Among the many reasons that American society is having trouble functioning right now is that many of its members don’t think very well. Take the meme here. Are proponents of a woman’s right to choose abortion saying that pregnancy is …
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The Origin of Religion
Twain was a humorist and not an anthropologist, and thus we can accept what he said here with a grin, even though it’s clearly untrue. Religion was one of humankind’s first attempts to explain natural phenomena, before science came along …
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Intelligent Life Elsewhere in the Universe
There are a great number of theories as to why human civilization has as yet been unable to make contact with other forms of intelligent life. Sci-fi legend and public intellectual Arthur C. Clark offers a totally plausible suggestion here. …
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Intellectual Thom Hartmann Says Europeans Wouldn’t Trade Their Civilized Lives for What We Have Here in America. He’s Right, But …
Thom: What you say here is fine, but keep in mind that virtually none of the Americans who admire today’s GOP has lived a year in Germany. Most of them couldn’t find Germany on a map. In general, you’re talking …
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“We Will Not Comply”
I note all the “amens” in response to this post on social media. I grant crackpots, religious or otherwise, the right to refuse to comply with the dictates of the scientific community in the event of a horrible spike in …
Celebrating the Unvaccinated?
This certification should be provided for: rejecting science, and, in so doing, raising hospitalization rates, while lowering one’s life expectancies and that of everyone coming into contact.
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Renewable Energy Using Magnets
The video here actually isn’t a scam; the machine and its user will generate some electrical energy, though the title is a bit misleading; the energy doesn’t come from the magnet. In the 1830s, Michael Faraday discovered the relationship between …
Hating Fauci Requires Some Serious Ignorance
Apparently there are people so ignorant that they don’t understand that all 200+ sovereign nations on Earth have their own decisions to make re: vaccines, their uses, mandates, lockdowns, health policies re: schools, workplaces, restaurants, etc. They also don’t understand …
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How We’re “Wired”
Here is a short video made by PBS that addresses how each of us as individuals perceive the outside world in different ways, based on the “wiring” of our brains. I bring this up to make a larger point about …
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Stretching One’s Imagination
As we go into the first debate of the Republican presidential candidates leading into the 2024 election, presented by Fox News and moderated by two of its hosts (pictured), try to imagine any set of Republicans prior to this one …
