christian Business]] and [[Christian Colleges]] and [[Christmas]] and [[Church Buildings]] and [[Church Discpline]] and [[Church Music]] and [[Conversion Stories]]
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*[[Deificatio]] and [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]] and [[Donations]]
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*[[Ecclesiastes]] and [[Ecclesiology]] and [[Ethics]] and [[Evangelism]]
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*[[Faith versus Works]] and [[Forgiveness versus Justice]] and [[Fundamentalism]]
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*[[Good Churches in Various Towns across America]] and [[The Good Shepherd]] and [[Grace]]
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*[[Hatred]] and [[Head Coverings]] and [[Holidays]] and [[Hymns]]
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*[[Immortality]] and [[Inerrancy]]
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*[[Jews]] and [[Judaism]]
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*[[The Law As an Expression of God's Character]] and [[Legalism]] and [[Leviticus]] and [[Luther]]
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*[[Making your own Christmas cards folding 8x11 paper]] and [[Merit]] and [[Mormonism]]
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*[[The Name of God]] and [[The National Anthem as Idolatry]]
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*[[Pastors]] and [[Peter's Denial]] and [[Polls: Religion]] and [[Political Economy in the Bible]] and [[Pontius Pilate As Politician]] and [[Prayer]]
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*[[Religion in America]] and [[The Rites Controversy in China]] and [[Roman Catholicism]]
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*[[Theology]] and [[The twelve days of Christmas]]
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==Research==
*[[Bad Supreme Court Writing As Exemplified in ''Ford v. Montana'' (2021)]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Casey and Macey on Hertz and Absolute Priority]]
*[[Bankruptcy--Skeel on Christian Bankruptcy]]
*[[Equity-- Why Not Have Enough?]] and [[Euclid]] and [[Evaluation in Organizations]]
*[[Good Essays by Various Men]]
*[[Good Sermons by Various Men]]
*[[Graveyard Bonds]]
*[[Heteroskedasticity]] and [[Hundred Flowers Bloom Model]]
*[[The Indiana Litigation Trust]] (formerly named [[The Indiana Legal Trust]])
*[[Nondisclosure Clauses]]
*[[An Old Man's Stories]] and [[Ostracism in Japan]] and [[Outliers]]
*[[Regulation Book]]
*[[Research Fraud]]
*[[Riker Book]]
*[[Shrinkage]]
*[[Specific versus General Jurisdiction for Corporations]]
[[Voting: Liberty Fund Conference]]

*[[Talks: Polarization and Splitting a Pie (January 19, 2021)]]
*[[Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking]]
*[[1933 Germany]]


==Science==
*[[Animals]]
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*[[Censorship]] and [[Cicadas]] and [[Covid-19]]
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*[[Depression]] and [[DNA History]]
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*[[The FDA]]
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*[[Geology]] and [[Global Warming]]
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*[[IQ]]
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*[[Math]] and [[Medicine]] and [[Mushrooms]]
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*[[Nuclear Power]]
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*[[Plants]] and [[Pollution]]
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*[[Scholarly Misconduct]] and [[Short Circuits]]
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*[[Time]] and [[Trees]]
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*[[Weather]]
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*[[Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise]]
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==Thinking==
*[[Notes on Thinking]]
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*[[ Authority]]
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*[[Bayes's Rule]] and [[Bias]] and [[Bias in Research]] and [[Boasting]] and [[Books for My Children To Read]] and [[Books I Find Myself Reading Over and Over]]
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*[[Chess]] and [[Comments]] on the Internet, and [[C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill]] and [[Critical Thinking]]
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*[[Definitions]]
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*[[Ethics]] and [[The Exception That Proves the Rule]] and [[Experts]]
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*[[Feeling versus Thinking]] and [[Francis Bacon's Four Idols]] and [[Freedom of Speech]]
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*[[Innovation]] and [[Intelligence]]
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*[[Man and Woman]] and [[Models and Heuristics]]
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*[[Nietzsche]]
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*[[Personality]] and [[Persuasion]] and [[Philosophy]] and [[Postmodernism]] and [[Psychology]]
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*[[Randomness]] and [[Reading]] and [[Remembering to Think]]
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*[[Self-Esteem]] and [[Selfishness]]
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*[[Three Kinds of Concluding: Logic, Intuition, Authority]]
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*[[Wokefolk]]
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==Writing==
*[[Notes for My Book-in-Progress on Writing, Talking, Listening and Thinking]]. See also [[Coding]] and [[Tables of Numbers]] and [[Figures and Diagrams]] and [[Social media]] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/c-p-snow-good-judgement-and-winston-churchill/ C. P. Snow, Good Judgement and Winston Churchill ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/indefinite-pronouns/ Indefinite Pronouns ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/writing-right-right-away/ Writing Right Right Now. ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/style-manual/ Writing Style. ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/rewriting-abstracts/ Rewriting Abstracts ] and [https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/diagrams/ Diagrams. ] and [[Careful Writing Requires Work]].
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*[[Bad Language]] and [[Bad Supreme Court Writing As Exemplified in ''Ford v. Montana'' (2021)]] and [[Big Picture Overview Writing]] and [[Big Words]] and [[Book reviews: Curiosity, by F.H. Buckley]]
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*[[Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2021]] and [[Citation]] and getting [[Comments]] and [[Conferences]] and [[Cover Pages]]
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*[[Daily Themes]] abd [[Diagrams]]
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*[[Examples of Rewriting Abstracts]] and [[Ambiguity]] and [[Anonymity]] and [[Articles on Writing]] and [[Audience]]
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*[[Examples of Rewriting Abstracts]] and [[Examples of Seminar Handouts]]
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*[[Fallacies]] and [[Fiction Links]] and [[Footnotes]]
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*[[Grammar]]
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*[[Handouts]] and [[Handwriting]] and [[How to Run Online Talks]] and [[Hyperlinks and the List of Authorities in Legal Briefs]]
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*[["Impact" As a Verb]]
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*[[Journals]] and [[Journalism]]
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*[[K-12 Writing]]
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*[[Listening]]
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*[[Math Writing]] and [[Mockery and Name-Calling]]
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*[[Names]] and [[Novels I Like]]
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*[[Orthography]]
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*[[PhD students]] and [[Phrases]] and [[Poems]] and [[Procrastination]] and [[The Publishing Business]] and [[Punctuation]]
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*[[Quotation style]]
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*[[Reading]] as an activity and [[Books to Read]] and [[Rejection]] and [[Rhetorical Phrases]]
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*[[Songs]] and [[Stories]]
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*[[Talking]] and [[Teaching Writing]] and [[Twitter]]
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*[[Using foreign names of people and countries]]
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*[[Valedictions]]
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*[[Wikipedia]] and [[Writing]] and [[Writing Style in the Internet Age]]

==Miscellaneous==
*[[Countries]]
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*[[Deaths, Mysterious]] and [[Despised Ethnic Groups]] and [[Doctors]]
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*[[Farming]]
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*[[Geography]]
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*[[History]] and [[Homosexuality]]
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*[[Knots]] and [[Korean Dialects]] and [[Korean Customs]]
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*[[Los Angeles County Fires]]
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*[[Machiavelli, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Their Friends]] and [[Maps]]
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*[[Photos]] and [[Places]] and [[Profit Opportunities]]
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*[[Sex]] and [[Slavery]]
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*[[Uni High]]
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*[[To Do]]



==Administrative and Wikimedia Help==
*[[Twitter Tweets]]
*[[Using MediaWiki for organizing your personal website]] and [[Wikimedia commands]]
*[[Rasmapedia administration]]
*[[Notes on various things]]
*[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Help:Formatting]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Editeur24/sandbox&redirect=no My Wikipedia useful command page].

<pre>
<html> <img src= "http://rasmusen.org/EricRasmusen2007.jpg" height= 120 align= left> </html>
: and :: and ::: for indentation layers
---- for a horizontal rule
* for bullet points
# with nothing after it, for a blank line
*(1) is how I like to do numbered lists. It is better than using #
<nowiki>no [[wiki]] ''markup''</nowiki> escaping the language
<blockquote style="color: gray">This is a gray blockquote</blockquote>
<q>This is a quotation</q>

</pre>

[[MediaWiki:Common.css]]

I have not figured out how to include templates. The documentation is bad on how to include them in a wiki.

===Templates===
*[[template:Quotation]]

Humor

2025-05-14T21:57:42Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Miscellaneous */

==Babylon Bee==
*[https://babylonbee.com/news/scandal-as-chris-christie-mentioned-over-50-times-in-unsealed-sizzler-documents? "Scandal-as-chris-christie-mentioned-over-50-times-in-unsealed-sizzler-documents"] (2024).

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/dc-area-pharmacies-all-out-of-stimulants?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email "dc-area-pharmacies-all-out-of-stimulants"] and [https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-tells-aides-he-had-strange-dream-he-was-talking-and-people-were-standing-and-clapping?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email "Biden-tells-aides-he-had-strange-dream-he-was-talking-and-people-were-standing-and-clapping]," Biden's State of the Union Address (2024).

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/do-you-have-white-rural-rage-know-the-warning-signs?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email "do-you-have-white-rural-rage"] (2024). One of the best.

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/hunter-biden-jealous-after-don-jr-receives-envelope-of-white-powder "] (2024)

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/ted-cruz-grows-out-mutton-chops-in-preparation-for-civil-war?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email Tted-cruz-grows-out-mutton-chops-in-preparation-for-civil-war"] (2024)

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/the-babylon-bee-has-obtained-trumps-short-list-of-possible-vp-picks "Trumps-short-list-of-possible-vp-picks"] (2024).

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/purity-culture-was-really-destructive-says-local-hussy "purity-culture-was-really-destructive-says-local-hussy"] (2024).

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/is-your-wife-planning-on-murdering-you-look-for-these-red-flags "is-your-wife-planning-on-murdering-you-look-for-these-red-flags"] (2024).

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/california-imposes-statewide-mask-mandate-on-your-mom-because-she-ugly "california-imposes-statewide-mask-mandate-on-your-mom-because-she-ugly,"] . With my improvements:
{{Quotation|
SACRAMENTO, CA—California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that in response to the Omicron variant there will be a statewide mask mandate on your mom, because she is so ugly and no one wants to deal with looking at her while we have COVID to worry about.

“Scientists say this new Omicron variant is spreading fast,” Newsom announced to the press. “And the first thing I thought of is your mom, and how her face can strip paint. Can you imagine being sick from COVID and also having to look at your ugly mom? That’s why we’re mandating that your mom wear a mask immediately, and we will even supply a free paper bag if needed.”

The mask mandate on your ugly mom is effective immediately, . and yYou are urged to check and make sure your mom is wearing a mask, because you’re the one most used to looking at her if she isn’t. If the policy is violated, Newsom says, he will consider setting up Ugly Camps in the Mojave Desert, like they have in Australia but for just one person.

So far, the mask mandate on your mom is popular, as no one wants to look at your momher. Indeed, , experts at UCBerkeley suggest that since being exposed exposing civilians to her face violates the Geneva Convention. Some have objected, though. “The governor is overstepping his authority by imposing a mask mandate on just your mom,” said Barry Tucker, a weirdo libertarian. “This is unconstitutional unless duly passed as an Act by majorities in the state legislature. “ We Nonetheless we libertarians do hope your mom voluntarily chooses to wear a mask, though. Please, please, please urge her to wear a mask.one .The last time she went outside, all the neighborhood neighbors’ dogs ran away, and this does test whether one’s personal liberty.” needs to be limited by the needs of the community.”
}}

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-all-female-communications-team-wont-tell-nation-whats-wrong-nation-should-already-know "biden-all-female-communications-team-wont-tell-nation-whats-wrong-nation-should-already-know,"]:
{{Quotation|
Biden's transition team has announced they will be appointing an all-female communications team. According to sources, the team will not tell the nation what's wrong, since the nation should already know.

"It's fine. Everything's fine. Nothing's wrong, OK!?" said Jen Psaki in her first press conference as a part of Biden's team. "Why would you think I'm not fine? Ugh... if you have to ask, I'm not going to tell you."

Insiders close to Biden say the communications team will hold periodic press conferences where they will just glare at reporters with an icy look and make them try to guess what's wrong. If the reporters fail to understand their highly advanced non-verbal communication, they will smile sweetly and walk out of the room before slamming the door as hard as they can.

...
The press has been frantically buying flowers, chocolates, and jewelry for the communications team in hopes of receiving some clue as to what the heck is going on. The team responded by rolling their eyes and going to bed early due to a really bad headache.
}}

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/communist-rioters-scream-and-run-away-in-terror-as-rittenhouse-emerges-from-courthouse "communist-rioters-scream-and-run-away-in-terror-as-rittenhouse-emerges-from-courthouse:"]
{{Quotation|
"The jig is up! Scatter!" cried the terrified commie waifs as they skittered toward shadowy alleyways like cockroaches. "The Rittenhouse has returned! Judgment is upon us! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"

Rittenhouse then appeared to descend the courthouse steps in slow motion, surrounded by a flock of doves and a heavenly golden light. At the terrifying sight, hundreds of Antifa fairies and murderous pedophiles shrieked in terror like a den of goblins, crawling into various holes and cracks in the earth. }}

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/every-man-in-america-except-kyle-rittenhouse-found-guilty-of-not-showing-up-to-kenosha-to-defend-their-fellow-americans "Every-man-in-america-except-kyle-rittenhouse-found-guilty-of-not-showing-up-to-kenosha-to-defend-their-fellow-americans"]

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/beto-announces-bid-to-lose-texas-governor-race beto-announces-bid-to-lose-texas-governor-race ]

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/can-you-spot-all-the-signs-of-racism-in-this-ordinary-picture-of-a-highway can-you-spot-all-the-signs-of-racism-in-this-ordinary-picture-of-a-highway]

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-apologizes-for-racist-gaffe-i-like-all-races-even-the-bad-ones biden-apologizes-for-racist-gaffe-i-like-all-races-even-the-bad-ones ]

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/arms-race-heats-up-just-as-china-reveals-space-nukes-america-responds-with-trans-admiral arms-race-heats-up-just-as-china-reveals-space-nukes-america-responds-with-trans-admiral ]

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-leads-allied-assault-on-beaches-of-sydney-to-liberate-australia trump-leads-allied-assault-on-beaches-of-sydney-to-liberate-australia] (2021)

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/disaster-as-joe-biden-crashes-kamala-commercial-to-sniff-the-kids disaster-as-joe-biden-crashes-kamala-commercial-to-sniff-the-kids ]

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/oh-no-girl-james-bond-is-foiled-when-villain-places-details-of-his-evil-plans-in-pickle-jar girl-james-bond-is-foiled-when-villain-places-details-of-his-evil-plans-in-pickle-jar] (2021)

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/congress-members-to-wear-upc-codes-so-lobbyists-can-scan-prices-self-checkout congress-members-to-wear-upc-codes-so-lobbyists-can-scan-prices-self-checkout] (2021)

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-says-we-can-afford-35t-bill-because-china-just-gave-him-a-new-35t-visa-card-with-low-introductory-rate biden-says-we-can-afford-35t-bill-because-china-just-gave-him-a-new-35t-visa-card-with-low-introductory-rate ]

*[https://babylonbee.com/news/arizona-democrats-put-out-want-ad-for-submissive-obedient-woman https://babylonbee.com/news/arizona-democrats-put-out-want-ad-for-submissive-obedient-woman]

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==Cartoons==
*[https://twitter.com/OldieMagazine/status/1100341893756583936 [Miserable Sod and Stupid Cow, the therapist is ready to see you now,"] ''The Oldie.''

*[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GDF5edzWEAArVzo?format=jpg&name=small "I was up till 4am"]

==Math Humor==
*[https://twitter.com/LucioMM1/status/1461082390726684672/photo/1 Curve Fitting Methods and the Messages They Send] graphic.

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==Economics Humor==
*[https://twitter.com/cjwich/status/1465720309940588545/photo/1 Job market bingo]

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==Miscellaneous==
*[https://twitter.com/michaeldokrent/status/1440776692969078796 Posters of Chairman Xi to Protect Your House] (2021). Shouting Long Live Mao to the firing squad.

*[[Army Humor]]

*[https://x.com/mualphaxi/status/1689684996066353153 The Invasion of Canada ] (X thread, with maps)

*Can someone summarize Kolev and his saga? 
Economist b447 
 
First he live Bulgaria and family crush by cart. 
Then he take wife, and she eat by wolf. 
Life hard in Bulgaria after fall, not much potato and Great Bulgarian Yogur. 
Kolev decide, enough is enough, and must be stronk and smart. 
Will move to Great United Kingdom, and make name for self. 
Island of UK not same as Bulgaria. 
Can not take second wife by force like in great homeland. 
Kolev sad. 
Kolev become angry. 

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Cedars Math:Handouts

2022-10-09T17:31:26Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Miscellaneous Skills */

Click [[Cedars Math|here to go back]] to the Cedars Math front page.

==General Skills==
===Python Coding===
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.01b_Anaconda_Python_handout.pdf Handout: "Notes on Installing Anaconda Python"]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/02_04b_hw_Plotting_Functions.pdf HW 2.4b supplement: Plotting Functions with Python]

*I've written up [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/02_04b_handout_python_divisibility.pdf a handout of some Python code for testing divisibility] by 2,3,5, and 7.

* The [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Polya_python_Connell.pdf Python code] by Professor Connell to test the Polya Conjecture.

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/06.03b_Handout_amicus_rasmusen.pdf Handout: Email Filtering Python code with If-Else statements ]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/09.08a_SagarainGuestWed.txt Python and Fortran code for estimating square roots]

===Miscellaneous Skills===
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/02_08b_Writing_letters_and_Emails.pdf Handout] on writing emails

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/06_03b_syllogism.pdf Handout: Syllogisms ]

*CLT tests: [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/CLT2018FallCLT8.pdf Fall 2018 questions] and [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/CLTFall2018_CLT_answers.pdf Fall 2018 answers] and [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/CLT2021SpringCLT8.pdf Spring 2021 questions.]

*[https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/1578777239641944066 Psychology tweet: the mind filling in color gaps] (2022).

===Using LaTeX to Write Equations and Symbols===

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.01b_Python_LaTeX_handout.pdf "Notes on LaTeX"]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.03_Latex_rotating_symbols.pdf Handout: Rotating Symbols in Latex, and How to Find A Computer Command You Don't Know].

===Proofs===
*The "All Odd Numbers Are Prime" [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=Jokes#All_Odd_Numbers_Are_Prime joke] and the [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Odd_number_script--14Students.pdf joke script] and the [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Polya_python_Connell.pdf Python code] by Professor Connell to test the Polya Conjecture.

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20091120173924/http://memtropy.com/proofs-without-words/ Proofs without Words] of three infinite sums.

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/9.08a_sq2irratioanl.pdf Euclid's Proof That the Square Root of Two Is Irrational]

==Chapters 1: Integers==
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Sparking_Joy_in_16x15.png Sparking Joy in Multiplication]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.01a_How_to_Multiply_5_by_15_handout.pdf "How to Solve It: Ways to Compute 5x15"]

*The "All Odd Numbers Are Prime" [https://www.rasmusen.org/rasmapedia/index.php?title=Jokes#All_Odd_Numbers_Are_Prime joke] and the [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Odd_number_script--14Students.pdf joke script] and the [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Polya_python_Connell.pdf Python code] by Professor Connell to test the Polya Conjecture.

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.03_All_Numbers_Are_interesting.pdf Handout: The "All Numbers Are Interesting" joke].

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/02_08b_Prime_Proof_handout.pdf Handout on Euclid's proof.]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/02.08d_2_exponent.pdf] Defining New Kinds of Exponents]

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==Chapters 2 and 3: Fractions==
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.03_Adding_fractions.pdf "Handout: Adding Fractions"].

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/03.01a_HW_Test_Two_Studying.pdf "Homework: Things to Study"]

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==Chapters 4, 5, and 6==
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/04_01_SixFootEleven.pdf Handout: The Six Foot Eleven Puzzle]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/04_02_Puzzle_Decimalization_Shillings Handout: Puzzle Decimalization Shillings]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/04_03_order_symbols.pdf Handout: Order Notation and Intervals]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/05_03_Cats_and_Rats_Handout Handout: Cats and Rats Puzzle]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/05.03a_For-Test_Three.pdf Handout: For Test Three]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/06_04_death_rates.ppt Handout: Death Rates ]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/07_Units_to_memorize.pdf Units to Memorize]

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==Chapter 8, Geometry==
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22062/22062-h/22062-h.htm Prefaces to Euclid's Elements] in the first English translation (1570).

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/08.02_Vertical_angles_theorem.docx The Vertical Angle Theorem]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/08_07_Pi_Poem_Pythagorean_joke.docx The Poe Pi Poem and the Pythagorean Theorem Joke]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/08_09.shooting_the_bird.png Shooting the Bird] from the Mahabharata.

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==Chapter 9, Algebra==
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/09.08a_SagarainGuestWed.txt Python and Fortran code for estimating square roots]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/09_Sagarin_jeff_closeup2.jpg Guest Teacher Jeffrey Sagarin photo with students]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/09_sagarin.png The Pythagorean Theorem of Baseball]

*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/I_will_stay_on_Task.jfif "I will stay on task" monster]

==9x--Plotting Graphs==
*[http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/02_04b_hw_Plotting_Functions.pdf HW 2.4b supplement: Plotting Functions with Python]

==9xx-Appendix--Logic==

==Chapter 10--Statistics==

Candidates for Best Dozen Articles I've Read in 2022

2022-10-08T14:24:28Z

Rasmusen p1vaim:

*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2021/12/unprecedented "Unprecedented: On the Novelty of Our Cultural Predicament,"] Michael Anton, The New Criterion, December 2021.

*[https://quillette.com/2022/10/08/sex-and-the-academy/ 2022 Quillette article by Winegard] and co-author on male vs. female attitudes and Truth vs. Morality as goals of universities.

*[https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/meta-homeopathy?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email "When meta-analysis goes wrong: A recent study on homeopathy shows reminds us that meta-analysis - like any study - can look superficially solid yet still produce nonsense",] Stuart Ritchie substack (2022).

*[https://substack.com/inbox/post/74053399 :The Two Wings of Postmodernism...,"] WOKAL DISTANCE, Substack (9/21/2022).

*[https://unherd.com/2022/09/how-my-college-is-censoring-me/ "My ‘free speech’ college is silencing me: Students are being turned into informants,"]
BY CHRISTOPHER NADON, Unherd (Sept. 5, 2022).

*Midge Decter, [https://www.commentary.org/articles/midge-decter-3/the-boys-on-the-beach/ The Boys on the Beach (1980)] and [https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/04/comrades-in-arms "Comrades in Arms"] (on Neuhaus) and [https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/10/a-jew-in-anti-christian-america "A Jew in Anti-Christian America"].

*[https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/psychedelics?r=4a732&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=direct "Everything you need to know about psychedelics and mental illness:The science of psychedelics is everywhere – but we should treat it with serious scepticism,"] Stuart Ritchie, Substack (2022).

*[https://natureworldtoday.com/a-selection-of-maps-is-tw/4/ "A Selection of Maps We Weren’t Taught in School,"] NatureWorldToday,(2022)

*[https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/no-the-revolution-isnt-over "No, the Revolution Isn’t Over:None of the fundamental drivers of “Wokeness” have relented,"] N.S. Lyons, Substack (Jan 18, 2022)

*[https://edwest.substack.com/p/i-will-never-accept-kyiv?s=r "I will never accept ‘Kyiv’ For that matter, I still haven’t given up on Bombay, Peking or Burma,"] Ed West, Substack (2022).

*[https://danlawton.substack.com/p/when-buddhism-goes-bad/comments?s=r "When Buddhism Goes Bad| How My Mindfulness Practice Led Me To Meltdown,"] Dan Lawton, Substack (2021).

*[https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2021/12/22/removing-inflation-distortions-from-the-tax-basethe-1984-solution/?sh=7d0b9e34ca6f "Removing Inflation Distortions From The Tax Base - The 1984 Solution,"] Peter J Reilly, Forbes (2022).

*[https://mereorthodoxy.com/natural-law-early-protestantism/ Natural Law in Early Protestantism,"] Kyle Dillon on November 3, 2020. Mere Orthodoxy.

*[https://warhornmedia.com/2022/03/29/from-a-longtime-womens-basketball-coach/ "from-a-longtime-womens-basketball-coach"]
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Man and Woman

2022-10-08T14:24:05Z

Rasmusen p1vaim:

*[https://quillette.com/2022/10/08/sex-and-the-academy/ 2022 Quillette article by Winegard] and co-author on male vs. female attitudes and Truth vs. Morality as goals of universities.

*Men have much more general knowledge than women, and are ahead on most topics. They are barely behind on Fashion. See [https://twitter.com/JamesPsychol/status/1529047460370423810 this tweet] on the Lynn results.

*What gender neutering is all about: obliterating the female and femininity, first, and obliterating the male and masculinity, second.

*[https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/women-love-to-complain-about-their-husbands-asking-them-where-things-are-at?replies=14#post-7377785 "Women love to complain about their husbands asking them where things are at,"] EJMR,
{{Quotation|
I have a tape measure I keep in the top of a tool bag at the corner of the garage. It has been there for years. I use it frequently. I go to the tool bag to get the tape measure and it's not there. I say "honey, where is the tape measure", then she goes to another toolbox that has my not frequently used tools in it and it's under a compartment with needle nose pliers. That is not where the tape measure has ever been and it would take less time to go to Home Depot and buy a new one than guess it's in a compartment it shouldn't be.

She moved it there. Then she sends me a tiktok video on how husbands can't find anything. The ego is unbelievable. ...

If my my wife asks me where something is, I tell her where it is.

If I ask her where something is, she throws a tantrum and stomps over to where it is like it’s some giant burden.

I honestly do not understand. Sometimes you need to find something and someone else knows where it is. The efficient solution is to ask....

Women were sent to us by G-d as a test of our faith and patience....

This is a completely true and weird aspect of married life. I get along great with my wife, and yet I have the exact same experience as the OP....
}}

*There seems to be a gender difference. Women get relief just from talking about their problems; men feel worse after talking about their problems. (Here, we mean "pure talking", not "finding solutions".)
* I just read in a novel that three-year-old Debbie, "took another forkful, and as she moved it to her mouth, she spilled it on her dress. Then, like a normal woman, she got mad at everyone around her. She announced that it was terrible and she didn't like it; she wouldn't eat any more." Is that a true insight?

==Interests and Objectives==
*[https://twitter.com/corsair21c/status/1520415582322974720 Good thread on this]

"Have u ever noticed how common it is for professional women to have no intellectual interests outside of their field? Like u mention something about history or astronomy or even mundane household tech to a female doctor or lawyer & they have no idea what u r talking about.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t think the lack of intellectual BREADTH is a bad thing in itself (let women be as they r made), but it’s bad cuz we thrust women into these high profile public roles yet they have no interest in engaging the world in the broad ways you’d expect

the last pirate
@corsair21c

The other thing this leads to in my view is an overreliance on credentials and experts - when u know nothing outside your field and are held aloft by credentials yourself what do u do when a problem arises outside ur lane? U just blindly listen to another set of credentials."

"I’ve noticed this as well. I believe it’s because of biological differences. Men put 100% of their effort into something 80% of the time but women put 80% of their effort into something 100% of the time. It’s the difference between a hunter and a homemaker."

"Their career is a proxy for the husband
they're just interested in what concerns him and caring about anything else amounts to emotional cheating."

"Women like rules and professional women excel at following them. This propensity discourages thinking out of the box."

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Food

2022-10-08T02:31:43Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Buying Ingredients */

Notes on Food. I should split this up into [[Foreign Food]], [[Restaurants]], [[Ingredients]], [[Drinks]], [[Cooking]], and [[Miscellaneous Food]].

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==Bars==
*Nisei Lounge
Wrigleyville
Those looking for a respite from the Wrigleyville madness can rely on this age-old holdover, dating to the era when the neighborhood functioned as Chicago’s Little Japan and going on to serve as a community hub for ensuing generations. Today, the ever-friendly Clark Street hangout is stocked with dart boards, giant jenga, pool tables, and a whole boatload of Malört, so yeah, you know what to do.

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==Buying Ingredients==
*[https://www.thechilewoman.com/ The Chile Woman,] Bloomington, Indiana.

==Desserts==
=== Paw Paws===
*[https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1016961-pawpaw-pudding Paw Paw Pudding] of the solid kind, like persimmon pudding. Flour, Sugar, Milk, Pawpaws.

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==Dishes==
'''Basa''': A kind of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basa_(fish) farmed catfish], which I had in the Umi Grill Japanese restaurant as:
Breaded whitefish served with greens, fresh mango, shrimp, asparagus and avocado in a garlic dressing.

But [https://www.timescolonist.com/life/ask-eric-is-it-safe-to-eat-imported-basa-fish-1.87907 it might be unsanitary] if imported from Vietnam.

==Marmite==
[https://msmarmitelover.com/2011/04/how-to-make-your-own-marmite.html "HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN MARMITE". ] An exquisite familiar essay, on par with Joseph Epstein's if more oriented towards pleasures of the flesh than towards high literature:
{{Quotation| When I started blogging I searched around for an original name. Not an easy task, blogger rejects any blog name that has already been chosen. I reached deep inside myself and thought about who I truly am, my background, my influences, formative experiences and I came up with the moniker MsMarmitelover.

For I am a Marmite baby. I had Marmite on toast for breakfast every morning...}}

The recipe: {{Quotation| RECIPE FOR HOME MADE MARMITE: 
A litre of Brewer’s yeast (top fermentation from a brewery) 
A little sea salt 
1 onion, diced 
2 carrots, diced 
1 turnip, diced 
1/2 celery stick, diced 
1) Put a litre of brewer’s yeast with a little salt, in a bain-marie. Simmer at blood heat, 30 to 40 ºc for ten hours or overnight. 
2) Then simmer this mixture at 50 to 60 º c for 2 to 3 hours. 
3) Boil at low temperature 90ºc for half an hour. (In the factory they have a special machine for this, or you could ascend a mountain of 10,000ft, to achieve low altitude boiling) 
4) Filter though coffee papers or a sieve and cheesecloth 
5) Let it cool for a day or so. It separates further. 
6) Filter again. 
7) You then want to convert it to a paste. This is best achieved by putting it in a large flat pan and simmering. On an Aga, you can simply leave the pan on the lid for a few hours. Keep an eye on the mixture. 
8) Meanwhile boil up all the vegetables until they are cooked. Strain off the liquid and incorporate into the Marmite paste. 
9) Let the mixture reduce into a Marmite like texture. Do not allow it to burn: 

The entire process takes about ten days.}}

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==Meat==
*[https://edition.thrillist.com/s/overrated-underrated-beef-36319cc36dbe4753?utm_campaign=underratedbeefcuts-a9eaf2edbc1a4382&utm_source=twi&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=1536437&twclid=11464714600495132680 "The Most Overrated and Underrated Cuts of Beef, According to Chefs," ], ''The Thrillist,'' Dan Gentile, updated on November 9, 2021:
{{Quotation|
Underrated: Neck. "You never see anyone use it, most likely because they don't know what to do with it, but if you slow braise the meat on the bone you can achieve a depth of flavor not easily paralleled by any other part of the animal."

Underrated: Tri-tip
"Tri-tip, that larger, tender, triangular part from the bottom of a steer, isn't well known to most people. It is probably the least-expensive, best taste of beef you can purchase. There's not a lot of connective tissue, so it cooks very quickly and easily. It has been my go-to meat for grilling, it has a way of soaking in the wonderful flavors and allowed a slight caramelization on the outside."

Underrated: Flap meat, or bavette
"The most underrated would be flap meat, or bavette. It has lots of flavor and it can't be overcooked. You've got to slice it against the grain, but it has a flavor and texture you can't find in other cuts."

Underrated: Hanger steak, chuck
"There are a couple of really wonderful underrated cuts of beef, starting with the hanger steak. The hanger steak comes from the plate, which is the lower belly of the animal, and literally 'hangs' from the diaphragm. You’ll find it to be rich and full with a hearty, beefy flavor, similar to that of a ribeye, but without the price tag. I also love any of the newly popular chuck steaks. Chuck refers to the shoulder and neck of the animal and yields some incredibly well-marbled and flavorful cuts, such as the Denver, flat iron, and shoulder petite tender cuts. All three of these are incredibly supple and rival any of the more expensive and highly recognized cuts of meat."

Most Overrated: Hanger steak
"Comprising only about a pound and a half of a 900lb steer, this cut, while delicious, is best served infrequently and only bought from your local butcher shop. I love cuts like bavette, Santa Fe, and Denver in its place."
}}

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==Pizza==
*[https://www.thrillist.com/eat/chicago/best-pizza-in-chicago Best Pizza in Chicago,"] ''The Thrillist:''
{{Quotation|
You’re not allowed to argue with me on this one: Home Run Inn is the best frozen pizza ever (Thrillist's frozen pizza ranking attests to it). It's on this list because, if you’re not from Chicago, this is one of the few things in your local freezer aisle that you can experience along with us. Obviously, it’s much better fresh from one of the eight locations in Chicago, but even from your oven, there’s something about that damn buttery crumbly crust that keeps everyone coming back for more.}}

*[https://www.thrillist.com/eat/chicago/chicago-deep-dish-pizza-is-not-pizza-legal-argument "Why Deep Dish Can't Be Considered Pizza in a Court of Law,"] Sam Greszes, The Thrillist ( 10/10/2016).

