November was a busy month by HWFO standards. Here’s a recap.

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Handwaving Freakoutery

SCOTUS Bailed the Blues Out in 2022

The vast majority of pundits and pollsters predicted a red wave during the midterms, that fizzled into a nothingburger. Lots of people are saying lots of things about why this happened, but the numbe…

3 months ago · 27 likes · 27 comments · Handwaving Freakoutery

Handwaving Freakoutery

Putin Should Send Us a Fruit Basket

The only way to understand war is to strip morality out of it. There are two kinds of wars, both of which are fundamentally immoral. One kind is the Crusade, where one culture decides to subjugate an…

2 months ago · 32 likes · 22 comments · Handwaving Freakoutery

Handwaving Freakoutery

Ninety Seven Percent

BJ Campbell stumbles into the 97 Percent conference with a glass of bourbon in hand and takes the podium, two cubes of ice bouncing against the sides of the hotel bar tumbler like fat children on a t…

2 months ago · 50 likes · 34 comments · Handwaving Freakoutery

Handwaving Freakoutery

Measuring Civil Penalties in Units of "OJs"

We have spoken at length on HWFO about the human mind’s inability to comprehend large numbers, and how to ameliorate that by using different units. A billion is a thousand millions, but when we read …

2 months ago · 22 likes · 7 comments · Handwaving Freakoutery

Handwaving Freakoutery

My Father's Egg Nog Recipe

Every year before my father passed on, I would call him on Thanksgiving if we weren’t visiting him. For all the usual reasons, but also to write down (again) this recipe, because I’d kept losing it. …

2 months ago · 17 likes · 4 comments · Handwaving Freakoutery

New podcast appearance:

Meet the author at an overly expensive New Orleans party full of neotrad culture war nerds in January:

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HWFOCon Update:

Plans have been in the works for a year to, at some point, throw a big HWFO reader campout on my land and have a weekend long pool party. The problem, it turns out, is trying to build a pool during the post lockdown inflationary demand spike. My contractor went out of business in July and I’ve been coordinating the construction myself ever since. Heater may go in today. Fingers crossed. I’m going to throw a new years eve party as a test run, to which you all are not invited unless you’re a girl, but if things are in order by the end of the year then expect the first and possibly only ever HWFOCon to transpire in the spring.

New Merch:

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HWFO November 2022 Housekeeping