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Truth and Tolerance
Three conflicts describe our modern world. 1. Absolute truth versus our opinions of that truth The real truth exists! But there are your opinions and my opinions about that truth. Some people believe they are the enlightened, those who know … Continue reading
A Harsh Assessment
This website allows me to express my opinions about any number of subjects. Here, I have freedom of expression without much fear of censorship. Fortunately, in that regard, those who read my articles do so of their own free will. … Continue reading
Posted in Human Behavior, Media, Musings, Politics
Tagged Election 2020, Media Bias, Politics, President
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Why People Disagree
Way back before the Pandemic (BP), I wrote Why Intelligent People Disagree in an attempt to understand why otherwise smart people could come to completely different conclusions about important issues of the day. Now I’m thinking I should attempt to … Continue reading
Posted in health, Human Behavior, Musings, Politics
Tagged Censoring, Disagreement, eternal problem, Politics, Science, Silencing, Truth, Vaccines
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An Imaginary Impeachment Trial
For most of my formal education, finding the square root of a negative number was deemed impossible and even prohibited. Then the math geniuses pulled a fast one. You see, it was only prohibited in the real number system. There … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Politics, The Constitution
Tagged Dysfunctional Government, House of Representative, Impeachment, Politics, President, Senate
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Finding Explanations in the Game of Life
Those who know me understand my passion, perhaps a pathology, for sports and particularly for my teams. One of the many reasons I love my wife derives from her tolerance for this among many peccadillos. Sporting events, and entire seasons, … Continue reading
Posted in Human Behavior, Musings
Tagged blame, Football, Gator football, Marco Willson, Oversimplification, scapegoat, shoe, Sports, unsportsmanlike penalty
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The Hubris of Fact-Checking
Among my morning news stories, I found a thorough fact-checking of a fact-checking. In truth, neither was all that factual. The issue related to the surveillance video of election workers in Fulton County, Georgia. One side argues the video is … Continue reading
You Can’t Fix Stupid – California!
My wife and I have this running commentary about stupidity. She often says, “You can’t fix stupid.” I say you can, but I admit that sometimes stupid gets fixed through Darwinian evolution, or stupid gets replaced by other stupid. Nevertheless, … Continue reading
Why Intelligent People Disagree
One of the most amazing features of modern humanity is our individual uniqueness. Siri tells me that in 2018 there were 7,655,957,369 living human souls on our planet. That may have been true at one serendipitous instant, but its assuredly … Continue reading
Rationalism: A New Ideology for the Future
I don’t like political labels, and I dislike stereotyping whole groups of people who assign such labels to themselves or others. What is a progressive, a moderate, a conservative, a liberal, a leftist, a right-winger, a socialist, a social democrat, … Continue reading
Posted in Human Behavior, Musings, Politics
Tagged ideology, political ideology, Rationalism
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Milk and Almond Milk
Most of us humans don’t know much, at least compared to how much there is to know. We are easily misled about all sorts of things. Before you get defensive, I admit I’m among the group I’m talking about. We are … Continue reading
Posted in Human Behavior, Human Nutrition, Musings
Tagged Almond Milk, milk, Nutrition
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