==Pokeweed==
<html><img src="https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/pokeweed-before-cooking.jpg" width="120" align=right size-full wp-image-142" /> </html>
See the [[Pokeweed]] page.

==Snacks==
*Ritz Crisp & Thins, Cream Cheese and Onion (2021).

==Mushrooms==
*Salted Psathyrella snacks.
<html><img src="https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/psaytherella-drying-salt-scaled.jpg" alt="Drying Rack Garbage Can for Psathyrella with Salt and Pepper" width="120" align= left class="size-full wp-image-757" /> </html>

* Sabatino Tartufi Truffle Salt.
<html><img src="https://www.rasmusen.org/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Sabatino-truffle-salt-scaled.jpg" alt="Sabatino-truffle-salt" width="120" align= left class="size-full wp-image-750" /> </html>

==Cooking Shows==
*That southern cook-- Collard Valley.

*Good Eats

*Iron Chef

*Julia Child

==Drinks==
*Spooky dill pickle Bloody Mary mix.

*[https://www.goldentipstea.com/collections/darjeeling?page=2 A place to buy Darjeeling tea]

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===Beer===
"Metropolitan Brewing
Ravenswood
A haven for German-style beers and lagers since 2009, Metropolitan largely flies under the radar among suds novices but continues to reign as one of the most respected makers in Chicago. While many contemporary breweries fall all over themselves trying to get your attention with the weirdest or most hop-forward beers imaginable, Metro keeps things simple with flat-out good beer that puts drinkability front and center. The venerable brewery’s profile has been raised slightly, thanks to the fairly recent addition of its Rockwell on the River Tap Room—one of the best taprooms in the city thanks to its homey atmosphere spanning reclaimed wood furnishings and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Chicago River.
Must-try beer: Krankshaft, their flagship Kolsch, is brewed in homage to Cologne, Germany, featuring a burst of lemony aroma and a dry, clean finish characterized by Metro’s trademark smoothness."

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===Distilled===
*[https://thewhiskeywash.com/reviews/whiskey-review-round-up-bushmills-irish-whiskey/ Review of all the Bushmill's whiskies.]

*Kettel cucumber-mint vodka.

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====Malort====
*[https://www.drinkspirits.com/liqueur/review-r-franklins-original-recipe-malort/ Reviews of Franklin's Malort]

*[https://postgradproblems.com/the-pros-and-cons-of-malort-chicagos-most-polarizing-liquor/ Postgradproblems.com] on Jeppsons Malort. A nice essay, though not to be trusted. He's right that malort doesn't mix well with anything except water, but wrong that it isn't good to sip.
{{Quotation|
It’s a differentiator.
Depending on your mindset, this can be seen as a pro or a con. You might get an approving nod from the longtime bartender when you order the first round, but you also might get several grimaces from your group of friends and even some bystanders. If you’re new to Chicago or looking to make your mark, ordering a few shots of Malort is an instant way to gain a bit of credibility.}}

*[https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/malortliquor "Malort liqueur repulses most Milwaukeeans: Some say the aftertaste is more repulsive than the initial flavor,"] ''OnMilwaukee:''
{{Quotation|
"Malört is mankind’s most foul-tasting alcohol," says Matthew Wright, a former Milwaukee bartender who says he’s consumed more than 20 shots of it, mostly after losing bets or darts. "It never grows on you. Every shot is worse."

"It's definitely the shot that keeps on giving. It isn't terrible at first but then after two or three seconds, something awful happens," says Wisniewski. "I think it tastes like what death smells like."

"I have a buddy, who videotaped his girlfriend doing a shot of it the first time. She was talking ---, saying there’s no way the spirit is that awful. She takes the shot, looks at him, coughs a few times, and pukes it back up," says Pietrykowski.}}

*[https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/malortliquor "Malort liqueur repulses most Milwaukeeans: Some say the aftertaste is more repulsive than the initial flavor,"] ''OnMilwaukee:''
{{Quotation|
Malört – which is Swedish for "wormwood" – is an old spirit invented in the 1800s by a Swede named Carl Jeppson who brought his recipe to Chicago, where he eventually moved. In 1934, Jeppson sold the recipe to George Brode, a lawyer who started the Carl Jeppson Company. It was made in Chicago until the mid-70's, when the distillery that produced it for the company closed down. Currently, it’s made in Florida. In 1999, Brode died and left the company to his secretary, Patricia Gabelick, who still runs the company today and sells the product under the name Jeppson’s Malört. There is also another brand on the market, R. Franklin’s Malört, which is said to be equally as soul-crushingly terrible but anise flavored.}}

*[https://www.thrillist.com/drink/chicago/malort-liquor-facts "19 Things You Didn't Know About Jeppson’s Malört,"] ''The Thrillist:''

Malört's brand of wormwood has an extremely low thujone level—the chemical compound that supposedly causes mind-bending effects

While Malört means "wormwood" in Swedish, the Russian translation of the word is "Chernobyl." The infamous nuclear power plant was named after the native wormwood fields that once grew there… you know, before that whole radiation thing.

Swedish immigrant Carl Jeppson arrived in Chicago in the 1930s, toting along his homemade spirit. Rumor has it that the cigar shop owner and avid smoker loved both selling and drinking Malört, not only because it padded his pockets, but also because it was rumored to be one of the only things his tobacco-ravaged tongue could actually identify.

Cleverly labeled as “medicinal alcohol,” good old Jeppson sold bottles of Malört sold door-to-door throughout Prohibition. Thanks to that loophole, it was the only legal wormwood product sold in America for a full 96 years, all the way from 1912 until 2008.

Moved to help their fellow Chicagoans during those first few chaotic weeks of the Coronavirus outbreak, the good folks over at CH Distillery began cranking out Malört-branded hand sanitizer and donating boatloads of the stuff to area hospitals, clinics, and blood donation centers in need. These days, you can pick up your very own “two-fisted clean” sanny by the gallon or spray bottle at the distillery’s Bar & Table tasting room.

*Malört, tonight's the night you fight your dad.
*Malört, the Champagne of pain.
Malört, turning taste-buds into taste-foes for generations.
Drink Malört, it's easier than telling people you have nothing to live for.
Malört, what soap washes its mouth out with.
Malört, the authentic taste of social distancing.

Malört had considered litigating against Sam Mechling for creating unauthorized Facebook and Twitter pages for the company without their consent. Instead, ownership decided it made more sense—and was probably cheaper—to hire him, first as the Director of Marketing and, more recently, as the brand’s Cultural Ambassador.

The original back label describing Jeppson's brand was capped off with: "The first shot is hard to swallow! PERSEVERE. Make it past two 'shock-glasses' and with the third you could be ours... forever."

Between multi-award-winning Indiana outfit 3 Floyd’s white whale-worthy Malört Barrel Aged Dark Lord, Anti Hero Malört, a limited-edition series distilled from excess Anti Hero IPA from hometown powerhouse Revolution Brewing, and Lake Effect Brewing Company’s perfectly puckery Barrel Aged Malört Gose, the iconic wormwood liquor definitely has friends in high places.

They were quick to clamp down on accused infringers like Chicago distillery upstart Leatherbee, who’s 2013 debut of R. Franklin's Original Recipe Malört turned many a head, as well as Evanston heavy hitter FEW Spirits, who’s Anguish and Regret Malört hit the shelves shortly thereafter. After a touch of legal skirmish, Leatherbee renamed their darling bottle Bësk while FEW dropped the controversial word from its label altogether, opting for the simple Anguish and Regret.

As a part of their fully loaded retail line, Malört recently put out the aptly named Chicago Handshake, a drinking card game strewn with Chicago-centric scenarios, prompts, trivia questions, activities, and other booze-fueled hilarity. }}

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===Wine===
*May Wine is German white wine flavored with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galium_odoratum woodruff.] It is no longer sold commercially because the German government thinks woodruff is too toxic.

*Greystone Cellars red and white table wine is very good. About $11.00/bottle.
*Pilschuterz apple cinnamon fortified wine.

*Hark and Holldy Gluhwein, like Norweigan Glugg, a German mulled wine with vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and orange peel. Cheap, too.

*Sake Talk's [https://www.sake-talk.com/5-essential-sake-ingredients/ 5 ESSENTIAL SAKE INGREDIENTS] and Midwest Homebrewing and Winemaking Supplies's
[https://www.amazon.com/Midwest-Homebrewing-Winemaking-Supplies-G9-TPGG-DH5D/dp/B0064OGDYS/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=koji+spores&qid=1601185421&sr=8-11 Sake Kit]
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==Knives==
[https://forums.egullet.org/topic/26036-knife-maintenance-and-sharpening/ Knife Maintenance and Sharpening],
by Chad Ward, August 13, 2003:
{{Quotation| The purpose of a sharpening stone is to grind the edge and remove metal. Oil reduces friction and makes the process much slower. Supposedly oil helps float away metal particles that would otherwise clog the pores of the stone. You can do the same thing by wiping the stone with a damp cloth when you’re done.. 
... 
Waterstones are another matter entirely. Both Japanese and synthetic waterstones require water in order to cut effectively. Japanese waterstones can be damaged if used dry and must be soaked thoroughly before use. Waterstones wear very quickly, revealing new layers of cutting abrasive as the swarf builds up and is washed away. That’s why they are so effective. There is always a new layer of sharp abrasive cutting away at the metal of your edge. By the way, “swarf” is one of those cool terms you get to toss around when you discuss sharpening. Swarf is the slurry of metal filings and stone grit that builds up as you sharpen. 
... 
Push cutting involves parting fibers and requires a polished edge. Shaving, for example, is push cutting. So is peeling an apple or julienning a carrot. You are pressing your thin, finely polished edge through the fibers of the food, pushing them to either side.

Slicing, on the other hand, involves severing fibers and requires a toothier edge. Crusty bread, a soft tomato, roast chicken – anything with an outer layer that is tougher than the squishier inside demands an edge that can bite into the skin without crushing the interior. A highly polished edge will simply skate over the surface of a ripe plum until you put enough pressure on it to push through the skin. But the fruit underneath will give way before that happens. Not pretty.

Now you must decide. Do you do more push cutting or more slicing? Do you have knives that you use more often for dicing, peeling and julienning? Do you have a knife that is dedicated to slicing?

A good basic strategy is to start with a standard 20 degree bevel (a 15/20 double bevel if you’re feeling adventurous) with a moderately polished edge on all your knives. This alone will be a vast improvement over what you might be used to.

Then branch out. If you have a knife that is only used for vegetables, a santoku for example, you can take it to a very fine, highly polished edge. 
... 
One of the easiest ways to ensure that you are matching an existing bevel is to coat the edge with magic marker. As the magic marker is abraded away by the sharpening stone. you will be able to see where the metal is being removed and whether you have matched the angle properly. Once you have coated both bevels with marker, take a swipe or two down your stone. If the marker is wiped off over the width of the bevel you have matched the angle properly. If your angle is too high, only the marker near the very edge will be removed. 
... 
Take, for example, a plastic pen, stand it at a 30-45 degree angle on a countertop and lay the knife edge straight up and down on the plastic. Pull the edge from heel to tip. If it bites in, you’ve set your edge correctly. If it slides off, you have some more work to do. The sharper the blade, the smaller you can make the angle before it slips.
}}

==Chinese Food==

{{Quotation|"Many people dislike Shanghai food—which I’m defining as the broader region that encompasses Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, etc.—for being too sweet. In my mind, it’s unquestionably the finest cuisine. Not only is it the best at the high end, its noodles, soups, and soup dumplings make up some of the tastiest casual food as well. It’s the cuisine that varies most by season, e.g. bamboo shoots in spring and mitten crabs in fall, which showcases the bountiness of the region and its emphasis on freshness. (That’s quite unlike the tradition of the north, which celebrates every and any occasion with plates of dumplings.) The mixing of vinegar and hot fat produces a slight, magical sweetness, and that is something that the Shanghainese understand well, along with many other secrets.

I expect that everyone is familiar with the glories of Sichuan food, there’s little that I need to add here. I’ve eaten plenty in Chengdu and Chongqing, I hope next that I can explore some of the villages in the countryside that feature local specialties.

And I hesitate to say that Yunnan is next best because it has become so trendy. Some people question whether Yunnan food is coherent enough to be a cuisine, or whether it’s a useless label for dishes that vary over a huge and mountainous province. I think of it as Chinese cooking styles with Southeast Asian ingredients, featuring dishes like rice noodles, which can be more soft or more chewy than wheat noodles, served in a mutton broth and topped with a generous fistful of fresh mint. There are many things one can find there that are uncommon in the rest of the country, like cheeses. My favorites are the mushrooms: there’s nothing more appealing than some freshly-picked mushrooms stir fried with bits of Yunnan ham.

Any of these three regions are worth traveling to for a food tour. My candidate for an underrated cuisine is the food of the northeast, which features breads and stews of huge proportions. I haven’t had enough exposure to foods of all the interior provinces, but I’m happy to suggest that the cuisines of Jiangxi and Anhui are worth exploring. And the category of highly-rated and correctly-rated cuisines should include the foods of the northwest (breads and noodles), Hunan (spicy, though often too oily for me), and Taiwan (my favorite use of seafood). The following are overrated:

Cantonese: surely the most overrated cuisine in China, and perhaps the most overrated cuisine in the world. I concede that dim sum is often a delight; and no lunch can be more simple or more satisfying than a few cuts of roast duck or pork layered on a bed of rice, accompanied by sprigs of greens and some gravy. But we’ve too long allowed Cantonese food to dominate the world’s conception of Chinese cuisine. The high-end dishes don’t come close to the refinement of Shanghai cuisine: chefs reveal contempt for themselves and their craft when they deep fry a lobster, as if it were a carnival food, and I’ve never understood the emphasis on shark fins and sea cucumbers. Please let’s not continue allowing Cantonese to be a default choice for business lunches, Shanghai is more fine.

Beijing’s imperial cuisine is the only Chinese cuisine that I consider to be dumb. It wasn’t until I moved to Beijing that I realized how many of the unfortunate facts of Chinese cooking are the creation of local traditions: the dreadful “brown sauce,” the excessive use of starch, and the compulsive need to fry. Peking duck is fine every once in a while, but it’s far too much fuss and expense for something of medium tastiness. There are so few redeeming dishes in imperial cuisine that I wonder if it has been yet another cruel trick pulled by the eunuchs to hoodwink the emperor, depriving him of culinary pleasures for sport.

Hotpot transcends regions now, so let’s treat it as its own category. Hotpot is a fun social activity to do with friends. It’s a way to display skill at the table, through the management of cooking a variety of foods. But it can never be any sort of culinary revelation. My worst nightmare is for hotpot restaurants to take over every retail restaurant space, so that our only choice is to line up to eat at them inside malls, forever.

Here is my four-step process for ordering success in China: 
*Greens are usually the glories of the cuisine: order as many vegetables as there are people 
*If you will have a meat, consider the juiciness that pairs well with the starch: something saucy if you will eat with rice, or less saucy if you will have soup noodles 
*Order Yunnan mushrooms if they are on the menu 
*Fill out the rest with cold appetizers, they are never a bad idea"}}--https://danwang.co/2020-letter/

Jokes

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This page should eventually be split into: [[Jokes to convey ideas]], [[Humor]], [[Satire]], and [[Cartoons]].

==Math Jokes==
===Dear Algebra Teachers===
<pre>
Dear algebra teacher,

Please stop trying to make us find your x.

She's not coming back.

We don't know y either.

Sincerely,
Your Students.
</pre>
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===Theorem: All Numbers Are Interesting===
Proof: Suppose not. Then there must be a smallest uninteresting number. But being the smallest uninteresting number is an interesting property. Thus, there can be no smallest uninteresting number. (Note: this proof applies only if by "number" we mean integers. Otherwise, if, say, 9 is the largest interesting number, there is no smallest number greater than 9.)

===The Pythagorean Theorem Joke===
First explain the Pythagorean Theorem: The square of the hypotenuse, the long side of a right triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, e.g., if other two sides are 3 and 4, so their squares sum to 9+16= 25, the square of the hypotenuse is 25 and the hypotenuse has length 5. Then tell the joke.

Once there was an Indian chief named Big Hunter, who had a younger brother named Little Hunter and three squaws. The first squaw slept on a bearskin, the second squaw slept on a buffalo hide, and the third Squaw, who was named Hippolita, slept on a hippopotamus hide. (Big Hunter got his name because he was the only Indian who ever killed hippopotamus, or even saw one for that matter.)

Alas, all of the squaws were barren and had no children. The first two squaws schemed to become the favorites, though, and jointly adopted a little baby boy. They boasted about that and shamed Hippolita for being inferior to them and their boy.

One day, the whole family, including the brother, were in a canoe crossing the lake, when the buffalo-hide squaw stood up, which you should never do in a canoe. The bear-hide squaw stood up too, to match her bravery, but the boat started to tip over. "Save the baby, Little Hunter!" shouted Big Hunter, as he swam to save Hippolita. So the baby and Hippolita were saved, though not the other two squaws.

The moral of the story: "The squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the son of the squaws of the other two hides."

=== Using Logs===
Sam couldn't get his pet poisonous snakes to have babies. His friend Joe said, "I have a solution". Joe cut down a tree, sawed it into sections, and put two sections next to the cage. It worked. The snakes gave birth and soon Sam had more than he could handle. The moral of the story: Adders need logs to multiply.

===How many seconds are there in a year?===
Q: “How many seconds are there in a year?”
A: “Twelve… January second, February second, March second, …”

===Can a triangle fly?===
Riddle: Can a triangle fly? Yes, it's past the line and on a plane.

===Your Shoes Are Dirty===
. 
'''Woman to hillbilly as he comes into the store''': "Hey, wipe the mud off your shoes when you come in here." 
'''Hillbilly:''' "What shoes? I ain't got no shoes." 
(mnemonic for remembering that anybody but a hillbilly knows that two negatives make a positive) 
The version omitting "I ain't got no shoes" is better, but doesn't make that point.

===All Odd Numbers Are Prime (The Polya Conjecture)===
An engineer, a physicist, a mathematician, a psychologist, a sociologist, a law professor, and a grievance studies professor walk into a bar, and someone offers to buy a drink for whoever has the best proof that all numbers are prime.

The engineer says, "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, so all odd numbers are prime."

The physicist says: ‘1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9’s not a prime --hmmm, but let's go on---11's a prime, 13's a prime.. It must be that 9 was measurement error.

The mathematician says: "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime. Therefore, by induction, all odd numbers are prime."

The psychologist says: "I told my R.A. the result we wanted, and having rechecked his work, he now reports that 1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9's a prime, 11's a prime, 13's a prime, 15's a prime, and so is every other odd number."

The sociologist says: "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9's a prime,..."

The law professor says,"First of all, my billing rate is $400/hour, and it runs for every 15-minute increment..."

The grievance studies professor says: "What's a prime number?"

. 
THE END

. 
''Notes:'' 
1. A prime number is a number greater than 1 that is evenly divisible only by itself and 1. 
2. Engineers are known for being satisfied with equations and other mathematical conclusions that are only approximately true, not exactly true. Physicists are known for thinking a lot about how precisely their instruments measure things. Mathematicians are known for being very proud of how exact and rigorous they are, but for making mistakes sometimes anyway. Psychologists are known for publishing fraudulent results and for pressuring subordinates to make up data. Sociologists are known for lack of mathematical ability. Lawyers are known for their high fees. Grievance studies professors ar known for being even worse at math than sociologists. All of these are stereotypes; whether the stereotypes have any truth in them, you must judge. Someone is free to add my own field, "economics" to the joke. Accounting may have possibilities too.
 
3. The 1919 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3lya_conjecture Polya Conjecture], made by the author of the famous 1945 book, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It ''How To Solve It''], was that over half of the numbers less than any number N have an odd number of prime factors. For example there are eight numbers less than
N = 9. Of those eight numbers, the number 1 has an even number of prime factors--- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_of_zero 0 of them]. The number 2 has an odd number (1 of them), as do 3 (1 of them), 5 (1 of them), 7 (1 of them), and 8 (3 of them--- 2, 2, and 2, the 2's being counted three times for this conjecture). The number 4 has an even number (2 of them--- 2 and 2), as does 6 (2 of them--- 2 and 3). So over 50% of numbers less than 9--- five out of eight--- have an odd number of prime factors. Professor Connell wrote Mathematica code to check N = 10,000,000 and found that 5,000,421 of the numbers less than that have an odd number of prime factors, which is still more than half. But the Polya Conjecture is false. C. Brian Haselgrove disproved it in 1958. R. Sherman Lehman found the first explicit counterexample in 1960: N = 906,180,359. The smallest counterexample is N = 906,150,257, found by Minoru Tanaka in 1980.
 
See also [https://twitter.com/pickover/status/1576942239162376192 this approximation of pi] that is exact for some 40 million digits but then fails.
 
4. See [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Odd_number_script.pdf here ] for a script for performance of this joke by junior high kids.

==The Black Sheep in Scotland==
A philosopher, a physicist, a mathematician and a computer scientist were travelling on a train through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train. "Aha," says the philosopher, "I see that Scottish sheep are black." "Hmm," says the physicist, "You mean *some* Scottish sheep are black." "No," says the mathematician, "All we know is that there is *at least one* sheep in Scotland, and that *at least one side* of that sheep is black!"

==The Glass Is Half Empty==
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
 
Optimist: The glass is half full.
 
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 
Jens Foell, https://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/1449785982543409159 (2021)

==Transubstantiation==
Question: What do you call it when the NCAAA has to decide whether a certain athlete is a man or a woman?
 
Answer: Trans-Substantiation.
 
Even better answer: Con-Substantiation.
 hat tip: Pastor TB

==Packed Sports Stadiums and Covid==
Q. Why haven't packed sports stadiums caused massive covid outbreaks?

A. Because of all the fans.

==On Being Elected Senator ==
Day one:"Here I am at last. How is it that God has allowed me to even sit in the same room with these statesmen?" 
Day ninety: "What are these other 99 idiots doing here?"

==Politics==
===The Politics of the Value-Added Tax (attributed to Larry Summers)===
The reason the United States, unlike European countries and Canada, doesn't have a value-added tax is that the Democrats think it's regressive and the Republicans think it makes raising tax revenue easy. 
When *will* the United States get a value-added tax? Once the Republicans realize it's regressive and the Democrats realize it makes raising tax revenue easy.

===Stigler on Diversity===
Something Stigler said about Chicago Economics in 1964.

Somebody:"You Chicago guys are so ideological! For instance, how many of your faculty voted for Goldwater?" 
Syigler: "About half. 
"See!!!!" 
"How about the number in your department?" 
"Zero, of course." 

==College Graduates without Practical Skills==
''Boss Father:'' Son, after you finish writing that compliance memo, will you sweep up the stock room?

''Newly Hired Son:'' But Dad, I’m a college graduate.

''Boss Father:'' Of course; I forgot. Bring me the broom, and I’ll show you how.

==The Hand of God Knocking Him off the Chair==
A college professor stood up on his chair and said, "If God really exists, then knock me off this chair". Nothing happened and he said, "See, I'll give it a couple more minutes". A marine vet stood up, punched the professor and knocked him off the chair, and then sat back down. The professor said, "What did you do that for?" The vet said, "God was busy protecting my buddies still fighting for your right to say and do stupid stuff like this, so HE SENT ME!

== Elephants Hiding in Trees==
"Elephants are really great in camouflage. They hide in the tops of trees!"

"That's ridiculous. I have NEVER seen an elephant in a tree!"

"EXACTLY! See how well they hide?"

==Why Are Corporations Like Vampires?==
Corporations and vampires have much in common: (i) immortality; (ii) personhood; and (iii) issues with stakeholders.
Is there a way to do something with veil-piercing? Certainly you have to design their bonds very carefully to restrain them from evil.

----
==Can you play the violin?==
Q. Can you play the violin?
A. I don't know. I've never tried.

==Transubstantiation==
 
Question: What do you call it when the NCAAA has to decide whether a certain athlete is a man or a woman?
 
Answer: Trans-Substantiation.
 
Even better answer: Con-Substantiation.
 hat tip: Pastor TB

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==Should I give him a book?==
Joe: What should I get Tom for his birthday?
::Moe: How about a book?
:::Joe: No, he's already got a book.

----

==People with Negative Heights==
Via Dick Thaler at https://twitter.com/R_Thaler/status/1436472735723573249 
Q: If height is normally distributed, why aren't there people with negative heights? 
A: There are. We just can't see them.

==For the Work of a Lifetime==
John Ruskin: 'The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?'
Whistler: 'No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.'
''Whistler v. Ruskin'' (1878)

==Two and Two Continue To Make Four==
"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five." --''Whistler v. Ruskin'' (1878)

== Freedom of Speech in Russian Social Media==
A Russian meets up with an American.

"We have freedom of speech," the Russian says. "I can post that Russian elections are rigged on social media."

"What's the big deal?" asks the American. "I too can write that Russian elections are rigged on social media."

==Explosion in a Cheese Factory==
Did you hear about the explosion in the cheese factory? There was nothing left but debris.

I haven't laughed so hard since the suggestion that Joe and Kamala run off to Las Vegas and get inaugurated without telling anybody.

https://quillette.com/2021/01/07/the-death-of-political-cartooning-and-why-it-matters/

Those who study the moon are real optimists, they tend to look at the bright side.

==Eggs Benedict on a Hubcap==
Why should you eat eggs benedict on a hubcap for Christmas dinner? 
--because there's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.

==The Glass Is Half Empty (Engineer)==
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
-Jens Foell, https://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/ (2021)

==Husbands==
If your husband is standing alone in the forest and says something, is he still wrong?

==The Joke Convention==
(Here write my better version, the Joke Convention, with the jolly guy rolling on the floor who hadn't heard it before.)

George Stigler's version in "The Conference Handbook" Journal of Political Economv, 1977, vol. 85, no. 2, is
{{Quotation|
There is an ancient joke about the two traveling salesmen in the age of
the train. The younger drummer was being initiated into the social life
of the traveler by the older. They proceeded to the smoking parlor on the
train, where a group of drummers were congregated. One said, "87,"
and a wave of laughter went through the group. The older drummer
explained to the younger that they traveled together so often that they
had numbered their jokes. The younger drummer wished to participate
in the event and diffidently ventured to say, "36." He was greeted by
cool silence. The older drummer took him aside and explained that they
had already heard that joke. (In another version, the younger drummer
was told that he had told the joke badly.)
}}

Stigler published an economists' version. I've improved it here, in the spirit of joketelling:

<pre>
Introductory Remarks 
A. Here is what the author was trying to say. 
B. The paper admirably solves the problem which it sets for itself.
Unfortunately, this was the wrong problem. 
C. What a pity that the vast erudition and industry of the author were so
misdirected 

D. I am an amateur in this field so my remarks must be diffident and
tentative. However, even a novice must find much to quarrel with in
this piece.
E. I can be very sympathetic with the author; until 2 years ago I was
thinking along similar lines.
F. It is good to have a nonspecialist looking at our problem. There is
always a chance of a fresh viewpoint, although usually, as in this
case, the advantages of the division of labor are reaffirmed.
G. This paper contains much that is new and much that is good.
H. Although the paper was promised 3 weeks ago, I received it as I
entered this room.
Comments
1. Adam Smith said that.
2. Unfortunately, there is an identification problem which is not dealt
with adequately in the paper.
3. The residuals are clearly nonnormal and the specification of the
model is incorrect.
4. Theorizing is not fruitful at this stage: we need a series of case
studies.
5. Case studies are a clue, but no real progress can be made until a
model of the process is constructed.
6. The second-best consideration would of course vitiate the argument.
7. That is an index number problem (obs., except in Cambridge).
8. Have you tried two-stage least squares?
9. The conclusions change if you introduce uncertainty.
10. You didn't use probit analysis?
11. I proved the main results in a paper published years ago.
12. The analysis is marred by a failure to distinguish transitory and
permanent components.
13. The market cannot, of course, deal satisfactorily with that externality.
14. But what if transaction costs are not zero?
15. That follows from the Coase theorem.
16. Of course, if you allow for the investment in human capital, the
entire picture changes.
17. Of course the demand function is quite inelastic.
18. Of course the supply function is highly inelastic.
19. The author uses a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.
20. What empirical finding would contradict your theory?
21. The central argument is not only a tautology, it is false.
22. What happens when you extend the analysis to the later (or earlier)
period?
23. The motivation of the agents in this theory is so narrowly egotistic
that it cannot possibly explain the behavior of real people.
24. The flabby economic actor in this impressionistic model should be
replaced by the utility-maximizing individual.
25. Did you have any trouble in inverting the singular matrix?
2 6. It was unfortunate that the wrong choice was made between M1 and
M2.
27. That is alright in theory, but it doesn't work out in practice (use
sparingly).
28. The speaker apparently believes that there is still one free lunch.
29. The problem cannot be dealt with by partial equilibrium methods:
it requires a general equilibrium formulation.
30. The paper is rigidly confined by the paradigm of neoclassical
economics, so large parts of urgent reality are outside its comprehension.
31. The conclusion rests on the assumption of fixed tastes, but of course
tastes have surely changed.
32. The trouble with the present situation is that the property rights
have not been fully assigned.
</pre>
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== The Old Lady Looking from the Attic==
A bunch of boys were swimming in the river without swimming suits. An old lady who lived on the river called up the Sheriff to complain. He went down and told the boys to move down the river, out of sight. 
Then, the sheriff got another phone call. The old lady said she could still see the boys, if she was upstairs in her bedroom. so the Sheriff went down and told the boys to move a little further down. 
Then the sheriff got another phone call. The old lady said she could still see the boys, if she went up to her attic window and looked out with binoculars. 
This time the sheriff said he was busy.

==Proof that 10 + 10 = 11 + 11==
Alex Kontorovich

Claim: 10 + 10 = 11 + 11

Proof: 
10+10 = twenty 
11+11 = twenty too

== Curing the Common Cold==
 
Patient: Doctor, what should I do to get over my cold? 
Doctor: I'm afraid we have no cure for the common cold. 
Patient: Surely you can think of something! 
Doctor: Well, yes: take a shower and then go naked into your yard in the 20-degree weather for half an hour. 
Patient: But then I'll get pneumonia! 
Doctor: Right. And *that*, we can cure.

==Ridden Out of Town on a Rail==
President Lincoln one evening at the White House was asked "How does it feel to be President of the United States?" "You have heard," said Lincoln, "about the man tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail? A man in the crowd asked him how he liked it, and his reply was, 'If it wasn't for the honor of the thing, I would rather walk.'" I need to find a good source.

==Grad Students without Original Thoughts==
I'm really depressed. I just went to my Department Chairman and said, "I'm depressed. You know my PhD student, Sam Jones? He just told me my seminar presentation was the worst he'd ever heard". The Chairman's reply: "Don't worry about Jones, he doesn't have an original thought in his head, and I very much fear he'll never come up with a dissertation topic. He just repeats what he hears all the other people in the department saying."

I'm really depressed. I just went to my Department Chairman and said, "I'm depressed. You know my PhD student, Sam Jones? He gave his practice job talk today, and it was the worst I've ever heard". The Chairman's reply: "Yeah, I sympathize. Jone is very good at learning what he's taught, but he's totally unoriginal. He just copies what he sees."

Jokes

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Books To Read

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* Bulleted list item
==Books to Read==
* ''Manners Can Be Fun'', by Muero Leaf.

*Eric Berne, ''Games People Play.''

*Avinash Dixit's "Lawlessness and Economics" is a must read: it has charm, creative + simple modeling, and wonderful anecdotes.

*The Complete Memoirs of Serge Obolensky: One Man in His Time Paperback – January 16, 2021
by Serge Obolensky (Author)
Few men lived lives larger than Serge Obolensky. Born to one of Imperial Russia’s great aristocratic families, Serge had an idyllic childhood growing up at a time when his country seemed poised for an economic boom at the start of the 20th century. Coming of age at the start of the most destructive period in human history, he served as a cavalry officer on the Eastern Front of the First World War. Then, as his nation collapsed into Bolshevik tyranny, he chose to stay and fight as a guerilla for the doomed White Army.
Eventually forced into exile, Serge rubbed shoulders with the elite of European society, wandering through the height of the Roaring Twenties and eventually landing in America. Swearing absolute loyalty to his newly adopted home, Obolensky embarked on a series of adventures in the world of high culture, finance, and industry, witnessing firsthand the growth of America from regional hegemon to global superpower.
On the outbreak of the Second World War, Obolensky volunteered for the special forces. There he trained experimental units, developed advanced combined arms tactics, and eventually became the oldest man to complete parachute jump school. His extreme courage and skill led him to be selected for a series of seemingly-impossible assignments: first securing the peaceful capture of Sardinia with only a three-man team and later preventing the destruction of Paris’s only electric power plant during the German retreat from France.

