Re: this meme on atheism, I doubt that an examination of the bible causes any significant number of people to disbelieve in God. I suggest that, like so many other aspects of human behavior, it’s a matter of how our …
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Robots in Our Gas Stations
At left is a screen shot from this video that suggests that we will soon have robots to fill our gas tanks. That means that somewhere, someone thinks there will be enormous investments in this infrastructure that will pay for …
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Vivek?
Kudos to the author of the meme here. With the possible exception of Trump, this smarmy used-car salesman is the most transparent liar that American politics has ever seen.
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Trump and the Masses
Here’s another reminder of the “chicken-and-the-egg” question that we face in our attempt to understand contemporary American politics. Did American hatred and ignorance cause Trump, or was it the other way around? In any case, we have a country in …
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Why Trump Will Not Be Re-Elected
Rock legend “The Boss” has nailed it. Trump supporters are somewhere between one-quarter and one-third of the American electorate. And that’s now, before the entire world is exposed to the extensive evidence proving that Trump committed 91 felonies, most of …
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How We’re “Wired”
Here is a short video made by PBS that addresses how each of us as individuals perceive the outside world in different ways, based on the “wiring” of our brains. I bring this up to make a larger point about …
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Trump as an Authoritative Leader
From NPR: “All authoritarian leaders have cults of personality,” said Ruth Ben-Ghiat, professor of history at New York University and author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present. “Meaning, they propose themselves as all-powerful, as the only solution possible to the nation’s …
Tucker Carlson and Your Retirement
I appreciate the offer, but I’d rather trust my retirement savings to an honest investment advisor than a professional liar.
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Actively Destroying Education in America
We’re banning books while we muzzle and starve our teachers. We’re sending the cream of our public school student population to charter schools, leaving the most difficult kids behind. We’re creating the perfect set of conditions for a democracy to …
Why This Man Is Distinctly Unhappy
Let’s suppose that Trump has 50 million supporters, and let’s admit that, for most of them, there is no crime that their leader could possibly commit that would affect that loyalty. Or, put more specifically, there is nothing he could …
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