Chris Lynch's slanted view on sports, politics and entertainment. Please send thoughts or comments to chris.lynch@gmail.com
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- We waste so much tax money. Shouldn't any waste DOGE eliminates come right out of the budget and national debt?
- Matt Stoller on Matt Gaetz as an anti-monopolist and anti-big business. Interesting reading.
- This is water by David Foster Wallace. Something that should be reviewed from time to time.
- Oprah tries to justify the $1 million fee paid by the Harris-Walz campaign. Yeah right.
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- More than half of young voters won't pay more than $10 a month to fight climate change. Not what the young care most about.
- DoJ launches investigation into UnitedHealth.
- Interesting - RFK jr. endorses Rand Paul for Republican Senate Leader.
- US Judge in Texas rules Congress passed $1.7 trillion 2022 budget unconstitutionally. Pandora's box? Exery State AG just given a green light.
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting." - George Orwell
"We should never forget the Constitution wasn't written to restrain citizen's behavior, it was written to restrain the government's behavior." - Rand Paul
"If you want new ideas, read old books." - Shane Parrish
"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." - Aldous Huxley
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- Rand Paul is right on Ukraine. Agree with this viewpoint 100%.
- The Daily Coach on the 7 factors of top performers.
- Interesting Clemson-LSU story
- The secret purchase agreement between South Africa and Pfizer has been released. It was a made-up marketing ploy all along.
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- Interesting backstory to the Gruden vs NFL (and Goodell) lawsuit.
- How to be an animal: an antidote to our self-expatriation from nature. (HT Harvey Morrel)
- Have to admit - Rand Paul was right about Christopher Wray and the FBI
- Meet the psychedelic boom's first responders (HT Tim Ferriss)
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- You'd think this would be something Taco Bell would offer
- Morgan Housel on a Few Ways the World Works
- The complete beginner's guide to Autonomous Agents. Long but interesting read.
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- Programming vs Demon Summoning
- Michael Shellenberger also testified in Congress alongside Matt Taibbi. Michael deserves our thanks for his yeoman's work protecting our First Amendment rights.
- Rand Paul's criticism of Anthony Fauci was right all along. We owe Dr. Paul our thanks too.
- Sam Altman, OpenAI's CEO, invests $180 million on a life longevity startup. Billionaires in the past gave us universities and libraries. Today's billionaires want to give us longer and healthier lives (except Bill Gates - he wants us to eat bugs).
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- Nuclear waste (and nuclear power) is nothing to fear. Nicely done.
- Andrew Huberman's 10-step approach for designing a training program.
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- I really hope Rand Paul nails Anthony Fauci's hide to his wall.
- Charting the rise and fall of String Theory. It was always too good to be true (and too esoteric to be disproved).
- Abraham Lincoln on living with loss.
- First Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for Yourself
Not just Elon Musk and Twitter going after Anthony Fauci.
Rand Paul will be going after him in the Senate, "Fauci's resignation should not prevent a full-throated investigation into the origins of the pandemic. He must be required to testify under oath regarding any discussions he participated in concerning the Wuhan lab leak. His policies destroyed lives."
And in Congress a bi-partisan group of lawmakers are demanding answers about taxpayer funded torturing of dogs he approved. The man tortured puppies.
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Do you know who is the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world? The US Government." - Senator Rand Paul
"Courage is in far shorter supply than genius." - Peter Thiel
"Set and enforce an aspirational personal hourly rate. If fixing a problem will save you less than your hourly rate, ignore it. If outsourcing a task will cost will cost less than your hourly rate, outsource it." - Naval Ravikant
"A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men." - Thomas Carlyle
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- Blue Origin Under Fire. Interesting but if Blue Origin was disregarding safety wouldn't they be launching rockets more frequently instead of moving at the snails pace (compared to SpaceX) that they've been operating under? (HT Meanderthal)
- Matt Taibbi: The News is America's New Religion, and We're in a Religious War. Very true!
- I'm ready to vote for Rand Paul for President right now (or at least support the idea of making him the Surgeon General right away!)
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.
Congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks - the 2021 NBA Champs! Hard not to root for this team... Right now some sports books have Rand Paul at +$3,500 (meaning you'd risk $100 to win $3,500) to be the Republican 2024 nominee for President. If he keeps after Dr. Fauci and China the way that he's been doing - that bet might represent good value... Reminder that the only country to put men on the moon does not use the metric system. U-S-A! U-S-A!... Speaking of the USA - we are -$1,200 (meaning you'd have to risk $1,200 to win just $100) to win the most medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Wonder if being that big an overall favorite adds or detracts to the interest in the games?... Cool story in four parts - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4... Think I mentioned in this space a few weeks ago that failing companies would look to rebrand themselves and hope for new revenues simply by adding a "Plus" (or "+" sign) at the end of the company name. Then almost right on que... Saddens me that the phrase "This is for all the Tostitos!" never caught on to the degree it became a common cliché. I still use it fairly regularly...
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- Senator Rand Paul slams the idea of biological males competing with females. Excellent questions at the end - where are the feminists on this? Where are those who supported the original purpose of Title IX? How come they are not speaking out?
- Couldn't agree more. (HT Stephen Landry)
- The importance of being prepared.
- The problem with experts. "Our experts have become clerics."