*Target Patton, written by Robert K. Wilcox and published by Regnery Press, runs over 450 pages, with an extensive bibliography and nearly 700 footnotes.

*O'Brien ''How the War Was Won,'' about WW2. IN IU library.

*Tongdong Bai, ''The Political Philosophy of hte Middle Kingdom.'' I have it now.

*[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/38235/38235-h/38235-h.htm#Page_59 The Gentleman's Model Letter-writer];A Complete Guide to Correspondence on All Subjects, with Commercial Forms]

*The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire by A. Wess Mitchell: Looks good and fun t read. Blmgtn - Herman B Wells Library
DB36.3.H3 M58 2018

*[http://cm2vivi2002.free.fr/AG-biblio/AG-clesonges.pdf LA CLEF DES SONGES: ou Dialogue avec le Bon Dieu,] Alexander GROTHENDIECK/.

*Good book to understand America's trajectory would be Martin Meredith's "The Fate of Africa." Tells story of end of colonial rule, withdrawal of effective bureaucrats, handover of pwr to people not ready for administration. We're doing it "democratically," but same difference. 1. The fate of Africa : from the hopes of freedom to the heart of despair : a history of fifty years of independence, Meredith, Martin. (2005) 960.32 Me

*''The Icon and Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture,'' by James Billington

*Richard Dawkins, ''Flights of Fancy.''

* 1. The making of the atomic bomb, Rhodes, Richard, 623.4511 Rho. Very good. Buy.

*''Zoning Rules!The Economics of Land Use Regulation'', William A. Fischel July 2015

*''The Best of Myles.'' Flann O’Brien

*Stilicho recommendations:
**''The Fall of the Roman Empire'' by Peter Heather. Good, but don't buy it.

** 1. The restoration of Rome : barbarian popes and imperial pretenders, Heather, P. J. (Peter J.) (2014) 909.07 Hea. Good, but don't buy it.

**Empires and barbarians : the fall of Rome and the birth of Europe, Heather, P. J. (Peter J.) (2010)
940.1 Hea

**''How Rome Fell'' by Adrian Goldsworthy.
**''The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization'' by Bryan Ward-Perkins

**''Empires of Faith'' by Peter Sarris focuses on the various states that succeeded the Roman Empire up to the rise of Islam. It strikes a good balance between narrative and explanation, it's a very good standalone work on the period after the fall.

** ''History of the Franks'' by Gregory of Tours.

*[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/54196/54196-h/54196-h.htm#Page_75 The Project Gutenberg EBook of ''The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs,''] by George Griffin Lewis (1913).

* ''We,'' Zamyatin, novel about a future organized society. See [https://theworthyhouse.com/2021/04/23/we-yevgeny-zamyatin/ the Haywood review. ]

*''General View of the Criminal Law of England'', James Stephen (1863).

*''Householders' Guide to Community Defence Against Bureaucratic Aggression'' (1972) JAY. Too expensive. $180 used. Out of print.

* Michael Thompson’s 2005 book, ''Understanding Independent School Parents'' (co-written with Alison Fox Mazzola)

*[https://calculusmadeeasy.org/ ''Calculus Made Easy''], up on the Web.

*''Memorabilia,'' Xenophon.

*''An Essay on the History of Civil Society,'' Adam Ferguson.

*''Henry Friendly: Greatest Judge of His Era'', by Dorsen.

*"The Registers of the Consistory of Geneva at the Time of Calvin: Volume 1: 1542-1544," 2002,
by Mrs. Isabella M. Watt (Editor), Mr. Robert M. Kingdon (Editor), Mr. Thomas A. Lambert (Editor).

==Books I Have Read That Are Good==
*Dorothy Crawford, Viruses: A Very Short Introduction.

*Rex Stout, The Rubber Band, The Red Box.

Colleges

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==Lists and Rankings==
*[https://www.cspicenter.com/p/diverse-and-divided-a-political-demography Demographics, and political views of students]

==Hillsdale==
*[https://www.connecticutmag.com/issues/features/how-the-coming-of-a-conservative-midwestern-college-divided-a-small-ct-town/article_3b86fb78-e3d6-11ea-8eda-53fc5dea576b.html "How the coming of a conservative Midwestern college divided a small CT town: S. Prestley Blake, the co-founder of the Friendly's restaurant chain, donated his Somers estate to Michigan's Hillsdale College. The school has grand plans to open an adult-learning center on the property, whose centerpiece is a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello. But questions about the school's religious bona fides which pushed the deal through have left a bad taste in some residents' mouths," Connecticut Magazine,
Christopher Hoffman Aug 26, 2020.
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*Hillsdale College Reading and Writing 660-740, Math 640-730 (2019–20)

:Swarthmore: Reading and Writing 680-750, Math 700-790 (2019–20)

:Amherst College Reading and Writing 650-740, Math 660-780 2019–20

:I hear Hillsdale's applications were up 50% (literally) this year and the President claims they are around #25 in the country in test scores of the new incoming class. They have been steadily improving. No affirmative action admits either, I expect, and few alumni admits, so the lower quartile (outside the ranges give above) will be drastically better than comparable colleges.

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==Patrick Henry College==
*[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/03/30/meet_the_russiagate_prober_who_couldnt_verify_anything_in_the_steele_dossier_yet_said_nothing_for_years_769667.html Braian Auten,] corrupt FBI analyst, teaches at Patrick Henry.

==University of Dallas (Catholic)
* Joshua Katz's [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/finding-refuge-at-the-university-of-dallas 2022 First Things article] on his charming visit there.

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"Jillette was signing autographs after a show last fall when he noticed the man standing over to the side of the crowd.

“And he had been the guy who picks the joke during our psychic comedian section of the show. He had the props from that in his hand because we give those away. He had the joke book and the envelope and paper and stuff,” Jillette said in the Dec. 8 YouTube video.

The man walked over to Jillette, complimented him on the show and handed him a Gideons New Testament.

“And he said, ‘I wrote in the front of it, and I wanted you to have this. I’m kind of proselytizing,'” Jillette said. “And then he said, ‘I’m a businessman. I’m sane. I’m not crazy.’ And he looked me right in the eyes.

“It was really wonderful. I believe he knew that I was an atheist. But he was not defensive, and he looked me right in the eyes,” Jillette said. “And he was truly complimentary. It didn’t seem like empty flattery. He was really kind and nice and sane and looked me in the eyes and talked to me and then gave me this Bible.”

Jillette then stated he doesn’t respect people who don’t proselytize.

“I don’t respect that at all. If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell and people could be going to hell or not getting eternal life or whatever, and you think that it’s not really worth telling them this because it would make it socially awkward, and atheists who think that people shouldn’t proselytize — ‘Just leave me alone, keep your religion to yourself.’

{{Quotation|How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?” Jillette asked. “How much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that? If I believed beyond a shadow of a doubt that a truck was coming at you and you didn’t believe it, and that truck was bearing down on you, there’s a certain point where I tackle you. And this is more important than that.”

Jillette reiterated his impression of the man’s demeanor.

“This guy was a really good guy. He was polite and honest and sane, and he cared enough about me to proselytize and give me a Bible, which had written in it a little note to me — not very personal, but just ‘Liked your show,’ and then listed five phone numbers for him and an e-mail address if I wanted to get in touch,” Jillette said.

“Now I know there’s no God, and one polite person living his life right doesn’t change that. But I’ll tell you, he was a very, very, very good man, and that’s really important. And with that kind of goodness, it’s OK to have that deep of a disagreement. I still think that religion does a lot of bad stuff, but that was a good man who gave me that book. That’s all I wanted to say,” Jillette said at the end of the short video.}}

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==The Four Idols==
The [https://fs.blog/francis-bacon-four-idols-mind/ Farnam Street blog article] on them is quite good, with excerpts from Bacon's ''Novum Organum.''

'''Idols of the Tribe.''' Misleading ideas inherent in the mind of man. Not understanding statistics. Not thinking logically.

'''Idols of the Cave.''' Misleading ideas in the mind of an individual due to his temperament, education, etc. Thinking like an economist (“maximize surplus”), or an epidemiologist (“save lives”), or an engineer (“make it strong”) or a modern American. Plato’s Republic’s Cave Allegory.

'''Idols of the Marketplace.''' Misleading ideas arising from thinking in terms of words instead of reality. Freedom of Speech, but if you disagree with it, you don’t think of it as Speech. “Essential services” during an epidemic.

'''Idols of the Theatre.''' Misleading ideas propounded by learned men and accepted by everyone else without question. The idea that bleeding cures illnesses.

==Idols of the Tribe==
Misleading ideas inherent in the mind of man. Not understanding statistics. Not think

ing logically.

==Idols of the Cave==
Misleading ideas in the mind of an individual due to his temperament, education, etc. Thinking like an economist (“maximize surplus”), or an epidemiologist (“save lives”), or an engineer (“make it strong”) or a modern American. Plato’s Republic’s Cave Allegory.

==Idols of the Marketplace==
Misleading ideas arising from thinking in terms of words instead of reality. Freedom of Speech, but if you disagree with it, you don’t think of it as Speech. “Essential services” during an epidemic.
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Political philosophy professors have a lot to learn from law-- in particular, the idea that if you look at specific examples, it really concentrates your thinking and brings out the real issues, piercing through the cloud of meaningless jargon that we academics tend to exhale. Actually, I guess we in economics could benefit from the same idea, though our exhalations tend to be mathematical.
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==Idols of the Theatre==
Misleading ideas propounded by learned men and accepted by everyone else without question. The idea that bleeding cures illnesses.

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Francis Bacon's Four Idols

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==The Four Idols==
'''Idols of the Tribe.''' Misleading ideas inherent in the mind of man. Not understanding statistics. Not thinking logically.

'''Idols of the Cave.''' Misleading ideas in the mind of an individual due to his temperament, education, etc. Thinking like an economist (“maximize surplus”), or an epidemiologist (“save lives”), or an engineer (“make it strong”) or a modern American. Plato’s Republic’s Cave Allegory.

'''Idols of the Marketplace.''' Misleading ideas arising from thinking in terms of words instead of reality. Freedom of Speech, but if you disagree with it, you don’t think of it as Speech. “Essential services” during an epidemic.

'''Idols of the Theatre.''' Misleading ideas propounded by learned men and accepted by everyone else without question. The idea that bleeding cures illnesses.

==Idols of the Tribe==
Misleading ideas inherent in the mind of man. Not understanding statistics. Not think

ing logically.

==Idols of the Cave==
Misleading ideas in the mind of an individual due to his temperament, education, etc. Thinking like an economist (“maximize surplus”), or an epidemiologist (“save lives”), or an engineer (“make it strong”) or a modern American. Plato’s Republic’s Cave Allegory.

==Idols of the Marketplace==
Misleading ideas arising from thinking in terms of words instead of reality. Freedom of Speech, but if you disagree with it, you don’t think of it as Speech. “Essential services” during an epidemic.
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Political philosophy professors have a lot to learn from law-- in particular, the idea that if you look at specific examples, it really concentrates your thinking and brings out the real issues, piercing through the cloud of meaningless jargon that we academics tend to exhale. Actually, I guess we in economics could benefit from the same idea, though our exhalations tend to be mathematical.
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==Idols of the Theatre==
Misleading ideas propounded by learned men and accepted by everyone else without question. The idea that bleeding cures illnesses.

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Cancellings

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See also [[Nondisclosure Clauses]].

*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9487849/China-launches-app-citizens-report-mistaken-opinions.html China launches app for citizens to report anyone who has 'mistaken opinions' or 'denies the excellence of socialist culture' The app and hotline has been released ahead of party's 100th anniversary ..."] (2021).

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/ "THE NEW PURITANS",] Atlantic (2021) by Ann Applebaum is a good survey with lots of specifics about cancellings and the various effects on its victims.

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==Individual 's Pages==
*[[Gordon Klein]] and [[Joshua Katz]] and [[Mark McPhail]] pages

==How to Resist==
*[https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/beating-back-cancel-culture-a-case-study-from-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence/ Pedro Domingos], ''Quillette'' (2021)

*[https://quillette.com/2021/02/05/more-weight-an-academics-guide-to-surviving-campus-witch-hunts/ Dorian Abbot], ''Quillette'' (2021).

==Miscellaneous==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/cancel-culture-database/?gv_search=indiana&filter_4=&filter_6=&filter_7=&mode=all College Fix Cancel Culture Database]
and the [https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/tracking-cancel-culture-in-higher-education#caseslist NAS higher education cancel list]

*[https://www.unz.com/mmalkin/why-airbnb-banned-me-and-my-hubby-too/ Michelle Malkin banned from AirBnB], February 2022.

*“Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.” Proverbs 27:10

==Commentary on Cancellings Generally==
*[https://reason.com/2021/12/13/the-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "he-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "] ''Reason'' (Dec.2021).

*Level 2 and 3 Witch Hunts
2021 and 2019 ( [https://twitter.com/search?q=ensure%20that%20even%20those%20most%20carefully%20orthodox%20in%20their%20opinions%20would%20have%20said%20something%20that%20later%20became%20heretical.&src=typed_query Paul Graham]

We can classify witch hunts by how long such paths can be. E.g. in a level 3 witch hunt, you can be targeted for defending someone who defended someone who was targeted. I saw that happen in 2020. I don't think I've seen 4 hops yet though.

It happened to me. A mob came after me when I tweeted this because they thought I was defending Stallman for defending Minsky. (Actually I wasn't. Stallman just happened to be one of two people getting cancelled then.)

Sep 17, 2019

If we extended human lifespans sufficiently, everyone would be cancelled. The drift in moral fashion would ensure that even those most carefully orthodox in their opinions would have said something that later became heretical.

2019 had 245 comments and 105 quote retweets and 2K Likes.

*[https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/twitter-is-now-cancelling-wooldridge/page/2 Wooldridge cancelling, power v. authority]

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==Dorian Abbot (MIT, 2021)==
*[https://freespeech.mit.edu/signatories "Campaign to endorse the Chicago Principles on freedom of expression,"] list of MIT faculty who signed.

*[https://www.mitfreespeech.org/ The MIT Free Speech Alliance], an alumni group formed in response to the Abbot cancellation.

*[https://www.thefire.org/mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/ mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/,"] FIRE (November 2021).

*[https://twitter.com/haralduhlig/status/1457018887514505219 Harald Uhlig Tweet] on Ivan Werning not signing.

*The [[MIT Free Speech]] page.

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==Boudreau (Central Michigan, 2021)==
*A FOIA request got the [https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/boudreau-settlement-agreement.pdf settlement agreement]. See [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/08/recent-developments-in-controversies-about-quoting-slurs-from-court-cases/#more-8115395 Volokh Conspiracy.]
<blockquote style="color:gray">
Prof. Boudreau, who was represented by a lawyer from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, withdrew any claims he might have against CMU, retired from CMU (he was apparently eligible for retirement), and in exchange received 10 months' salary and benefits (from Sept. 1, 2020 when he had been fired, to June 30, 2021, the end of this academic year).
</blockquote>

<blockquote style="color:gray">
5. Dr. Boudreau shall be paid in a lump sum, less normal withholding taxes the value of pay and CMU's contribution to benefits through June 30, 2021 within thirty (30) days of this settlement. A W-2 will be issued for this payment.

15. Dr. Boudreau agrees that the terms of this Release, including the payment made hereunder, are confidential and shall not be divulged to any third party except his spouse, tax advisor, CPA, wealth manager, and/or his attorneys who shall be advised of this confidentiality provision. Dr. Boudreau shall not be held liable for breach of this confidentiality clause in the event he is compelled via subpoena to under oath in court of law regarding details or terms of his severance and/or settlement agreement provided that he gives prompt notice to the CMU's General Counsel so CMU has the opportunity to object to the subpoena.

16. In the event that Dr. Boudreau violates any aspect of this Agreement, he acknowledges that said breach shall cause damage to CMU. The parties understand that CMU may have to reveal the terms pursuant to FOIA unrelated to any request by the Union or Dr. Boudreau, who agree not to make, encourage, or otherwise participate in such request.

19. Dr. Boudreau shall not, by oral or written expression or any other act of communication to any third party, by name, disparage, criticize, or impugn the reputation or character of CMU's curent or former Board of Trustees members, Board of Trustees, administrators, directors, other employees,eagents and representatives, both individually and in their official capacities (Releas6s). This provision shall not be construed to prohibit Dr. Boudreau from communicating his disagreement with CMU's decision to terminate his employment for the way he spoke various words including the "n-word", his criticism of CMU's decision and generally his beliefs and opinion on the efficacy of his teaching methods. Dr. Boudreau further agrees that this provision concerning non-disparagement is a material condition ofthe consideration contained herein, that this provision is an essential part of this Agreement, and that any violation ofthe terms ofthis paragraph shall be deemed a material breach of the entire Agreement.

21. Dr. Boudreau agrees that this Agreement shall be binding and inure to the benefit of his successors, executors, administrators, personal representatives and assigns, and to the benefit of the predecessors, successors, and assigns of the Releasees, and further agrees and acknowledges that this Agreement contains and comprises the entire agreement and understandings of the parties, and that there are no additional promises or terms of this Agreement, other than those contained within this document and the documents referenced herein.

23. If any provision of this Agreement shall for any reason be held invalid, illegal, unenforceable, or in conflict with any law governing this Agreement, the validity of the remaining portions of this Agreement shall not be affected but shall continue in full legal force and effect to the fullest extent allowed by law.
</blockquote>
Observations:
* (1) He can talk about the incident he was fired for.
*(2) He can disparage the University, just not the various individuals who are to blame for any university scandals he may reveal.
*(3) The University and its officials are free to disparage him however much they want.
*(4) No damages are specified for breach of the clause. He is paid his settlement money within 30 days, and there are no liquidated damages. Presumably the damages would be the default of expectation damages, which in this case would be like defamation damages except he would be liable for harm caused even by truthful statements about public figures.
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==Sara Braasch (Leftwing Yale Graduate Student who called the police when she found a strange black woman sleeping outside her dorm room, 2018)==
*[https://sarahjbraasch.com/2021/10/30/so-you-want-to-talk-about-ijeoma-oluo-who-repeatedly-tried-to-drive-me-to-suicide-on-twitter-because-i-am-the-proof-that-she-is-an-evil-lying-bigot-and-fraud-part-i/ Braasch's blog, screenshots of the Left's attempt to harass her and drive her to suicide] (2021)
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== ==

== [[Amy Chua]] (Yale Law). See the [[Amy Chua]] page. ==

== [[Trent Colbert]]: The Trap House Party (Yale Law). See the [[Trent Colbert]] page.==

==Jed DeVaro ( Cal State-East Bay econ)==
<html><img src="https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/mgmt/jed-devaro.jpg" height= 120 align=left></html>

*[https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/mgmt/devarojed.html Jed DeVaro faculty profile] and his [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KnFonD0AAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar Citation page].

*[https://thepioneeronline.com/42499/features/professors-not-immune-to-gender-inequality/ "Professors not immune to gender inequality: Jung Sook You, CSUEB,"] ''The Pioneer,'' November 30, 2020.
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==Roland Fryer (Harvard econ, 2019)==
*[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/01/27/harvard_the_new_york_times_and_the_metoo_takedown_of_a_black_academic_star.html "Harvard, the NY Times and the #MeToo Takedown of a Black Academic Star,"] Stuart Taylor Jr., ''RealClearInvestigations,'' January 29, 2019.

*[https://karlstack.substack.com/p/the-lynching-of-roland-fryer "The Lynching of Roland Fryer," ] ''Substack'' (2021).
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==Iowa ==
*[https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18597 "University ordered to pay almost $2 million after students win religious freedom lawsuit
The University of Iowa was recently ordered to pay $1.9 million after two student groups sued the school.
The lawsuits were filed originally in 2017 and 2018."]

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==[[Timothy Jackson]], North Texas, Musicology. See the [[Timothy Jackson]] page.==

== ==

==Katz, Joshua (Princeton Classics, 2022)==
See the [[Joshua Katz]] page.

==Kilborn, Jason==
*[https://campusreform.org/article?id=16754 "Law prof says he was forced to undergo lengthy mental examination & drug test after exam question caused students ‘distress’,"] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Kilborn told Campus Reform that his classes “were cancelled for the entire semester on the very first day of class. He said he also had to undergo “an agonizing several-week period of ‘administrative leave,’” during which he was “barred from campus and prevented from participating in normal faculty communications and activities, including my elected position on the university promotion and tenure committee.”

Kilborn said he was compelled to submit to three hours of mental examination and a drug test by university doctors and a social worker, broken into two segments spanning the course of a week.}}
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==Chad KIMBALL (Broadway actor, 2021)==
*[https://nypost.com/2021/11/05/tony-nominee-i-was-fired-from-broadway-for-being-christian/ "Tony nominee Chad Kimball: I was fired from Broadway for being Christian,"] ''New York Post.''

==Brian KLATTMAN (Lehigh, 2021)==
*[https://thebrownandwhite.com/2021/11/09/math-professor-removed-from-the-classroom/ "Visiting math professor removed from the classroom following social media posts brought to university’s attention ,"] GABRIELLE FALK,NOVEMBER 9, 2021, ''The Brown and White.''
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==Diane Klein (LaVerne, Chapman)==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/law-professor-says-university-fired-her-by-racializing-criticism-of-black-colleagues-performance/ "Law professor says university fired her by ‘racializing’ criticism of black colleague’s performance," ] CHRISTIAN LUBKE (AUGUST 26, 2020).
{{Quotation|
In a meeting on the future of the law school last fall, Klein told colleagues that they must decide “whether we are willing to assassinate” Assistant Dean Jendayi Saada, who runs the Center for Academic and Bar Readiness.}}

*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/17/la-verne-seeks-terminate-gadfly-professor-allegedly-threatening-assassinate Insider Higher Education] article.

*[https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/concerned-la-verne-faculty-for-the-restoration-of#scrollTo--undefined Petition] from Laverne faculty in support of KLein.

*[https://www.coursicle.com/chapman/professors/Diane+Klein/ Chapman Law] teaching schedule.

*[http://www.caaaup.org/about-ca-aaup.html AAUP State of California Vice President for Private Universities] (2020-2022).
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==[[Gordon Klein]], UCLA, Anderson School, Accounting (2020). See the [[Gordon Klein]] page.==

==John Kluge (Indiana schoolteacher)==
*[https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20200109d01 District Court decision]

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==Zhihao Kong (Purdue student, Chinese government harassment)==
*[https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out "even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out,"] ''Pro Publica'', Sebastian Rotella (Nov. 2021).

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==Walter Lewin (MIT)==
This is an odd one. I haven't figure it out yet.
*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/complainant-unprecedented-walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case-comes-forward walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case].

[https://thetech.com/2014/12/09/walterlewin-v134-n60 "MIT cuts ties with Walter Lewin after online harassment probe
Institute revokes emeritus title, removes online courses of popular physics professor who starred in viral videos"] The Tech (2014).

==Jamie Lund (St. Mary's Law) (2013)==
*[https://abovethelaw.com/2013/05/sources-and-dr-phil-offer-insights-author-of-confessions-of-a-sociopath-who-might-be-this-law-professor/ Above the Law] guessing as to the true identity of a "sociopath". It looks like she was mistreated.

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==John MacAdams (Marquette, 2018)==
[https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2021/04/15/marquette-political-science-professor-john-mcadams-dies/7246026002/ "John McAdams, political science professor who took Marquette to the state Supreme Court, dies,"] Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 15, 2021.

==McPhail, Mark (Indiana U.--Northwest, Gary, 2022)==
[[McPhail, Mark]] has its own page.
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==Meriwether (Ohio, gender pronouns)==
See [[Meriwether Case of Administration Persecution]]. Not a cancelling case, really, if I remember right; a wokeness case, though.

==Richard Paxton (Pacific U., 2021, fired)==
*[https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/26/pacific-university-professor-richard-paxton-fired-oregon-education-universities/ OPB.org on his firing].

==Joseph Petry (Illinois)==
*[https://www.docdroid.net/24J86No/20-448releaseable-pdf Feb. 28, 2020 University Report] online.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry.pdf June 11, 2020 News Release] by Thies-Webber.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry-1.pdf January 27, 2021 News Release] by Thies-Webber after winning on the motion to dismiss, with the Complaint and Motion to Dismiss and Objection to the Motion to Dismiss and Decision. This is the key document.

*Jan 28, 2021 [https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/university-illinois/ex-professors-breach-of-contract-suit-against-ui-can-proceed-judge-decides/article_b9ee510e-8ff7-5ebd-bfc1-7f4cca3725e1.html "Ex-professor's breach-of-contract suit against UI can proceed, judge decides,"] Ben Zigterman bzigterman@news-gazette.com,.

*FEBRUARY 9, 2021, [https://www.thecollegefix.com/judge-approves-professors-lawsuit-against-university-for-baseless-grades-for-sex-investigation/ "Judge approves professor’s lawsuit against university for baseless grades-for-sex investigation,"] HENRY KOKKELER - WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY. This is a very informative article.

==Stephen Porter (NC State, 2021)==
[https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/10/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-professor-files-lawsuit-against-nc-state-university/ "“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Professor Files Lawsuit Against NC State University,"] Inside Higher Education, Oct. 11, 2021, Shannon Watkins.

==Judge Pryor (2021)==
*[http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2021/10/judge-bill-pryor-and-law-clerk-cancel.html?m=1 Attack on him by Dorf on Law] for hiring a clerk who sent an anti-black tweet once a few years ago.

==Purdue==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/purdue-has-students-criminally-charged-for-posters-criticizing-administrator/ Purdue brings criminal vandalism charges against students] for putting up posters criticizing an administrator for going soft on rape.

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== J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law, 2020). See the [[J. Mark Ramseyer]] page. ==

== ==
==Sanders, Steve (Indiana Law, 2021)==
*[https://www.thefire.org/did-indiana-university-foia-its-own-professor/ FIRE writeup] of the situation, around Dec. 15.

==Schulz, Gregory (Concordia-Wisconsin, 2022)==
*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/16/christian-university-still-hasnt-reinstated-professor-it-kicked-out-after-he-criticized-identity-politics/ Suspended] from a Missouri Lutheran, supposedly conservative denominational college for criticizing wokeism. On the web is a [https://gunnerq.com/2022/03/14/heres-the-real-reason-they-canceled-concordias-greg-schultz/ confused set of notes by someone] with valuable background information]

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==Shaw, Jodi (Smith librarian)==
*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac03e14ec4eb74c10016931/t/61bcbb8de3cfe174add26ed7/1639758778264/2021-12-16+Shaw+Complaint.pdf Her lawsuit complaint] (2021).

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==Harald UHLIG (Chicago Econ, 2020)==
*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/45hnqjjki12529m/uhlig_petition_public.pdf?dl=0 Petition calling for the resignation of Harald Uhlig as editor of JPE]:
{{Quotation|
To: The Coeditors of the Journal of Political Economy and Director of The University of Chicago
Press

We, the undersigned, call for the resignation of Harald Uhlig, the Bruce Allen and Barbara
Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, '''as the Lead Editor of the Journal
of Political Economy.''' Prof. Uhlig's comments published on his blog (https://bit.ly/3cN0L97)
and Twitter posts dated June 8th, '''trivializing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement''' and drawing
parallels between the BLM movement and the Ku Klux Klan, are outrageous and unacceptable. They hurt and marginalize people of color and their allies in the economics profession; c'''all into question his impartiality''' in assessing academic work on this and related topics; and damage the standing of the economics discipline in society. '''We do not question the right of Prof. Uhlig to make such comments,''' but we are strongly opposed to him holding a position of power as the editor of a prominent journal in our discipline. }}

::Signed by Richard Tol, Oliver Jehiel, Sharon Oster, Shelly Lundberg, Ivan Werning, David Cutler, Chris Blattman, Paul Goldsmith, Severin Borenstein, Arthur Silve, Andrew Atkeson, Scott Imberman, Jennifer Doleac, Justin Wolfers, Judith Chevalier,

*[https://twitter.com/erasmuse/status/1459537303894900741 Uhlig tweet with Rasmusen comments] on the MIT Free Speech petition, its signers, and its nonsigners.

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==Allyn Walker (Old Dominion, 2021)==
*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10210713/Trans-professor-placed-leave-controversially-defending-pedophiles.html ''Daily Mail'' article,] October 21, 2021.
{{Quotation|
A transgender university professor in Virginia has been placed on leave after defending pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and saying they shouldn't be ostracized because they can't help their natural urges....Walker has written a book that tries to destigmatize pedophilia. It encourages people to refer to pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and says they shouldn't be ostracized for their urges, which they can't help.... said that the online backlash had led to concerns for Walker's safety and that of the campus, and placing them on leave was the best course of action. }}

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==Amy Wax (Penn Law)==
*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2018/4/fahrenheit-451-updated 2018 New Criterion article]

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==Zimmerman, James (Nashville clarinet, 2021)==
*[https://freebeacon.com/culture/how-racial-anxiety-conquered-an-orchestra-and-crushed-a-career/ " How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career"] Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon. A black oboeist on temp status because of his musicial weakness was hired by breaking the rules and not having fellow musicians vote on him. A clarinetist, James Zimmerman, who had advocated for his temporary trial and gotten him the job, was assigned to help him. He resented that, and with another musician, accused Zimmerman of stalking them and got Zimmerman fired. The Board boasted about it, and the Union refused to support him.

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Cancellings

2022-06-18T02:17:40Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Miscellaneous */

See also [[Nondisclosure Clauses]].

*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9487849/China-launches-app-citizens-report-mistaken-opinions.html China launches app for citizens to report anyone who has 'mistaken opinions' or 'denies the excellence of socialist culture' The app and hotline has been released ahead of party's 100th anniversary ..."] (2021).

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/ "THE NEW PURITANS",] Atlantic (2021) by Ann Applebaum is a good survey with lots of specifics about cancellings and the various effects on its victims.

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==Individual 's Pages==
*[[Gordon Klein]] and [[Joshua Katz]] and [[Mark McPhail]] pages

==How to Resist==
*[https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/beating-back-cancel-culture-a-case-study-from-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence/ Pedro Domingos], ''Quillette'' (2021)

*[https://quillette.com/2021/02/05/more-weight-an-academics-guide-to-surviving-campus-witch-hunts/ Dorian Abbot], ''Quillette'' (2021).

==Miscellaneous==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/cancel-culture-database/?gv_search=indiana&filter_4=&filter_6=&filter_7=&mode=all College Fix Cancel Culture Database]

*[https://www.unz.com/mmalkin/why-airbnb-banned-me-and-my-hubby-too/ Michelle Malkin banned from AirBnB], February 2022.

*“Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.” Proverbs 27:10

==Commentary on Cancellings Generally==
*[https://reason.com/2021/12/13/the-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "he-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "] ''Reason'' (Dec.2021).

*Level 2 and 3 Witch Hunts
2021 and 2019 ( [https://twitter.com/search?q=ensure%20that%20even%20those%20most%20carefully%20orthodox%20in%20their%20opinions%20would%20have%20said%20something%20that%20later%20became%20heretical.&src=typed_query Paul Graham]

We can classify witch hunts by how long such paths can be. E.g. in a level 3 witch hunt, you can be targeted for defending someone who defended someone who was targeted. I saw that happen in 2020. I don't think I've seen 4 hops yet though.

It happened to me. A mob came after me when I tweeted this because they thought I was defending Stallman for defending Minsky. (Actually I wasn't. Stallman just happened to be one of two people getting cancelled then.)

Sep 17, 2019

If we extended human lifespans sufficiently, everyone would be cancelled. The drift in moral fashion would ensure that even those most carefully orthodox in their opinions would have said something that later became heretical.

2019 had 245 comments and 105 quote retweets and 2K Likes.

*[https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/twitter-is-now-cancelling-wooldridge/page/2 Wooldridge cancelling, power v. authority]

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==Dorian Abbot (MIT, 2021)==
*[https://freespeech.mit.edu/signatories "Campaign to endorse the Chicago Principles on freedom of expression,"] list of MIT faculty who signed.

*[https://www.mitfreespeech.org/ The MIT Free Speech Alliance], an alumni group formed in response to the Abbot cancellation.

*[https://www.thefire.org/mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/ mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/,"] FIRE (November 2021).

*[https://twitter.com/haralduhlig/status/1457018887514505219 Harald Uhlig Tweet] on Ivan Werning not signing.

*The [[MIT Free Speech]] page.

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==Boudreau (Central Michigan, 2021)==
*A FOIA request got the [https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/boudreau-settlement-agreement.pdf settlement agreement]. See [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/08/recent-developments-in-controversies-about-quoting-slurs-from-court-cases/#more-8115395 Volokh Conspiracy.]
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Prof. Boudreau, who was represented by a lawyer from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, withdrew any claims he might have against CMU, retired from CMU (he was apparently eligible for retirement), and in exchange received 10 months' salary and benefits (from Sept. 1, 2020 when he had been fired, to June 30, 2021, the end of this academic year).
</blockquote>

<blockquote style="color:gray">
5. Dr. Boudreau shall be paid in a lump sum, less normal withholding taxes the value of pay and CMU's contribution to benefits through June 30, 2021 within thirty (30) days of this settlement. A W-2 will be issued for this payment.

