Something Strange Is About To Happen in the United States
Because my wife has been involved in the thoroughbred horse breeding industry for the past 30 years, I have to admit that I’ve been out to the track more than a few times. I recall, essentially out of boredom, betting on a race filled with slow, cheap horses, all with terrible past race performances and pitiful workout times, and thinking to myself: well, one of them is actually going to win this race, though it’s almost impossible to imagine. (more…)
A great number of prominent ex-Republicans have assembled something called the Lincoln Project, an ad hoc group whose purpose is to remove Donald Trump from office before he can inflict any further damage. Their core tool to bring this about is the creation and distribution of short but extremely powerful videos that provide evidence of how completely criminally insane this whole situation has become.
One of the core tenets of business management is “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” That’s why 
In Western philosophy we have something called “truth theory,” of which there are essentially three:
The graphic below brilliantly illustrates something we have been discussing on and off for years, i.e., that rich people will be almost completely immune to the horrific consequences of climate change–at least for the better part of a century.
Karl Popper (pictured here) was a 20th Century philosopher of science, perhaps best known for his belief that if we are to call any idea a “scientific theory,” it needs to be falsifiable, i.e., that there needs to be a way of subjecting it to an experiment in which we are capable of proving it false.
While the United States continues its dive into mayhem, with its armed insurrections, traffickers in voter fraud theories, QAnoners, anti-vaxxers, climate deniers, and children in cages policies, most of the rest of the world continues to make some level of progress toward a better life for all.
A few years ago, famed Watergate figure John Dean warned Trump staffers that their resumes are going to be badly stained via their participation in this criminally insane presidency. He used words like, “Everyone who had anything to do with Nixon either deliberately omitted the role they played, or suffered a terrible downgrade as a result. Do yourselves a favor, and get out now.”
I’m not normally pessimistic, at least in what I write here, but the Republicans’ call for national unity is a big part of the reason that this whole deal with the “fraudulent election,” armed insurrections, etc. is so hard to get behind us. Decent people don’t want to “unify” with conspiracy theorist nut-jobs, not to mention treasonous murderers.
In today’s highly polarized world, it seems that literally any development that has the remotest relation to politics is going to auto-generate both a left- and a right-wing contingent around it.
