Probably 95% of us have done something unethical that we later came to regret. The other 5% lie about it.
But seriously, wouldn’t we all hate to be in this position: having to admit in front of six million television viewers that we completely fabricated our reports of voter fraud in the 2020 election, and then repeated that lie every hour of every day for almost two months?
From the Washington Post:The net: Fledgling competitors to Fox News understand that being forced to pay out huge sums after losing defamation suits might turn off potential investors.
Obviously, anyone who would invest in bull**** purveyors couldn’t care less about the truth, but they really hate financial losses.
When western philosophy was in its infancy during the so-called pre-Socractic days, there were a great number of intellectual triumphs–not the least of which was that of Thales of Miletus (ca. 700 BCE). Thales introduced the idea of the “arche,” i.e., the primary element and the first principle of all existing things. He believed that water was the arche; he held that air was rarefied water and that solids were concentrated water, writing “Water is the substance that contains in it motion and change.”
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the fellow who brought Turkey into the modern world, early in the 20th Century, transforming a backward and constantly warring part of the Ottoman Empire into a stable, secular, industrial nation. What Atatürk said at left lies at the core of what made him one of the most successful world leaders in human history. (more…)
Whether or not it turns out that Trump has been a Russian asset all along, it’s 100% clear that he hasn’t stood up to Putin’s brazen aggression against the United States once in the entirety of his four-year tenure in office. Interference in elections, putting bounties on American soldiers, and now allowing the cyber attacks on several different parts of the federal government, Trump is as passive as a lamb, and seems to somehow enjoy playing the role of Putin’s doormat.
His fellow Republican Mitt Romney found this last incident “stunning.” Funny, wouldn’t it have been more stunning had he actually done something to protect the country, per his oath of office?
Am I the only one who has no clue what the rancor with Jill Biden’s PhD is about? We had a science teacher in high school whose doctorate (I’m guessing) wasn’t in medicine. He was Dr. Katman. Had any of us referred to him as “Mr. Katman,” we would have been instantly corrected, we would have felt foolish, and we wouldn’t make that mistake again.
Western culture has a long tradition of respecting people with doctoral degrees in this manner; is there something about this woman that makes it necessary for us to turn this custom on its head?
This fellow expresses what most Americans feel.
Moreover, it’s what guides entire societies in Europe and Scandinavia. Those folks don’t want to live among the homeless, the hungry, not to mention people who can’t afford an education and those dying of treatable diseases. They’d rather pay a bit more taxation in order to establish a community that takes care of its people, rather than ignores their suffering. (more…)
Is the United States on the brink of civil war, or at least a significant outbreak of violence, as Trump supporters refuse to accept defeat? There are good arguments to be made both pro and con.
The fellow at the left scares me. Of course, anyone who presumes to know what “God’s work” is (and then fails to specify what that might entail) should frighten us all. It’s a good guess he’s not talking about the beatitudes (see below).
People who are armed to the teeth and believe that Trump was cheated out of the opportunity to “save Western civilization” can be counted on to erupt at some level.
I have to believe that the video here is BS, and that this plastic compound doesn’t degrade in water in five minutes. And even if I’m wrong, how useful is the product?
Yes, we do have a problem with the slow degradation of plastics in our environment and the horrible effects this is causing our ecosystems. The person who introduced me to his work in the space pointed out that, considering that milk loses its freshness in perhaps two weeks, our milk cartons shouldn’t require 500 years to degrade in our landfills (or streams, or wherever they wind up).
Yet the plastic container certainly has to outlast its contents, or we have a real mess. If a certain plastic dissolved completely and nearly immediately in water, the moisture content in humid air would definitely cause it to fall apart.
Here’s an article that lays out how and why extreme right-wing network Newsmax aired a two-minute video admitting it has ‘no evidence’ of outlandish fraud claims against two voting-machine companies