15. Dr. Boudreau agrees that the terms of this Release, including the payment made hereunder, are confidential and shall not be divulged to any third party except his spouse, tax advisor, CPA, wealth manager, and/or his attorneys who shall be advised of this confidentiality provision. Dr. Boudreau shall not be held liable for breach of this confidentiality clause in the event he is compelled via subpoena to under oath in court of law regarding details or terms of his severance and/or settlement agreement provided that he gives prompt notice to the CMU's General Counsel so CMU has the opportunity to object to the subpoena.

16. In the event that Dr. Boudreau violates any aspect of this Agreement, he acknowledges that said breach shall cause damage to CMU. The parties understand that CMU may have to reveal the terms pursuant to FOIA unrelated to any request by the Union or Dr. Boudreau, who agree not to make, encourage, or otherwise participate in such request.

19. Dr. Boudreau shall not, by oral or written expression or any other act of communication to any third party, by name, disparage, criticize, or impugn the reputation or character of CMU's curent or former Board of Trustees members, Board of Trustees, administrators, directors, other employees,eagents and representatives, both individually and in their official capacities (Releas6s). This provision shall not be construed to prohibit Dr. Boudreau from communicating his disagreement with CMU's decision to terminate his employment for the way he spoke various words including the "n-word", his criticism of CMU's decision and generally his beliefs and opinion on the efficacy of his teaching methods. Dr. Boudreau further agrees that this provision concerning non-disparagement is a material condition ofthe consideration contained herein, that this provision is an essential part of this Agreement, and that any violation ofthe terms ofthis paragraph shall be deemed a material breach of the entire Agreement.

21. Dr. Boudreau agrees that this Agreement shall be binding and inure to the benefit of his successors, executors, administrators, personal representatives and assigns, and to the benefit of the predecessors, successors, and assigns of the Releasees, and further agrees and acknowledges that this Agreement contains and comprises the entire agreement and understandings of the parties, and that there are no additional promises or terms of this Agreement, other than those contained within this document and the documents referenced herein.

23. If any provision of this Agreement shall for any reason be held invalid, illegal, unenforceable, or in conflict with any law governing this Agreement, the validity of the remaining portions of this Agreement shall not be affected but shall continue in full legal force and effect to the fullest extent allowed by law.
</blockquote>
Observations:
* (1) He can talk about the incident he was fired for.
*(2) He can disparage the University, just not the various individuals who are to blame for any university scandals he may reveal.
*(3) The University and its officials are free to disparage him however much they want.
*(4) No damages are specified for breach of the clause. He is paid his settlement money within 30 days, and there are no liquidated damages. Presumably the damages would be the default of expectation damages, which in this case would be like defamation damages except he would be liable for harm caused even by truthful statements about public figures.
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==Sara Braasch (Leftwing Yale Graduate Student who called the police when she found a strange black woman sleeping outside her dorm room, 2018)==
*[https://sarahjbraasch.com/2021/10/30/so-you-want-to-talk-about-ijeoma-oluo-who-repeatedly-tried-to-drive-me-to-suicide-on-twitter-because-i-am-the-proof-that-she-is-an-evil-lying-bigot-and-fraud-part-i/ Braasch's blog, screenshots of the Left's attempt to harass her and drive her to suicide] (2021)
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== [[Amy Chua]] (Yale Law). See the [[Amy Chua]] page. ==

== [[Trent Colbert]]: The Trap House Party (Yale Law). See the [[Trent Colbert]] page.==

==Jed DeVaro ( Cal State-East Bay econ)==
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*[https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/mgmt/devarojed.html Jed DeVaro faculty profile] and his [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KnFonD0AAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar Citation page].

*[https://thepioneeronline.com/42499/features/professors-not-immune-to-gender-inequality/ "Professors not immune to gender inequality: Jung Sook You, CSUEB,"] ''The Pioneer,'' November 30, 2020.
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==Roland Fryer (Harvard econ, 2019)==
*[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/01/27/harvard_the_new_york_times_and_the_metoo_takedown_of_a_black_academic_star.html "Harvard, the NY Times and the #MeToo Takedown of a Black Academic Star,"] Stuart Taylor Jr., ''RealClearInvestigations,'' January 29, 2019.

*[https://karlstack.substack.com/p/the-lynching-of-roland-fryer "The Lynching of Roland Fryer," ] ''Substack'' (2021).
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==Iowa ==
*[https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18597 "University ordered to pay almost $2 million after students win religious freedom lawsuit
The University of Iowa was recently ordered to pay $1.9 million after two student groups sued the school.
The lawsuits were filed originally in 2017 and 2018."]

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==[[Timothy Jackson]], North Texas, Musicology. See the [[Timothy Jackson]] page.==

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==Katz, Joshua (Princeton Classics, 2022)==
See the [[Joshua Katz]] page.

==Kilborn, Jason==
*[https://campusreform.org/article?id=16754 "Law prof says he was forced to undergo lengthy mental examination & drug test after exam question caused students ‘distress’,"] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Kilborn told Campus Reform that his classes “were cancelled for the entire semester on the very first day of class. He said he also had to undergo “an agonizing several-week period of ‘administrative leave,’” during which he was “barred from campus and prevented from participating in normal faculty communications and activities, including my elected position on the university promotion and tenure committee.”

Kilborn said he was compelled to submit to three hours of mental examination and a drug test by university doctors and a social worker, broken into two segments spanning the course of a week.}}
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==Chad KIMBALL (Broadway actor, 2021)==
*[https://nypost.com/2021/11/05/tony-nominee-i-was-fired-from-broadway-for-being-christian/ "Tony nominee Chad Kimball: I was fired from Broadway for being Christian,"] ''New York Post.''

==Brian KLATTMAN (Lehigh, 2021)==
*[https://thebrownandwhite.com/2021/11/09/math-professor-removed-from-the-classroom/ "Visiting math professor removed from the classroom following social media posts brought to university’s attention ,"] GABRIELLE FALK,NOVEMBER 9, 2021, ''The Brown and White.''
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==Diane Klein (LaVerne, Chapman)==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/law-professor-says-university-fired-her-by-racializing-criticism-of-black-colleagues-performance/ "Law professor says university fired her by ‘racializing’ criticism of black colleague’s performance," ] CHRISTIAN LUBKE (AUGUST 26, 2020).
{{Quotation|
In a meeting on the future of the law school last fall, Klein told colleagues that they must decide “whether we are willing to assassinate” Assistant Dean Jendayi Saada, who runs the Center for Academic and Bar Readiness.}}

*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/17/la-verne-seeks-terminate-gadfly-professor-allegedly-threatening-assassinate Insider Higher Education] article.

*[https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/concerned-la-verne-faculty-for-the-restoration-of#scrollTo--undefined Petition] from Laverne faculty in support of KLein.

*[https://www.coursicle.com/chapman/professors/Diane+Klein/ Chapman Law] teaching schedule.

*[http://www.caaaup.org/about-ca-aaup.html AAUP State of California Vice President for Private Universities] (2020-2022).
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==[[Gordon Klein]], UCLA, Anderson School, Accounting (2020). See the [[Gordon Klein]] page.==

==John Kluge (Indiana schoolteacher)==
*[https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20200109d01 District Court decision]

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==Zhihao Kong (Purdue student, Chinese government harassment)==
*[https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out "even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out,"] ''Pro Publica'', Sebastian Rotella (Nov. 2021).

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==Walter Lewin (MIT)==
This is an odd one. I haven't figure it out yet.
*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/complainant-unprecedented-walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case-comes-forward walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case].

[https://thetech.com/2014/12/09/walterlewin-v134-n60 "MIT cuts ties with Walter Lewin after online harassment probe
Institute revokes emeritus title, removes online courses of popular physics professor who starred in viral videos"] The Tech (2014).

==Jamie Lund (St. Mary's Law) (2013)==
*[https://abovethelaw.com/2013/05/sources-and-dr-phil-offer-insights-author-of-confessions-of-a-sociopath-who-might-be-this-law-professor/ Above the Law] guessing as to the true identity of a "sociopath". It looks like she was mistreated.

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==John MacAdams (Marquette, 2018)==
[https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2021/04/15/marquette-political-science-professor-john-mcadams-dies/7246026002/ "John McAdams, political science professor who took Marquette to the state Supreme Court, dies,"] Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 15, 2021.

==McPhail, Mark (Indiana U.--Northwest, Gary, 2022)==
[[McPhail, Mark]] has its own page.
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==Meriwether (Ohio, gender pronouns)==
See [[Meriwether Case of Administration Persecution]]. Not a cancelling case, really, if I remember right; a wokeness case, though.

==Richard Paxton (Pacific U., 2021, fired)==
*[https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/26/pacific-university-professor-richard-paxton-fired-oregon-education-universities/ OPB.org on his firing].

==Joseph Petry (Illinois)==
*[https://www.docdroid.net/24J86No/20-448releaseable-pdf Feb. 28, 2020 University Report] online.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry.pdf June 11, 2020 News Release] by Thies-Webber.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry-1.pdf January 27, 2021 News Release] by Thies-Webber after winning on the motion to dismiss, with the Complaint and Motion to Dismiss and Objection to the Motion to Dismiss and Decision. This is the key document.

*Jan 28, 2021 [https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/university-illinois/ex-professors-breach-of-contract-suit-against-ui-can-proceed-judge-decides/article_b9ee510e-8ff7-5ebd-bfc1-7f4cca3725e1.html "Ex-professor's breach-of-contract suit against UI can proceed, judge decides,"] Ben Zigterman bzigterman@news-gazette.com,.

*FEBRUARY 9, 2021, [https://www.thecollegefix.com/judge-approves-professors-lawsuit-against-university-for-baseless-grades-for-sex-investigation/ "Judge approves professor’s lawsuit against university for baseless grades-for-sex investigation,"] HENRY KOKKELER - WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY. This is a very informative article.

==Stephen Porter (NC State, 2021)==
[https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/10/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-professor-files-lawsuit-against-nc-state-university/ "“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Professor Files Lawsuit Against NC State University,"] Inside Higher Education, Oct. 11, 2021, Shannon Watkins.

==Judge Pryor (2021)==
*[http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2021/10/judge-bill-pryor-and-law-clerk-cancel.html?m=1 Attack on him by Dorf on Law] for hiring a clerk who sent an anti-black tweet once a few years ago.

==Purdue==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/purdue-has-students-criminally-charged-for-posters-criticizing-administrator/ Purdue brings criminal vandalism charges against students] for putting up posters criticizing an administrator for going soft on rape.

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== J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law, 2020). See the [[J. Mark Ramseyer]] page. ==

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==Sanders, Steve (Indiana Law, 2021)==
*[https://www.thefire.org/did-indiana-university-foia-its-own-professor/ FIRE writeup] of the situation, around Dec. 15.

==Schulz, Gregory (Concordia-Wisconsin, 2022)==
*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/16/christian-university-still-hasnt-reinstated-professor-it-kicked-out-after-he-criticized-identity-politics/ Suspended] from a Missouri Lutheran, supposedly conservative denominational college for criticizing wokeism. On the web is a [https://gunnerq.com/2022/03/14/heres-the-real-reason-they-canceled-concordias-greg-schultz/ confused set of notes by someone] with valuable background information]

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==Shaw, Jodi (Smith librarian)==
*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac03e14ec4eb74c10016931/t/61bcbb8de3cfe174add26ed7/1639758778264/2021-12-16+Shaw+Complaint.pdf Her lawsuit complaint] (2021).

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==Harald UHLIG (Chicago Econ, 2020)==
*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/45hnqjjki12529m/uhlig_petition_public.pdf?dl=0 Petition calling for the resignation of Harald Uhlig as editor of JPE]:
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To: The Coeditors of the Journal of Political Economy and Director of The University of Chicago
Press

We, the undersigned, call for the resignation of Harald Uhlig, the Bruce Allen and Barbara
Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, '''as the Lead Editor of the Journal
of Political Economy.''' Prof. Uhlig's comments published on his blog (https://bit.ly/3cN0L97)
and Twitter posts dated June 8th, '''trivializing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement''' and drawing
parallels between the BLM movement and the Ku Klux Klan, are outrageous and unacceptable. They hurt and marginalize people of color and their allies in the economics profession; c'''all into question his impartiality''' in assessing academic work on this and related topics; and damage the standing of the economics discipline in society. '''We do not question the right of Prof. Uhlig to make such comments,''' but we are strongly opposed to him holding a position of power as the editor of a prominent journal in our discipline. }}

::Signed by Richard Tol, Oliver Jehiel, Sharon Oster, Shelly Lundberg, Ivan Werning, David Cutler, Chris Blattman, Paul Goldsmith, Severin Borenstein, Arthur Silve, Andrew Atkeson, Scott Imberman, Jennifer Doleac, Justin Wolfers, Judith Chevalier,

*[https://twitter.com/erasmuse/status/1459537303894900741 Uhlig tweet with Rasmusen comments] on the MIT Free Speech petition, its signers, and its nonsigners.

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==Allyn Walker (Old Dominion, 2021)==
*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10210713/Trans-professor-placed-leave-controversially-defending-pedophiles.html ''Daily Mail'' article,] October 21, 2021.
{{Quotation|
A transgender university professor in Virginia has been placed on leave after defending pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and saying they shouldn't be ostracized because they can't help their natural urges....Walker has written a book that tries to destigmatize pedophilia. It encourages people to refer to pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and says they shouldn't be ostracized for their urges, which they can't help.... said that the online backlash had led to concerns for Walker's safety and that of the campus, and placing them on leave was the best course of action. }}

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==Amy Wax (Penn Law)==
*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2018/4/fahrenheit-451-updated 2018 New Criterion article]

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==Zimmerman, James (Nashville clarinet, 2021)==
*[https://freebeacon.com/culture/how-racial-anxiety-conquered-an-orchestra-and-crushed-a-career/ " How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career"] Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon. A black oboeist on temp status because of his musicial weakness was hired by breaking the rules and not having fellow musicians vote on him. A clarinetist, James Zimmerman, who had advocated for his temporary trial and gotten him the job, was assigned to help him. He resented that, and with another musician, accused Zimmerman of stalking them and got Zimmerman fired. The Board boasted about it, and the Union refused to support him.

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Ecclesiology

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==Introductcion==

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==Organization of this page==
Maybe try ''Summa Theologica'' style to questions.

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==The Board of Elders==
===Chairman===
In a congregational system, the pastor should not chair meetings of the elders. In a presbyterian or episcopal system, he should. That's because in the latter, if he does wrong, there is appeal to higher authority.

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== Flying the National Flag==
*[https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2021/11/the-history-of-national-flags-in-churches "THE HISTORY OF NATIONAL FLAGS IN CHURCHES,"] Miles Smith (11 . 24 . 21):
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according to the article in Christianity Today, global pastors disagree with the reflexive denunciation of flags as idolatrous. The piece included comments from pastors around the world. Arab ministers affirmed the presence of national flags in their churches. An Egyptian pastor said he agreed “with displaying the flag of my country in the church. The flag of my country only and not other countries, as it is a spiritual and not a political orientation.” The purpose of raising his flag, he argued, was to keep his heart united with his people in “prayer for the salvation of their souls. It’s to remember that I must stand in the gap for my people, that they may know the Lord and see the light of the gospel and to tell my country and my people how much I love them and pray for them.”

A Jordanian minister said he “strongly” believed “that each church building should post the flag on the building and in the sanctuary.” He and his elders made the decision to do so “in order to show our loyalty as citizens to the country of Jordan. We believe that by doing so, we are a good example and testimony to others and also following the teachings of the Bible.” An Indonesian minister said that “when we display the flag in our church, it is not to express idolatry. We want to honor our national identity. It reminds us of our responsibilities as Christian citizens. It’s also a sign of gratitude for living in Indonesia.” A pastor from Nigeria noted that a flag was a “symbol of a country and flying it indicates the importance of the country.” He displayed the Nigerian flag in the church to “present the country perpetually before the Lord for his divine visitation and to also indicate that we love Nigeria dearly. We pray for her every Sunday service.” }}

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==Is It Permissible To Wear Surgical Masks During Church==
During covid, many people started wearing masks in church, and many governments require it. Is this permissible? Or is it like a man wearing a hat in church?

==Dress==
===How Should Pastors Dress?===
Too many pastors-- even good guys-- dress and act like beta males. When an alpha male confesses publicly to God that he's a miserable worm, it's awesome. When a hipster with a neat beard and carefully casual clothes does it, we just think, "Of course".

===Should Women Wear Hats in Church?===
Would women wear them just to conform, even though they would oppose them if desired by their husbands for any reason, or by the pastor? They would wear them in dference to the State, juste as they wear masks.

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==Should we pray holding up our hands? ==

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== Communion ==
Is the Communion bread and wine a symbol of Church fellowship? Jesus's death and the coming of the Holy Spirit creates The Church, the fellowship of believers. We are to eat and drink together in fellowship, in intimacy, and we can do that only by the Holy Spirit, since we are very unlike each other. It is impractical to do that in worship, so we do it symbolically. But we should do it literally too. The Church pot-luck is a big deal. So is the home fellowship group that eats together. So is any Christian hospitality. Remember the Jewish seder, also a meal. Aristotle said, I think, that a sign of being friends is eating together.

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== The Offering ==

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== The Regulative Principle ==

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==Reverence: Should We Be Reverent in Church?==
*We reformed Christians lament how ignorant most Christians (and worldings) are of Theology. But what may be worse is their ignorance of Reverence. We don't even try to teach that, and we scoff at organs, good architecture, liturgy, King James Bible language, dignity.
That's probably why some people switch to Eastern Orthodoxy or Roman Catholicism, despite the blasphemous theology (whatever they say or think is their reason). The vast majority of protestant churches had plenty of reverence and respect for God till about 1980. We have the old joke of uneducated people trying to use KJV bible language to pray. Organs were standard. Pastors were a little scary, rather than guys to have a beer with.

==During songs, should everyone clap, or nobody clap?==

==Should musicians be in the front of the congregation, or behind==

==Should we stand for the Scripture readings?==
*For Old Testament?
*For Gospel?
*For Epistle?

==Should the Members Be Notified if the Building Is Being Sold?==
[https://julieroys.com/fellowship-church-sold-miami/?mc_cid=8f1efd1f00&mc_eid=8793266f14 "Fellowship Church Surprises Miami Congregation with News Church Has Been Sold,"] Roys Report (2021).

==Timeliness==

===Should You Walk In Late?===
It's a matter of etiquette, not doctrine. If people are praying, either silently, as a group, or the leader praying, it is disrespectful to walk around, blow your nose, slap your naughty child, etc. If you come in and suddenly notice a prayer is in progress, halt and wait for it to end, then keep walking.

On the other hand, if a hymn is being sung, or, in my opinion, liturgy is being read, or during the sermon, it's fine to quietly walk in late.

===Is it a sin to be late for church?===
Yes, it is a grave sin. It shows disrespect for God Almighty. It requires repentance and a sincere desire to do better in the future.

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==Governance and Control==
The archbishop of Paris wants to turn Notre Dame Cathedral into disneyland.
"If I remember correctly, the French State, not the Archdiocese of Paris, owns Notre Dame. So, any plans would have to be approved by the ministry of culture. Ironically, secular officials often have better tastes than clerics."

"This is why an Erastian system like England had, or a presbyterian system with laymen as elders, is better than a purely clerical church organization."
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Social Regulation

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*"My socialist app idea: government pays *any* matchmaker, including the apps, for making an introduction that results in a registered marriage. Aligns incentives for good matches rather than ongoing subscriptions. Could be trialed by Catholic Church too." Jim Savage@abiylfoyp

Great! But it should be a royalty, paid each year the marriage continues, and perhaps back-loaded. The present-value cost would be low, and paying $10,000 in 50 years discounted at 8% only costs $213, but not understanding this would increase the power of the incentive.

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Rasmusen p1vaim: /* The Politics of the Value-Added Tax (attributed to Larry Summers) */

This page should eventually be split into: [[Jokes to convey ideas]], [[Humor]], [[Satire]], and [[Cartoons]].

==Math Jokes==
===Dear Algebra Teachers===
<pre>
Dear algebra teacher,

Please stop trying to make us find your x.

She's not coming back.

We don't know y either.

Sincerely,
Your Students.
</pre>
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===Theorem: All Numbers Are Interesting===
Proof: Suppose not...

===The Pythagorean Theorem Joke===
First explain the Pythagorean Theorem: The square of the hypotenuse, the long side of a right triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, e.g., if other two sides are 3 and 4, so their squares sum to 9+16= 25, the square of the hypotenuse is 25 and the hypotenuse has length 5. Then tell the joke.

Once there was an Indian chief named Big Hunter, who had a younger brother named Little Hunter and three squaws. The first squaw slept on a bearskin, the second squaw slept on a buffalo hide, and the third Squaw, who was named Hippolita, slept on a hippopotamus hide. (Big Hunter got his name because he was the only Indian who ever killed hippopotamus, or even saw one for that matter.)

Alas, all of the squaws were barren and had no children. The first two squaws schemed to become the favorites, though, and jointly adopted a little baby boy. They boasted about that and shamed Hippolita for being inferior to them and their boy.

One day, the whole family, including the brother, were in a canoe crossing the lake, when the buffalo-hide squaw stood up, which you should never do in a canoe. The bear-hide squaw stood up too, to match her bravery, but the boat started to tip over. "Save the baby, Little Hunter!" shouted Big Hunter, as he swam to save Hippolita. So the baby and Hippolita were saved, though not the other two squaws.

The moral of the story: "The squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the son of the squaws of the other two hides."

=== Using Logs===
Adders need log to multiply.

===How many seconds are there in a year?===
Q: “How many seconds are there in a year?”
A: “Twelve… January second, February second, March second, …”

===Can a triangle fly?===
Riddle: Can a triangle fly? Yes, it's past the line and on a plane.

===Your Shoes Are Dirty===
. 
'''Woman to hillbilly as he comes into the store''': "Hey, wipe the mud off your shoes when you come in here." 
'''Hillbilly:''' "What shoes? I ain't got no shoes." 
(mnemonic for remembering that anybody but a hillbilly knows that two negatives make a positive) 
The version omitting "I ain't got no shoes" is better, but doesn't make that point.

===All Odd Numbers Are Prime (The Polya Conjecture)===
An engineer, a physicist, a mathematician, a psychologist, a sociologist, a law professor, and a grievance studies professor walk into a bar, and someone offers to buy a drink for whoever has the best proof that all numbers are prime.

The engineer says, "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, so all odd numbers are prime."

The physicist says: ‘1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9’s not a prime --hmmm, but let's go on---11's a prime, 13's a prime.. It must be that 9 was measurement error.

The mathematician says: "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime. Therefore, by induction, all odd numbers are prime."

The psychologist says: "I told my R.A. the result we wanted, and having rechecked his work, he now reports that 1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9's a prime, 11's a prime, 13's a prime, 15's a prime, and so is every other odd number."

The sociologist says: "1’s a prime, 3’s a prime, 5’s a prime, 7’s a prime, 9's a prime,..."

The law professor says,"First of all, my billing rate is $400/hour, and it runs for every 15-minute increment..."

The grievance studies professor says: "What's a prime number?"

. 
THE END

. 
''Notes:'' 
1. A prime number is a number greater than 1 that is evenly divisible only by itself and 1. 
2. Engineers are known for being satisfied with equations and other mathematical conclusions that are only approximately true, not exactly true. Physicists are known for thinking a lot about how precisely their instruments measure things. Mathematicians are known for being very proud of how exact and rigorous they are, but for making mistakes sometimes anyway. Psychologists are known for publishing fraudulent results and for pressuring subordinates to make up data. Sociologists are known for lack of mathematical ability. Lawyers are known for their high fees. Grievance studies professors ar known for being even worse at math than sociologists. All of these are stereotypes; whether the stereotypes have any truth in them, you must judge. Someone is free to add my own field, "economics" to the joke. Accounting may have possibilities too.
 
3. The 1919 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%B3lya_conjecture Polya Conjecture], made by the author of the famous 1945 book, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It ''How To Solve It''], was that over half of the numbers less than any number N have an odd number of prime factors. For example there are eight numbers less than
N = 9. Of those eight numbers, the number 1 has an even number of prime factors--- [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_of_zero 0 of them]. The number 2 has an odd number (1 of them), as do 3 (1 of them), 5 (1 of them), 7 (1 of them), and 8 (3 of them--- 2, 2, and 2, the 2's being counted three times for this conjecture). The number 4 has an even number (2 of them--- 2 and 2), as does 6 (2 of them--- 2 and 3). So over 50% of numbers less than 9--- five out of eight--- have an odd number of prime factors. Professor Connell wrote Mathematica code to check N = 10,000,000 and found that 5,000,421 of the numbers less than that have an odd number of prime factors, which is still more than half. But the Polya Conjecture is false. C. Brian Haselgrove disproved it in 1958. R. Sherman Lehman found the first explicit counterexample in 1960: N = 906,180,359. The smallest counterexample is N = 906,150,257, found by Minoru Tanaka in 1980.
 
4. See [http://www.rasmusen.org/special/Cedars_School/Odd_number_script.pdf here ] for a script for performance of this joke by junior high kids.

==The Glass Is Half Empty== 
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
 
Optimist: The glass is half full.
 
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
 
--- Jens Foell, https://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/1449785982543409159 (2021)

==Transubstantiation== 
Question: What do you call it when the NCAAA has to decide whether a certain athlete is a man or a woman?
 
Answer: Trans-Substantiation.
 
Even better answer: Con-Substantiation.
 hat tip: Pastor TB

==The Black Sheep in Scotland==
A philosopher, a physicist, a mathematician and a computer scientist were travelling on a train through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train. "Aha," says the philosopher, "I see that Scottish sheep are black." "Hmm," says the physicist, "You mean *some* Scottish sheep are black." "No," says the mathematician, "All we know is that there is *at least one* sheep in Scotland, and that *at least one side* of that sheep is black!"

==Packed Sports Stadiums and Covid==
Q. Why haven't packed sports stadiums caused massive covid outbreaks?

A. Because of all the fans.

==On Being Elected Senator ==
Day one:"Here I am at last. How is it that God has allowed me to even sit in the same room with these statesmen?" 
Day ninety: "What are these other 99 idiots doing here?"

==Politics==
===The Politics of the Value-Added Tax (attributed to Larry Summers)===
The reason the United States, unlike European countries and Canada, doesn't have a value-added tax is that the Democrats think it's regressive and the Republicans think it makes raising tax revenue easy. 
When *will* the United States get a value-added tax? Once the Republicans realize it's regressive and the Democrats realize it makes raising tax revenue easy.

===Stigler on Diversity===
Something Stigler said about Chicago Economics in 1964.

Somebody:"You Chicago guys are so ideological! For instance, how many of your faculty voted for Goldwater?" 
Syigler: "About half. 
"See!!!!" 
"How about the number in your department?" 
"Zero, of course." 

==College Graduates without Practical Skills==
''Boss Father:'' Son, after you finish writing that compliance memo, will you sweep up the stock room?
. 
''Newly Hired Son:'' But Dad, I’m a college graduate.
. 
''Boss Father:'' Of course; I forgot. Bring me the broom, and I’ll show you how.

==The Hand of God Knocking off the Chair==
A college professor stood up on his chair and said, "If God really exists, then knock me off this chair". Nothing happened and he said, "See, I'll give it a couple more minutes". A MARINE vet stood up, punched the professor and knocked him off the chair, and then sat back down. The professor said, "What did you do that for?" The vet said, "GOD was busy protecting my buddies still fighting for your right to say and do stupid stuff like this, so HE SENT ME!

== Elephants Hiding in Trees==
"Elephants are really great in camouflage. They hide in the tops of trees!"

"That's ridiculous. I have NEVER seen an elephant in a tree!"

"EXACTLY! See how well they hide?"

==Why Are Corporations Like Vampires?==
Corporations and vampires have much in common: (i) immortality; (ii) personhood; and (iii) issues with stakeholders.
Is there a way to do something with veil-piercing? Certainly you have to design their bonds very carefully to restrain them from evil.

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==Can you play the violin?==
Q. Can you play the violin? 
::A. I don't know. I've never tried.

==Transubstantiation==
 
Question: What do you call it when the NCAAA has to decide whether a certain athlete is a man or a woman?
 
Answer: Trans-Substantiation.
 
Even better answer: Con-Substantiation.
 hat tip: Pastor TB

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==Should I give him a book?==
Joe: What should I get Tom for his birthday?
::Moe: How about a book?
:::Joe: No, he's already got a book.

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==People with Negative Heights==
Via Dick Thaler at https://twitter.com/R_Thaler/status/1436472735723573249 
Q: If height is normally distributed, why aren't there people with negative heights? 
A: There are. We just can't see them.

==For the Work of a Lifetime==
John Ruskin: 'The labour of two days is that for which you ask two hundred guineas?'
Whistler: 'No. I ask it for the knowledge I have gained in the work of a lifetime.'
''Whistler v. Ruskin'' (1878)

==Two and Two Continue To Make Four==
"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five." --''Whistler v. Ruskin'' (1878)

== Freedom of Speech in Russian Social Media==
A Russian meets up with an American.

"We have freedom of speech," the Russian says. "I can post that Russian elections are rigged on social media."

"What's the big deal?" asks the American. "I too can write that Russian elections are rigged on social media."

==Explosion in a Cheese Factory==
Did you hear about the explosion in the cheese factory? There was nothing left but debris.

I haven't laughed so hard since the suggestion that Joe and Kamala run off to Las Vegas and get inaugurated without telling anybody.

https://quillette.com/2021/01/07/the-death-of-political-cartooning-and-why-it-matters/

Those who study the moon are real optimists, they tend to look at the bright side.

==Eggs Benedict on a Hubcap==
Why should you eat eggs benedict on a hubcap for Christmas dinner? 
--because there's no plate like chrome for the hollandaise.

==The Glass Is Half Empty (Engineer)==
 
Pessimist: The glass is half empty. 
Optimist: The glass is half full. 
Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
--- Jens Foell, https://twitter.com/fMRI_guy/status/ (2021)

==Husbands==
If your husband is standing alone in the forest and says something, is he still wrong?

==The Joke Convention==
(Here write my better version, the Joke Convention, with the jolly guy rolling on the floor who hadn't heard it before.)

George Stigler's version in "The Conference Handbook" Journal of Political Economv, 1977, vol. 85, no. 2, is
{{Quotation|
There is an ancient joke about the two traveling salesmen in the age of
the train. The younger drummer was being initiated into the social life
of the traveler by the older. They proceeded to the smoking parlor on the
train, where a group of drummers were congregated. One said, "87,"
and a wave of laughter went through the group. The older drummer
explained to the younger that they traveled together so often that they
had numbered their jokes. The younger drummer wished to participate
in the event and diffidently ventured to say, "36." He was greeted by
cool silence. The older drummer took him aside and explained that they
had already heard that joke. (In another version, the younger drummer
was told that he had told the joke badly.)
}}

Stigler published an economists' version. I've improved it here, in the spirit of joketelling:

<pre>
Introductory Remarks 
A. Here is what the author was trying to say. 
B. The paper admirably solves the problem which it sets for itself.
Unfortunately, this was the wrong problem. 
C. What a pity that the vast erudition and industry of the author were so
misdirected 

D. I am an amateur in this field so my remarks must be diffident and
tentative. However, even a novice must find much to quarrel with in
this piece.
E. I can be very sympathetic with the author; until 2 years ago I was
thinking along similar lines.
F. It is good to have a nonspecialist looking at our problem. There is
always a chance of a fresh viewpoint, although usually, as in this
case, the advantages of the division of labor are reaffirmed.
G. This paper contains much that is new and much that is good.
H. Although the paper was promised 3 weeks ago, I received it as I
entered this room.
Comments
1. Adam Smith said that.
2. Unfortunately, there is an identification problem which is not dealt
with adequately in the paper.
3. The residuals are clearly nonnormal and the specification of the
model is incorrect.
4. Theorizing is not fruitful at this stage: we need a series of case
studies.
5. Case studies are a clue, but no real progress can be made until a
model of the process is constructed.
6. The second-best consideration would of course vitiate the argument.
7. That is an index number problem (obs., except in Cambridge).
8. Have you tried two-stage least squares?
9. The conclusions change if you introduce uncertainty.
10. You didn't use probit analysis?
11. I proved the main results in a paper published years ago.
12. The analysis is marred by a failure to distinguish transitory and
permanent components.
13. The market cannot, of course, deal satisfactorily with that externality.
14. But what if transaction costs are not zero?
15. That follows from the Coase theorem.
16. Of course, if you allow for the investment in human capital, the
entire picture changes.
17. Of course the demand function is quite inelastic.
18. Of course the supply function is highly inelastic.
19. The author uses a sledgehammer to crack a peanut.
20. What empirical finding would contradict your theory?
21. The central argument is not only a tautology, it is false.
22. What happens when you extend the analysis to the later (or earlier)
period?
23. The motivation of the agents in this theory is so narrowly egotistic
that it cannot possibly explain the behavior of real people.
24. The flabby economic actor in this impressionistic model should be
replaced by the utility-maximizing individual.
25. Did you have any trouble in inverting the singular matrix?
2 6. It was unfortunate that the wrong choice was made between M1 and
M2.
27. That is alright in theory, but it doesn't work out in practice (use
sparingly).
28. The speaker apparently believes that there is still one free lunch.
29. The problem cannot be dealt with by partial equilibrium methods:
it requires a general equilibrium formulation.
30. The paper is rigidly confined by the paradigm of neoclassical
economics, so large parts of urgent reality are outside its comprehension.
31. The conclusion rests on the assumption of fixed tastes, but of course
tastes have surely changed.
32. The trouble with the present situation is that the property rights
have not been fully assigned.
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== The Old Lady Looking from the Attic==
A bunch of boys were swimming in the river without swimming suits. An old lady who lived on the river called up the Sheriff to complain. He went down and told the boys to move down the river, out of sight. 
Then, the sheriff got another phone call. The old lady said she could still see the boys, if she was upstairs in her bedroom. so the Sheriff went down and told the boys to move a little further down. 
Then the sheriff got another phone call. The old lady said she could still see the boys, if she went up to her attic window and looked out with binoculars. 
This time the sheriff said he was busy.

