Author Archives: Lawrence Person

About Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. I'm still between jobs. Feel free to hit the tip jar if you're so inclined.

Scott Adams on Kanye West on Rich People and Skill Stacks

Scott Adams has an interesting periscope up on Kanye West talking about how black people need to “think more like rich people.” Some of the points Adams covers about how Kanye West exhibits “rich people thinking” (especially compared to #BlackLivesMatter): … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for August 31, 2018

Just when I think the Catholic Church can’t make itself look any worse in the wake of the burgeoning child rape scandal, they prove me wrong: Papal spokesman on the Catholic Church’s spiraling child rape scandal: In an NBC News … Continue reading →

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Semiconductor Update: GlobalFoundries Gives Up On 7nm​

GlobalFoundries has given up work on their 7nm process node. This is a direct result of AMD choosing TSMC over GlobalFoundries to fab their next generation microprocessor. GlobalFounderies was always something of an odd duck. It was spun out from … Continue reading →

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The Texas Senate Race and the Case of the Ever-Shrinking Poll Sample

Another week, another poll that shows Beto O’Rourke within striking distance of Ted Cruz. The entire sample size on the Emerson poll was only 550 registered voters. It seems that O’Rourke’s numbers go up as the size of the sample … Continue reading →

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President Trump Announces New Trade Deal With Mexico

President Donald Trump announced a new trade deal with Mexico: President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. and Mexico have reached a new trade deal, paving the way for the possible revision of the North American Free Trade Agreement. In … Continue reading →

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ACLU Finds Clue, Backs NRA On Banks

This qualifies as news because it’s actually novel: The official view of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) remains that the Second Amendment protects a “collective right rather than an individual right.” But the organization nevertheless is helping the National … Continue reading →

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Dinesh D’Souza Demolishes The Myth of the Southern Strategy

The “Southern Strategy” myth refuses to die, mainly because it’s so useful for the political and media wings of the Democratic Party. In his new book, Death of a Nation: Plantation Politics and the Making of the Democratic Party, Dinesh … Continue reading →

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Sen. John McCain, RIP

Republican Senator John McCain has died at age 81 just days after ending treatment for brain cancer. McCain served his country honorably as a pilot before spending five years in a POW camp where he was regularly tortured by the … Continue reading →

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City of Austin: Here, Soccer, Have Some Tax Subsidies! Travis County: Not So Fast!

Remember how the City of Austin voted to throw tax break subsidies in order to steal another city’s soccer team? Well, now Travis County has weighed in: “Homie don’t play that!” Oh hey, guess what? In its haste to approve … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for August 24, 2018

I suspect people in the upper Midwest want summer to last as long as possible, but here in Texas, I admit to getting mighty tired of walking my dog at night when it’s still 90° and windless… Thanks to a … Continue reading →

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