It's June.
My kid played pickup hockey last night in the parking lot with four other kids and a net they dragged out of someone's garage.
No refs. No fees. No coaches. No standings. No parents watching.
They played until the light faded. Nobody kept score past the first hour.
That was the best hockey I watched all year.
Everything with cavitation (which is everything) has a resonant frequency. The earth is 7.81 hz. The human ear hears from 20-20,000 hz.
The piano is 27 to roughly 4K hz. Every octove doubles.
The relationship between physical objects, colors, and sounds is a lot more direct than people may realize.
God SAYS let their be light
This weeks piano lesson gets pretty deep in the gravy. They are wild concepts but also super simple at the same time
https://t.co/7qh1hH1jab for this full lesson and 53 more. Family friendly. Rather you want to learn to play piano or not this series helps you understand the music that’s all around you all the time
Andrew Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, delivering the single greatest blow to financial tyranny in American history. You won't hear this story told correctly in any economics textbook, because it reveals how central banking works: as a government-sponsored cartel that redistributes wealth from productive citizens to politically connected bankers.
The Second Bank held a 20-year federal charter starting in 1816. It controlled the money supply, issued currency, and held government deposits. Sound familiar? Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, wielded more economic power than any elected official. He could trigger financial panics at will by restricting credit. He bought newspapers and bribed congressmen. When Jackson opposed recharter in 1832, Biddle deliberately crashed the economy to punish him.
Jackson called it "a hydra of corruption" and he was right. The bank created artificial booms through credit expansion, then triggered busts when politically convenient. Biddle openly bragged about manipulating markets. Free market economists and Jackson both recognized the core insight: this was legalized counterfeiting with government backing, not free market banking.
The political establishment united against Jackson. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the entire Whig Party defended the bank. Biddle spent millions buying influence. The press attacked Jackson as an economic ignoramus. Every "respectable" voice supported recharter. Jackson stood alone with the American people.
After Jackson killed the bank, the country experienced the strongest economic growth in its history. From 1837 to 1862, America operated without a central bank. Industry flourished. Wages rose. Innovation exploded. This wasn't coincidence. When you stop subsidizing financial speculation and let productive capital find its natural home, prosperity follows.
Central banks don't stabilize economies: they destabilize them for private gain.
Deep state operatives get mad when people go to Moscow because it’s a clean city and nothing like the propaganda says. Compared to LA, there is no comparison. But you “love Putin” by making rather banal observations about the state of the West under Democrat supermajority rule.
One lesson of California (there are so many) is that the politics matter. You can have the best weather, abundant natural resources, impressive human capital - and you can still get things very wrong and make a mess of things with bad politics and stupid, weak leaders.
Last night, I read the entirety of C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. It's a novel told in the form of letters written by a demon to another demon instructing him on ways to manipulate his "patient" to do evil.
This one quote sounded familiar.
Many disagree with Oliver Anthony's opinions, but it doesn't change the fact the #250America crowd would EXPLODE.
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Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »
All they had to do was hand the mic to Creed or Aldean.
The fumbling of our nation’s semiquincentennial is disappointing, but not surprising. Our country had renewed national pride, but it died with the foreign entanglements & permanent alliances that Washington warned against.
I miss real intentional walks. The crowd booing, the .01% chance something weird would happen, the batter giving off “Yeah, I knew you didn’t want any this” vibes. If you want to walk a guy you should at least have to look like pussies for 30 seconds. It was good.