A Modest Proposal

A Modest Proposal

I’m going to skip right over the argument about whether we should impose the death penalty*, and go to the bit about how we should carry it out. First, let’s clear the field and dismiss some of the weaker contenders: Hanging is not necessarily reliable, requires a...

Not Health Insurance

Not Health Insurance

Neither Mrs. Dean nor I have insurance through employers (I don’t have one, she doesn’t work enough hours).  When this first hit us a year or so ago, we did the usual thing – we bought it ourselves.  For the two of us, it cost an eye-watering $1,400 month for a what I...

Changing the Game, and Gift Suggestions

Changing the Game, and Gift Suggestions

A couple of recent SubStack posts got me thinking about how we need to change the game if we want our society to flourish.  Both of the following summaries are highly condensed – if you find them interesting, you should be able to click through to read the whole...

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Charities

Wherein R C Dean divulges who he gives money to, and asks an internationally dispersed group of cranks and misanthropes who else would be good to give to.