Yesterday I met one of the creators of the modern “Superman” movie series, and he asked me if I was going to see his latest piece of work. I explained, “No, I don’t avail myself of this entire genre. I …
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American Psychosis
Tristan Snell is a lawyer and legal commentator featured on MSNBC and NPR, and in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. There are bound to be a few sociopaths in any society, and, if that society is a democracy, these nut-jobs …
Investment Opportunity?
Maybe I’m just cynical, but I’m uncompelled by start-ups’ claims that early investors are positioned to disrupt some huge industry. Take the people at left, “Miso Robotics,” for instance. Is the use of robotics rapidly replacing human labor in fast-food? …
Iceland and Clean Energy
Iceland is to be applauded for the direction they’ve taken vis-a-vis energy; they boast a citizenry that genuinely cares for the quality of the environment. Yet we need to keep in mind that they: Are tiny (about one one-thousandth of …
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Why Would Any American Want Trump?
There are two main answers to Mia Farrows’s question here: 1) They’re too dimwitted to see that Trump is, in fact, an ignorant, delusional, selfish, cruel, and boorish criminal. 2) They think some of these characteristics are actually advantageous in …
Trump Voters
Interesting concept here. Do all Trump voters approve of everything their leader says and does? Probably not. But overall, they see him as making America great (and white) again by taking actions like mass deportations and punishing everyone but his …
Ignorance Doesn’t Have to be a Problem
I dispute that scientifically illiterate adults are a problem, rather that the issue is scientifically illiterate adults in positions of power. There is nothing we can do–or need to do–about the 100 million or so adult Americans who couldn’t tell …
Who Are Humanists?
Wonderful little graphic here. For anyone wishing to find a wonderfully lucid and vaguely humorous essay on this subject, I highly recommend Jean-Paul Sartre’s Existentialism is a Humanism based on a lecture he gave in 1946. It’s true that humanists …
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More Ridiculous Garbage from Trump’s Lackeys
In the 45 years I’ve lived in/near Los Angeles, there have been few major changes. It’s still the entertainment capital of the world, while continuing to feature obnoxious traffic and housing prices. Like most if not all of the largest …
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Logic vs. Emotion
The idea that Dale Carnagie expressed in the first part of the 20th Century originated thousands of years earlier with the ancient Greeks; in fact, Aristotle wrote an entire treatise on the subject. It’s probably more important today than ever …
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