Charles Brewer
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Charles Brewer
@charlesbrew
Value respect, honesty. Fear unintended consequences. MindSpring founder/ceo in 90's Building walkable places since 2001










Yes. The economy is a thermodynamic thing: it makes useful order out of stuff by harnessing energy. Britain could easily have had cheap energy if it had exploited its shale gas rather than building wind and 'solar farms' to enrich crony capitalists. We still can.




The aftermath of today’s gold medal win by the US hockey team is one of the greatest TV moments that you will ever see. Hockey is an ultimate team sport. There is no way a single person can accomplish anything in hockey. It is all about the team. And at the Olympics the team is the whole country. These are out there because they love the sport, and because they love their country. There is a purity in that that is hard to find in professional sports. Canada was REALLY good. And the game was oh so close. But somehow team USA won. If you weren’t crying already, Jack Hughes’ interview where he talks about how strong the USA hockey brotherhood is, how much he loves his country and how this win is for the whole country surely did it. If not that, surely the Star Spangled Banner and the whole team singing along to it got you over the hump. And if you still weren’t crying after that, then SURELY the team picture featuring two teammates skating onto the ice with the tiny children of Johnny Gaudreau (who likely would have been on the team had he not been killed by a car while cycling in 2024) did the trick. Friends, this is as good as it gets. Every human virtue was on display in brilliant fashion here. Dedication, hard work, toughness, teamwork, loyalty, love, tenderness, and grace. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.


The aftermath of today’s gold medal win by the US hockey team is one of the greatest TV moments that you will ever see. Hockey is an ultimate team sport. There is no way a single person can accomplish anything in hockey. It is all about the team. And at the Olympics the team is the whole country. These are out there because they love the sport, and because they love their country. There is a purity in that that is hard to find in professional sports. Canada was REALLY good. And the game was oh so close. But somehow team USA won. If you weren’t crying already, Jack Hughes’ interview where he talks about how strong the USA hockey brotherhood is, how much he loves his country and how this win is for the whole country surely did it. If not that, surely the Star Spangled Banner and the whole team singing along to it got you over the hump. And if you still weren’t crying after that, then SURELY the team picture featuring two teammates skating onto the ice with the tiny children of Johnny Gaudreau (who likely would have been on the team had he not been killed by a car while cycling in 2024) did the trick. Friends, this is as good as it gets. Every human virtue was on display in brilliant fashion here. Dedication, hard work, toughness, teamwork, loyalty, love, tenderness, and grace. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

Many people are commenting that this will produce a capital flight and cause the most productive Dutch citizens to emigrate. This is true. However, the reality is much worse, far more perfidious. Virtually every Dutch citizen is going to be a criminal from here on. A specter of arbitrary enforcement will hang over each of their heads. Why? Two reasons. One -- the tax is both severe and hard to administer. Remember, without a sale, there's no financial trail. Lots of people are just going to chance it and not pay the tax. (They may even forget!) Second, people own so many different assets, and it's hard to mark those assets to the market without a sale actually occurring. If you own a painting that you once bought, is it still worth the same? The state says it's worth more, you say it's worth less. Who wins? This kind of policy is the worst kind, where it opens a door wide to abuse by arbitrary enforcement. Have an enemy? Start investigating them for unpaid unrealized capital gains taxes. You'll always find something, and then you can put them in prison. Dangerous tools.


6 yrs ago today, on Feb 1, 2020, a group that included Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins, Jeremy Farrar, Eddie Holmes, Kristian Andersen, Robert Garry, Andrew Rambaut, Ron Fouchier, Marion Koopmans, and Christian Drosten came together to discuss how to mislead the public about the origin of SARS-CoV-2.

Unprecedented ferocious weather model output: The model shows 2 consecutive mega blizzards that would completely bury Washington, NYC, and Boston in 3-5 feet of snowfall into end of January.


The Next 10-days and it's not over yet. Buckle up! This will likely be the coldest weather experienced by half of all Americans (or more) in their lifetime. How many cold records will be set? How much snow and ice?

NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya says questioning vaccines is essential to good science. “This idea that if you are asking questions about side effects of vaccines, you’re anti‑vax … the exact opposite is true.” “You need excellent scientific evidence so that people can make good decisions for themselves and their kids.” “The idea of shared decision‑making — that’s how you build trust.” “If I tell you, ‘You have to take this or I’ll throw you in jail… I won’t let you go to work,’ that’s what happened during the pandemic.” “In Canada, you couldn’t fly on an airplane if you weren’t vaccinated.” “People lost their jobs.” “I had people from the American military writing me telling me… they're being forced to take a covid vaccine that they don't think is good for them.” “My own colleague… Martin Kulldorff got fired from Harvard because it didn’t make sense for him to take the COVID vaccine… and yet they fired him because because they were trying to force everyone at Harvard to take the vaccine.” @DrJBhattacharya








