Bill's Blog Guide
Video/Podcast Deletion Policy
2009
An
Idea for Suburban Public Transport: This is an idea I'd
been talking about for about 25 years, which is basically Uberpool
with computer drivers. Note that this entry was written before
Uber existed. I gave a lecture about this idea in 2009 to an
environment group, and a software engineer who was present told me
it was computationally impossible for a computer to route all the
vehicles the way Uber does now.
Capitalism:
A Love Story, by Michael Moore: Movie Review: This movie,
about the mortgage meltdown, was so full of shit that Michael Moore
went and hid in a hole for 6 years before coming out with any more
movies.
Godless,
by Ann Coulter: Book Review
The
God Assumption: A reason why humans many be evolutionarily
programmed to believe in a heavenly parent.
Tips
For Job Searchers: The last time I was unemployed was in
2005. I wanted 2 things: a job doing more interesting work
than I had done before, and a job outside of Silicon Valley. I
achieved both objectives in an acceptably short time, so I share
advice on how to search for a job for my friends.
The
Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, and The Blank Slate by Steven
Pinker: Book Review
Systems
of Survival, by Jane Jacobs: Book Report
2010
Infidel,
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Book Report
The
Secret: Movie Review
Real
Estate: Evils of the Owner-Occuppied Paradigm When the
mortgage meltdown happened, I was working on software that did
financial calculations with respect to mortgage bonds, and I did
work on software for sorting out the mess. So I had a
front-row seat on what happened. Also, for about 25 years
prior to that, I had been telling anyone who would listen that real
estate was not such a great investment. So here are my
thoughts on the subject.
What
Are We to Make of the Tea Party?
The
Genius in All of Us, by David Shenk: Book Review
The
Conscience of a Liberal, by Paul Krugman: Book Review
Descent
into Chaos: The US and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and
Central Asia
The
Mystery of Capital - Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails
Everywhere Else, by Hernando de Soto: Book Review
2011
Giving
Up on the Bible
Employee-Owned
Companies
The
Worst Date I Ever Had
The
Key to Will Power
Manufacturing
an Absence of Evidence
The King
The
Price on Human Life
Catching
Fire - How Cooking Made us Human, by Richard Wrangham: Book Report
The
Conservatives' Deaf Ear on Global Warming
Book
Wagging
College
Tuition Costs and Standardized Tests
Ideology
and Science Don't Mix
Evil
Genes by Barbara Oakley: Book Report
Massimo
Pigliucci on Evolutionary Psychology
A
Question on 9/11 Written September 11, 2011
My
High School in Australia
Occupy
Wall Street
The
Big Short, by Michael Lewis: Book Report - Note that the book
was very different from the movie.
2012
Fireworks!
I'm
Leaving Blogspot - Google did an evil thing when they took
over blogspot.com
Racism,
Liberals, and Censorship
Technology
in the Core Curriculum - I gave a successful talk on this at
Skepticamp 2012
"Critical
Thinking" - A Let Down - A book review of "A Short Course in
Intellectual Self-Defense", by Normand Baillargeon, which Massimo
Pigliucci uses to teach "Critical Thinking" at CUNY.
My
First Job - Shoveling snow off of driveways in Germany
An
Encounter with Discrimination
Are
Political Demonstrations Obsolete?
Alternative
Medicine
On
Atheist Strategy
Tax
/ Inequality Fact Sheet
2016:
Obama's America by Dinesh D'Souza: Movie Review
Inside
Job: Movie Review
Kindergarten
and First Grade in Michigan
Stereotypes
and Bias
2013
Steven
Pinker on Stereotypes
Segregation
Revisited - A Modest Proposal
DNA
Matching: The End of Anonymous Paternity
Bailing
Out the Homeowners
Thoughts
on the Wall Street Bailouts
Video
Game Idea: Josef Stalin
Secular
School Vouchers
Testing
Done Well
On
Censorship of Holocaust Denial
Reign
of Error, by Diane Ravitch and The Smartest Kids in the World, by
Amanda Ripley - 2 book on education.
2014
The
Golden Rule and Beyond
When
Prejudice is Fair
On
the Funding of Contraception and Abortion
Two
Systems
On Citizens
United
Canada's
Illegal Immigration Problem
2015
Saving
Lives Doesn't Always Carry the Debate
2016
Timeline:
The 2008 Financial Crisis, Bailouts, and Repayment
Apple's
Letter to the Public About Being Compelled by the FBI to
Compromise the Security of the iPhone
The
Unacceptability of the Future
How Not to Donate Money
Free Speech and Criticism of Israel
Police, Race & Instinct
Foreign ETF's List
How to De-Empasize Identity Politics?
2017
Should All Beliefs be the Basis of Protected Classes?
Can we Restore the Pre-Trump Boundaries of Discourse?
2018
The Internet is not the Problem
New TV Show ‘American Sloth’
Sam Harris & Charles Murray vs Vox
2018 O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference NYC
What’s the Problem With The Regressive Left?
ContraPoints on Free Speech
The Use and Misuse of Facebook
2019
The Lie That is Destroying the Social Fabric of America
The Identity Politics of the Far Left
When I Researched Islam
The Pessimism of 2019
The Plan
Why I'm Sick to Death of Hearing About "Inequality"
Immigration to the United States
The Betrayal
How to Start a Meetup Group
American Universities: A Failing Institution
2020
What is Paul Krugman Smoking?
Racism in Flushing
How Has "Hate Speech" Affected "Hate Crimes"?
America's Reality Problem
Gillette's "The Best Men Can Be" Ad
How the Left is Crazy
How Much Fraud Occurred in the 2020 Election (Version I)?
Should
Collective Bargaining be Tolerated?
The Liberal Tribe
"Cleansing Guilt"
Why are Most Libertarians Male?
The Case That Election Fraud Occurred in 2020
The Case That Election Fraud Did Not Occur in 2020
How Does Wikipedia stack up against
other sources of information?