Tag: Equipoise
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Good!
The agency that runs PBS and NPR is closing down. GOOD. PBS and NPR lost their public purpose 50 years ago. PBS switched from education to entertainment. NPR switched from unbiased to pure DNC. Government is supposed to serve ALL the people, not just the members of one party or one elite class. Education was…
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Not the only choices
Paul Vigna proposes frequent debt jubilees. He says there are only two motivations in an economy: greed and morality. He complains correctly that we’ve organized our economy on greed and debt. To favor morality more, he wants occasional debt jubilees, saying that ancient governments realized it was the best way of restoring stability and giving…
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Nulling the local balance
This year I’m trying to null the balance, make more beauty and order, do things the right way whether recognized or not, trying to restore the activities that were bombed by the Bush-Trump monstrosity in 2020-22. One of those activities was yard care. I’ve been mowing regularly but not sprinkling or trimming things. A nearby…
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QA done.
Finished doing the testing and QA on the latest version of courseware, two months before the deadline. The previous edition in 2018 was hasty with too many shortcuts. This year I’ve made a vow to balance out the universal Engagement and Enshitification with careful work. For the newer chapters I’ve added more value with texts…
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They’re mostly right
The wokies are correct when they complain that ‘Western Civ’ courses are irrelevant and false. Some of the wokies want to replace the falseness with a different brand of falseness, some don’t. Nevertheless the complaint itself is correct. Western Civ classes, including all the “history” and “civics” we memorized in high school, are blatant propaganda…
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Cursed weight vs sacred weight, 1 of 2
= = = = = MEDIEVAL METROLOGY PART 3 = = = = = Reading some medieval descriptions of weights and measures, noticed that one weight was prohibited by the king and cursed by the archbishop. It was called auncel or aunsell weight. The permitted or blessed balance was generally called the Roman balance. Why…
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Why so slow?
The post office podcast features a big catch by the postal inspectors. Last year they finally convicted Patrice Runner and his associates for one of the biggest frauds in history. He operated for 20 years, 1994 to 2014, and took in $175 million from 1 million victims. The swindle was low price and high volume.…
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Tally sticks
= = = = = MEDIEVAL METROLOGY PART 2 = = = = = In the first part of Medieval Metrology I showed a medieval ruler for measuring length, as used by the ale tasters. It was notched in fractional parts but not numbered. The ruler bears a close resemblance to the medieval way of…
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Nulling the balance
After midnight last Thursday I was in the living room screwing around with courseware. Suddenly I heard a scary noise CLOSE to the window, something like sliding and squeaking. It lasted for two minutes. It couldn’t have been an animal, but it didn’t make sense. After daylight I went out to look, and found that…
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Metrology Day 2025
Today is Metrology Day, so I’ll maintain my long tradition. = = = = = MEDIEVAL METROLOGY PART 1 = = = = = This year I’m focusing on the medieval way of thinking as illuminated by Sherri Olson. Medieval villages embodied Natural Law. = = = = = REVIEWING: The Almighty has created this…
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No horseshoes, no butterflies
Seems like the Chemtrail people are proliferating, at least in the places I’m reading. RFK’s Deepstate-sponsored antivax movement is helping them. Chemtrail fans and Global Warming fans are both wrong in the SAME way, not opposite ways. It’s not the supposed ‘horseshoe’ effect. Both are attributing vast permanent natural patterns to a TINY change in…
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Foy Rebellion reprint
Linked in previous item about math pope, worth a reprint. = = = = = REPRINT FROM 2022: Yesterday I was discussing the cultural IMPERATIVE to re-employ ordinary men after WW2. France implemented a similar IMPERATIVE after it recovered from the 1789 revolution, which turned its demonic vision of “science” into a god of war…
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Math pope
Prevost is a Villanova grad with a major in math. This could make him a somewhat more significant figure for nerd types. A math pope would prescribe csc as the cure for sin. When sin goes to zero, csc ascends to heaven. He would give absolution as the cure for negative feelings. An inner product…
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Why do juries get it right?
I’ve discussed this before, but it has a deeper connection after reading Sherry Olson’s account of medieval life. Juries are the LAST leftover of Natural Law in governing. In 1300 most governance was Natural Law. The Endarkenment hadn’t filled us with “self-evident” vicious lies about equality and rationality. Written laws were almost entirely local, along…
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Trying a question, reprinted
Linked in previous about juries and Natural Law, worth a reprint since it explicitly refers to trials, and since I wrote it during the “virus” holocaust, at the same time when the Hildebrand fraudsters were breaking the balance that SBA was trying to restore. = = = = = START 2020 REPRINT: Self-calibration is necessary…
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