==Proof that 10 + 10 = 11 + 11==
Alex Kontorovich

Claim: 10 + 10 = 11 + 11

Proof: 
10+10 = twenty 
11+11 = twenty too

== Curing the Common Cold==
 
Patient: Doctor, what should I do to get over my cold? 
Doctor: I'm afraid we have no cure for the common cold. 
Patient: Surely you can think of something! 
Doctor: Well, yes: take a shower and then go naked into your yard in the 20-degree weather for half an hour. 
Patient: But then I'll get pneumonia! 
Doctor: Right. And *that*, we can cure.

==Ridden Out of Town on a Rail==
President Lincoln one evening at the White House was asked "How does it feel to be President of the United States?" "You have heard," said Lincoln, "about the man tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail? A man in the crowd asked him how he liked it, and his reply was, 'If it wasn't for the honor of the thing, I would rather walk.'" I need to find a good source.

==Grad Students without Original Thoughts==
I'm really depressed. I just went to my Department Chairman and said, "I'm depressed. You know my PhD student, Sam Jones? He just told me my seminar presentation was the worst he'd ever heard". The Chairman's reply: "Don't worry about Jones, he doesn't have an original thought in his head, and I very much fear he'll never come up with a dissertation topic. He just repeats what he hears all the other people in the department saying."

I'm really depressed. I just went to my Department Chairman and said, "I'm depressed. You know my PhD student, Sam Jones? He gave his practice job talk today, and it was the worst I've ever heard". The Chairman's reply: "Yeah, I sympathize. Jone is very good at learning what he's taught, but he's totally unoriginal. He just copies what he sees."

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Quotations

2022-06-06T16:33:45Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Introduction */

Movies

2022-06-06T04:23:46Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* The Last Man */

*[https://www.takimag.com/article/are-we-what-we-watch/ Steve Sailer on the psychology article on the Big 5 Personality Traits and what movies people like], a very good article in ''Taki'''s (2020). Based on "We Are What We Watch: Movie Plots Predict the Personalities of Those who “Like” Them," Gideon Nave, Marketing Department, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Jason Rentfrow,Social & Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge, and Sudeep Bhatia. See Supplementary Table 1.

*https://oldmovietime.com/ and the [https://oldmovietime.com/spellbound.htm better Oldmovietime.com site]

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==Cape Fear==
1962 version.

==Bajirao Mastani==
Great Maga King Dance, about a Marathi warrior king.

==Life is Beautiful==
A movie about a father making life better for his child in a Nazi camp. Recommended by friends.

==Our Man in Havana==
A 1959 British spy comedy film shot in CinemaScope, directed and produced by Carol Reed, and starring Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs.[2][3][4] The film is adapted from the 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene.

==The Goodies==

==Greyhound==
Forester's THe Good Shepherd put on film. BilL Reilly highly recommends (the tax guy).

==Kampf um Rom==
"A 1964 German epic, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampf_um_Rom Kampf Um Rom,] complete with Narses as a dwarf, Justinian played by Orson Welles, stock scenes of Byzantine decadence, and Goths in black leather."

==Kurosawa==
{{Quotation| Several prominent directors of Samurai films and Westerns in the 1950s and 60s shared a mutual admiration and openly made their art with direct reference to one another. In Akira Kurosawa’s brilliant movie Yojimbo, for instance, a masterless samurai played by the sublime Toshiro Mifune is standing at a crossroads and throws a stick up in the air to “decide” which direction to go. The scene is a direct reference to the John Ford film Young Mr. Lincoln, in which Ford’s version of the American president does the exact same thing. The Western remake of Kurosawa’s classic The Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven. In fact, the mutual “admiration” between purveyors of the two genres became so intimate that Kurosawa was forced to sue Sergio Leone over the movie A Fistful of Dollars, which was clearly a plagiarized version of Yojimbo by Leone. }} --[https://lawliberty.org/the-embarrassing-eleven/ https://lawliberty.org/the-embarrassing-eleven/], 2020

==Created Equal (Clarence Thomas documentary)==
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10256238/ Created Equal,] the Clarence Thomas documentary by Mr. Pack, is extremely good. Very simple, low budget. The family went over to Bob's House to watch it with him.

==Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)==
#2 - Godzilla vs Destoroyah (second best Godzilla movie)
"It’s impossible to decide what’s most memorable about this final film of the Heisei era. Is it Godzilla’s stunning new “Burning Godzilla” appearance? Could it be the many clever callbacks and references to the original 1954 film? Or maybe it’s the ghastly design of Destoroyah, one of Big G’s all-time scariest opponents? Or perhaps it’s the fact that Godzilla Jr. finally emerges as a decent character? The truth is, it’s all of those things, plus so much more. But what makes this existential epic truly worthy of classic status is its profoundly emotional ending. For the first time in history, you’ll find yourself sobbing in a Godzilla movie as the final credits roll. Compassionately directed by Takao Okawara, “Godzilla vs. Destoroyah” elevates the kaiju genre to the level of Greek tragedy."https://variety.com/lists/godzilla-movies-ranked/godzilla-final-wars-2004/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s

==Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)==
"Here’s a valuable tip for you. Never, under any circumstances, trust a race of sunglass-wearing aliens from Planet X when they arrive on Earth asking to “borrow” Godzilla and Rodan for a little while. One of the all-time craziest sci-fi themed entries in the franchise, this sixth Godzilla movie has a lot going for it, especially the welcome presence of American actor Nick Adams, playing a cocky astronaut who shows the pleather-clad extraterrestrials who’s boss. Adams was no stranger to kaiju movies, having costarred in Toho’s giant monster pic “Frankenstein Conquers the World” shortly before appearing in “Invasion of Astro-Monster.”"

https://variety.com/lists/godzilla-movies-ranked/godzilla-final-wars-2004/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s\

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==The Last Man==
"Let's do a film recommendation. F.W. Murnau's 1924 film Der Letzte Mann - which means The Last Man (this side of Twitter's ears perk up), but for whatever reason is called Last Laugh in English. Hitchcock called it a "perfect film."" Silent movie. Emil Janning.

==The Lives of Others==
its depiction of East German speech codes and surveillance state, is probably the most relevant movie around today.

== Return to Mayberry==
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091846/?ref_=nmbio_mbio Return to Mayberry], TV Movie(1986).1h 35m

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==The Producers==

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==AlphaGo: The Movie==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=WXuK6gekU1Y AlphaGo] is a You-Tube documentary about Go.

==State Funeral==
Netherlands, Lithuania, 2019
Documentary, History
155 minutes
Russian
English & 4 more
On Stalin's funeral.

==Fauci Unmasked, ==
@michaeljknowles
documentary series Fauci Unmasked,
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==Winifried Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975==
In 1975 Syberberg released 'Winifried Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried von 1914-1975' - a documentary about Winifred Wagner, wife of Richard Wagner's son Siegfried.

Joshua Katz

2022-06-05T18:09:57Z

Rasmusen p1vaim:

The articles by [https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/my-confessions Joshua Katz]i n ''First Things'' ("My Confessions" , October 2021), [https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-princeton-did-to-my-husband?s=r by his wife] in Bari Weiss's Substack on treacherous friends, and [https://spectatorworld.com/topic/defense-joshua-katz-princeton-cancel-culture by his mother-in-law ]on the loss of the scholar-student relationship in The Spectator are amazingly good, even if you don't care about Joshua Katz in particular.

==2021==
*[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/27/8_at_princeton_assail_false_portrayal_of_prof_as_racist_146631.html Eight professors, 7 anonymous, criticize the Administration], October 27, 2021.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/02/alumni-allegations-princeton-joshua-katz "Alumni allege history of inappropriate conduct with female students by Princeton professor Joshua Katz,"] Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Evelyn Doskoch, ''The Princetonian,''
(February 4, 2021) but see the harsh criticisms of that article at [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/editorial-mccarthyism-daily-princetonian "Editorial: "McCarthyism at the Daily Princetonian",] Princetonians for Free Speech and the [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/letter-editor-which-daily-princetonian-has-ignored Elizabeth Bogan letter] that the Princetonian wouldn't publish.

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-low-did-princeton-go-joshua-t-katz-racism/ "How Low Did Princeton Go?,"] Rod Dreher, ''The American Conservative'' (September 15, 2021).

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/my-confessions "My Confessions,"] Joshua Katz, ''First Things'' (October 2021).
{{Quotation|
Early in my career, however, I made a grave mistake, by which I mean something beyond the bounds of “merely” bad behavior, something sinful: I had a relationship with a student whom I was at the same time teaching. It was a consensual relationship between adults; it took place at a time when Princeton’s rules permitted students and faculty to engage in sexual contact, provided there was no pedagogical or supervisory conflict; and there was no Title IX violation. Still, it was a sin.

It is a sin I lived with every day. It ate away at me. But I lived with it alone. Alone, that is, until weeks after the #MeToo movement took off in late 2017, when an anonymous complainant—not the woman herself—informed Princeton about the more-than-a-decade-old affair. The result was an internal investigation, which culminated in a one-year suspension without pay.

Even before I knew that my life was about to change, I had begun reading theology and occasionally attending church (in that order—once a bookish academic, always a bookish academic). The fact is that I was sad, I was making a mess of my personal life, and I needed help.

Then I learned of the investigation, learned that I would likely be suspended, and found myself in need of help on an entirely different level. I was on sabbatical in London at the time, and my future mother-in-law—I had only just begun dating her daughter, a former (yes, former) student of mine who was now at Cambridge—gave me the following firm instruction: Get myself to the Temple Church, whose Master (senior cleric), the Rev. Robin Griffith-Jones, she had heard preach a few years earlier in New York.
...
Two reporters at the main student newspaper spent seven months digging into my private life. Surmising that I had been suspended, they published an article about me in the first week of February that “threw away basic journalistic standards” (in the words of Princetonians for Free Speech) in its reliance on hearsay, innuendo, and hostile anonymous sources. }}

==2022==
He was fired. [https://nypost.com/2022/05/20/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-who-was-under-sexual-misconduct-probe/amp/ New York Post] and [https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-trustees-fire-classics-professor-joshua-katz Princeton Paw] an d[https://academeblog.org/2022/05/24/in-defense-of-joshua-katz/ Academe] (NAS); [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/princeton-fires-joshua-katz.html New York Times] (pro-Katz!); [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-in-sexual-misconduct-probe/ar-AAXxCbx?ocid=uxbndlbing the Washington Post] is anti-Katz, about the only article I could find against him and thus useful. Princetonians for Free Speech [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/statement-princetonians-free-speech-princetons-firing-classics-professor-joshua-katz-award-winning defended him].

*His [https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-princeton-did-to-my-husband?s=r wife's extremely good article] at Bari Weiss's Substack and his [https://spectatorworld.com/topic/defense-joshua-katz-princeton-cancel-culture/ mother-in-law's equally good essay] at the Spectator.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/06/joshua-katz-firing-politically-biased-administrators-classics-princeton Daily Princetonian op-ed] by a student defending Katz. It's good because it has lots of links. May 31, 2022.

*Defense of Katz by [https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/27/dgwq-m27.html The World Socialist Website] of the 4th International. Old marxists weren't idiots like the Wokesters, even if they were evil.
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Joshua Katz

2022-06-05T18:09:46Z

Rasmusen p1vaim:

The articles by *[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/my-confessions Joshua Katz]i n ''First Things'' ("My Confessions" , October 2021), [https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-princeton-did-to-my-husband?s=r by his wife] in Bari Weiss's Substack on treacherous friends, and [https://spectatorworld.com/topic/defense-joshua-katz-princeton-cancel-culture by his mother-in-law ]on the loss of the scholar-student relationship in The Spectator are amazingly good, even if you don't care about Joshua Katz in particular.

==2021==
*[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/27/8_at_princeton_assail_false_portrayal_of_prof_as_racist_146631.html Eight professors, 7 anonymous, criticize the Administration], October 27, 2021.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/02/alumni-allegations-princeton-joshua-katz "Alumni allege history of inappropriate conduct with female students by Princeton professor Joshua Katz,"] Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Evelyn Doskoch, ''The Princetonian,''
(February 4, 2021) but see the harsh criticisms of that article at [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/editorial-mccarthyism-daily-princetonian "Editorial: "McCarthyism at the Daily Princetonian",] Princetonians for Free Speech and the [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/letter-editor-which-daily-princetonian-has-ignored Elizabeth Bogan letter] that the Princetonian wouldn't publish.

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-low-did-princeton-go-joshua-t-katz-racism/ "How Low Did Princeton Go?,"] Rod Dreher, ''The American Conservative'' (September 15, 2021).

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/my-confessions "My Confessions,"] Joshua Katz, ''First Things'' (October 2021).
{{Quotation|
Early in my career, however, I made a grave mistake, by which I mean something beyond the bounds of “merely” bad behavior, something sinful: I had a relationship with a student whom I was at the same time teaching. It was a consensual relationship between adults; it took place at a time when Princeton’s rules permitted students and faculty to engage in sexual contact, provided there was no pedagogical or supervisory conflict; and there was no Title IX violation. Still, it was a sin.

It is a sin I lived with every day. It ate away at me. But I lived with it alone. Alone, that is, until weeks after the #MeToo movement took off in late 2017, when an anonymous complainant—not the woman herself—informed Princeton about the more-than-a-decade-old affair. The result was an internal investigation, which culminated in a one-year suspension without pay.

Even before I knew that my life was about to change, I had begun reading theology and occasionally attending church (in that order—once a bookish academic, always a bookish academic). The fact is that I was sad, I was making a mess of my personal life, and I needed help.

Then I learned of the investigation, learned that I would likely be suspended, and found myself in need of help on an entirely different level. I was on sabbatical in London at the time, and my future mother-in-law—I had only just begun dating her daughter, a former (yes, former) student of mine who was now at Cambridge—gave me the following firm instruction: Get myself to the Temple Church, whose Master (senior cleric), the Rev. Robin Griffith-Jones, she had heard preach a few years earlier in New York.
...
Two reporters at the main student newspaper spent seven months digging into my private life. Surmising that I had been suspended, they published an article about me in the first week of February that “threw away basic journalistic standards” (in the words of Princetonians for Free Speech) in its reliance on hearsay, innuendo, and hostile anonymous sources. }}

==2022==
He was fired. [https://nypost.com/2022/05/20/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-who-was-under-sexual-misconduct-probe/amp/ New York Post] and [https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-trustees-fire-classics-professor-joshua-katz Princeton Paw] an d[https://academeblog.org/2022/05/24/in-defense-of-joshua-katz/ Academe] (NAS); [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/princeton-fires-joshua-katz.html New York Times] (pro-Katz!); [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-in-sexual-misconduct-probe/ar-AAXxCbx?ocid=uxbndlbing the Washington Post] is anti-Katz, about the only article I could find against him and thus useful. Princetonians for Free Speech [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/statement-princetonians-free-speech-princetons-firing-classics-professor-joshua-katz-award-winning defended him].

*His [https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-princeton-did-to-my-husband?s=r wife's extremely good article] at Bari Weiss's Substack and his [https://spectatorworld.com/topic/defense-joshua-katz-princeton-cancel-culture/ mother-in-law's equally good essay] at the Spectator.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/06/joshua-katz-firing-politically-biased-administrators-classics-princeton Daily Princetonian op-ed] by a student defending Katz. It's good because it has lots of links. May 31, 2022.

*Defense of Katz by [https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/27/dgwq-m27.html The World Socialist Website] of the 4th International. Old marxists weren't idiots like the Wokesters, even if they were evil.
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Joshua Katz

2022-06-05T18:07:51Z

Rasmusen p1vaim:

The articles by *[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/my-confessions "My Confessions,"] Joshua Katz, in ''First Things''] (October 2021),[https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-princeton-did-to-my-husband?s=r by his wife] in Bari Weiss's Substack on treacherous friends, and [https://spectatorworld.com/topic/defense-joshua-katz-princeton-cancel-culture by his mother-in-law ]on the loss of the scholar-student relationship in The Spectator are amazingly good, even if you don't care about Joshua Katz in particular.

==2021==
*[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/27/8_at_princeton_assail_false_portrayal_of_prof_as_racist_146631.html Eight professors, 7 anonymous, criticize the Administration], October 27, 2021.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/02/alumni-allegations-princeton-joshua-katz "Alumni allege history of inappropriate conduct with female students by Princeton professor Joshua Katz,"] Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Evelyn Doskoch, ''The Princetonian,''
(February 4, 2021) but see the harsh criticisms of that article at [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/editorial-mccarthyism-daily-princetonian "Editorial: "McCarthyism at the Daily Princetonian",] Princetonians for Free Speech and the [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/letter-editor-which-daily-princetonian-has-ignored Elizabeth Bogan letter] that the Princetonian wouldn't publish.

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-low-did-princeton-go-joshua-t-katz-racism/ "How Low Did Princeton Go?,"] Rod Dreher, ''The American Conservative'' (September 15, 2021).

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/my-confessions "My Confessions,"] Joshua Katz, ''First Things'' (October 2021).
{{Quotation|
Early in my career, however, I made a grave mistake, by which I mean something beyond the bounds of “merely” bad behavior, something sinful: I had a relationship with a student whom I was at the same time teaching. It was a consensual relationship between adults; it took place at a time when Princeton’s rules permitted students and faculty to engage in sexual contact, provided there was no pedagogical or supervisory conflict; and there was no Title IX violation. Still, it was a sin.

It is a sin I lived with every day. It ate away at me. But I lived with it alone. Alone, that is, until weeks after the #MeToo movement took off in late 2017, when an anonymous complainant—not the woman herself—informed Princeton about the more-than-a-decade-old affair. The result was an internal investigation, which culminated in a one-year suspension without pay.

Even before I knew that my life was about to change, I had begun reading theology and occasionally attending church (in that order—once a bookish academic, always a bookish academic). The fact is that I was sad, I was making a mess of my personal life, and I needed help.

Then I learned of the investigation, learned that I would likely be suspended, and found myself in need of help on an entirely different level. I was on sabbatical in London at the time, and my future mother-in-law—I had only just begun dating her daughter, a former (yes, former) student of mine who was now at Cambridge—gave me the following firm instruction: Get myself to the Temple Church, whose Master (senior cleric), the Rev. Robin Griffith-Jones, she had heard preach a few years earlier in New York.
...
Two reporters at the main student newspaper spent seven months digging into my private life. Surmising that I had been suspended, they published an article about me in the first week of February that “threw away basic journalistic standards” (in the words of Princetonians for Free Speech) in its reliance on hearsay, innuendo, and hostile anonymous sources. }}

==2022==
He was fired. [https://nypost.com/2022/05/20/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-who-was-under-sexual-misconduct-probe/amp/ New York Post] and [https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-trustees-fire-classics-professor-joshua-katz Princeton Paw] an d[https://academeblog.org/2022/05/24/in-defense-of-joshua-katz/ Academe] (NAS); [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/princeton-fires-joshua-katz.html New York Times] (pro-Katz!); [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-in-sexual-misconduct-probe/ar-AAXxCbx?ocid=uxbndlbing the Washington Post] is anti-Katz, about the only article I could find against him and thus useful. Princetonians for Free Speech [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/statement-princetonians-free-speech-princetons-firing-classics-professor-joshua-katz-award-winning defended him].

*His [https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-princeton-did-to-my-husband?s=r wife's extremely good article] at Bari Weiss's Substack and his [https://spectatorworld.com/topic/defense-joshua-katz-princeton-cancel-culture/ mother-in-law's equally good essay] at the Spectator.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/06/joshua-katz-firing-politically-biased-administrators-classics-princeton Daily Princetonian op-ed] by a student defending Katz. It's good because it has lots of links. May 31, 2022.

*Defense of Katz by [https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/27/dgwq-m27.html The World Socialist Website] of the 4th International. Old marxists weren't idiots like the Wokesters, even if they were evil.
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Cancellings

2022-06-05T18:02:25Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* How to Resist */

See also [[Nondisclosure Clauses]].

*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9487849/China-launches-app-citizens-report-mistaken-opinions.html China launches app for citizens to report anyone who has 'mistaken opinions' or 'denies the excellence of socialist culture' The app and hotline has been released ahead of party's 100th anniversary ..."] (2021).

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/ "THE NEW PURITANS",] Atlantic (2021) by Ann Applebaum is a good survey with lots of specifics about cancellings and the various effects on its victims.

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==Individual 's Pages==
*[[Gordon Klein]] and [[Joshua Katz]] and [[Mark McPhail]] pages

==How to Resist==
*[https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/beating-back-cancel-culture-a-case-study-from-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence/ Pedro Domingos], ''Quillette'' (2021)

*[https://quillette.com/2021/02/05/more-weight-an-academics-guide-to-surviving-campus-witch-hunts/ Dorian Abbot], ''Quillette'' (2021).

==Miscellaneous==
*[https://www.unz.com/mmalkin/why-airbnb-banned-me-and-my-hubby-too/ Michelle Malkin banned from AirBnB], February 2022.

*“Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.” Proverbs 27:10

==Commentary on Cancellings Generally==
*[https://reason.com/2021/12/13/the-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "he-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "] ''Reason'' (Dec.2021).

*Level 2 and 3 Witch Hunts
2021 and 2019 ( [https://twitter.com/search?q=ensure%20that%20even%20those%20most%20carefully%20orthodox%20in%20their%20opinions%20would%20have%20said%20something%20that%20later%20became%20heretical.&src=typed_query Paul Graham]

We can classify witch hunts by how long such paths can be. E.g. in a level 3 witch hunt, you can be targeted for defending someone who defended someone who was targeted. I saw that happen in 2020. I don't think I've seen 4 hops yet though.

It happened to me. A mob came after me when I tweeted this because they thought I was defending Stallman for defending Minsky. (Actually I wasn't. Stallman just happened to be one of two people getting cancelled then.)

Sep 17, 2019

If we extended human lifespans sufficiently, everyone would be cancelled. The drift in moral fashion would ensure that even those most carefully orthodox in their opinions would have said something that later became heretical.

2019 had 245 comments and 105 quote retweets and 2K Likes.

*[https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/twitter-is-now-cancelling-wooldridge/page/2 Wooldridge cancelling, power v. authority]

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==Dorian Abbot (MIT, 2021)==
*[https://freespeech.mit.edu/signatories "Campaign to endorse the Chicago Principles on freedom of expression,"] list of MIT faculty who signed.

*[https://www.mitfreespeech.org/ The MIT Free Speech Alliance], an alumni group formed in response to the Abbot cancellation.

*[https://www.thefire.org/mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/ mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/,"] FIRE (November 2021).

*[https://twitter.com/haralduhlig/status/1457018887514505219 Harald Uhlig Tweet] on Ivan Werning not signing.

*The [[MIT Free Speech]] page.

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==Boudreau (Central Michigan, 2021)==
*A FOIA request got the [https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/boudreau-settlement-agreement.pdf settlement agreement]. See [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/08/recent-developments-in-controversies-about-quoting-slurs-from-court-cases/#more-8115395 Volokh Conspiracy.]
<blockquote style="color:gray">
Prof. Boudreau, who was represented by a lawyer from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, withdrew any claims he might have against CMU, retired from CMU (he was apparently eligible for retirement), and in exchange received 10 months' salary and benefits (from Sept. 1, 2020 when he had been fired, to June 30, 2021, the end of this academic year).
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<blockquote style="color:gray">
5. Dr. Boudreau shall be paid in a lump sum, less normal withholding taxes the value of pay and CMU's contribution to benefits through June 30, 2021 within thirty (30) days of this settlement. A W-2 will be issued for this payment.

15. Dr. Boudreau agrees that the terms of this Release, including the payment made hereunder, are confidential and shall not be divulged to any third party except his spouse, tax advisor, CPA, wealth manager, and/or his attorneys who shall be advised of this confidentiality provision. Dr. Boudreau shall not be held liable for breach of this confidentiality clause in the event he is compelled via subpoena to under oath in court of law regarding details or terms of his severance and/or settlement agreement provided that he gives prompt notice to the CMU's General Counsel so CMU has the opportunity to object to the subpoena.

16. In the event that Dr. Boudreau violates any aspect of this Agreement, he acknowledges that said breach shall cause damage to CMU. The parties understand that CMU may have to reveal the terms pursuant to FOIA unrelated to any request by the Union or Dr. Boudreau, who agree not to make, encourage, or otherwise participate in such request.

19. Dr. Boudreau shall not, by oral or written expression or any other act of communication to any third party, by name, disparage, criticize, or impugn the reputation or character of CMU's curent or former Board of Trustees members, Board of Trustees, administrators, directors, other employees,eagents and representatives, both individually and in their official capacities (Releas6s). This provision shall not be construed to prohibit Dr. Boudreau from communicating his disagreement with CMU's decision to terminate his employment for the way he spoke various words including the "n-word", his criticism of CMU's decision and generally his beliefs and opinion on the efficacy of his teaching methods. Dr. Boudreau further agrees that this provision concerning non-disparagement is a material condition ofthe consideration contained herein, that this provision is an essential part of this Agreement, and that any violation ofthe terms ofthis paragraph shall be deemed a material breach of the entire Agreement.

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Observations:
* (1) He can talk about the incident he was fired for.
*(2) He can disparage the University, just not the various individuals who are to blame for any university scandals he may reveal.
*(3) The University and its officials are free to disparage him however much they want.
*(4) No damages are specified for breach of the clause. He is paid his settlement money within 30 days, and there are no liquidated damages. Presumably the damages would be the default of expectation damages, which in this case would be like defamation damages except he would be liable for harm caused even by truthful statements about public figures.
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==Sara Braasch (Leftwing Yale Graduate Student who called the police when she found a strange black woman sleeping outside her dorm room, 2018)==
*[https://sarahjbraasch.com/2021/10/30/so-you-want-to-talk-about-ijeoma-oluo-who-repeatedly-tried-to-drive-me-to-suicide-on-twitter-because-i-am-the-proof-that-she-is-an-evil-lying-bigot-and-fraud-part-i/ Braasch's blog, screenshots of the Left's attempt to harass her and drive her to suicide] (2021)
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== [[Amy Chua]] (Yale Law). See the [[Amy Chua]] page. ==

== [[Trent Colbert]]: The Trap House Party (Yale Law). See the [[Trent Colbert]] page.==

==Jed DeVaro ( Cal State-East Bay econ)==
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*[https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/mgmt/devarojed.html Jed DeVaro faculty profile] and his [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KnFonD0AAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar Citation page].

*[https://thepioneeronline.com/42499/features/professors-not-immune-to-gender-inequality/ "Professors not immune to gender inequality: Jung Sook You, CSUEB,"] ''The Pioneer,'' November 30, 2020.
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==Roland Fryer (Harvard econ, 2019)==
*[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/01/27/harvard_the_new_york_times_and_the_metoo_takedown_of_a_black_academic_star.html "Harvard, the NY Times and the #MeToo Takedown of a Black Academic Star,"] Stuart Taylor Jr., ''RealClearInvestigations,'' January 29, 2019.

*[https://karlstack.substack.com/p/the-lynching-of-roland-fryer "The Lynching of Roland Fryer," ] ''Substack'' (2021).
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==Iowa ==
*[https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18597 "University ordered to pay almost $2 million after students win religious freedom lawsuit
The University of Iowa was recently ordered to pay $1.9 million after two student groups sued the school.
The lawsuits were filed originally in 2017 and 2018."]

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==[[Timothy Jackson]], North Texas, Musicology. See the [[Timothy Jackson]] page.==

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==Katz, Joshua (Princeton Classics, 2022)==
See the [[Joshua Katz]] page.

==Kilborn, Jason==
*[https://campusreform.org/article?id=16754 "Law prof says he was forced to undergo lengthy mental examination & drug test after exam question caused students ‘distress’,"] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Kilborn told Campus Reform that his classes “were cancelled for the entire semester on the very first day of class. He said he also had to undergo “an agonizing several-week period of ‘administrative leave,’” during which he was “barred from campus and prevented from participating in normal faculty communications and activities, including my elected position on the university promotion and tenure committee.”

Kilborn said he was compelled to submit to three hours of mental examination and a drug test by university doctors and a social worker, broken into two segments spanning the course of a week.}}
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==Chad KIMBALL (Broadway actor, 2021)==
*[https://nypost.com/2021/11/05/tony-nominee-i-was-fired-from-broadway-for-being-christian/ "Tony nominee Chad Kimball: I was fired from Broadway for being Christian,"] ''New York Post.''

==Brian KLATTMAN (Lehigh, 2021)==
*[https://thebrownandwhite.com/2021/11/09/math-professor-removed-from-the-classroom/ "Visiting math professor removed from the classroom following social media posts brought to university’s attention ,"] GABRIELLE FALK,NOVEMBER 9, 2021, ''The Brown and White.''
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==Diane Klein (LaVerne, Chapman)==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/law-professor-says-university-fired-her-by-racializing-criticism-of-black-colleagues-performance/ "Law professor says university fired her by ‘racializing’ criticism of black colleague’s performance," ] CHRISTIAN LUBKE (AUGUST 26, 2020).
{{Quotation|
In a meeting on the future of the law school last fall, Klein told colleagues that they must decide “whether we are willing to assassinate” Assistant Dean Jendayi Saada, who runs the Center for Academic and Bar Readiness.}}

*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/17/la-verne-seeks-terminate-gadfly-professor-allegedly-threatening-assassinate Insider Higher Education] article.

*[https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/concerned-la-verne-faculty-for-the-restoration-of#scrollTo--undefined Petition] from Laverne faculty in support of KLein.

*[https://www.coursicle.com/chapman/professors/Diane+Klein/ Chapman Law] teaching schedule.

*[http://www.caaaup.org/about-ca-aaup.html AAUP State of California Vice President for Private Universities] (2020-2022).
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==[[Gordon Klein]], UCLA, Anderson School, Accounting (2020). See the [[Gordon Klein]] page.==

==John Kluge (Indiana schoolteacher)==
*[https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20200109d01 District Court decision]

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==Zhihao Kong (Purdue student, Chinese government harassment)==
*[https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out "even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out,"] ''Pro Publica'', Sebastian Rotella (Nov. 2021).

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==Walter Lewin (MIT)==
This is an odd one. I haven't figure it out yet.
*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/complainant-unprecedented-walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case-comes-forward walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case].

[https://thetech.com/2014/12/09/walterlewin-v134-n60 "MIT cuts ties with Walter Lewin after online harassment probe
Institute revokes emeritus title, removes online courses of popular physics professor who starred in viral videos"] The Tech (2014).

==Jamie Lund (St. Mary's Law) (2013)==
*[https://abovethelaw.com/2013/05/sources-and-dr-phil-offer-insights-author-of-confessions-of-a-sociopath-who-might-be-this-law-professor/ Above the Law] guessing as to the true identity of a "sociopath". It looks like she was mistreated.

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==John MacAdams (Marquette, 2018)==
[https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2021/04/15/marquette-political-science-professor-john-mcadams-dies/7246026002/ "John McAdams, political science professor who took Marquette to the state Supreme Court, dies,"] Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 15, 2021.

==McPhail, Mark (Indiana U.--Northwest, Gary, 2022)==
[[McPhail, Mark]] has its own page.
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==Meriwether (Ohio, gender pronouns)==
See [[Meriwether Case of Administration Persecution]]. Not a cancelling case, really, if I remember right; a wokeness case, though.

==Richard Paxton (Pacific U., 2021, fired)==
*[https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/26/pacific-university-professor-richard-paxton-fired-oregon-education-universities/ OPB.org on his firing].

