At left is another example of a trend within American society that will either: 1) Remain indefinitely, and expand to become an even more vicious force on our society than it already is, or 2) Retreat to a point that …
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Solving Problems that Don’t Exist–More
In a recent post I warned again the folly of solving problems that don’t exist, given that there are so many that actually do. If you’re looking for the poster child of this phenomenon, let me introduce you to Trump …
Immigration: Solving a Problem that Doesn’t Exist
When I was in business, my sales team would occasionally write proposals for services that my company had never delivered, and someone would ask, “Craig, if we get this project, how will we deal with it?” My normal response: “I’m …
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Higher Education and Virtue
Obviously, not all college graduates are good people; of course there is no guarantee that higher education carries virtue along with it. Yet there is clearly a strong correlation. There is a reason (perhaps many reasons) that Donald Trump does …
Why Can’t the United States Do What Mexico Just Did?
There are two main answers to this excellent question. First and most obviously, about half of the U.S. electorate supports Donald Trump as our next president. At a minimum, that means anti-intellectualism and the rejection of science in policymaking. This …
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Stupid Lasts Forever
Ancient Athenian comic playwright Aristophanes made a good point here, and it would be easy to ascribe this as an explanation of the support of Donald Trump. Giving the matter a little thought, however, we see that Americans’ IQs haven’t …
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Watershed Event in U.S. Politics
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, American politics has reached a point where one of its two major parties, the Republicans, seems to have become aware that it offers nothing of value whatsoever to its base. Its platform consists …
Kentucky: Wow!
Perhaps what happened in Kentucky’s gubernatorial election yesterday (see left) is evidence that the American people have seen enough. Enough of the criminal insanity, the gun mania, the rejection of science, the suppression of women, and the religious fundamentalism. This …
Trumpism Is Going to Be Hard to Undo
A reader mentioned recently that we can’t expect Trump’s removal to change much in American society, at least anytime soon. He reasoned that Trump granted us permission to act like ass****s to one another, and there is no mechanism by …
Returning to the Dark Ages?
Is our planet regressing deep into its bloody past? No. Fortunately, the rejection of science is almost nonexistent outside the United States. You won’t find other people in the developed world believing that the pandemic was a government plot or …
