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Mandate Madness
My grandparents and parents experienced two great wars, an economic depression, and several tragic global pandemics. No wonder, they treated their children like children. Something about enduring calamitous ordeals, toughens the strong or destroys the weak. My parents were among … Continue reading
Posted in Human Behavior, Media, Politics, The Constitution
Tagged Dysfunctional Government, lock downs, mandates, mask mandate, Media Bias, Politics, vaccination passports
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Energy Madness
An important goal of any government should be to ensure sufficient energy for human flourishing that is inexpensive, reliable, safe, and secure. Without energy we cannot eat, we cannot move, we cannot stay warm or cool, and we cannot protect … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Energy, Politics
Tagged blackouts, carbon dioxide, Carbon Pollutants, Climate Change, Dysfunctional Government, energy shortage, eternal problem, existential threat, global warming, green energy, nuclear energy, Politics, Power Outage, renewable energy, Science, solar energy, Texas, unreliable energy, Wind Energy, wind turbines
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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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The Political Cost of Energy
The modern world, love it or hate it, requires energy and lots of it. Everything we do uses energy, from transportation, to electricity, for heating and cooling our homes, for healthcare, for agriculture and food production, for every kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Energy, Politics
Tagged Alarmism, Climate Change, Energy, executive orders, global warming, Keystone XL Pipeline, Politics, President
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Ridiculous Assumption: Tragic Consequences
How can one ridiculous assumption lead to millions of irrational decisions. It happened! It’s still happening! I’m talking about a pandemic, specifically, the global response to a seriously infectious virus known as SARS-CoV-2. It causes a disease called COVID-19 or … Continue reading
Posted in health, Human Behavior, Politics
Tagged Asymptomatic Spread, China, Covid-19, CV19, Dysfunctional Government, Education, SARS-CoV-2, Schools, Science, Wuhan
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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
Thoughts on the 2020 Election
In every election, especially presidential elections, the nation experiences a complex jolt of emotions. We are not of one mind regarding the outcome, obviously. There have been elections in my lifetime where the results were so one-sided and determinant that … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Politics
Tagged 2020 President Election, Donald Trump, Election, Elections, Freedom of the Press, Joe Biden, Media Bias, President
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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
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