Simon Grey

Revoke His Nobel Prize

by Simon Grey 05.17.2012
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For a Nobel prize-winning economist, Paul Krugman sure is retarded. How else to explain his explanation for the need for financial regulation? Just to be clear, businessmen are human — although the lords of finance have a tendency to forget that — and they make money-losing mistakes all the time. That in itself is no [...]

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What Goes Around

by Simon Grey 03.27.2012

Here’s some cosmic justice: The amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, potentially slowing the housing recovery, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Total student debt outstanding appears to have surpassed $1 trillion late last year, said officials at the Consumer Financial Protection [...]

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Fat Shaming

by Simon Grey 02.16.2012
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From Feministing: I understand that Western society needs to understand that the average woman is a size 16, not between a size 4 and 12, and it is absolutely absurd that the fashion industry continues to dismiss the majority of women by employing “plus-size” models that are, in actuality, smaller than the average woman, and [...]

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The Sad State of Mainstream Economic Analysis

by Simon Grey 01.31.2012

Here’s a perfect example: This would seem to jibe with popular laments about why Apple can’t make its products domestically. There are a lot of reasons, but a significant one is the lack of necessary skills for higher-end manufacturing. This is in no small part because American students shy away from the training necessary to [...]

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Are Women Funny?

by Simon Grey 01.20.2012
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If this list is any indication, no they’re not: Look – in the era of Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Kristen Schaal, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Lisa Lampanelli, Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Whitney Cummings, Melissa McCarthy, Anna Faris, Kathy Griffin, Chelsea Handler – are we really still having this stupid discussion? As this list [...]

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Backlash

by Simon Grey 11.16.2011

Ferdinand decided to attend an OWS event in Syracuse, leading to a very excellent piece that has lots of great insight. For this post, I’m going to focus on his observation regarding the OWSer generation: This is why #OccupyWallStreet is necessary – it’s the first major backlash against every scam the Gray Mafia have pulled [...]

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Budgetary Nonsense

by Simon Grey 08.02.2011
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Since the budgetary debate has been going on for some time with plenty of poLIEticians making lots of promises and lying through their teeth reporting on the ramifications of hitting the debt ceiling, I thought it appropriate to bring a healthy dose of economic reality to the debate. In the first place, it is helpful [...]

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A Drug by Any Other Name

by Simon Grey 05.12.2011

Allow me to riff on something FB said a few days ago: The second is that drug abuse is a symptom of our society’s dysfunction, not a cause. While there will always be a minority of addicts in any population, widespread substance abuse is due to the fact that reality for most people is so [...]

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RoadMAP to Success

by Simon Grey 04.26.2011
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Last week, I posted on how MRAs had become a bunch of whiners and complainers. In an effort to prove me wrong, MRAs took to the comments en masse to whine and complain about how I was being cruel, unfair, naive, and an all-around sh*thead. Being the kind and magnanimous guy that I am, though, [...]

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Man Up!

by Simon Grey 04.19.2011

I’m not an MRA (Men’s Rights Activist), nor am I part of the MRM (Men’s Right Movement). I do think that MRAs do have some valid complaints, and I also think that their opposition to feminism is laudable, but I simply cannot bring myself to associate with such a large group of embittered betas. Seriously, [...]

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What is Wrong with Conservatives?

by Simon Grey 04.16.2011
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What, exactly, has prompted this nonsense from Jonah Goldberg: Michael Graham is correct when he says that Jones isn’t culpable for murder — the guilt falls squarely on those with blood on their hands. But he and others also say there’s nothing wrong with burning the Koran. This represents an astonishing evolution in the right’s [...]

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A Conservative on IP

by Simon Grey 04.02.2011

Chris Castle attacks IP* “pirates”: Ending the Unholy Alliance An unholy alliance evolved over the last decade among search companies, ad serving companies, credit card companies and rogue websites.  People seeking illegal digital property use unfiltered search engines to find it, ad serving companies facilitate users by serving ads to these search pages and to [...]

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Corporate Taxes

by Simon Grey 03.30.2011

The New York Times has an interesting story: The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. That may be hard to fathom for the millions [...]

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The Dehumanization of America

by Simon Grey 03.28.2011

Humans are, fundamentally, spiritual creatures.  The ancient Greeks recognized this, which is why their word for mankind (anthropos) literally means “the worshipping creature.”  Humans are also social creatures, as evidenced by our general affection for friends and family, which stems from how our brains are wired.  Unfortunately, American culture tends to undermine these aspects of [...]

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Game as a Social Tool

by Simon Grey 03.18.2011

Outsiders often see Game as something that PUAs use to trick females into sleeping with them. There are a variety of nonsensical arguments decrying Game for this reason, which I have already dispatched with. But the fundamental flaw in these sort of arguments is that it is assumed that Game’s only application is getting laid [...]

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