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After 38 years of collecting blogging material, I finally felt I had enough to start Asymmetric in October of 2006. I've divided Asymmetric into twelve sections covering movie and music reviews, politics from a moderate conservative perspective, reli

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  • Employee sues Wynn Casino for second hand smoke

    Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 11:24 in Economy

    A few years ago, there was a funny skit in either Living Color or SNL that noticed the "people who ruin everything." I don't remember too well, but it was about those who, through their irresponsibility, took something away from the rest of us. An un...

  • Apple's eco-righteousness.

    Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2009 at 02:11 in Culture, Economy

    Michelle Malkin writes about Apple's decision to pull out of the Chamber of Commerce because of the business organization's opposition to the Cap and Trade bill. She correctly points out that Apple makes all of its products in China, which would laug...

  • Free market Education from Center for freedom and prosperity

    Posted on Tuesday September 15th, 2009 at 20:59 in Economy

    To think that some people pay for education. Hmmm, if I weren't working for the government, I'd be doing something important like...full-time blogging. More below. I have a policy of not posting things I see on the big con-blogs (like The Corne...

  • Solar power the way the Founders intended

    Posted on Sunday August 9th, 2009 at 12:45 in Economy, domestic

    Privately owned and funded with little subsidies and a potential for profit, this is solar free-market types can cheer. Conservatives should make clear that their opposition to lefty energy schemes isn't a nostalgia for oil or Luddite-ism , but a sus...

  • Is population a problem?

    Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 22:22 in Economy

    I was thinking of Thom Hartman again, as well as some of my friends who feel that population is a problem. Remember, I said: There's no ideal population number. It's only because no-growth liberals see people as mouths to feed instead of as inheren...

  • BSA: Ford going strong, permanent 10% unemployment, LAUSD problems

    Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 00:06 in Culture, Economy, los angeles orange county, bite-sized asymmetric

    1. Ford is going strong, relative to other auto manufacturers. They have a very attractive line up, with an easy-to-understand small (Focus), medium (Fusion), and large (Taurus) lineup that more closely resembles Toyota than the former GM's completel...

  • BSA: How Obama can help free market health care, Sarah Palin

    Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 22:52 in Economy, latin america, American Politics, bite-sized asymmetric

    1. Let's say that Obama succeeds with his health plan. Hospitals remain privately owned and doctors are more government contractors than employees. As predicted, companies drop their health coverage and everybody goes for the government plan. Then......

  • Americans should boycott GM

    Posted on Monday June 1st, 2009 at 12:58 in Economy

    Per the Corner: GM is going through painful downsizing at the behest of its new owner, GM. The goal is to make GM more competitive and keep it alive. We'll see how that goes. But even if it succeeds, it's not all win-win. Ford is eschewing governme...

  • Our Solar energy future

    Posted on Saturday May 9th, 2009 at 02:37 in Economy

    Things were going to have to worry about in the future: The energy consumption of our computers. Here. In fact, I am not interested in how long the battery lasts, but in the actual power consumption of the computer, the reason is that I life with s...