Indeterminacy of Guilt: Schrödinger’s Knox
2014-01-30 – If you know only the tiniest bit of quantum mechanics (a quantum of quantum mechanics or Q2M), you’ve surely heard of Schrödinger’s box. Schrödinger’s box is a […]
Monthly Archives: January 2014
A Time to Be Born, a Time to Die
2014-01-28 – Pete Seeger came into my life through many back doors. His works were memes before the word “meme” was coined. I’m not big on pop culture, so when […]
Cold Fingers
2013-01-26 – I am typing now to try to get some circulation back into my fingers. Pat yourself on the back for being my frostbite remedy. Yes, it snowed […]
The Rights of Certain Individuals
2014-01-23 – I hate to admit it: George Will had a good point in his column today in the Washington Post entitled “Judicial activism isn’t a bad thing.” I rarely […]
Snowden, Assange, and Privacy
2014-01-21 – People who are on the front line in the ongoing struggle for the right of privacy are seldom model citizens. Think about criminal defendants who appeal their convictions […]
Politically Correct
2014-01-19 – “I’m not PC.” Did you ever hear that line? Of course you have. Did you ever think about what it really means? It always precedes or follows an […]
Eight Days a Week
2014-01-14 – If I understand my Roman calendar (which I may not), tomorrow is the Ides of January. Long months have the Ides on the 15th of the month. […]
My Brother’s Keeper
2014-01-12 – A favorite idea, at least in the popular press, is that kin selection tends to make us cooperate more with close family members and compete more with […]
Lefty is a 3-Legged Dog
2014-01-09 – Lefty is a three-legged dog. Now don’t get upset. He has four legs but, in weather like we’ve been having, he walks on three. And it’s not always […]
A Box of Angels
2014-01-07 — The last thing we did Sunday before the temperature began its descent from the freezing single digits to frigid air, sub-zero territory was to pack up our Christmas […]
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