If your product is a super-effective laundry cleaner, would you call it “Dirty Labs?” In your advertisement, would you say that your product is “expensive?” If you answered both questions no, you have what it takes to pass Marketing 101.
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Yes, There Is Money in Politics, But Some of It Is Far Dirtier (and Stupider) than the Rest
As noted previously, there are two distinct types of Trump supporters: a) Amoral/immoral rich people, who, at the top echelon, donate huge sums of money in exchange for tax breaks at the corporate and personal levels, and b) working-class white …
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It Was Only a Matter of Time . . . .
. . . . before Trump created a pejorative name for Kamala Harris and starting attacking her with it. Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich has a few point he’d like to make here.
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Trump’s in Trouble
Donald Trump faces plenty of obstacles, but perhaps chief among them is the considerable number of Republicans who maintain some level of integrity. For example, take the former lieutenant governor of Georgia, whose thoughts on the subject appear at left. …
A Letter from a Reader on English Grammar
A reader asks: I learned almost all the grammar I still know from Latin, French and German where these constructions had to be more explicitly explained: Declension and conjugation from Latin, subjunctives from German, etc. My question is, am I …
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When Will People Realize …. ?
At least in the U.S., this is going in the opposite direction, largely via disinformation campaigns. Now we have masses of people, supported by Fox News and other right-wing media outlets, believing that climate change is a hoax, that phasing …
Uncertainty May Be a Permanent Condition, and We Need To Be OK with That
I love this quote from 20th Century theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, and I’m glad that he was content to live with doubt. I wouldn’t be surprised if the human intellect eventually hits a wall when it comes to understanding things …
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The Prosecutor Vs. the Felon
The situation in which the U.S. finds itself going into the November presidential election would be funny if it weren’t so packed with danger. Do we want Dorothy or the Wicked Witch of the West? The Joker or Batman?
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Those Darned Democrat Commies
Comments on the photo here include: • He wouldn’t know communism if it seized the means of their production. • Your guy thinks authoritarianism is strong. • I hate to tell you buddy, but the pro-Communist party is the Republicans …
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Applying Common Sense in Analyzing Scientific Claims
The claim: Japanese students from Osaka Public University engineered and piloted an innovative ‘flying cycle’ aircraft in 2019. Named Tsurugi, the pedal-powered plane achieved a notable flight distance of 19 km (11 mi) during the Yomiuri Television Birdman Rally. Hmmmm. …
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