The New Mercury

20/12/2023

In this episode, I look at the pro-wrestling show that is electoral politics I’m the USA.

Why do I support some ideas that are typically associated with Republicans as well as some that are associated with Democrats?Maybe the better question is wh...

12/12/2023

What was this meme all about? Well, before one can separate their rational self-interest from irrational greed, they have to know where that metaphorical fence in the meme actually sits. In this episode, The New Mercury surveys that line.

Just what was this meme all about? Well, separating one's rational self-interest from irrational greed first requires understanding where that fence actually...

04/12/2023

03/12/2023

Perhaps the most important idea that humankind needs to learn.

21/11/2023

There’s a new video up on the YouTube channel! I take a look at the passage of Issues One and Two in Ohio, poke fun at conservatives, and then end up sidetracked into a diatribe on Uyghurs and Type-88 machineguns.

You’ll waste ten minutes of your life on something dumber today, spend it with The New Mercury instead!

I take a look at the aftermath of the passage of Issues One and Two in Ohio, and how Ohioans always had the rights they won all along. Somehow, I get sidetra...

24/10/2023

There are all sorts of valid reasons to oppose a ban on abortion. Here, I look at what I consider the most important one, and why it’s important.

The New Mercury explores the philosophical reasons to support Ohio's Issue 1, which would protect women's right to choose an abortion.

17/10/2023

Finally, the moment no one has been waiting for: The New Mercury YouTube Channel is up and running!

More content will be dropping soon, so stay tuned:

The New Mercury blog emerges from years of inactivity with a new You Tube channel. Why? What for? To what possible end? Kyle A. Lohmeier does his best to ans...

29/08/2023

ICYMI:

Busybody lobbyists pestered the FDA into declaring sesame an allergen, thus forcing all food producers to note it on their product labels. This was done, in theory, to help the roughly 765,000 Americans allergic to sesame to find products without it.

Problem is that government regulators generally don’t know a single thing about the industries they regulate. In commercial bakeries that handle sesame, trace amounts of the stuff get literally everywhere. To make a product truly sesame free would require separate and isolated production facilities, which is massive capital outlay just to service 0.23% of the population.

So, sensibly, commercial bakers simply added the already ubiquitous sesame to the recipes for all products, and then changed the labels to match. Now the bakers are in compliance, and people with sesame allergies have even fewer options than before.

Isn’t being governed awesome?!

26/08/2023

This is why we need to get rid of them. All of the alphabet bois.

23/07/2023

There, fixed it.

20/07/2023

F**k fascists and conservatives. Wait, that was redundant.

29/05/2023

I honestly didn’t pay any attention to the Debt Ceiling Cage Match PPV this year…

30/04/2023

Someone might wanna remind them who lost the war….

02/08/2022

It’s a bit grainy and old, but it’s the only photograph known to have been taken inside the room.

01/07/2022

Dunno about you, but I can hear this meme. But then, I’m old.

30/06/2022

Not to be construed as legal advice.