If I were designing college curricula, an entry course of probability and statistics might be the only one I’d make mandatory. Want to major in history or English? That’s fine, but I don’t want you to check out of here …
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Trump’s Baseless Accusation that the Top Bureau of Labor Statistics Official Manipulated Jobs Numbers “a Preposterous Charge”
What American actor and activist George Takei says here is 100% accurate. If any sane and decent person were advising Republicans, he’d urge them to cut ties with Trump as soon as possible, and return to some level of credibility …
The People Will Only Stand for So Much
To the author of the meme here: The guillotine was invented about 80 years after Louis XIV, associated with Versailles in late 17th and early 18th Century; it’s known as the instrument that beheaded Louis XVI and Marie Antionette in …
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Nothing New about Trump’s Behavior as Wanna-Be Dictator
Former labor secretary Robert Reich notes at left that Trump’s firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics comes right out of the playbook of all tyrants.
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Columnist David Brooks on Trumpism
Here’s an excerpt from yesterday’s OpEd in the NY Times by David Brooks: “Trumpism… is primarily about the acquisition of power — power for its own sake. It is a multifront assault to make the earth a playground for ruthless …
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Is Earth a “Group Project?” If So, Is “No One Doing Their Part?”
As a percentage, there are very few people on this planet who view Earth as “one big group project,” but these folks are, in the main, members of the more than 200,000 groups whose purpose is environmental and social justice. …
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America’s “Cult of Ignorance”
We really do have a weird phenomenon at work here in the United States. America has entire “news” channels that operate solely to deliver misinformation to people who are desperate to confirm certain of their beliefs as true.
The Dilemma of Having Children in Today’s World
When my wife and I brought kids into this world in the 1990s, it seemed a reasonable thing to do. But that was before: • The United States was on its way to becoming just one more authoritarian nation. • …
The Future Isn’t Always an Extrapolation of the Past
If the future looks like the past, it’s very clear that our legacy for generations to come will feature overwhelming amounts of authoritarianism, greed, ignorance, racism, environmental collapse, perhaps along with nuclear conflagration. Fortunately, as some brilliant mind put forward, …
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Is the U.S. President Above the Law?
To be fair, the SCOTUS didn’t rule that the president is “above the law”; they ruled that the president can’t be prosecuted for something he did as an “official act.” FWIW, this seems at least somewhat reasonable. Should Truman have …
