Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • 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…

  • President Trump doesn’t understand the concept of the “Public Square”

    President Trump today signed an Executive Order that threatens Internet based social networking platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. He says that these platforms are the 21st century equivalent of the public square and that the protections afforded by the First Amendment to the Constitution apply to these companies. He has it totally wrong.…

  • SpaceX puts the US back into the space race today!

    This is the most important thing happening today. I wish for a perfect launch and I’m hopeful for a resurgence of interest in outer space. Let’s get to Mars!