Sunday Reads...
- Greg McNeilly
- Mar 30
- 2 min read
Quote of the Day:
“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” - Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone)
Sad. People are working less. History instructs listless existence leads groups of people to bad outcomes.
Federal regulations kill GDP and harm job growth, new research suggests.
A fascinating recap of one of last century’s best writers – Flannery O’Connor – can be read here.
Mapping the Soviet “Gulags” or political prison camps is viewable here.
Revisiting the history of brainwashing in America.
Charting the $4 million American Dream.
Oddly, America's top “10 addictions” don’t list digesting political “news.”
The top MLB most followed mascots, ranked.
There is more evidence that institutional acquisition of residential homes improves community welfare.
Common sense is confirmed by a study that concludes satire is an effective form of reputation assassination.
Yet another study demonstrates that higher minimum wage laws kill jobs.
Moral people are happier, a growing body of research concludes.
How bureaucratic – anti-entrepreneurial practices – help preserve multi-general wealth is researched.
The history of Pizza:
The history of Pizza, Mapped More evidence that the “broken window” theory of community crime prevention works.
Research suggests that free trade positively correlates with a nation’s leisure time.
Parenting is the fountain of youth – positively correlated with better aging – per the evidence.
Better street lighting contributes to more excellent community safety.
Conservatives are less likely to be adherents of astrology per new research.
A legislature vote is more heavily correlated with their ideology than with re-election incentives, contradicting the skeptic’s narrative.