==Joseph Petry (Illinois)==
*[https://www.docdroid.net/24J86No/20-448releaseable-pdf Feb. 28, 2020 University Report] online.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry.pdf June 11, 2020 News Release] by Thies-Webber.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry-1.pdf January 27, 2021 News Release] by Thies-Webber after winning on the motion to dismiss, with the Complaint and Motion to Dismiss and Objection to the Motion to Dismiss and Decision. This is the key document.

*Jan 28, 2021 [https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/university-illinois/ex-professors-breach-of-contract-suit-against-ui-can-proceed-judge-decides/article_b9ee510e-8ff7-5ebd-bfc1-7f4cca3725e1.html "Ex-professor's breach-of-contract suit against UI can proceed, judge decides,"] Ben Zigterman bzigterman@news-gazette.com,.

*FEBRUARY 9, 2021, [https://www.thecollegefix.com/judge-approves-professors-lawsuit-against-university-for-baseless-grades-for-sex-investigation/ "Judge approves professor’s lawsuit against university for baseless grades-for-sex investigation,"] HENRY KOKKELER - WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY. This is a very informative article.

==Stephen Porter (NC State, 2021)==
[https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/10/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-professor-files-lawsuit-against-nc-state-university/ "“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Professor Files Lawsuit Against NC State University,"] Inside Higher Education, Oct. 11, 2021, Shannon Watkins.

==Judge Pryor (2021)==
*[http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2021/10/judge-bill-pryor-and-law-clerk-cancel.html?m=1 Attack on him by Dorf on Law] for hiring a clerk who sent an anti-black tweet once a few years ago.

==Purdue==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/purdue-has-students-criminally-charged-for-posters-criticizing-administrator/ Purdue brings criminal vandalism charges against students] for putting up posters criticizing an administrator for going soft on rape.

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== J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law, 2020). See the [[J. Mark Ramseyer]] page. ==

== ==
==Sanders, Steve (Indiana Law, 2021)==
*[https://www.thefire.org/did-indiana-university-foia-its-own-professor/ FIRE writeup] of the situation, around Dec. 15.

==Schulz, Gregory (Concordia-Wisconsin, 2022)==
*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/16/christian-university-still-hasnt-reinstated-professor-it-kicked-out-after-he-criticized-identity-politics/ Suspended] from a Missouri Lutheran, supposedly conservative denominational college for criticizing wokeism. On the web is a [https://gunnerq.com/2022/03/14/heres-the-real-reason-they-canceled-concordias-greg-schultz/ confused set of notes by someone] with valuable background information]

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==Shaw, Jodi (Smith librarian)==
*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac03e14ec4eb74c10016931/t/61bcbb8de3cfe174add26ed7/1639758778264/2021-12-16+Shaw+Complaint.pdf Her lawsuit complaint] (2021).

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==Harald UHLIG (Chicago Econ, 2020)==
*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/45hnqjjki12529m/uhlig_petition_public.pdf?dl=0 Petition calling for the resignation of Harald Uhlig as editor of JPE]:
{{Quotation|
To: The Coeditors of the Journal of Political Economy and Director of The University of Chicago
Press

We, the undersigned, call for the resignation of Harald Uhlig, the Bruce Allen and Barbara
Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, '''as the Lead Editor of the Journal
of Political Economy.''' Prof. Uhlig's comments published on his blog (https://bit.ly/3cN0L97)
and Twitter posts dated June 8th, '''trivializing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement''' and drawing
parallels between the BLM movement and the Ku Klux Klan, are outrageous and unacceptable. They hurt and marginalize people of color and their allies in the economics profession; c'''all into question his impartiality''' in assessing academic work on this and related topics; and damage the standing of the economics discipline in society. '''We do not question the right of Prof. Uhlig to make such comments,''' but we are strongly opposed to him holding a position of power as the editor of a prominent journal in our discipline. }}

::Signed by Richard Tol, Oliver Jehiel, Sharon Oster, Shelly Lundberg, Ivan Werning, David Cutler, Chris Blattman, Paul Goldsmith, Severin Borenstein, Arthur Silve, Andrew Atkeson, Scott Imberman, Jennifer Doleac, Justin Wolfers, Judith Chevalier,

*[https://twitter.com/erasmuse/status/1459537303894900741 Uhlig tweet with Rasmusen comments] on the MIT Free Speech petition, its signers, and its nonsigners.

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==Allyn Walker (Old Dominion, 2021)==
*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10210713/Trans-professor-placed-leave-controversially-defending-pedophiles.html ''Daily Mail'' article,] October 21, 2021.
{{Quotation|
A transgender university professor in Virginia has been placed on leave after defending pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and saying they shouldn't be ostracized because they can't help their natural urges....Walker has written a book that tries to destigmatize pedophilia. It encourages people to refer to pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and says they shouldn't be ostracized for their urges, which they can't help.... said that the online backlash had led to concerns for Walker's safety and that of the campus, and placing them on leave was the best course of action. }}

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==Amy Wax (Penn Law)==
*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2018/4/fahrenheit-451-updated 2018 New Criterion article]

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==Zimmerman, James (Nashville clarinet, 2021)==
*[https://freebeacon.com/culture/how-racial-anxiety-conquered-an-orchestra-and-crushed-a-career/ " How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career"] Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon. A black oboeist on temp status because of his musicial weakness was hired by breaking the rules and not having fellow musicians vote on him. A clarinetist, James Zimmerman, who had advocated for his temporary trial and gotten him the job, was assigned to help him. He resented that, and with another musician, accused Zimmerman of stalking them and got Zimmerman fired. The Board boasted about it, and the Union refused to support him.

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*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9487849/China-launches-app-citizens-report-mistaken-opinions.html China launches app for citizens to report anyone who has 'mistaken opinions' or 'denies the excellence of socialist culture' The app and hotline has been released ahead of party's 100th anniversary ..."] (2021).

*[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/10/new-puritans-mob-justice-canceled/619818/ "THE NEW PURITANS",] Atlantic (2021) by Ann Applebaum is a good survey with lots of specifics about cancellings and the various effects on its victims.

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==How to Resist==
*[https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/beating-back-cancel-culture-a-case-study-from-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence/ Pedro Domingos], ''Quillette'' (2021)

*[https://quillette.com/2021/02/05/more-weight-an-academics-guide-to-surviving-campus-witch-hunts/ Dorian Abbot], ''Quillette'' (2021).

==Miscellaneous==
*[https://www.unz.com/mmalkin/why-airbnb-banned-me-and-my-hubby-too/ Michelle Malkin banned from AirBnB], February 2022.

*“Do not forsake your friend or a friend of your family, and do not go to your relative’s house when disaster strikes you—better a neighbor nearby than a relative far away.” Proverbs 27:10

==Commentary on Cancellings Generally==
*[https://reason.com/2021/12/13/the-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "he-second-great-age-of-political-correctness/ "] ''Reason'' (Dec.2021).

*Level 2 and 3 Witch Hunts
2021 and 2019 ( [https://twitter.com/search?q=ensure%20that%20even%20those%20most%20carefully%20orthodox%20in%20their%20opinions%20would%20have%20said%20something%20that%20later%20became%20heretical.&src=typed_query Paul Graham]

We can classify witch hunts by how long such paths can be. E.g. in a level 3 witch hunt, you can be targeted for defending someone who defended someone who was targeted. I saw that happen in 2020. I don't think I've seen 4 hops yet though.

It happened to me. A mob came after me when I tweeted this because they thought I was defending Stallman for defending Minsky. (Actually I wasn't. Stallman just happened to be one of two people getting cancelled then.)

Sep 17, 2019

If we extended human lifespans sufficiently, everyone would be cancelled. The drift in moral fashion would ensure that even those most carefully orthodox in their opinions would have said something that later became heretical.

2019 had 245 comments and 105 quote retweets and 2K Likes.

*[https://www.econjobrumors.com/topic/twitter-is-now-cancelling-wooldridge/page/2 Wooldridge cancelling, power v. authority]

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==Dorian Abbot (MIT, 2021)==
*[https://freespeech.mit.edu/signatories "Campaign to endorse the Chicago Principles on freedom of expression,"] list of MIT faculty who signed.

*[https://www.mitfreespeech.org/ The MIT Free Speech Alliance], an alumni group formed in response to the Abbot cancellation.

*[https://www.thefire.org/mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/ mit-community-rallies-behind-chicago-statement-after-dorian-abbot-disinvitation/,"] FIRE (November 2021).

*[https://twitter.com/haralduhlig/status/1457018887514505219 Harald Uhlig Tweet] on Ivan Werning not signing.

*The [[MIT Free Speech]] page.

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==Boudreau (Central Michigan, 2021)==
*A FOIA request got the [https://reason.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/boudreau-settlement-agreement.pdf settlement agreement]. See [https://reason.com/volokh/2021/05/08/recent-developments-in-controversies-about-quoting-slurs-from-court-cases/#more-8115395 Volokh Conspiracy.]
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Prof. Boudreau, who was represented by a lawyer from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, withdrew any claims he might have against CMU, retired from CMU (he was apparently eligible for retirement), and in exchange received 10 months' salary and benefits (from Sept. 1, 2020 when he had been fired, to June 30, 2021, the end of this academic year).
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5. Dr. Boudreau shall be paid in a lump sum, less normal withholding taxes the value of pay and CMU's contribution to benefits through June 30, 2021 within thirty (30) days of this settlement. A W-2 will be issued for this payment.

15. Dr. Boudreau agrees that the terms of this Release, including the payment made hereunder, are confidential and shall not be divulged to any third party except his spouse, tax advisor, CPA, wealth manager, and/or his attorneys who shall be advised of this confidentiality provision. Dr. Boudreau shall not be held liable for breach of this confidentiality clause in the event he is compelled via subpoena to under oath in court of law regarding details or terms of his severance and/or settlement agreement provided that he gives prompt notice to the CMU's General Counsel so CMU has the opportunity to object to the subpoena.

16. In the event that Dr. Boudreau violates any aspect of this Agreement, he acknowledges that said breach shall cause damage to CMU. The parties understand that CMU may have to reveal the terms pursuant to FOIA unrelated to any request by the Union or Dr. Boudreau, who agree not to make, encourage, or otherwise participate in such request.

19. Dr. Boudreau shall not, by oral or written expression or any other act of communication to any third party, by name, disparage, criticize, or impugn the reputation or character of CMU's curent or former Board of Trustees members, Board of Trustees, administrators, directors, other employees,eagents and representatives, both individually and in their official capacities (Releas6s). This provision shall not be construed to prohibit Dr. Boudreau from communicating his disagreement with CMU's decision to terminate his employment for the way he spoke various words including the "n-word", his criticism of CMU's decision and generally his beliefs and opinion on the efficacy of his teaching methods. Dr. Boudreau further agrees that this provision concerning non-disparagement is a material condition ofthe consideration contained herein, that this provision is an essential part of this Agreement, and that any violation ofthe terms ofthis paragraph shall be deemed a material breach of the entire Agreement.

21. Dr. Boudreau agrees that this Agreement shall be binding and inure to the benefit of his successors, executors, administrators, personal representatives and assigns, and to the benefit of the predecessors, successors, and assigns of the Releasees, and further agrees and acknowledges that this Agreement contains and comprises the entire agreement and understandings of the parties, and that there are no additional promises or terms of this Agreement, other than those contained within this document and the documents referenced herein.

23. If any provision of this Agreement shall for any reason be held invalid, illegal, unenforceable, or in conflict with any law governing this Agreement, the validity of the remaining portions of this Agreement shall not be affected but shall continue in full legal force and effect to the fullest extent allowed by law.
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Observations:
* (1) He can talk about the incident he was fired for.
*(2) He can disparage the University, just not the various individuals who are to blame for any university scandals he may reveal.
*(3) The University and its officials are free to disparage him however much they want.
*(4) No damages are specified for breach of the clause. He is paid his settlement money within 30 days, and there are no liquidated damages. Presumably the damages would be the default of expectation damages, which in this case would be like defamation damages except he would be liable for harm caused even by truthful statements about public figures.
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==Sara Braasch (Leftwing Yale Graduate Student who called the police when she found a strange black woman sleeping outside her dorm room, 2018)==
*[https://sarahjbraasch.com/2021/10/30/so-you-want-to-talk-about-ijeoma-oluo-who-repeatedly-tried-to-drive-me-to-suicide-on-twitter-because-i-am-the-proof-that-she-is-an-evil-lying-bigot-and-fraud-part-i/ Braasch's blog, screenshots of the Left's attempt to harass her and drive her to suicide] (2021)
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== [[Amy Chua]] (Yale Law). See the [[Amy Chua]] page. ==

== [[Trent Colbert]]: The Trap House Party (Yale Law). See the [[Trent Colbert]] page.==

==Jed DeVaro ( Cal State-East Bay econ)==
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*[https://www.csueastbay.edu/directory/profiles/mgmt/devarojed.html Jed DeVaro faculty profile] and his [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KnFonD0AAAAJ&hl=en Google Scholar Citation page].

*[https://thepioneeronline.com/42499/features/professors-not-immune-to-gender-inequality/ "Professors not immune to gender inequality: Jung Sook You, CSUEB,"] ''The Pioneer,'' November 30, 2020.
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==Roland Fryer (Harvard econ, 2019)==
*[https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/01/27/harvard_the_new_york_times_and_the_metoo_takedown_of_a_black_academic_star.html "Harvard, the NY Times and the #MeToo Takedown of a Black Academic Star,"] Stuart Taylor Jr., ''RealClearInvestigations,'' January 29, 2019.

*[https://karlstack.substack.com/p/the-lynching-of-roland-fryer "The Lynching of Roland Fryer," ] ''Substack'' (2021).
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==Iowa ==
*[https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18597 "University ordered to pay almost $2 million after students win religious freedom lawsuit
The University of Iowa was recently ordered to pay $1.9 million after two student groups sued the school.
The lawsuits were filed originally in 2017 and 2018."]

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==[[Timothy Jackson]], North Texas, Musicology. See the [[Timothy Jackson]] page.==

== ==

==Katz, Joshua (Princeton Classics, 2022)==
See the [[Joshua Katz]] page.

==Kilborn, Jason==
*[https://campusreform.org/article?id=16754 "Law prof says he was forced to undergo lengthy mental examination & drug test after exam question caused students ‘distress’,"] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Kilborn told Campus Reform that his classes “were cancelled for the entire semester on the very first day of class. He said he also had to undergo “an agonizing several-week period of ‘administrative leave,’” during which he was “barred from campus and prevented from participating in normal faculty communications and activities, including my elected position on the university promotion and tenure committee.”

Kilborn said he was compelled to submit to three hours of mental examination and a drug test by university doctors and a social worker, broken into two segments spanning the course of a week.}}
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==Chad KIMBALL (Broadway actor, 2021)==
*[https://nypost.com/2021/11/05/tony-nominee-i-was-fired-from-broadway-for-being-christian/ "Tony nominee Chad Kimball: I was fired from Broadway for being Christian,"] ''New York Post.''

==Brian KLATTMAN (Lehigh, 2021)==
*[https://thebrownandwhite.com/2021/11/09/math-professor-removed-from-the-classroom/ "Visiting math professor removed from the classroom following social media posts brought to university’s attention ,"] GABRIELLE FALK,NOVEMBER 9, 2021, ''The Brown and White.''
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==Diane Klein (LaVerne, Chapman)==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/law-professor-says-university-fired-her-by-racializing-criticism-of-black-colleagues-performance/ "Law professor says university fired her by ‘racializing’ criticism of black colleague’s performance," ] CHRISTIAN LUBKE (AUGUST 26, 2020).
{{Quotation|
In a meeting on the future of the law school last fall, Klein told colleagues that they must decide “whether we are willing to assassinate” Assistant Dean Jendayi Saada, who runs the Center for Academic and Bar Readiness.}}

*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/02/17/la-verne-seeks-terminate-gadfly-professor-allegedly-threatening-assassinate Insider Higher Education] article.

*[https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/concerned-la-verne-faculty-for-the-restoration-of#scrollTo--undefined Petition] from Laverne faculty in support of KLein.

*[https://www.coursicle.com/chapman/professors/Diane+Klein/ Chapman Law] teaching schedule.

*[http://www.caaaup.org/about-ca-aaup.html AAUP State of California Vice President for Private Universities] (2020-2022).
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==[[Gordon Klein]], UCLA, Anderson School, Accounting (2020). See the [[Gordon Klein]] page.==

==John Kluge (Indiana schoolteacher)==
*[https://www.leagle.com/decision/infdco20200109d01 District Court decision]

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==Zhihao Kong (Purdue student, Chinese government harassment)==
*[https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out "even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out,"] ''Pro Publica'', Sebastian Rotella (Nov. 2021).

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==Walter Lewin (MIT)==
This is an odd one. I haven't figure it out yet.
*[https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/01/23/complainant-unprecedented-walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case-comes-forward walter-lewin-sexual-harassment-case].

[https://thetech.com/2014/12/09/walterlewin-v134-n60 "MIT cuts ties with Walter Lewin after online harassment probe
Institute revokes emeritus title, removes online courses of popular physics professor who starred in viral videos"] The Tech (2014).

==Jamie Lund (St. Mary's Law) (2013)==
*[https://abovethelaw.com/2013/05/sources-and-dr-phil-offer-insights-author-of-confessions-of-a-sociopath-who-might-be-this-law-professor/ Above the Law] guessing as to the true identity of a "sociopath". It looks like she was mistreated.

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==John MacAdams (Marquette, 2018)==
[https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2021/04/15/marquette-political-science-professor-john-mcadams-dies/7246026002/ "John McAdams, political science professor who took Marquette to the state Supreme Court, dies,"] Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 15, 2021.

==McPhail, Mark (Indiana U.--Northwest, Gary, 2022)==
[[McPhail, Mark]] has its own page.
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==Meriwether (Ohio, gender pronouns)==
See [[Meriwether Case of Administration Persecution]]. Not a cancelling case, really, if I remember right; a wokeness case, though.

==Richard Paxton (Pacific U., 2021, fired)==
*[https://www.opb.org/article/2021/08/26/pacific-university-professor-richard-paxton-fired-oregon-education-universities/ OPB.org on his firing].

==Joseph Petry (Illinois)==
*[https://www.docdroid.net/24J86No/20-448releaseable-pdf Feb. 28, 2020 University Report] online.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry.pdf June 11, 2020 News Release] by Thies-Webber.

*[https://taxprof.typepad.com/files/petry-1.pdf January 27, 2021 News Release] by Thies-Webber after winning on the motion to dismiss, with the Complaint and Motion to Dismiss and Objection to the Motion to Dismiss and Decision. This is the key document.

*Jan 28, 2021 [https://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/university-illinois/ex-professors-breach-of-contract-suit-against-ui-can-proceed-judge-decides/article_b9ee510e-8ff7-5ebd-bfc1-7f4cca3725e1.html "Ex-professor's breach-of-contract suit against UI can proceed, judge decides,"] Ben Zigterman bzigterman@news-gazette.com,.

*FEBRUARY 9, 2021, [https://www.thecollegefix.com/judge-approves-professors-lawsuit-against-university-for-baseless-grades-for-sex-investigation/ "Judge approves professor’s lawsuit against university for baseless grades-for-sex investigation,"] HENRY KOKKELER - WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY. This is a very informative article.

==Stephen Porter (NC State, 2021)==
[https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2021/10/death-by-a-thousand-cuts-professor-files-lawsuit-against-nc-state-university/ "“Death by a Thousand Cuts”: Professor Files Lawsuit Against NC State University,"] Inside Higher Education, Oct. 11, 2021, Shannon Watkins.

==Judge Pryor (2021)==
*[http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2021/10/judge-bill-pryor-and-law-clerk-cancel.html?m=1 Attack on him by Dorf on Law] for hiring a clerk who sent an anti-black tweet once a few years ago.

==Purdue==
*[https://www.thecollegefix.com/purdue-has-students-criminally-charged-for-posters-criticizing-administrator/ Purdue brings criminal vandalism charges against students] for putting up posters criticizing an administrator for going soft on rape.

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== J. Mark Ramseyer (Harvard Law, 2020). See the [[J. Mark Ramseyer]] page. ==

== ==
==Sanders, Steve (Indiana Law, 2021)==
*[https://www.thefire.org/did-indiana-university-foia-its-own-professor/ FIRE writeup] of the situation, around Dec. 15.

==Schulz, Gregory (Concordia-Wisconsin, 2022)==
*[https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/16/christian-university-still-hasnt-reinstated-professor-it-kicked-out-after-he-criticized-identity-politics/ Suspended] from a Missouri Lutheran, supposedly conservative denominational college for criticizing wokeism. On the web is a [https://gunnerq.com/2022/03/14/heres-the-real-reason-they-canceled-concordias-greg-schultz/ confused set of notes by someone] with valuable background information]

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==Shaw, Jodi (Smith librarian)==
*[https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ac03e14ec4eb74c10016931/t/61bcbb8de3cfe174add26ed7/1639758778264/2021-12-16+Shaw+Complaint.pdf Her lawsuit complaint] (2021).

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==Harald UHLIG (Chicago Econ, 2020)==
*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/45hnqjjki12529m/uhlig_petition_public.pdf?dl=0 Petition calling for the resignation of Harald Uhlig as editor of JPE]:
{{Quotation|
To: The Coeditors of the Journal of Political Economy and Director of The University of Chicago
Press

We, the undersigned, call for the resignation of Harald Uhlig, the Bruce Allen and Barbara
Ritzenthaler Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago, '''as the Lead Editor of the Journal
of Political Economy.''' Prof. Uhlig's comments published on his blog (https://bit.ly/3cN0L97)
and Twitter posts dated June 8th, '''trivializing the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement''' and drawing
parallels between the BLM movement and the Ku Klux Klan, are outrageous and unacceptable. They hurt and marginalize people of color and their allies in the economics profession; c'''all into question his impartiality''' in assessing academic work on this and related topics; and damage the standing of the economics discipline in society. '''We do not question the right of Prof. Uhlig to make such comments,''' but we are strongly opposed to him holding a position of power as the editor of a prominent journal in our discipline. }}

::Signed by Richard Tol, Oliver Jehiel, Sharon Oster, Shelly Lundberg, Ivan Werning, David Cutler, Chris Blattman, Paul Goldsmith, Severin Borenstein, Arthur Silve, Andrew Atkeson, Scott Imberman, Jennifer Doleac, Justin Wolfers, Judith Chevalier,

*[https://twitter.com/erasmuse/status/1459537303894900741 Uhlig tweet with Rasmusen comments] on the MIT Free Speech petition, its signers, and its nonsigners.

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==Allyn Walker (Old Dominion, 2021)==
*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10210713/Trans-professor-placed-leave-controversially-defending-pedophiles.html ''Daily Mail'' article,] October 21, 2021.
{{Quotation|
A transgender university professor in Virginia has been placed on leave after defending pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and saying they shouldn't be ostracized because they can't help their natural urges....Walker has written a book that tries to destigmatize pedophilia. It encourages people to refer to pedophiles as 'Minor Attracted People' and says they shouldn't be ostracized for their urges, which they can't help.... said that the online backlash had led to concerns for Walker's safety and that of the campus, and placing them on leave was the best course of action. }}

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==Amy Wax (Penn Law)==
*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2018/4/fahrenheit-451-updated 2018 New Criterion article]

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==Zimmerman, James (Nashville clarinet, 2021)==
*[https://freebeacon.com/culture/how-racial-anxiety-conquered-an-orchestra-and-crushed-a-career/ " How Racial Anxiety Conquered an Orchestra and Crushed a Career"] Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon. A black oboeist on temp status because of his musicial weakness was hired by breaking the rules and not having fellow musicians vote on him. A clarinetist, James Zimmerman, who had advocated for his temporary trial and gotten him the job, was assigned to help him. He resented that, and with another musician, accused Zimmerman of stalking them and got Zimmerman fired. The Board boasted about it, and the Union refused to support him.

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McPhail, Mark

2022-06-04T16:49:49Z

Rasmusen p1vaim:

*The 2022 [https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-disenchantment-of-a-black-professor?cid2=gen_login_refresh&cid=gen_sign_in Chronicle of Higher Education article] is very long, complete, and well-written.

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Mark McPhail was fired by Indiana University-Northwest in Gary Indiana. He sued.

*May 12, 2015. [https://www.iun.edu/news/2015/mark-mcphail.htm "Mark McPhail, Ph.D., named IU Northwest Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs,"] IU Northwest News.

*September 14, 2021. [http://rasmusen.org/special/mcphail_firing/2021.09.14_Dismissal_LaguanasLetter.pdf Dismissal letter] from Laguanas.

*September 14, 2021. [http://rasmusen.org/special/mcphail_firing/2021.09.14_FromUniversity_TresspassLetter.pdf No trespassing letter to McPhail]

*September 14, 2021. [http://rasmusen.org/special/mcphail_firing/2022.04_2021.09.14POLICE_REPORT_McPhail1286_133233.pdf Campus Police report on McPhail]

*November 29, 2021. [http://rasmusen.org/special/mcphail_firing/2021.11.29_IUN_FBRReport.pdf First Faculty Board of Review report:] McPhail shouldn't have had his pay cut without due process

*April 21, 2022. [http://rasmusen.org/special/mcphail_firing/2022.04.21_FinalFBORReportDrMcPhail.pdf Second Faculty Board of Review report:] McPhail shouldn't have been fired.

*May 10, 2022. [https://www.thefire.org/fired-for-criticizing-his-administration-and-discussing-racism-indiana-professor-sues/ "Fired for criticizing his administration and discussing racism, Indiana professor sues,"] FIRE.

*May 11, 2022. [https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/indiana-university-northwest-professor-files-lawsuit-against-university-after-being-fired-for-discussing-administration-and-racism.php "Former IU Northwest professor sues university, says he was fired for criticisms on diversity and racism,"] Indiana Public Media .

*May 23, 2022. [http://rasmusen.org/special/mcphail_firing/AAUP-FourthLetter-IndianaUniversityNorthwest-TheCaseofProfessorMarkMcPhailMay232022.pdf Fourth letter from the AAUP to IU-Northwest] asking them to explain what was going on.

==Legal==
*April 18, 2022. The [https://www.thefire.org/mark-mcphail-v-trustees-of-indiana-university-april-18-2022/ Complaint] in McPhail's lawsuit, as filed in state court in Indiana.

*People:
**Judge Theresa Springmann. Magistrate Judge Andrew P Rodovich.
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chisara-ezie-boncoeur-089619a/ Valerie C Ezie-Boncoeur], Indiana University's lawyer, Barnes and Thornburgh South Bend Of Counsel. Seconded by [https://btlaw.com/people/kathleen-anderson Kathleen Anderson] of Ft. Wayne.
** [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rima-kapitan-0685595/ Rima Kapitan] (Chicago) and Christopher Stake (Delaney, Indy) for McPhail.

*The case was removed by IU to federal court. [http://rasmusen.org/special/mcphail_firing/2022.05.25_Docket_McPhail.pdf] The N.D. Indiana federal docket as of May 25, 2022]. CASE #: 2:22-cv-00137.

Joshua Katz

2022-06-04T16:46:33Z

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==2021==
*[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/10/27/8_at_princeton_assail_false_portrayal_of_prof_as_racist_146631.html Eight professors, 7 anonymous, criticize the Administration], October 27, 2021.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2021/02/alumni-allegations-princeton-joshua-katz "Alumni allege history of inappropriate conduct with female students by Princeton professor Joshua Katz,"] Marie-Rose Sheinerman and Evelyn Doskoch, ''The Princetonian,''
(February 4, 2021) but see the harsh criticisms of that article at [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/editorial-mccarthyism-daily-princetonian "Editorial: "McCarthyism at the Daily Princetonian",] Princetonians for Free Speech and the [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/letter-editor-which-daily-princetonian-has-ignored Elizabeth Bogan letter] that the Princetonian wouldn't publish.

*[https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/how-low-did-princeton-go-joshua-t-katz-racism/ "How Low Did Princeton Go?,"] Rod Dreher, ''The American Conservative'' (September 15, 2021).

*[https://www.firstthings.com/article/2021/10/my-confessions "My Confessions,"] Joshua Katz, ''First Things'' (October 2021).
{{Quotation|
Early in my career, however, I made a grave mistake, by which I mean something beyond the bounds of “merely” bad behavior, something sinful: I had a relationship with a student whom I was at the same time teaching. It was a consensual relationship between adults; it took place at a time when Princeton’s rules permitted students and faculty to engage in sexual contact, provided there was no pedagogical or supervisory conflict; and there was no Title IX violation. Still, it was a sin.

It is a sin I lived with every day. It ate away at me. But I lived with it alone. Alone, that is, until weeks after the #MeToo movement took off in late 2017, when an anonymous complainant—not the woman herself—informed Princeton about the more-than-a-decade-old affair. The result was an internal investigation, which culminated in a one-year suspension without pay.

Even before I knew that my life was about to change, I had begun reading theology and occasionally attending church (in that order—once a bookish academic, always a bookish academic). The fact is that I was sad, I was making a mess of my personal life, and I needed help.

Then I learned of the investigation, learned that I would likely be suspended, and found myself in need of help on an entirely different level. I was on sabbatical in London at the time, and my future mother-in-law—I had only just begun dating her daughter, a former (yes, former) student of mine who was now at Cambridge—gave me the following firm instruction: Get myself to the Temple Church, whose Master (senior cleric), the Rev. Robin Griffith-Jones, she had heard preach a few years earlier in New York.
...
Two reporters at the main student newspaper spent seven months digging into my private life. Surmising that I had been suspended, they published an article about me in the first week of February that “threw away basic journalistic standards” (in the words of Princetonians for Free Speech) in its reliance on hearsay, innuendo, and hostile anonymous sources. }}

==2022==
He was fired. [https://nypost.com/2022/05/20/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-who-was-under-sexual-misconduct-probe/amp/ New York Post] and [https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princeton-trustees-fire-classics-professor-joshua-katz Princeton Paw] an d[https://academeblog.org/2022/05/24/in-defense-of-joshua-katz/ Academe] (NAS); [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/us/princeton-fires-joshua-katz.html New York Times] (pro-Katz!); [https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/princeton-president-recommends-firing-professor-in-sexual-misconduct-probe/ar-AAXxCbx?ocid=uxbndlbing the Washington Post] is anti-Katz, about the only article I could find against him and thus useful. Princetonians for Free Speech [https://princetoniansforfreespeech.com/statement-princetonians-free-speech-princetons-firing-classics-professor-joshua-katz-award-winning defended him].

*His [https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/what-princeton-did-to-my-husband?s=r wife's extremely good article] at Bari Weiss's Substack and his [https://spectatorworld.com/topic/defense-joshua-katz-princeton-cancel-culture/ mother-in-law's equally good essay] at the Spectator.

*[https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/06/joshua-katz-firing-politically-biased-administrators-classics-princeton Daily Princetonian op-ed] by a student defending Katz. It's good because it has lots of links. May 31, 2022.

*Defense of Katz by [https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/27/dgwq-m27.html The World Socialist Website] of the 4th International. Old marxists weren't idiots like the Wokesters, even if they were evil.
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Joshua Katz

2022-06-04T16:39:56Z

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Joshua Katz

2022-06-04T16:33:11Z

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Quotations

2022-06-04T16:31:54Z

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==Introduction==
*[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikiquotes]

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==Anonymous==
*Twitter: "It is Monday, my dudes. Whatsoever the Lord hath given you to accomplish today, crush it."

*Twitter: "i had no idea learning programming was such an emotional experience. like half of the process is managing rapidly alternating between feeling like im the lord almighty here to graciously gift my genius to mankind, and wanting to pour my coffee into my keyboard and die."

*"Traditions exist so we don’t have to talk about what’s right, we just do it." Twitter (2022).

*"What you permit, you promote." https://quintsblog.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/what-you-permit-you-promote/

*'''"Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan"''' is a slightly improved version of John F. Kennedy's "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan,"as quoted in ''A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House'' (1965, 2002 edition), by Arthur Schlesinger, p. 262; also in ''The Quote Verifier'' (2006) by Ralph Keyes, p. 234 http://books.google.com/books?id=McO2Co4Ih98C&pg=PA234).
{{Quotation|
The exact wording used by Kennedy (a hundred, not a thousand) had appeared in the 1951 film The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, as reported in Safire's ''New Political Dictionary'' (1993) by William Safire, pp 841–842). The earliest known occurrence is Galeazzo Ciano, ''Diary 1937-1943'', entry for 9 September 1942 ("La victoria trova cento padri, e nessuno vuole riconoscere l'insuccesso.") ("Victory finds a hundred fathers, but nobody wants to recognize defeat"), but the earliest known occurrence on such a theme is in Tacitus's : ''Agricola'' Book 1 at paragraph 27 http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/tac/ag01020.htm: “Iniquissima haec bellorum condicio est: prospera omnes sibi vindicant, adversa uni imputantur.” (It is the singularly unfair peculiarity of war that the credit of success is claimed by all, while a disaster is attributed to one alone.)
https://quotepark.com/pl/cytaty/1377945-john-f-kennedy-victory-has-a-hundred-fathers-and-defeat-is-an-orp/}}

*"Why own a sailboat? It's easier to turn your shower's cold water on and stand there tearing up $20 bills as fast as you can." and “Owning a yacht is like owning a stack of 10 Van Goghs and holding them over your head as you tread water, trying to keep them dry.” https://www.ft.com/content/5263810a-c4d3-4380-a38e-3a78df99a788

*"Quantity has a quality all of its own. "

*"All of mathematics is taught like someone explaining the rules of a board game that you're not playing yet." (Twitter, 2022)

*"It’s obvious to me why people like him avoid humor. You can pretend to be serious. You can’t pretend to be witty."

