The website A Word a Day features “A Thought for Today,” normally from a notable author born on this date. Here’s one from writer Ann Patchett (pictured), born 2 Dec 1963: The question is whether or not you choose to …
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Good Marketing Means Helping the Customer Understand the Features, Advantages, and Benefits of Your Product
I’d like to have a conversation with the product packaging guy who thought he needed to provide instructions as to the use of coffee stirrers.
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Trump’s Mental Health
I’m surprised to see so much chatter to the effect that Trump is losing his grip on reality. He doesn’t seem any worse today than he did when he retook office almost a year ago. Yes, he’s criminally insane, but …
Tagged with: Trump accuses others of committing the crimes that he himself has committed, Trump deploys economic policies that are universally deemed as folly by professional economists, Trump dismantles all aspects of government that provides value for the common American, Trump pardons convicted felons, Trump pressures the Justice Department to prosecute his enemies and political opponents, Trump surrounds himself with loyalists in key governmental positions, Trump takes actions calculated purely to build his personal wealth and power
Humanism
When I was a boy, I believed that humanism would replace the theistic religions in a fairly short period of time, perhaps within my lifetime. I based this largely on the growing presence of science in our lives. We now …
Cutting Off Family Members over Political Disagreements
My mom was an avid Fox News acolyte and Trump supporter, but our family didn’t “cut her off.” We were both amazed and saddened that a Bryn Mawr graduate and voracious reader could have the same political sensibilities as the …
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The Rejection of Science
We may think that it is uniquely American to discard science as the tool to determine the truth in subjects like the environment, vaccinations, the shape of the Earth, etc. After all, we re-elected Donald Trump to lead our country, …
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The Evolution of God
In an earlier post I wrote: Monotheistic religion is built around fear. There is no other reason to believe that an omnipotent being is tuned into everything you think and do, and, if He doesn’t like what He sees, He’ll …
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An Incredible Author’s View of God
What American writer Madeleine L’Engle (A Wrinkle in Time) said at left rings true to most educated people around the world. Monotheistic religion is built around fear. There is no other reason to believe that an omnipotent being is tuned …
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Trump and Voter ID
On social media, there are thousands of comments on Trump’s statement here, at least 95% say: “It’s about time!” or “Trump is saving our democracy from the liberals!” There’s a catch, however, though it’s not one that Trump supporters are …
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Is It Actually Hard to Convince the MAGA Base of Trump’s Position on Drugs?
I doubt it. If there’s any take-away from the last 10 years, it’s that these people are not psychologically capable of questioning anything that comes out of Trump’s mouth.
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