Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” has nothing on the surrealism of Donald Trump’s version. Though he continues railing about it, The Wall is not ever going to be built, and not just because of political problems. As I have outlined before in this space, it is completely infeasible. Not doable. And … Continue reading
The famous quote “You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts,” comes from Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Unfortunately, it does not take into account human psychology, which can skew facts like a funhouse mirror, or worse, blank them out entirely. A classic example of this is … Continue reading
I was one of those who said Donald Trump would never win the Republican nomination. I was only half wrong. He won the nomination, but was it still the Republican Party from that point? What we have now is better termed the Trumpublican Party. The Congress is certainly Trumpublican, as … Continue reading
I once saw a video of Richard Dawkins speaking at a skeptics’ conference. His subject was the “paranormal” versus the “perinormal.” What a difference a couple of letters can make. The perinormal means all those things that exist in reality that we do not yet know of, and may never … Continue reading
Six years ago I wrote an article in this space called Logic and Guns. Don’t feel bad if you didn’t catch it. Nobody else did either. Maybe the title scared people away, or maybe it just wasn’t as relevant to their lives as Halo 4. There’s not much about it … Continue reading
Now is the time to start gearing up for a massively consequential election. 2018 mid-term elections will be played out even as we are under attack from organized Russian cyber-criminals. We can know that for sure because, according to the six top leaders of American intelligence, no directive has … Continue reading
Winding up a fairly bizarre year, and starting one that’s sure to be only more so, let’s leave off from outrages and bottomless pits for a little while and consider something else. How about a style of music that is never made anymore? In this case we’re talking about moody, … Continue reading
The October 1st massacre in Las Vegas gave us an object lesson in the intellectual poverty and psychological troubles of a large segment of the population. Not the sniper himself, who was an obvious mental defective, but rather the people who are bent on finding conspiracies whether any case exists … Continue reading
It is not news anymore that the fabled wall across Mexico will be no such thing. In July the news came down the Golden Escalator that the border wall will not actually be a sealing-off of the entire Mexican border. Yes, that was what had been promised, with thunderous bellowing, … Continue reading
Every time I go to write a piece on this current president some new weirdness pops up that afternoon, and I wait to see how it’s going to shake out, and then in the meantime something else blows up. His Communications Director, from the Joe Pesci school of Congeniality, just … Continue reading
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