*[https://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_showing_up_is_half_the_battle "Just showing up is 90% of success," or "Just being there is half the battle,"] perhaps modified from Woody Allen.

*"Be friendly to everyone. But have a plan to kill them.’ — attributed to an unidentified Secret Service agent.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verba_volant,_scripta_manent Wikipedia says:] "Verba volant, scripta manent is a Latin proverb. Literally translated, it means "spoken words fly away, written words remain".This proverb originates from a speech of senator Caius Titus to the Roman Senate;" "Verba volant, scripta manent."

*"Disappointent, or His_appointment"?

*{{Quotation| There is a certain type of social insecurity, shyness, modesty that actually conceals exaggerated egocentrism: people secretly believe the world revolves around them, everyone is paying attention to them and their actions, constantly judging and criticizing the smallest details.}}

*{{Quotation| "Moi parle pas mais moi comprends tout" (https://twitter.com/Fixpir/status/1447133952448344066)}}

{{Quotation|The first gulp of the glass of science makes you atheist, but at the bottom is always God. }}

{{Quotation|A bear knows seven songs, and they are all about honey. }}

{{Quotation|Economics is the study of how to get the most out of life. }}

{{Quotation|Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof. (Life is not a pony farm.)}}

{{Quotation|Men want women, but don’t need them. Women need men, but don’t want them.}}

{{Quotation|The proverb appeared in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, written in 1385. Later, George Herbert modified it this way: “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” And in 1736, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.” https://www.almanac.com/fact/where-did-the-saying-people-who-live}}
{{Quotation| " `What is the sonne wers, of kinde righte, 
Though that a man, for feblesse of his yen, 
May nought endure on it to see for brighte? 
Or love the wers, though wrecches on it cryen? 865 
No wele is worth, that may no sorwe dryen. 
'''And for-thy, who that hath an heed of verre, 
Fro cast of stones war him in the werre!''' 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/257/257-h/257-h.htm}}

{{Quotation|
I remember my days in DC. I don’t think the women had any plan.

It’s like when they work in an office: no real strategy for getting promoted, taking charge. They wait thinking some gent will just say “it’s your turn!” and anything they want—marriage, promotion, whatever—just happens.

Women will always and forever rely on men.}}

{{Quotation| "The tactic is by now obvious:

1. Make topic taboo.

2. Normal people shy away from it.

3. Topic mostly discussed by weirdos and edgy people.

4. Point out how suspicious it is that everybody who talks about topic is a weirdo or edgy."

@KirkegaardEmil}}

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==Adams, Scott==
[https://twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1392453838540480517 Twitter May 12, 2021:]
"Some of the worst advice ever given:

1. Be yourself (total loser philosophy)

2. Follow the science (as if you could)

3. Pursue your passion (no one pays you for having fun)"

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==Alcorn, John==
“That’s my background and my question. I will now retreat to the background, and learn.” Very nicely phrased and useful.

==Andreessen, Mark==
"The most serious problem facing any organization is the one that cannot be discussed." Twitter, 2022.

==Arreeda, Philip==
From [http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"] Stephen G. Breyer:
“Do not tell the class you are talking economics. Anyone who does not understand economics and applies it in antitrust is not properly teaching the course. But anyone who lets the class know that they’re talking economics is not a law school professor.”

==Aristotle==
*"Some people will not accept the statements of a speaker unless he gives a mathematical proof; others will not unless he makes use of illustrations; others expect to have a poet adduced as witness. Again, some require exactness in everything, while others are annoyed by it, either because they cannot follow the reasoning or because of its pettiness; for there is something about exactness which seems to some people to be mean, no less in an argument than in a business transaction." [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aristot.%20Met.%202.995a ''Metaphysics'' 995a]

==ARROW, Kenneth==
From [https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2013/11/is-altruism-scarce-resource-that-needs.html a blog post quoting Sandel JPE 2013], the original being Arrow 1972. “Gifts and Exchanges.” ''Philosophy and Public Affairs'' 1(4): 343 – 62.
{{Quotation|
“Like many economists,” Arrow (1972, pp. 354–55) writes, “I do not want to rely too heavily on substituting ethics for self-interest. I think it best on the whole that the requirement of ethical behavior be confined to those circumstances where the price system breaks down . . . We do not wish to use up recklessly the scarce resources of altruistic motivation.”}}

==Asimov, Isaac==
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.” ― Isaac Asimov

==Astral Codex 10==
{{Quotation| "You listed some funny facts about this disorder, but this disorder is really serious and killed my grandmother". I have a lot of trouble being serious, and this has served me well in getting people to read and enjoy things I write. But almost everything in medicine has killed at least one person's grandmother. : 
---[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-of-legible WebMD, and the Tragedy of Legible Expertise
"What does running a medical database teach you about why everything sucks?"]}}

{{Quotation| The problem for artists is not that popular culture is so bad but that it is so good, at least some of the time. Art could no longer confer prestige by the rarity or excellence of the works themselves, so it had to confer it by the rarity of the powers of appreciation. --https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/highlights-from-the-comments-on-modern}}

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==Bayly, Joseph==
{{Quotation| "Criticism is the manure in which pastors grow best ." http://baylyblog.com/blog/2004/06/criticism-manure-which-pastors-grow-best}}

==Bayly, Timothy==
{{Quotation| It’s often the case that particularities of our leadership can scandalize sheep who like to think of their pastors as perfect fathers, unlike their own. -- https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/ }}

{{Quotation| Commenters under these posts have noted the tendency of individual Christians to compare their own local pastors to national celebrities to the detriment of their trust of their local pastors. After all, the sins of their own pastors are obvious whereas the sins of their pastoral heroes are not. --https://warhornmedia.com/2021/02/06/john-macarthur-his-wealthy-and-important-trustees-should-all-be-fired/.}}

==The BBC==
"1930: the BBC's news announcer said, "there is no news" and piano music was played for the remainder of the 15 minute segment." https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1383693028213198850

==Berlin, Isaiah==
"“eggs are broken, but the omelette is not in sight, there is only an infinite number of eggs, human lives, ready for the breaking. And in the end the passionate idealists forget the omelette, and just go on breaking eggs.”

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==Blackwell, David==
{{Quotation|Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been....I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blackwell#cite_note-NYT-Grime-2007-07-17-11)}}

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==CANNON, William.==
1963 “Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking”
{{Quotation|
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.}}

==Chesterton, G. K.==
*[https://mailchi.mp/inpolicy/2022-and-chestertons-fence-488333?e=bda54c6080 "Chesterton's Fence" ]:
{{Quotation|
“In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

:Chesterton is not alone in the observation. It is found throughout our literature and theatre. In Robert Bolt’s “A Man for All Seasons” Sir Thomas More uses a similar argument to famously challenge his reformist son-in-law. The poet Robert Frost comes to the same conclusion in “Mending Wall.” Scripture is replete with its warning, beginning in Proverbs 22:28, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone that your fathers have placed.” }}

*"If you will not have rules, you will have rulers."

*"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. And it is extraordinary to notice how few people in the modern world can argue. This is why there are so many quarrels, breaking out again and again, and never coming to any natural end."

*{{Quotation|
If our social conditions curtail manhood and womanhood, we must alter the social conditions. We must not go on quietly in a corner making men unmanly and women unwomanly, that they may fit into their filthy and slavish civilization.}}

*{{Quotation|
Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
--Autobiography}}

*{{Quotation|
We are ruled by secret societies which have no names even among the initiate.}}

*{{Quotation|
My own political philosophy is very plain and humble; I can trust the uneducated, but not the badly educated.}}

*[http://ignatiusinsight.com/features2007/print2007/gk_domestwwww_july07.html Chesterton's Emancipation of Domesticity"] essay on motherhood.

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== CHU, HYON S.==
{{Quotation|
Here's how neo-Marxism works:

1) pick a variable. For Marx it was labor. For Nietzsche, will to power. For Kendi, it's race.

2) divide the population by this variable

3) blame one side as oppressor, the other as oppressed

4) feign oppression to wield the mob of the oppressed
--Twitter (2021)}}

==Churchill Winston==
‘Most of the world’s work is done by people who are not feeling very well.’

==Cicero==
“Poor is the people that has no heroes, but poorer still is the people that, having heroes, fails to remember and honour them.”

==Connolly, Gray==
Slightly altered from his Twitter rules:
{{Quotation|
.
1. Please be polite and do not fight. 
2. Do disagree, but do not swear, blaspheme, or abuse. 
3. I write as if my late parents are reading, so please be respectful. 
4. You always have control over how you conduct yourself. 
5. A more civil society starts with you.}}

==Cox, Sir David R.==
From [https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-statistics-031219-041051 "Statistical Significance," ] David R. Cox, ''Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application'', 7: 1-10 (2020):
{{Quotation|
To claim a result to be highly significant, or even just significant, sounds like enthusiastic
endorsement, whereas to describe a result as insignificant is surely dismissive. To help avoid such
misinterpretations, the qualified terms statistically significant or statistically insignificant should,
at the risk of some tedium, always be used.}}

==Crawford, Jason==
{{Quotation| Most people don't read → if you read books at all, you are more educated than most

Even among those who read, most haven't read a book on X. If you read one book on X, you know more about it than the vast majority

Read 2–3 books on one topic, and you're practically an expert. [--Twitter, 2021]}}

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==Dawry, Travis==
@tdawry {{Quotation| In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.}}

==DECTER, Midge==
“You can’t wait for someone to send you good material. Your first job as an editor is to find writers. Your second job is to tell them what to write. You’d be surprised, the best writers often don’t know what needs to be written. A good editor does.”

“If you feel like the content is going flat, pick a fight. That always brings life to a magazine of ideas.” (from [https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2022/05/my-memories-of-midge-decter Reno article] in First THings, 2022)

==Dennett, Daniel==
{{Quotation|
"“A scholar,” said Daniel Dennett in 1995, “is just a library’s way of making another library.”" (James Gleick, The Information)}}

==Dick, Philip K.==
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

==DIPLOCK, Lord==
{{Quotation| After all, that is the beauty of the common law; it is a maze, not a motorway.}} ''Morris v. C.W.Martin,'' 1 QB 716 (Diplock, L. J. , 1966). A [https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/artniqul3&div=49&id=&page= bailment case. ]

==Domingos, Pedro==
{{Quotation|An extremist is someone who thinks a moderate is an extremist of the opposite persuasion. 
--https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1358242734482464768}}

{{Quotation|
It's easy to forget that every cognitive bias is the flip side of a heuristic that works.}}

{{Quotation|
The goal of cancel culture is to cancel culture.}}

"Resentment of billionaires is rooted in our Neolithic minds' inability to intuitively understand that one person's positive impact on the world may be many orders of magnitude greater than another's."

==Dostoevsky==
"It takes more than just intelligence to act intelligently."

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==Eckel, Catherine==
"It's time to invent time-bankruptcy. I owe so many people so many things, and everyone is mad at me. I declare bankruptcy! Let the courts sort it out."

==ENNIS, John==
"Tolerance in America is largely tied to capitalism. When people are working together to make money, they can put aside many differences. Socialism, on the other hand, leads to intolerance as different factions compete for state resources." [https://twitter.com/john_ennis_btc/status/1518986774776893442 Twitter] (2022)

==Enzensbergert==
{{Quotation|
So we belong to a class that neither controls nor owns what matters, the famous means of production, and it does not produce what also matters, the famous surplus value (or perhaps produces it only indirectly and incidentally . . . ).}}

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==Faulkner, William==
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

==Feynman, Richard==
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

==FischerKing==
*"Most truth is grasped as a sort of sudden insight. Writing it down is always a problem b/c it only approximates the discovery. And then the written word becomes the plaything of lesser intellects, who tie themselves in knots trying to explicate it. And therein lies most academia." (2021, Twitter)

*"From an anthropological perspective, the Antifa phenomenon is quite useful. Can’t remember another time when Nietzsche’s concept of slave morality raging against the beautiful was more openly on display." (2021, Twitter)

==Flanagan, Caitlin==
{{Quotation| The school is now so flush that its campus is a sort of Saks Fifth Avenue of Quakerism. Forget having Meeting in the smelly old gym. Now there is a meetinghouse of sumptuous plainness, created out of materials so good and simple and repurposed and expensive that surely only virtue and mercy will follow its benefactors all the days of their lives. The building’s citation by the American Institute of Architects notes that the interior is lined with “oak from long-unused Maryland barns” and the exterior is “clad with black locust harvested from a single source in New Jersey.”...

College admissions is one of the few situations in which rich people are forced to scramble for a scarce resource. What logic had led them to believe that it would help to antagonize the college counselors? Driven mad by the looming prospect of a Williams rejection, they had lost all reason...

These aren’t parents in the public-school system; they are consumers of a luxury product. If they are unhappy, they won’t just write anonymous letters. They’ll let the school know the old-fashioned way: by cutting down on their donations. Money is how rich people express their deepest feelings...

Many schools for the richest American kids have gates and security guards; the message is ''you are precious to us.'' Many schools for the poorest kids have metal detectors and police officers; the message is ''you are a threat to us.''
--https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/, The Atlantic (2021). }}

==Follows, Tracey==
[https://twitter.com/traceyfutures/status/1348032747613392896 @traceyfutures]:
2021: {{Quotation| “In China you have a State-run media, in the US you have a media-run State” }}

==Foster, Michael==
*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1392467487049109504 Twitter, May 12, 2021:]
{{Quotation|If a positive comment about men triggers you, you’re seriously twisted.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1395015978027819010 Twitter, May 19, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
When women hold power in a church—whether officially or unofficially—two things tend to happen:

1. They strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error;

2. They strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy.}}

*[https://twitter.com/thisisfoster/status/1457324061130956801 Twitter, November 7, 2021:]
{{Quotation|
This a great question: "Is it a general occurrence that if you ask your wife how her day was that she will go into every little possible detail about what she did, what she talked to other people about, and what happened but never actually tell you how her day was?"

My reply:

That's how a normal woman tells you how her day was. The description is the conclusion, which to a man seems like a joke w/o a punchline. She took you on her journey & in doing so she thinks you feel what she felt as she went thru it. Therefore, she thinks you'll just get it.}}

==Franco, Francisco==
*From [https://theworthyhouse.com/2019/04/16/on-francisco-franco/ The Worthy House], without source, said to be from 1961:
{{Quotation|The great weakness of modern states lies in their lack of doctrinal content, in having renounced a firm concept of man, life, and history. The major error of liberalism is in its negation of any permanent category of truth—its absolute and radical relativism—an error that, in a different form, was apparent in those other European currents that made ‘action’ their only demand and the supreme norm of their conduct [i.e., Communism and National Socialism]. . . . When the juridicial order does not proceed from a system of principles, ideas, and values recognized as superior and prior to the state, it ends in an omnipotent juridicial voluntarism, whether its primary organ be the so-called majority, purely numerical and inorganically expressed, or the supreme organs of power.}}

==Frizzell, David==
From the song, [https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/30878059/David+Frizzell/I'm+Gonna+Hire+a+Wino+to+Decorate+Our+Home "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home"]: 
{{Quotation|
She said: "I'm gonna' hire a wino to decorate our home, 
"So you'll feel more at ease here, and you won't have to roam. 
"We'll take out the dining room table, and put a bar along that wall. 
"And a neon sign, to point the way, to our bathroom down the hall."}}

==Fuentes, Carlos==
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen." This is wrongly attributed to Lenin. Marx had the idea, and better. See [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/07/13/decades-weeks/#:~:text=Quote%20Investigator%3A%20Vladimir%20Lenin%20died%20in%201924%3B%20however%2C,appeared%20in%20the%20second%20epistle%20of%20St.%20Peter quote investigator]

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==Gelman, Andrew==
*{{Quotation| "Theoretical Statistics is the Theory of Applied Statistics"}}

*{{Quotation| Econ is econ and is special in its own way, but Sturgeon’s law applies universally. Most published statistics articles are completely irrelevant to the world, even to whatever application area they are nominally targeting. Bad statistics articles are irritating in a different way than bad econ articles, which in turn are a different sort of irritating than bad poli sci or sociology articles. It’s an interesting thought: we tend to compare different fields based on the different characteristics of their best work, but another dimension is to compare the different characteristics of crappy but well-respected work in each field.}} (2021)

*[https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/07/08/she-sent-a-letter-pointing-out-problems-with-a-published-article-the-reviewers-agreed-that-her-comments-were-valid-but-the-journal-didnt-publish-her-letter-because-the-policy-among-editors-is-no/ "She sent a letter pointing out problems with a published article, the reviewers agreed that her comments were valid, but the journal didn’t publish her letter because “the policy among editors is not to accept comments.” "], July 28, 2021, blogpost:
{{Quotation|
The journal in question is called The Economic Journal. To add insult to injury, the editor wrote the following when announcing they wouldn’t publish the letter:

My [the editor’s] assessment is that this paper is a better fit for a field journal in education.

OK, let me get this straight. The original paper, which was seriously flawed, was ok for Mister Big Shot Journal. But a letter pointing out those flaws . . . that’s just good enough for a Little Baby Field Journal.}}

==Genghis Khan==
This is disputed. I take this from Wikiquote's article at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan:
{{Quotation|

[What, in all the world, could bring the greatest happiness?]
"The open steppe, a clear day, and a swift horse under you," responded the officer after a little thought, "and a falcon on your wrist to start up hares."
"Nay," responded the Khan, "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet — to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."
As quoted in Genghis Khan: The Emperor of All Men (1927) by Harold Lamb, Doubleday, p. 107.}}

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==Gibbon, Edward==
*''Decline and Fall,'' Ch. 21, part 5:
{{Quotation|
If the emperor had capriciously decreed the death of the most eminent and virtuous citizen of the republic, the cruel order would have been executed without hesitation, by the ministers of open violence or of specious injustice. The caution, the delay, the difficulty with which he proceeded in the condemnation and punishment of a popular bishop, discovered to the world that the privileges of the church had already revived a sense of order and freedom in the Roman government.}}

*''Decline and Fall,'' [https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25717/pg25717-images.html#chap53.1 Ch. 53, part 1:]
{{Quotation|
They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation. ...m, a panegyric or tale; they forgot even the rules of prosody; and with the melody of Homer yet sounding in their ears, they confound all measure of feet and syllables in the impotent strains which have received the name of political or city verses. The minds of the Greek were bound in the fetters of a base and imperious superstition which extends her dominion round the circle of profane science. Their understandings were bewildered in metaphysical controversy: in the belief of visions and miracles, they had lost all principles of moral evidence, and their taste was vitiated by the homilies of the monks, an absurd medley of declamation and Scripture. Even these contemptible studies were no longer dignified by the abuse of superior talents: the leaders of the Greek church were humbly content to admire and copy the oracles of antiquity, nor did the schools of pulpit produce any rivals of the fame of Athanasius and Chrysostom.}}

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==Glaeser, Edward==
An Ed Glaeser aphorism just now from his Markus seminar, improved a bit:

"It's not Trust in Authorities: it’s the Trustworthiness of Authorities, that matters. A good government nobody trusts is better than a bad government *everybody* trusts."

==Goethe==
Mephistopheles:
{{Quotation| Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint.}}
"I am the spirit that always denies, or negates." Faust part I.

==GOLDMAN, Samuel.==
@SWGoldman, January 8, 2021: {{Quotation| A lot of people who thought they were part of the con now discovering that they were the marks. Which is exactly how a con works.}}

==Golub, Ben==
{{Quotation|
An underappreciated reason to keep economic theory programs vigorous and strong is that a LOT of the best scholars in other fields started out wanting to do theory. Like, a lot of amazing people. The prospect of doing theory is like a honeypot for a certain kind of curious, high-powered person, who can then be redirected more productively. (Twitter, 2021)}}

==GORDON, Leslie McAdoo==
"He keeps digressing, and there are digressions from the digressions, which he digresses from to digress." On [https://twitter.com/McAdooGordon/status/1502053406508302336 Twitter], about a boring prosecutor during a sentencing hearing.

==Gracian, Balthasar==
*“It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterward.”

*“Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.”

==Graham, Paul==
*"While helping 12 yo prepare for exams, I've also been teaching him what's real knowledge and what isn't. E.g. how distillation works is real knowledge. The fact that the thing that gets dissolved in a solution is called the solute isn't." (Twitter, 2021)

*"One advantage companies that are still run by their founders have over other companies is that founders have the confidence to be unconventional. Employees worry they'll get in trouble if they do things differently. Founders don't." (Twitter, 2022)

*"Nonprofits that can't show what effect they have are showing what effect they have." (Twitter, 2022)

"Taking classes in "entrepreneurship" in college to learn how to innovate is like going to the Louvre and spending your time looking at the floor." (as improved by me, Twitter, 2022)
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==Grant, Ulysses S.==
{{Quotation| As we approached the brow of the hill from which it was expected we could see Harris' camp, and possibly find his men ready formed to meet us, my heart kept getting higher and higher until it felt to me as though it was in my throat. I would have given anything then to have been back in Illinois, but I had not the moral courage to halt and consider what to do; I kept right on. When we reached a point from which the valley below was in full view I halted. The place where Harris had been encamped a few days before was still there and the marks of a recent encampment were plainly visible, but the troops were gone. My heart resumed its place. '''It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him. This was a view of the question I had never taken before; but it was one I never forgot afterwards.''' From that event to the close of the war, I never experienced trepidation upon confronting an enemy, though I always felt more or less anxiety. I never forgot that he had as much reason to fear my forces as I had his. The lesson was valuable.}} U.S. Grant, autobiography, on the Battle of Belmont, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/4367/4367-h/4367-h.htm#ch20.

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==Gude, Hans==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Gude Hans Gude] (1825-1903):
:"You, my compatriots in Norway, have no grounds for complaining that we have forgotten the dear, familiar and specific character with which God has endowed our land and our nation. That is so firmly entrenched in our being that it finds expression, whether we like it or not. Do not, therefore, insult us further."

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==Haeckel, Ernst==
{{Quotation| Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.}}

==Hanson, Robin==
{{Quotation| Biggest trend in my world over the last 50yrs: 
50 yrs ago, intellectuals were top prestige; journalists, judges, activists, inventors, etc aspired to be that. 
Today, activists are top prestige; intellectuals, journalists, judges, inventors, etc aspire to be that.}} twitter, 2021.

==Harpending, Henry==
[https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2021/04/26/henrys-buffalo/ "Henry’s Buffalo,"] ''West Hunter'' blog:
{{Quotation| We were up late around the fire as all the participants took turns telling the story of the day. Of course everyone told the same story, since there was only one, but somehow we were all attentive to each new version.}}

==Harrington, John.==
''Epigrams'', Book iv, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A02647.0001.001/1:7.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext| Epistle 5]. 
{{Quotation| Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.}}
Compare: "Prosperum ac felix scelus/ Virtus vocatur" ("Successful and fortunate crime/ is called virtue"), [[Seneca]], ''Herc. Furens'', ii. 250.

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==Haywood, Charles==
From a 2018 [https://theworthyhouse.com/2018/03/30/book-review-change-church-pope-francis-future-catholicism-ross-douthat/ book review at Worthy House]:
{{Quotation| Such men lack consistency, because they simply don’t have the intellectual horsepower to maintain it, while they quickly and without noticing contradict themselves if it’s needed to get shiny baubles such as the praise of those they realize to be their intellectual or social betters. }}

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== Rob Henderson==
“Many have discovered an argument hack. They don’t need to argue that something is false. They just need to show that it’s associated with low status.” https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige-paradox-are-high-status-people-more-likely-to-lie/

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==Hippocrates==
"There are ticks in woods now." Why did God create ticks? Perhaps the tick will be justified some day like the flea, by a poem. Ars longa, vita brevis. With a zero discount rate, a good poem justifies even the Black Death. https://buff.ly/3dpjpHE
10:29 AM · Apr 18, 2021·Buffer

Professor Eric Rasmusen
Replying to
@erasmuse
I rightly used "Ars longa, vita brevis",to digress, but it has multiple meanings, like a Chinese poem. One is "Art lasts forever, but life is brief."
Ars longa, vita brevis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Professor Eric Rasmusen
@erasmuse
The original, in Greek, is "There's a lot of technique, but only a short life to learn it in", which I at 62 appreciate.

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==The Incredibles (movie)==
[https://lessonsfromthemouse.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/the-incredibles-if-everyone-is-special-no-one-is/#respond "The Incredibles- If Everyone Is Special, No One Is,"] ''Lessons from the Mouse'' blog (2017).:
{{Quotation|
On the car ride home, Dash says “Our powers make us special,” to which Helen (Mrs. Incredible) says, “Everyone is special, Dash”. Dash retorts back to her, “Which is another way of saying that no one is.” This is not just the opinion of a frustrated little boy, he is parroting the frustrations of his father who later on is arguing that a 4th grade graduation ceremony is silly (in his words, psychotic) because, “They keep celebrating new ways to celebrate mediocrity, but if someone is genuinely exceptional, they shut him down because they don’t want everyone else to feel back!” And lastly, this theme comes to a head when Syndrome is planning on giving everyone superpowers with his tech and claiming, “When everyone is super, no one will be.” ... Not everyone is special, understand, everyone is important, everyone is valid, and everyone is even significant, but not everyone is special. }}

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==KASCHUTA, Alex==
[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|
The average Romanian knows the following about Americans:

* They are stupid and uncultured, though they somehow also have the best universities and lead the world in scientific research.

* They are fat and lethargic, but their work ethic is second to none, and they never take vacations.

* They have guns, though they shouldn't, though they probably should because criminality is very high.

* The evils that befall them was caused by something terrible they did, either now or in the past, though it would have been great to have them “conquer” us just once.

* It's hard to emigrate there, but it shouldn't be, because it's also highly desirable, being the "land of opportunity." }}

[https://alexkaschuta.substack.com/p/observing-the-empire-from-afar| Observing the empire from afar.
Three decades' worth of America-gazing from one of its long forgotten provinces, Romania ] (2020):
{{Quotation|The American paradox may have a simple solution: America is the only country to have generated so much excess it now exports its own self-loathing, in industrial quantities, 24/7. }}

{{Quotation| If you make someone "Homelessness Czar" their job is to preside over homelessness, not eliminate it.}}

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==Kennedy, John F.==
<blockquote style="color: gray">
“I never met a man like this,” Kennedy remarked to another reporter, Hugh Sidey of Time magazine. “[I] talked about how a nuclear exchange would kill 70 million people in 10 minutes, and he just looked at me as if to say, ‘So what?’” -- https://www.history.com/news/kennedy-krushchev-vienna-summit-meeting-1961
</blockquote>

==KERR, Clark==
Clark Kerr characterized his “multiversity” as “a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”

==KING, Martin Luther==
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important." ''The Wall Street Journal'' (13 November 1962).

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==Krauss, Lawrence ==
{{Quotation|
Instead of a theory of everything, string theory is a theory of anything, which means it's a theory of nothing.}}

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==KRONECKER, Leopold ==
{{Quotation|
(1) “Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk” 
(2) “God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
(3) “The Dear God made the integers; all else is the work of man.” 
}}
in einem schriftlich nicht überlieferten Vortrag bei der Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung 1886, zitiert bei H.[einrich] Weber: Leopold Kronecker, in: ''Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung'' 2, 1893, S. 19 http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN37721857X_0002|LOG_0006&physid=PHYS_0025%20Seite%2019 drittletzter Absatz doi: 10.1007/BF01446613. Also in : [http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/pdfcache/PPN235181684_0043/PPN235181684_0043___LOG_0007.pdf ''Mathematische Annalen,'' 1893, ] Band 43, S. 15, 3. und 4. Zeile Zugeschrieben

Quelle: https://beruhmte-zitate.de/zitate/138167-leopold-kronecker-die-ganzen-zahlen-hat-der-liebe-gott-gemacht-alle/

Version (1) is the original. Version (3) is the more accurate translation. Version (2) sounds better than either (1) or (3). The "ganzen Zahlen" are the integers, not the natural numbers, [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganze_Zahl#:~:text=Die%20ganzen%20Zahlen%20%28auch%20Ganzzahlen%2C%20lateinisch%20numeri%20integri%29,3%2C%20%E2%80%A6%20und%20enthalten%20damit%20alle%20nat%C3%BCrlichen%20Zahlen German Wikipedia says.] "der liebe Gott" is "the Dear God". (Thanks to Christian Matthes for finding this for me via my Twitter request)

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==Laughlin, Robert==
"In science, you gain power by telling people what you know; in engineering, by preventing them from knowing it."

==Lenin, Vladimir==
[["The Worse, the Better."]]
He did not originate this quote. I have a separate page on it.

==David Levy, famous comet-hunter==
“Inspiration before Outreach — because if you don’t INSPIRE your audience, outreach will go nowhere.”

==LLoyd_Jones, Martyn==
{{Quotation| I spend half my time telling Christians to study doctrine, and the other half telling them doctrine is not enough.}}

==Lewis, C.S.==
* The beauty of the female is the root of joy to the female as well as to the male, and it is no accident that the goddess of Love is older and stronger than the god. To desire the desiring of her own beauty is the vanity of Lilith, but to desire the enjoying of her own beauty is the obedience of Eve, and to both it is in the lover that the beloved tastes her own delightfulness. As obedience is the stairway of pleasure, so humility is the [https://alt.books.cs-lewis.narkive.com/a2Czcqjy/source-of-beauty-of-the-female-quote Failure to find another source is discussed here. ]

*“Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything.”

*“I suppose there are two views about everything,” said Mark.
"Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there’s never more than one.”

*“Fellows of colleges do not always find money matters easy to understand: if they did, they would probably not have been the sort of men who become Fellows of colleges.”

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw. Statistics about agricultural laborers were the substance; any real ditcher, plowman or farmer's boy, was the shadow. Though he had never noticed it himself, he had a great reluctance, in his work, ever to use words as 'man' or 'woman.' He preferred to write about 'vocational groups,' 'elements,' 'classes' and 'populations:' for, in his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in the superior reality of the things that are not seen.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

“But what do you want me to do, Sir?” “My dear young friend, the golden rule is very simple. There are only two errors which would be fatal to one placed in the peculiar situation which certain parts of your previous conduct have unfortunately created for you. On the one hand, anything like a lack of initiative or enterprise would be disastrous. On the other, the slightest approach to unauthorized action—anything which suggested that you were assuming a liberty of decision which, in all the circumstances, is not really yours—might have consequences from which even I could not protect you. But as long as you keep quite clear of these two extremes, there is no reason (speaking unofficially) why you should not be perfectly safe.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*“There dwell an accursed people, full of pride and lust. There when a young man takes a maiden in marriage, they do not lie together, but each lies with a cunningly fashioned image of the other, made to move and to be warm by devilish arts, for real flesh will not please them, they are so dainty in their dreams of lust. Their real children they fabricate by vile arts in a secret place.”
― C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

*"Your trouble has been what old poets called Daungier. We call it Pride. You are offended by the masculine itself: the loud, irruptive, possessive thing—the gold lion, the bearded bull—which breaks through hedges and scatters the little kingdom of your primness as the dwarfs scattered the carefully made bed.

* "Man has got to take charge of Man. That means, remember, that some men have got to take charge of the rest—which is another reason for cashing in on it as soon as one can.”

==Long, Earl (Senator from Louisiana)==
*"Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink."

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==Machiavelli, Nicholas==
{{Quotation| “Prudent archers...set their aim much higher than the place intended, not to reach such a height with their arrow, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim achieve their plan."

