Doctor Weasel’s House of Horrors: Political Violence, Part 18

Violence as chronicled in this blog includes assault, vandalism, threats of violence, and doxxing.  As usual, by the time I have compiled two long posts full of left-on-right violence, there's a shorter list of links to stories of right-on-left violence that should also come to light.  This is that list of links.  All one of …

Doctor Weasel’s House of Horrors: Political Violence, Part 17

Usually I point out that my political violence analysis includes threats, vandalism, doxxing.  Well, sometimes the leftists go all the way to murder.  It is times like those that leftists magically become rightists in the eyes of the media.  Well, they are not.  If you want to know what motivated the shooters (typically one of …

Doctor Weasel’s House of Horrors: Political Violence, Part 16

Here I am trying to catch up with current events  First, events of June-July-August, more or less.  This is of course another post in a series on political violence.  Violence in this case includes assaults, threats of violence, vandalism, and doxxing.  This is one of the posts that focuses on left-on-right violence, which makes it …

Doctor Weasel’s House of Horrors: Political Violence, Part 15

I'm overdue to continue the study of political violence.  Stuff happened, but with the help of my insurance company, my house is in great shape.  This series has hot a sort of rhythm.  Two long posts about left-on-right (or occasionally left on not-quite-so left) violence, followed by one very short post on right-on-left violence.  This …

Mental Models and Predictions: Environmental Disasters

As I discussed in this post, people make predictions which can turn out to be reasonably accurate or complete failures.  Predictions are based on mental models, and bad predictions can indicate deeply flawed mental models, especially if many predictions prove to be wrong over a long time period.  To put it plainly, People (maybe very …

Different Types of Warfare, and Questions

Not all wars are the same, and there are many ways to categorize the differences between them.  The term 'spectrum of conflict' can be found in older and recent doctrine documents as well as recent pronouncements by leaders. The notion of the spectrum implies that there are only differences in degree between noncombat deployments, low-, …

Doctor Weasel’s House of Horrors: Political Violence, Part 14

I was away from posting for a while.  A death in the family, plus other commitments, kept me from posting.  Also, I'm way behind on Instapundit articles and have barely commented there.  But I was keeping track.  I had a stash of links to episodes of violence committed with obvious political motivation.  So when I …