I had a phone call just now with a reader, a Fox News acolyte, who is under the impression that Trump took very few vacations, whereas, to her horror, Biden just took four days off over Thanksgiving. Here is a …
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Anti-Science and the Pandemic
A learned economist said recently, “We know that COVID-19 is temporary, but we also know that it will cause permanent effects.” Interesting. It doesn’t seem certain that humankind will be able to put pandemics and their variants behind us anytime in …
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Libertarianism
I have to admit that Libertarianism held an allure for me when I was younger. I was hooked on the concept that nothing in government happens as efficiently as it does in the private sector, which I still suppose is …
Grammar
To this concept a reader sent to me: There’s a catch, however. People with lousy grammar are generally regarded as illiterate morons. Not sure that’s where you want to be in society.
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Two Viewpoints on Education
A reader sent me this, to which I respond: Keep in mind that there IS an alternative to school. It’s called social isolation, illiteracy, unemployability, impoverishment, and QAnon. Note that I didn’t say it was a VIABLE alternative.
Who Is This Dr. Fauci?
This is what the Trumpers/anti-vaxxers believe. Seems a bit unlikely to me.
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When Is It Wrong for a Society to Call Itself “Civilized?”
Something to think about this holiday season, though letting people die of treatable diseases is unacceptable anytime. That the United States is the only country in the developed world in which this is the case should make us all angry …
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Unite The Right Organizers Hit Hard
From Reuters: A federal jury in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Tuesday found the organizers of the 2017 “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally liable for injuries sustained by counter-protesters and awarded approximately $26 million in damages.
Interpreting the Bible and the U.S. Constitution
This is sad, of course, but it made me smile nonetheless. The “rights” that anti-vaxxers supposedly have that allow them to endanger the health of our entire society are very much in the news. And they may remain so for …
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Dealing with Rising Sea Levels
Here’s a cool video on the physics of sea walls, which are a key piece of climate change adaptation. As sea levels rise due to the thermal expansion of the ocean waters and the melting of ice on Greenland and …
