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By Professor Doom      I post in forums, and it�s so weird when politicized topics come up. For example, I mentioned how Google modifies its search engine to steer searches away from information detrimental to Hillary Clinton (this was during the last election, although what Amazon is doing with Hillary�s book today is no different ). I�m called a conspiracy theorist and a  liar, so I provide a link, detailing how you can just type searches into Google and get results completely different (and more favorable to Hillary) than if you use any other search engine.        My link is attacked, and I�m called more names for using such a terrible source.       I argue that the name calling is irrelevant, and attacking the source is irrelevant, because you can just type into Google and see it with your own eyes. I  could gamely provide half a dozen other sources, with other examples of Google�s (coincidental, I�...

By Professor Doom      Conservative speaker Ben Shapiro gave a �successful� talk at Berkeley recently. It�s a sad state of affairs that we now call a talk by a non-Leftist as �successful� if it satisfies the condition of �no Leftists rioted.�       The secret to the success? Not telling the police to stand down. It�s a good start, but another thing that needs to be done is to get rid of the rioters. Claremont suspended rioters and so far no more riots; I suspect Berkeley will always be on edge until they adopt a similar policy.      These speakers don�t come to campus randomly, they are invited to campus by students, desperate to hear something besides the usual indoctrination. But time and again rioters show up to shut down an opposing point of view.      Another school with rioters I covered was Middlebury, which helped to show that the higher the tuition, the less free speech on campus . Middlebury ...

By Professor Doom       �I�m going to be an engineer! I get free tuition for taking the classes!� --So many female students walk on campus saying something like this. I have no problem with scholarship, but there�s a trap here many �female engineering students� fall into�      Every year, students come to campus, and many are clever enough to understand: they need to take courses that lead to a job.      The students file into obvious choices like engineering, and then find out the reason engineers get paid bucks is because they have to know things, things that not everybody can understand without effort. I promise the gentle reader, if building complex machinery were easy enough that everyone could do it, and pouring coffee was a very rare skill, barista would be a high paying job, while engineers would get minimum wage. It�s basic economics.      �I really couldn�t handle the engineering classes, so I...

By Professor Doom      I know I pick on Women�s Studies often; I have many issues with this particular field of �study,� namely that it isn�t one. There�s another field that sure looks like it should be a legitimate academic topic, which nevertheless bears even more claim to absolute scorn: economics. It isn�t simply because economics departments succumb to ideology more than academics, but because academia�s current beliefs in the field are so blatantly wrong.       Our nation�s top economist is Krugman ( arguably, Karl Marx ), and he favors the Keynesian approach to economics: if you print a great deal of money, you�ll create wealth in a country, due to animal spirits . I�m simplifying greatly, of course, but the bottom line is our country has been making economic decisions based on pagan aspects of Keynesian theory for decades now, ever since WW2.      Now, Keynesianism was attributed to much of the country�s success af...

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By Professor Doom      It�s obligatory to put �spoiler alert� in front of discussion of Game of Thrones; I�m going to be discussing one episode in detail, �Battle of the Bastards,� so if you haven�t seen up to that part, fair warning to stop reading now. --it's a great shot, but this was a throwaway, a desperate attempt by the producers to do something with what little they had. Read on to find out why...      It�s no secret that once Game of Thrones the HBO series went past the books it�s based on, the quality dropped, sometimes precipitously. Instead of fairly deep political machinations and a somewhat realistic action/consequence narrative in a pseudo-medieval world with a touch of magic, the series turned into standard Hollywood fare. The fantasy aspects of the show were light: before about the 5 th year of the show, the most powerful magical effects most of the world had seen were dunking a sword in oil and lighting it, and the bones of long ...