Fountainhead Forum, episode 281
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Andy Oliver on why rich kids become communists and terrorists.” (03/01/25)
https://rumble.com/v6pzmdg-ff-281-andy-oliver-on-why-rich-kids-become-communists-and-terrorists.html
Performance Measures and Incentives, Part 1: Lessons From A Famous Corporate Implosion
Source: Coyote Blog
by Warren Meyer
“To understand why organizations grow senescent, get fat, and fail – whether they be public or private – there is probably no topic more important than performance measures and incentives. Many readers will know that I have spent 25 years working with government agencies in a company that privately operates public recreation facilities. Not infrequently I have had my managers, in frustration over something our agency partners have done or not done, complain that the folks they are working with in the government are ‘bad’ people. More generally this is a common refrain of government critics, that state agencies are full of ‘bad’ people. I always disagree with them. The people that the government hires are no different on average than the people hired in private industry.” (03/01/25)
The Coming Trump Pandemic
Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
“The FDA expert panel on vaccines, barred from meeting by RFK Jr., needs to continue operating as part of a necessary government-in-exile.” (02/28/25)
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-02-28-trump-pandemic-bird-flu-vaccines/
The Other Resistance — From The Right
Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“It may not be much yet, but rumors of the death of actual conservatism are overblown.” (02/28/25)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-other-resistance-from-the-right-812
Wreckage of doomed Bayesian superyacht set to be raised from sea bed as officials search for answers
Source: New York Post
“The ruins of the doomed superyacht Bayesian that sunk off the Sicilian coast will be raised from the sea bed — as officials search for more clues about the tragic wreck. Italian authorities will begin hoisting the sunken ship’s skeleton to the surface this April. The salvage operation should take three weeks to complete. The $37 million Bayesian, which sank on August 1, 2024, is currently lying at a depth of 165 feet, about half a mile off the coast of Porticello. Seven people aboard the scuttled Bayesian — including British billionaire Mike Lynch and his daughter, Hannah — died.” (03/01/25)
https://nypost.com/2025/03/01/world-news/doomed-bayesian-yacht-to-be-lifted-from-ocean-floor/
(Re)Imagining Liberty, 03/01/25
Source: (Re)Imagining Liberty
“Markets are Good for More than Wealth (w/ Tom Palmer).” (03/01/25)
And the Oscar goes to … the Pentagon!
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Ashley Gate
“This Sunday millions will tune in to watch Hollywood’s premier awards ceremony, the Oscars. All eyes will be on the red carpet to see who is wearing what and viewers will be anxiously waiting to see if any drama unfolds — like a Will Smith slap or accidentally awarding the Best Picture Oscar to the wrong film. What won’t be mentioned is the fact that many of the movies vying for Oscar wins wouldn’t have made it to the big screen without help from the U.S. military.” (02/28/25)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/oscars-military-hollywood/
Some Questions For Our Democrat Enemies
Source: Townhall
by Derek Hunter
“Let’s be honest; it is impossible to be friendly with the radical left. I’m not talking about the run-of-the-mill Democrats who vote that way because their grandparents and parents were Democrats; I’m talking about the hate-America left [sic] – the mutants burning American flags, throwing bricks at cops, and taking over college campuses calling for the extermination of Jews every time Israel retaliates after an attack from terrorist scum. You can’t be friendly with them as they are the enemy of everything good humans have created over the centuries. Harsh, I know, but I didn’t bring us to this point, I’m simply noticing.” (03/02/25)
Finland: Regime Lets Ship Leave, Two Months After Suspected Sabotage
Source: New York Times
“The Finnish authorities said on Sunday that they had released an oil tanker seized in December over suspicions that it had deliberately cut vital undersea cables but that a criminal investigation into the episode would continue. The authorities said last year that the ship, the Eagle S, appeared to belong to Russia’s shadow fleet — older tankers that covertly transport Russian crude oil around the world — escalating concerns about a covert campaign to sabotage European infrastructure. On Sunday, the Finnish police said that since the criminal inquiry ‘has progressed,’ the aging tanker was free to leave and that border officials had escorted the ship out of the country’s territorial waters.” (03/02/25)
Pope absent from St Peter’s Square for third week
Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“For the third week in a row, Pope Francis has been unable to deliver his traditional Angelus prayer in person, with the Vatican publishing his written comments instead. The Vatican said the text, sent from his hospital room in Rome, had been written ‘in the past few days.’ In it, the Pope thanked people for their prayers and thanked his medical team for their care. … On Sundays, visitors to the Vatican usually gather on St Peter’s Square to see the Pope appear at a window high up in the Apostolic Palace in the official Papal apartment. However, Francis does not live there, opting for the simpler setting of the Vatican’s Santa Marta guest house.” (03/02/25)