If a Monkey Hoarded More Bananas . . .
2022-01-03 – There’s a meme going around: “If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to […]
Tag Archives: Culture
If You Want to Proselytize Me, First Try to Understand Me
2021-12-27 – I do not understand proselytizing. But I do understand persuasion. I have been the target of two distinct efforts at proselytizing recently. Neither of them has been persuasive. […]
Hearing the Words “You’ve Tested Positive”
2021-12-23 – Before there was a vaccine, there was the immunity confered by actually having the disease. I discussed that with my doctor almost two years ago on the eave […]
What Kind of Calendar Should I Get for 2022?
2021-12-20 – Today is the last day of fall. The calendar says that winter will begin tomorrow. That’s never really been true. The seasons lag behind their calendar dates. The […]
You Can’t Get Back to Where You Once Belonged—A Mini Review
2021-12-06 – In “The Beatles: Get Back,” Peter Jackson demonstrates that the Fab Four absolutely knew what they were doing when they picked which song performances to release and which […]
A Federal Police Force??? Wait??? What???
2020-07-23 – The weirdest thing happened. Last month the idea of defunding the cops was all the rage (“rage” being a literal term). There was a lot of push back, […]
Where is the NRA Now that Trump Is Attacking Citizens?
2020-07-22 – For years the NRA told us that we needed to accept one of the highest death tolls from gun violence as “the price of freedom.” We were told […]
The Un-Masking of Donald Trump
2020-07-21 – I’m sure that many of his followers were relieved to see the Donald in a mask. Contrary to conventional wisdom, these people are not stupid, just human. They’ve […]
If the Deep State Is So Deep and Powerful . . .
2020-07-14 – If the deep state is so deep and powerful, why doesn’t it ever win? And why does the deep state always seem to employ the kind of tactics […]
Are Americans Really So Stupid? [No.]
2020-07-13 – There’s a lot of talk about the stupidity of Americans in this pandemic. We’re doing worse than most countries. And there’s a lot of vocal people refusing to […]
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