Here’s one of those claims that seem so absurd that it needs to be confirmed. But yes, Marjorie Taylor Greene actually did say this. As Rep. Adam Schiff of the Select Committee pointed out, “Most of these people (in Congress) …
Category: Renewables – Science
The Lack of “Socratic Wisdom” Is So Glaring in Today’s Society
At left we see the reason that Socrates is often regarded as Western Civilization’s greatest philosopher. Being aware of how little one really knows requires a profound level of humility. I’m sure it was rare back in his day, and …
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The Antichrist
FWIW, I don’t believe in the Antichrist. I do, however, believe in the existence of evil, and in the sociopaths who embody evil, and it’s fairly clear that the former president meets every one of those characteristics.
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Zero-Point Energy
Reader A: Why aren’t we exploring zero-point energy? Curious. Reader B: What is zero-point energy? Does it exist or is it a theory? I suppose you could say that it both exists and it is a theory. Based on the …
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The Penalties of Stupidity Were Once Confined to the Stupid–Tales from Our Past
When I was a small boy, my mother would take me food shopping with her, and I recall very well my first encounters with tabloids like the one shown here. I couldn’t understand for the life of me how anyone …
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The Bizarre Story of Dr. Anthony Fauci
Yes, it’s a bizarre tale, but it’s one about a guy whose career was anything but strange until its very end. Fauci had devoted himself to public health, and gave us 50 years, his entire adult life, using the best …
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“Drinking the Kool-Aid”
From Hamlet: What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of …
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Truth–a Secondary Consideration
From Bertrand Russell: “The first thing to realize…is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with …
Conspiracy Theories
In the spirit of keeping up on conspiracy theories, I present the meme at left. I’m hoping this is a fad that will vanish as mysteriously as it arrived. Can you imagine, 20 years ago, telling people that a certain …
On Being Reasonable
The meme here is a joke, of course, but it points to something very real, and quite important, in this time where so many people reject all evidence they see around them in order to hold on to one or …
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