--Book IV of The Prince}}

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==Macaulay, Thomas==
From [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1468/1468-h/1468-h.htm#link2HCH0002 The History of England, Volume I], chapter 2:
{{Quotation|It is creditable to Charles's temper that, ill as he thought of his species, he never became a misanthrope. He saw little in men but what was hateful. Yet he did not hate them. Nay, he was so far humane that it was highly disagreeable to him to see their sufferings or to hear their complaints. This, however, is a sort of humanity which, though amiable and laudable in a private man whose power to help or hurt is bounded by a narrow circle, has in princes often been rather a vice than a virtue. More than one well disposed ruler has given up whole provinces to rapine and oppression, merely from a wish to see none but happy faces round his own board and in his own walks. No man is fit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to him, for the sake of the many whom he will never see. The facility of Charles was such as has perhaps never been found in any man of equal sense. He was a slave without being a dupe. Worthless men and women, to the very bottom of whose hearts he saw, and whom he knew to be destitute of affection for him and undeserving of his confidence, could easily wheedle him out of titles, places, domains, state secrets and pardons. He bestowed much; yet he neither enjoyed the pleasure nor acquired the fame of beneficence. He never gave spontaneously; but it was painful to him to refuse. The consequence was that his bounty generally went, not to those who deserved it best, nor even to those whom he liked best, but to the most shameless and importunate suitor who could obtain an audience.}}

‘A government cannot be wrong in punishing fraud or force, but it is almost certain to be wrong if, abandoning its legitimate function, it tells private individuals that it knows their business better than they know it themselves.’ (unkonwn source)

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==Massie, Thomas==
*[https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1460241573187395584 Twitter] (2021):
{{Quotation|
Who could have foreseen that the response to the very lackluster performance of the vaccines would be to force people to take them, to force the people who took them to take more of them, and for the CEO of the company profiting most from them to call their critics criminals?}}

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==MELKONIAN, Raffi==
{{Quotation| The brief I was reading recited the *entire* procedural history of the matter before saying "Our Problem is X. We need you to do Y. Right away. Because otherwise, Z is going to happen to us, which will make us very sad." (Twitter, https://twitter.com/RMFifthCircuit/status/1436042316125548548 (2021).}}

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==Mencken==
*As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

*I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

*Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats

*An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup

*A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

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==Mouton Rothchild==
From Wikipedia:
In 1973, Mouton was elevated to "first growth" status after decades of intense lobbying by its powerful and influential owner,[1] the only change in the original 1855 classification (excepting the 1856 addition of Château Cantemerle). This prompted a change of motto: previously, the motto of the wine was Premier ne puis, second ne daigne, Mouton suis. ("First, I cannot be. Second, I do not deign to be. Mouton I am."), and it was changed to Premier je suis, Second je fus, Mouton ne change. ("First, I am. Second, I used to be. Mouton does not change.")

==More, Thomas==
"Stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul." This is attributed to him, but I doubt he said it. I can't find a source.

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==MUSK, ELON==
*From [https://twitter.com/tylertringas/status/1475268528521596928 Twitter]: “The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.” To look for an interior rather than a corner solution.

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==Napoleon Bonaparte==
{{Quotation| what Napoleon said when asked how he came to be Emperor: “I came across the crown of France lying in the street, and I picked it up with my sword.”}}

==Nelson, David (Moe)==
"Says it the bestest". Email (2022).

==Nietzsche==
*"The worst readers are those who act like plundering soldiers: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confuse [verwirren] the rest, and trash [lästern] the whole."
Human, All Too Human (#137)

*"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

*"There comes a point in the history of society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that it steps in on behalf of those who harm it, criminals, and it does so quite seriously and honestly. To punish: that appears somehow unfair." --Paragraph 20, '[https://t.co/MMFHuzRSvr 'Beyond Good and Evil.'']

*"Science offends the modesty of all genuine women. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but at the fact that he feels no pain where he had expected to feel it. A parable." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 124.]

*"When we have to change our opinion about someone we hold the inconvenience he has therewith caused us greatly to his discredit." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 125.]

*"A people is a detour of nature to get to six or seven great men.— Yes: and then to get round them." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 126.]

*"The more abstract the truth is that you would teach, the more you have to seduce the senses to it." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 128.]

*"What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent declines—when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent is also finery; finery is also a hiding place." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 130.]

*"One is punished most for one's virtues." ''Beyond Good and Evil'' [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 132.]

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==Paglia, Camille==
{{Quotation| There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper. --https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/the-best-sentence-i-heard-today/}}

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==Pascal, Blaise==
{{Quotation|
The example of Alexander's chastity has not made so many continent as that of his drunkenness has made intemperate. It is not shameful not to be as virtuous as he, and it seems excusable to be no more vicious. We do not believe ourselves to be exactly sharing in the vices of the vulgar, when we see that we are sharing in those of great men; and yet we do not observe that in these matters they are ordinary men. --[https://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/18269-h/18269-h.htm ''Thoughts'',] 103. }}

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==Peterson, Jordan==
{{Quotation| If you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.}} Very good. Weak men cannot withstand their fears and passions. A coward will commit atrocities out of fear.

==Prince Philip==
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Asked of a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

“Damn fool question!” To BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt at a banquet at the Elysée Palace after she asked Queen Elizabeth if she was enjoying her stay in Paris in 2006.

“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.” During a trip to Canada in 1976.

“It’s a vast waste of space.” Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.

“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” Said to a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.” In 1967, asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.

“The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002.

“You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their population growth was 5 per cent a year, in 1982.

“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.” Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

“I wish he’d turn the microphone off!” The Prince expresses his opinion of Elton John’s performance at the 73rd Royal Variety Show, 2001.

“Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.” Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

“It’s not a very big one, but at least it’s dead and it took an awful lot of killing!” Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

“It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on.” Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.
https://www.unz.com/isteve/prince-philip-rip/
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==Rasmusen, Eric==
*See [[Aphorisms--Rasmusen]].

*"He was so mean he even repelled ticks."

*"Economics offends the modesty of all genuine professors. They feel as if one were trying to look under their skin—or worse! under their clothes and finery." See Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil [http://www.thenietzschechannel.com/works-pub/bge/bge4.htm 127.]

*{{Quotation|When you’re dealing with productive inefficiency instead of allocative, you move from triangle losses, which are small, to rectangle losses, which are big.}}

*"Leaders must be willing to make bad decisions with insufficient information and insufficient brains, even though they'll look like idiots. We followers must forgive."

*{{Quotation|''Celebrity preachers:'' Trample on the Cross to pick up a crown. 
''Unpopular preachers:'' Trample on a crown to pick up the Cross.}}

*{{Quotation|Just as high-IQ men come unarmed to a battle of wits, ss strong men come unarmed to a battle of fists. Raw talent is not enough. One must know how to use it. And be willing to use it. }}

*{{Quotation| Andrew Carnegie (repeated by his friend Mark Twain) said about undiversification: "Put all your eggs in one basket-- and then WATCH THAT BASKET." The Buffett-Munger method is "Watch for a one really good basket-- and then put all your eggs into it."}} [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/02/16/eggs/ Quoteinvestigator tracks down] the source of the Carnegie quotation.

*We should treat young men as men, with all the privileges and responsibilities attached thereto, but tell them they are too foolish and experienced to deserve the privileges or carry out the responsibilities.

:Come to think of it, that applies equally to young ladies.

:Instead, we tell young people they are just as good as the middled-aged, but treat them like children.

*{{Quotation|People who don't care, don't quarrel. They just let each other be wrong and make mistakes. Love leads to fights. }}

*The cosmopolitan man has no Country, the timeless man has no Time.

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==ROBINSON, JOAN==
*[https://iea.org.uk/north-koreas-western-fellow-travellers/ "North Korea’s Western fellow travellers,"] KRISTIAN NIEMIETZ 29 SEPTEMBER 2017. She said of North Korea, in 1964,
“All the economic miracles of the postwar world are put in the shade by these achievements”.

“[G]reat pains are taken to keep the Southerners in the dark. The demarcation line is manned exclusively by American troops […] with an empty stretch of territory behind. No Southern eye can be allowed a peep into the North”.

==Roche, Christopher==
*In June 1998 an instance appeared in a graduation speech delivered by valedictorian Christopher Roche at Albertus Magnus High School. "Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened,”

[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/25/smile/ Ludwig Jacobowski , “Leuchtende Tage” (1899)]:

Nicht weinen, weil sie vorüber!
Lächeln, weil sie gewesen!

English translation:
Do not cry because they are past!
Smile, because they once were!

==Roosevelt, Theodore==
[http://www.stateoftheunionhistory.com/2015/08/1905-theodore-roosevelt-railroad.html "1905 State of the Union Address"]:
{{Quotation|
We desire to set up a moral standard. '''There can be no delusion more fatal to the Nation than the delusion that the standard of profits, of business prosperity, is sufficient in judging any business or political question--from rate legislation to municipal government.''' Business success, whether for the individual or for the Nation, is a good thing only so far as it is accompanied by and develops a high standard of conduct--honor, integrity, civic courage. The kind of business prosperity that blunts the standard of honor, that puts an inordinate value on mere wealth, that makes a man ruthless and conscienceless in trade, and weak and cowardly in citizenship, is not a good thing at all, but a very bad thing for the Nation. '''This Government stands for manhood first and for business only as an adjunct of manhood.'''}}

==Rumsfeld, Donald==
{{Quotation| Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.}} [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns "There_are_known_knowns"], ''Wikipedia.''

==Ryle, J. C.==
{{Quotation| "A true Christian is one who has not only peace of conscience, but war within. He may be known by his warfare as well as by his peace.” }}

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==Sailer, Steve==
*"Debate-as-sport is masculine, groupthink and cancellation is feminine." (Twitter, 2022)

*{{Quotation| How to square the circle of indulging in the kind of petty grievances that most fascinate people with upper-middle-class disdain for Trump-like feuding? And how to make our pique sound important?

The answer to both appears to be to position one’s personal gripes as part of the cosmically important war on racism and sexism, while conversely labeling Trump’s obviously individualistic feuds as racist.

Thus, the upper reaches of society have been egging on everybody who isn’t a straight white male to dredge up and dwell on ancient memories of social unease in middle and high school. But instead of getting too specific about that mean girl in eighth grade who said snippy things about your shoes, you are encouraged to blame your embarrassing memories on whiteness in general.}} [https://www.takimag.com/article/feud-for-thought/ "Feud for Thought,"] ''Taki's Magazine'' (2021).

*The problem with economics these days is not so much the various models as that economists believe that having models lets them get away without knowing much about the real world.’

{{Quotation|
How can you tell who is a marginalized community? If they are legally protected, then they are marginalized, but if you are allowed to discriminate against them, then they aren’t marginalized. Is that so hard to understand?}}

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==Samuelson, Paul==
{{Quotation|
“I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws—or crafts its advanced treaties—if I can write its economics textbooks. The first lick is the privileged one, impinging on the beginner’s tabula rasa at its most impressionable state.” (1990)}} . See [https://econdump.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/i-dont-care-who-writes-a-nations-laws-if-i-can-write-its-economics-textbooks-paul-samuelson/ Econdump on this quote].

*"Within every classical economist there is to be discerned a modern economist trying to be born." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

*"Yes, Ricardo differed with Smith; and thought those differences important. But upon detailed examination, we find that their differences do not mainly involve differences in their behavior equations, short-run or long-run, but rather involve their semantic preferences about what names could be given to the same agreed-upon effects. To moderns, it is for the most part a quarrel about nothing substantive, being essentially an irrelevant argument carried out by Ricardo, often with somewhat unaesthetic logic." From [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2723556 "The Canonical Classical Model of Political Economy,"] ''Journal of Economic Literature,'' Dec., 1978, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1415-1434.

==Schumpeter, Joseph==
See the [[Schumpeter]] page.

==Sedley, Catharine, Countess of Dorchester==
She was mistress to the Duke of York, later to become King James II.
'Catharine herself was astonished at the violence of the ducal passion.
"It cannot be my beauty," she said, "for he must see I have none; and it cannot be my wit, for he has not enough to know that I have any"' (Thomas Seccombe, DNB).'
From [https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22714/lot/53/ a Bonham's auction catalog] selling a William III grant to her, expected to sell for about $1,500.

==Shaw, George Bernard==
George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1903:
”The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.”

Upon [https://www.iowastatedaily.com/carrie-chapman-catts-a-rotten-egg/article_183cbe15-989e-532d-897e-ec0a0340764e.html#:~:text=As%20George%20Bernard%20Shaw%2C%20Carrie,egg%20to%20know%20it's%20rotten.%22 refusing to read the entire manuscript before rejecting a book:] "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know it's rotten."

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==Silverglate==
If you’re going to do any kind of important (therefore controversial) work, you can really only care about what approximately 10 people in the world think about you. Choose those people carefully.

From @HASilverglate (Roughly. I’m sure he said it better)

==SINCLAIR, Upton==
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his TV invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

Me: "It's hard to get a man to understand something when his party invitations depend on his not understanding it.”

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==Smethurst==
Salvation is not an invitation from a buddy, but a summons from a king.
(Twitter, 2021.)

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==Solzhenitsyn, Alexander==
{{Quotation|
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.

...

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges.

...

A fact which cannot be disputed is the weakening of human beings in the West while in the East they are becoming firmer and stronger -- 60 years for our people and 30 years for the people of Eastern Europe. During that time we have been through a spiritual training far in advance of Western experience. Life's complexity and mortal weight have produced stronger, deeper, and more interesting characters than those generally [produced] by standardized Western well-being.

Therefore, if our society were to be transformed into yours, it would mean an improvement in certain aspects, but also a change for the worse on some particularly significant scores. ... After the suffering of many years of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for things higher, warmer, and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced by the revolting invasion of publicity, by TV stupor, and by intolerable music.

There are meaningful warnings which history gives a threatened or perishing society. Such are, for instance, the decadence of art, or a lack of great statesmen. There are open and evident warnings, too. The center of your democracy and of your culture is left without electric power for a few hours only, and all of a sudden crowds of American citizens start looting and creating havoc. The smooth surface film must be very thin, then, the social system quite unstable and unhealthy.

[https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm "A World Split Apart,"]
delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University}}

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==Sowell, Thomas==
"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

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==Spurgeon==
"There is something very comforting in the thought that Satan is an adversary: I would sooner have him for an adversary than for a friend."

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==De Stael, Germaine (Madame)==
“Tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner.” To understand all is to forgive all. 
*[https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/ FakeBuddhaQuotes tells us] that this is not quite what she said. She actually wrote “Car tout comprendre rend très indulgent, et sentir profondément inspire une grande bontée.” Close enough for credit?

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==Stalin, Joseph==
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”

“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.”

“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

“When there’s a person, there’s a problem. When there’s no person, there’s no problem.”

“Quantity has a quality all its own.”

“The Pope! How many divisions has he got?”

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”

==Stout, Rex==
"On the way uptown in the roadster, I reflected that there was one obvious lever to use on Helen Frost to pry her in the direction I wanted her; and I'm a great one for the obvious, because it saves a lot of fiddling around. I decided to use it." Rex Stout, ''The Red Box,'' Chapter 7 (1937) (Nero Wolfe mystery)

==Strauss, Johann==
[http://www.aria-database.com/translations/fledermaus.txt Die Fliedermaus], libretto in German and English:
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Nein, mit solchen Advokaten No, with advocates like this
Ist verkauft man und verraten, One is sold short and betrayed,
Da verliert man die Geduld. Making one lose patience.
</pre>
<pre>
BLIND:
Rekurrieren, appellieren Petition, appeal,
Reklamieren, revidieren, Complain, review,
Reziepieren, subvertieren, Prescribe, subvert,
Devolvieren, involvieren, Devolve, involve,
Protestieren, liquidieren, Protest, liquidate,
Exzerptieren, extorquieren Excerpt, extort,
Arbitrieren, resümieren! Arbitrate, summarize!
Exkulpieren, inkulpieren, Exculpate, inculpate
kalkulieren, konzipieren Calculate, draft
Und Sie müssen triumphieren! And you must triumph!
</pre>
<pre>
EISENSTEIN:
Ach, wie rührt mich dies! Ah, how this stirs me!
</pre>
<pre>
ALFRED:
Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Happy is the person who forgets,
Was doch nicht zu ändern ist. What can't be altered anyway.

From Die Fliedermaus: Glücklich ist, wer vergisst, Was doch nicht zu ändern ist.
(Happy he, who forgets, What, can't be altered anyway.)
</pre>

==SUMMERS, Larry==
*[http://www.harvard.edu/president/speeches/summers_2003/prayer.php Summers, Lawrence H. 2003. “Economics and Moral Questions.” Morning Prayers address, Memorial Church, September 15. Reprinted in Harvard Magazine, November–December 2003.]
{{Quotation|
“We all have only so much altruism in us. Economists like me think of altruism as a valuable and rare good that needs conserving. Far better to conserve it by designing a system in which people’s wants will be satisfied by individuals being selfish, and saving that altruism for our families, our friends, and the many social problems in this world that markets cannot solve."
}}

== ==

==TABARROK, Alex==
{{Quotation|
A price increase is a message about scarcity. Price controls are like shooting the messenger."
quoted in May 5, 2008 issue of Forbes.}}

Subscript text

==Traldi, Oliver==
{{Quotation| I've never heard a good argument for why a long-gone philosopher's problematic views matter for evaluating their plausible ones. People seem to have this sense that problematic-ness kind of like infects someone's whole corpus somehow. That's just conspiracist contagion reasoning. --Twitter (2021)}}

==Trotsky, Leon==
{{Quotation| You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.}}

==TRUMP,Donald==
Trump tonight at Mar a Lago on transgender sports: “This lady was trying to set her record and then this dude shows up…”
8:44 PM · May 4, 2022. (https://twitter.com/RaheemKassam/status/1522014323371085824)

==Twain, Mark==
{{Quotation|
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" ''Atlantic Monthly,'' 1874.}}

*[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/17/put-off/ A parody of Ben Franklin] by Twain. I heard it in a better version than Twain's: "Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow."

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== ==
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==Valery, Paul==
"Un poème n'est jamais fini, seulement abandonné." 
A poem is never finished; it's always an accident that puts a stop to it—i.e. gives it to the public.
Often quoted in W. H. Auden' s paraphrase, ‘A poem is never finished, only abandoned’ . <.br>
See also "Lecode n'est jamais fini, seulement termine" 
''Littérature'' (1930).

==Sarah Vaughan==
Nobody works on easy street... 
When opportunity comes knockin' 
You just keep on with your rockin' 
'Cause you know your fortune's made 
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/sarahvaughan/easystreet.html
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== ==

==Wang, John==
@j0hnwang

Web2: "If you're not paying for it, you are the product."

Web3: "If you don't understand the source of yield, you are the yield."

==Whyvert==
{{Quotation|
The Age of Science draws to a close; there dawns the Age of Silence.
--https://twitter.com/whyvert/status/1359273098663575560}}

== ==
==Yang, Wesley==
"The more one sacrifices, the more sacred becomes the idol to which one has sacrificed." (improved, Twitter 2022)

==Yeats, William==
The first half of [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming "The Second Coming"]:
<pre>
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
</pre>

==Young, Faron==
From the song [https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/faronyoung/occasionalwife.html "Occasional Wife":] 
"It needs more than just an occasional piece of your life 
A home just can't stand when it has an occasional wife."

==Yglesias, Matthew==
There are big tranches of the world where people do redefinitions and treat that as doing analysis. April 8 tweet.

== ==
==The Z-Man==
"For the American ruling class, society is just a Walmart in the middle of a ghetto riot. The winner is the one who manages to carry off the most stuff before the store burns down." https://www.takimag.com/article/the-politics-of-smash-and-grab/

==Zhu, Yuanyi==
{{Quotation|
War and Peace is a byword for hard highbrow literature, but if you think about it it's basically a long adventure novel with lots of explosions.-- @yuanyi_z}}
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==For the Future==
Later maybe I will go to this format:

*[[Quotations:A|A]]: Alcorn, Anonymous, Astral Codex Ten.

*[[Quotations:B|B]]: Bayly, Joseph; Bayly, Timothy; BBC.

*[[Quotations:C|C]]: CANNON, CHESTERTON, Connolly, Cox.

*[[Quotations:D|D]]: Dawry, Dennett, Dick, DIPLOCK, Domingos.

*[[Quotations:E|E]]: Enzensbergert.

*[[Quotations:F|F]]: Feynman, Flanagan, Follows.

*[[Quotations:G|G]]: Gelman, Genghis Khan, Goethe, GOLDMAN, Grant.

*[[Quotations:H|H]]: Hippocrates

*[[Quotations:I|I]]:

*[[Quotations:J|J]]:

*[[Quotations:K|K]]: KASCHUTA, Kennedy.

*[[Quotations:L|L]]: Lenin, Lloyd_Jones,

*[[Quotations:M|M]]: Martyn, Machiavelli, Macaulay.

*[[Quotations:N|N]]: Napoleon.

*[[Quotations:O|O]]:

*[[Quotations:P|P]]: Paglia, Prince Philip.

*[[Quotations:Q|Q]]:

*[[Quotations:R|R]]: Rasmusen, Rumsfeld, Ryle.

*[[Quotations:S|S]]: Schumpeter, Joseph Silverglate Sowell, Thomas Stalin, Joseph Stout, Rex

*[[Quotations:T|T]]: TABARROK, Trotsky.

*[[Quotations:U|U]]:

*[[Quotations:V|V]]:

*[[Quotations:W|W]]: Whyvert

*[[Quotations:X|X]]:

*[[Quotations:Y|Y]]: Yeats, Yglesias.

*[[Quotations:Z|Z]]: The Z-Man, Zhu.

*************************** -->

War

2022-06-04T16:08:55Z

Rasmusen p1vaim:

*[https://twitter.com/ArmchairW/status/1516534178929553409 Twitter thread on fortification] (2022)

*[https://twitter.com/Scholars_Stage/status/1532001205257486338 Twitter thread on sanctions] and strategic bombing as similar tools.

Software

2022-06-04T15:00:31Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Discord */

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==Discord==
There are three ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address like
https://discord.com/channels/95486344962679255555555555555 
(2) CLick the right spot in an email telling you have missed posts. 
(3) Download the Discord app to your computer from discord. com. 

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password.

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2000 words. If you try, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear rigth after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

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==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

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==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

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==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

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==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

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==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

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==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
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==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

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==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

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===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

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==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

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Software

2022-06-04T14:59:25Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Discord */

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==Discord==
There are two ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address like
https://discord.com/channels/954863449626792067/954863450104954901 
(2) Download the Discord app to your computer from discord. com. 

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password.

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2000 words. If you try, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear rigth after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

----

==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

----

==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

----

==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

----
==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

----
==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

----
==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
----

==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

----

==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

----

===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

----

==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

----

Software

2022-06-04T00:24:11Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Discord */

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==Discord==
There are two ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address like
https://discord.com/channels/954863449626792067/954863450104954901 
(2) Download the Discord app to your computer from discord. com. 

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password.

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2000 words. If you try, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear rigth after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

----

==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

----

==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

----

==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

----
==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

----
==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

----
==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
----

==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

----

==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

----

===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

----

==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

----

Software

2022-06-04T00:23:58Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Discord */

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==Discord==
There are two ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address like
https://discord.com/channels/954863449626792067/954863450104954901 
(2) Download the Discord app to your computer from discord. com. 

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password.

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2000 words. If you try, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear rigth after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

----

==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

----

==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

----

==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

----
==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

----
==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

----
==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
----

==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

----

==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

----

===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

----

==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

----

Software

2022-06-04T00:23:42Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Discord */

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==Discord==
There are two ways to use Discord. 
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address like
https://discord.com/channels/954863449626792067/954863450104954901 
(2) Download the Discord app to your computer from discord. com. 

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password.

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2000 words. If you try, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear rigth after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

----

==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

----

==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

----

==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

----
==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

----
==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

----
==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
----

==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

----

==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

----

===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

----

==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

----

Software

2022-06-04T00:23:13Z

Rasmusen p1vaim: /* Discord */

Travis Dawry @tdawry
In spreadsheets you see the data but the code sits behind it. 
In a programming language you see the code but the data sits behind it.



==Antiporn Software==
Qustodio is what we've used.

==Antivirus Software==
I am trying out the free version of Bitdefender on the HP. Norton has a cheap first year and then a very high second year.

==Design==
*Are computer scientists taught the basic principles?
** Transparency (being able to guess commands)
**Recoverability (being able to reverse mistaken commands)
**Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY. Don’t Repeat Yourself is the principle that any code in your program should only be written once, and never duplicated.
**Separation of Concerns. Separation of Concerns is when you separate your program into modules that each deal with one particular focus, or concern.
**Don’t Make Me Think. This principle was originally intended for web design, being the title of a book by Steve Krug. **Keep it Simple. Lastly, the classic KISS principle (keep it simple stupid) is no less relevant in coding than it is anywhere else.
**Make frequently used commands easy to do.
**Give most commonly desired outcomes as defaults; do not require options to be specified.

===Transparency===
*When people say an app is easy to use, they often mean it is easy for *them* to use. For example, maybe to send a message, you just press CTRL-ZA. The problem is, it's very hard to use unless you know the secret commands like that, and there's no manual, and HELP is useless.

==Discord==
There are two ways to use Discord.
(1) Sign in via a web browser like Chrome at an address like
https://discord.com/channels/954863449626792067/954863450104954901
(2) Download the Discord app to your computer from discord. com.

You need a Discord account, which will have a username and a password.

When you open Discord, there will be a sort of monster symbol at the upper left corner, and under it a Greek man's head. Click on that Greek man's head to see MFSA and Friends, the place with all our posts.

After you see the messages, you'll see on the left, but not the farthest left, a column called Text Channels. Click one of them, such as #General, to see posts sent in that classification.

If you go down to the middle bottom, you will see where to type in your posts. Just type over the top of Message #General whatever you want to post. Hit return, and you will see your post appear. Your post cannot be more than 2000 words. If you try, Discord will upload it as a file instead, I think.

On the left of the posting input box is a Plus sign (+). Left-click on that to upload a file as part of your message. You then type in your text message to post with it.

If you right-click on a message, a menu will come up that allows you to choose a Thumbs-Up picture that will appear rigth after that person's message to show you're happy with it.

Discord has something called Threads, but I don't know what those mean.

You can change your "name" that appears, and your gif, but I forget where I found that.

There are ways to do things with Voice and Video. There is, I think, a way to send a private message to just one person. There is a way to assign people "roles", so that if you send a message it will go to just them.

==Email==
*[https://www.techradar.com/best/best-email-clients Tech Radar 2021 Picks for Email]

===Text Messages via Email===
*If the phone number is 123-456-7890, the email address would be 1234567890@vtext.com for Twigby

===Email Tracking===
CloudHQ is good.

===Gmail===
*[https://www.komando.com/tech-tips/inbox-full-heres-how-to-find-attachments-eating-up-all-your-storage/704299/ Searching for emails that are big or with attachments and emptying the trash can. ] In the email search, type : has:attachment larger:10MB To see how much storage is used, go to https://one.google.com/storage

* To create emails lists, open up the separate app GOOGLE CONTACTS. Then Choose CREATE LABEL. Create it. Then go to IMPORT. Check the box of the label you want to add emails too. Then choose CREATE MULTIPLE CONTACTS. Then cut and paste a list of email addresses into the window that opens up.

----

==Google==
Google added an obnoxious "Related Searches" feature at the bottom of every search, which cuts out 1/4 of your searches on the page and gives you useless suggestions for different things to search for that are never relevant. To get your search screen real estate back, you can go to google.com, then to Settings at the bottom of the page, find Search Customization, I think it is, and then turn off the evil feature. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252374688

==Hard Disk Space Analyzers==
[https://lifehacker.com/the-best-disk-space-analyzer-for-windows-5915921 Wiztree] is amazingly fast and good. It is free.

==Software for Writing==
*[https://mathpix.com/ MathPix] will turn pdf's into Latex and is very good.

==Music software==
[https://musescore.org/en Musescore] is good freeware.

----

==Writing Apps==
===Tex===
https://www.mathcha.io/editor

===OCR, processing image into Text===
*[http://www.paperfile.net/download2.html FreeOCR] is quite acceptable. It loses paragraphing, but turns multi-page pdf into plain text. TechRadar has a [https://www.techradar.com/best/best-ocr-software good review] of OCR software, paid and then free at the end.

===Acrobat===
*[https://www.thepcinsider.com/best-free-pdf-readers-viewers-windows/#:~:text=5%20Best%20Free%20PDF%20Readers%20and%20Viewers%20for,4%20Sumatra%20PDF.%20...%205%20STDU%20Viewer.%20 5 Best Free PDF Readers and Viewers for Windows 10 in 2019]7th March 2019 by Manish Sahay is a good review. Adobe itself is an unpleasant company that writes bad software and has moved its pdf-writing software on line, probably to better rip off customers and harvest their information. Their reader is purposely limited and unsatisfactory and they write poor software anyway. I've tried Foxit and been disappointed for some reason, and PDF-XChange Editor was bad enough for some reason I forget that I decided it wasn't minimally satisfactory. Sumatra is very clean, but requires CTRL-mouse if you want to select text. So i have settled on STDU Viewer, at http://www.stdutility.com/stduviewer.html.

*NitroReader and MS Edge are treacherous when dealing with pdf forms, doing weird stuff to the contents.

*[https://opensource.com/alternatives/adobe-acrobat "Open source alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for PDFs," ]
04 Feb 2020 Jason Baker (Red Hat) Feed Seth Kenlon (Red Hat)

*[https://www.libreoffice.org/ Libreoffice] seems to be good. It does a great job of printing *.docx files to *.pdf. It was easy to install and it's freeware, opensource.

*[https://pdfencrypt.net/#:~:text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open,free%2C%20without%20purchasing%20expensive%20software.&text=PDFEncrypt%20is%20a%20free%2C%20open%2Dsource%20utility%20to%20encrypt%20PDF,encrypted%2C%20its%20contents%20become%20unreadable. PDFEncrypt], a simple little opensource app to put a password on a pdf file.

----

==Operating Systems==
===Linux===
*[https://www.ricksdailytips.com/replace-windows-with-linux/ Rickdailytips] on installing Linux.]

----
==Organization and Filing==
I like Wikimedia. Aaron Laws writes: I use git for that. https://sourceforge.net/u/dartme https://sourceforge.net/p/dartme/gitrepo/ . I don't know what that means, though.

----
==Scheduling Meetings==
*I briefly found [https://www.when2meet.com/?13900361-e2A92 When2meet.com] good. It is, utterly simple and effective, but as of January 2022 it requires all users to download obnoxious software, so it is bad. Doodle is too hard to use too. For meetings of 4 to 6 people, simply emailing them all with a list of meeting times is best. All the software available seems to be Overfeatured.

----
==Meeting Video Apps like Zoom==
*[https://www.softwarepundit.com/video-conferencing/zoom-competitors-alternatives Software pundit] has a good survey of 5 of them. Google Meet is easy to use and has an hour-long limit on the free plan. For a whiteboard, it uses something like Google Docs. Google Docs is a good alternative to the Zoom whiteboard too.

== QR Codes==
To make your own QR code with your name, phone number, email, website etc. taht will go right into Cellphone contacts, go to the free site: https://www.qr-code-generator.com/guides/how-to-create-a-qr-code/
This site makes it very easy. Another site is https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/#sms .
----

==Social Media Apps==
===Buffer===
*Buffer is very good for posting to Twitter and, to a lesser extend, Facebook. It does other, picture, social media apps too.
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Buffer Stories Creator is not useful for me. It is for use with Instagram, etc. I guess it puts text into image format.

===Facebook===
* Buffer does not allow posting to ordinary Facebook posts. It does allow posting to a Facebook "page", taht does not show up in people's feeds but does show up on your home page. The best thing might be to use Buffer to post to that, and then repost to the feed manually occasionally.
*Facebook "stories" can be edited on a phone, in theory, but I couldn't find correct instructions fro doing it on a computer. I don't think Buffer will work posting to a "story", but I didn't try hard.

===Twitter===
*[https://www.allmytweets.net/ Finding all of someone's Twitter tweets or followers]

*http://fllwrs.com/ for tracing who has started and stopped following you.

----

==Statistics Apps==
===Which Stats App Should You Learn?===
I have learned a little R and don't like its style. It is free and opensource and can do lots of things, whcih is good, and statisticians use it most ofa nything. Economists use STATA most, which is better for regressions and more user-friendly for everything. It isn't open-source, but it has lots of user-programmed routines, so it isn't going to get competed out of busienss. What I would like to move to for everything is Python. It is free but isn't used as much for regression and deosn't have as fancy commands, but it is more pleasant to use than R. That is one advantage, but its biggest one is that Python is an all-purpose language like Fortran or Pascal or C++. You do simulations with it, or webscraping, or symbolic algebra (like Mathematica), of matrix operations (like Matlab), it is easy to install, and I can teach my 7th graders how to have fun with it, even the ones who can't convert Celsius to Fahrenheit.

==Video==
* Google Photos will crop video on the Iphone, but not on the laptop or Android, it seems.

*[https://moviemaker.minitool.com/moviemaker/windows-10-video-editor.html Windows 10 free video editors] web article.

===Converting from one video format to another===
*[https://www.videoconverterfactory.com/ HD Video Converter Factory], which only allow you 5 minute videos in the free version. But if it's conversion from phone video, that may be OK.

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===Windows===
*[https://www.minitool.com/news/how-to-activate-windows-10-cmd.html best] and [https://www.iseepassword.com/blog/activate-windows-10-without-a-product-key/ another article with keys] on activating Windows.

*The Downloads file is at c:/erasmuse-l/Downloads

*To refer to a file with spaces in its name in the command line, use double quotes, e.g. "My file is this.pdf", not My file is this.pdf.

*Large files need deleting via the command line, not in the usual file directory app. Type cmd into the upper right corner to get the black terminal box.

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==Worse Is Better==
I wish Android, Facebook, and Windows would realize that most of us like their product as it is, and any new feature is (a) almost surely undesirable, and (b) too distracting to be worth learning about evne if it had some slight positive value.
See "Worse is better" in Wikipedia.

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