Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • Update: Nurije Fype slowly improving after court ordered Illinois hospital to administer Ivermectin

    Update: Nurije Fype slowly improving after court ordered Illinois hospital to administer Ivermectin

    I blogged about this story earlier in the month and kept searching for updates on the story. The news media dropped this like a hot potato but I think they should have done some follow up. Are they afraid that Ivermectin might be a viable treatment? Cut to the chase… Nurije Fype is slowly improving…

  • Free Margaret Buttimer!

    Free Margaret Buttimer!

    What the fuck is wrong with Ireland? Margaret Buttimer, 66, had already been found guilty of not wearing a face mask at a supermarket in Clonakilty and sentencing on that matter, another alleged similar offence and a new charge were to be considered in Bandon District Court on Friday. When Ms Buttimer, a grandmother from…

  • Don’t worry that Mayor Lightfoot might be racist worry about the construction of real institutional racism

    Don’t worry that Mayor Lightfoot might be racist worry about the construction of real institutional racism

    Mayor Lori Lightfoot of my hometown, Chicago, Illinois, has outed herself as a possible racist. Here is a quote from the 2 page letter she sent out. The emphasis on two words are mine. I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with journalists of color. Then in the very next sentence talks about fighting for…

  • Why don’t electric shavers charge via USB?

    Why don’t electric shavers charge via USB?

    I have this curse. It’s the curse of the half-Asian man. I have an average white-man’s build but almost no body hair. I have just enough facial hair where if I let it grow it would turn into a fu manchu. The kind you see in Korean historical dramas. It looks odd to have this…

  • Psychologically abused by your government

    Psychologically abused by your government

    Like a battered wife that refuses to leave her husband the population of the United States keeps adhering to the advice of their abusers. Take this poor man in the New York Times article below. He’s been wearing an N95 mask with a cloth mask over it and goggles for 14 months. Somehow with all…

  • There is one simple reason why there was a gas shortage… and it’s not the pipeline

    There is one simple reason why there was a gas shortage… and it’s not the pipeline

    They used to teach microeconomics in college. I don’t know if they do anymore and if they do are they teaching basic supply and demand? The simple reason why there was a gas shortage is that gas stations were not allowed to “price gouge”. Price gouging, as it is known and derided, is a mechanism…