Why does the media hype everything up? (ahem, virus, ahem)
Published: Mon, 04/20/20
Why did -- for e ample -- the Drudge Report, which should know better, join Team Apocalypse? One reason must surely be that sensationalism sells.
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The misery of the lockdown: Woods edition
Published: Thu, 04/16/20
I'm getting lots of people saying: "I don't mind being locked in my home! I'm getting some house projects done and doing some rela ing and spending…
The thing you're forbidden to say about the virus
Published: Thu, 04/16/20
Yesterday someone who belongs to my private Facebook group wrote this: "I relinquish any claim on the lives of the young. As an oldster who is…
Guess what just happened with New York's ventilators
Published: Wed, 04/15/20
New York is now giving ventilators away to Michigan and Maryland. Remember when Andrew Cuomo was demanding 40,000 ventilators, and was told by the…
Trump de-funds WHO, and the fact-free response
Published: Wed, 04/15/20
Naturally, everyone is hysterical over Trump's decision to withhold funds from the World Health Organization over its handling of the pandemic. But as…
Hysterical Drudge is making Fauci seem reasonable
Published: Tue, 04/14/20
Drudge, the home of virus hysteria, is running a headline today saying that Dr. Fauci predicts a degree of normality by November. So I clicked. I…
How Trump stuck it to the media yesterday
Published: Tue, 04/14/20
My email marketing mentor, Ben Settle, has cited Trump numerous times as someone to learn from. Naturally, some people are outraged: why, I hate…
They just updated the virus model again
Published: Mon, 04/13/20
Remember the IHME model, which was the basis for the estimate of as many as 240,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths? That's the one that was then revised…
How to monetize your haters -- glorious case studies
Published: Mon, 04/13/20
There aren't many things that give me more satisfaction than earning dough off the attacks of my haters. Not only do I not care about their attacks,…
Genius father, bozo son: can you guess?
Published: Wed, 04/08/20
I hate to break this to you. But you may know already. Sometimes even very successful investors are horrendous economists. E ample: Warren Buffett.