“‘Fun’ I get. ‘Funny’ is too much work.”I’ve written a zillion very-short jokes in my life, many of them band names. ‘The Breakthrough Superspreaders’ is funny all the way to the morgue, but everything that claims to be leadership is fatally comical by now. The good news is the bad news: Insanity is always temporary: A […]
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“How many toy balls is too many? Counting the lost ones?”I would dearly love it if some impresario would put me on a stage with Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman, so we could discuss his strategy of race piracy as a business plan. As discussed, I find the bigotry repellent, not the least because, as with every […]
“Dogs come home smelling like other dogs. When puppies come home, they always smell like perfume.”Time-sharing real estate brokerage Pacaso made The Daily Mail, America’s last reliable news source. They’re also in The Wall Street Journal, but that link is paywalled. Both stories are about efforts in Napa Valley to keep the carpet-bagging time-sharing interlopers out, […]
Overnight News: The real estate market is color-blind. Good neighborhoods are the ones rich in Ants.
“‘Color-blind’? What’s ‘color’? Can’t you see in the infrared, like everyone else?”As I have pointed out too often, Redfin is on a Marxian crusade to prove that poorer real estate results for black homeowners results from racism, rather than from an aversion to the neighborhoods where black homeowners frequently buy their homes. In other words, why […]
“My dying wish? Not to be dead. That won’t work, either.”Is no news good news? It seems there is no real estate news, nor any other kind of news except Supreme Court news. The Washington Examiner: Racist? Under Trump, black people and Hispanics join suburbs and home ownership up. National Review: Systemic Racism? Make Them […]
“It cannot be the case that a human being expresses the inability to experience empathy with a torrential fusillade of malicious empathy. Paging Professor Clueless. Your sociopath is here.”I swear I have sound reasons for talking about Nine Empathies – specifically the idea of an empathy for the transaction, which could not be closer to […]
I will be doing an hour-long presentation on my book Man Alive! at the The 21 Convention in Austin. The convention runs from August 17th – 19th, and I will be speaking first-thing in the morning on Saturday, August 18th. My topic? Intellectual self-defense amidst the last-gasp collapse of Rotarian Socialism. Not too surprising if […]
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 3. Speaking in tongues. One of the things that protects humanity from all of the philosophers and academics who insist that we are nothing special is the power of speech. Not speech deployed to argue against them; for the most part we […]
From: Man Alive! A survival manual for the human mind. Extract from Chapter 2. The nature of your nature. The general form of the specious appeal – this seems to have certain traits in common with that, therefore this is that – is a comically obvious error when you state it plainly. The people who […]
Chris Johnson pulled this out of our phone conversation the other night, quoting me on Twitter: People don’t want a relationship with you. They just want your damn services. We were talking about real estate weblogging, but the principle applies even more firmly to the world of social media — Twitter, Facebook, etc. The notion […]
James Pethokoukis at Reuters: Main Street may be about to get its own gigantic bailout. Rumors are running wild from Washington to Wall Street that the Obama administration is about to order government-controlled lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to forgive a portion of the mortgage debt of millions of Americans who owe more than […]
Michael DiMella wrote the remarks quoted below in a comment, but I’ve extracted them and my responses to him into a separate post. The meta issue is this: Is the NAR a criminal conspiracy against consumers, and, whether or not it is, is there nothing else good about it? Michael DiMella: > you seem to […]
I hate the idea of belaboring this topic, because I think it should be obvious. But it keeps coming up, so I wanted to take a moment to shoot it down. If the headline seems really boring to you, that’s only because you’re right. Feel free to make your exit while your faculties are still […]
Stuff like this is why I went public with our Notice of Trustee’s Sale: Author : A concerned renter E-mail : irquel@REDACTED.com Stopped paying your mortgage? BAHAHAHHAAHA! Welcome to the hell you brought on others, you pathetic parasite. Good thing you’re a psychopath and can’t feel anything, or you’d be really bummed. The point was […]
This is my column for this week from the Arizona Republic (permanent link). If selling is not a viable option, you need to fall in love with your house all over again The foreclosure market dominates the news, but it remains that good old-fashioned American homeowners occupy the overwhelming majority of Phoenix-area homes. That’s the […]