Paul M. Jones | General 2026-05-08T09:12:58-05:00 A Change Of Tagline 2020-12-08T23:38:49-06:00 It used to be "There are no solutions, only tradeoffs." These days, I'm feeling more a bit Bowie: "Don't listen to the crowd, they say 'jump.'"... Moving Away From Google 2019-06-25T07:37:07-05:00 In an effort to extract Google's tentacles from my life, and to give them as little feedstock as possible, I am no longer using my Gmail account as a primary contact address. Contact me at my pmjones.io address instead. Likewise, my paul-m-jones.com ... Twitter Suspends Me *After* I Delete My Account ? 2019-03-18T16:27:16-05:00 In a curious turn of events, Twitter has apparently suspended my account, even though I deleted it last October. How ... impotent of them.... Done With Twitter 2018-10-29T19:58:39-05:00 I've tried "taking a break" but I always come back. Time to be done with it: account deactivated.... The Narrowing Effect Of Diversity 2017-08-14T11:21:49-05:00 Imagine, then, Culture A, with 10,000 enumerable cultural features. Because they are broadly shared by all, nobody is much offended by any of them, and so all of these features can be expressed as naturally in the public square as in the privacy of t... The Morality of Patriotism 2017-08-14T11:02:10-05:00 The simplest form of moral behavior occurs when a man fights for his own survival. Of course it is selfish ... but selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperati... Sinatra, Bogart, and "Cool" 2017-07-30T21:35:38-05:00 [Frank Sinatra] is idolized -- and obsessively studied and massively imitated -- not merely for the creation of art but for the creation of public self, for the confection of affect and biography that the artist projects onto the national screen.And ... Use Rhetoric To Sell Books 2017-07-28T02:17:18-05:00 Selling is a pure popularity contest. Awards are pure popularity contests. Once you get over that, the better your friends will do and the better you will do. ... When you want to do something with the culture, post your memes, be funny, be quick wit... Camille Paglia: On Trump, Democrats, Transgenderism, and Islamist Terror 2017-06-20T14:14:24-05:00 The cold biological truth is that sex changes are impossible. Every single cell of the human body remains coded with one's birth gender for life. Intersex ambiguities can occur, but they are developmental anomalies that represent a tiny proportion of... No, You’re Not More Likely to Be Killed by a Right-Wing Extremist than an Islamic Terrorist 2017-06-20T14:03:50-05:00 The fact that the two deadliest attacks upon the U.K. in recent memory were at the hands of Islamic terrorists is not simply pub trivia. I mention it because when these apologists for Islam get bored of claiming that jihadists are incessantly and ine...