Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • Eskimo Pie left out in the cold

    First it was the Land O Lakes Native American woman, then Aunt Jemima, and now they’ve come for the Eskimo Pie. We can’t have nice things anymore. The owner of Eskimo Pie treats said it would change the name of the nearly century-old ice cream brand because the term is derogatory, following similar moves this…

  • YouTube Music Review

    Google is at it once again. For some unknown reason, later this year, they are deprecating Google Play Music (GPM) for YouTube Music (YM). What the hell is wrong with this company? They always feel the need to fix things that aren’t broken or to kill off products. I’ve been using GPM since it was…

  • Some failures hurt more than others

    Clearly I have failed. In so many things and in so many ways. Some days these failures actually have a visceral effect on me and some days I just chalk it up to life. The easy to take failures are ones that maybe were not totally in my control. It’s easier to accept the ones…

  • Millennials may be the snake that eats its own tail

    Millennials don’t know what they are doing. They are killing the United States and classical liberalism. I’m not talking about “liberals” like members of the Democratic Party I’m talking about classical liberalism where ideas matter. There is no freedom of thought in their ranks. You either tow the line or you are ostracized and pushed…

  • Inconvenient statistics on crime, policing, and the black community

    When emotion is brought into public policy we can count on bad things happening. Looting and rioting are doing damage to the argument for the need to reform policing. Is it bringing attention to it? Yes. But, not the kind of attention that is needed. In the cold world of statistics we have these facts:…

  • SARS-CoV-2 enters the lungs and attacks our blood vessels

    Doctors and scientists are still struggling to figure out what is going on with this virus and why it is killing the people it’s killing. Symptoms are flu-like in the beginning, then pneumonia-like in the middle, but the end result seems to be that those symptoms are deceptive. The virus seems to be causing blood…