Gongol.com Archives: August 2016
August 5, 2016
The problem with uncompromising capital-L Libertarians
When you define yourself by your outsider status rather than trying to co-opt the vast majority of Americans who are instinctively inclined to agree with most of your policies, then you'll find ways to think it's a bad thing that Gary Johnson and William Weld look like sensible, moderate centrists. The fact is that most Americans tend to prefer being left alone by their government and taxed as little as reasonably possible -- that IS the effective center of American politics. And when you have the opportunity to run your ticket as a viable alternative to a nitwit with no attention span who commandeered the Republican nomination and a terribly unpopular Democratic candidate, your instinct should be to go all-in in support of that ticket, not to complain about how much your own team disappointed you by failing to wave the philosophical flag harder than they did on a national stage.
Losing all sense of proportion
A woman whose job is specifically to prevent radicalization among her fellow Muslims in the UK found herself detained because an airplane crew had suspicions about the book she was reading -- about Syrian art. Lunacy.
Bank of England cuts interest rates down to 0.25%
This era of near-zero interest rates is going to be one for the history books
Facebook aims to discourage clickbait by punishing common clickbait headlines
That's one way to do it
US Navy to change camouflage uniforms again
New camouflage was supposed to be an improvement, but sailors appear to have disliked them -- a lot.
