Let’s Believe the Worst About People We Disagree With
2015-04-12 – Facebook brought me the following headline yesterday: “Democrats Want to Legalize ‘Post Birth Abortion’ up to Age 4.” The photo with the headline was a cute wide-eyed toddler […]
Tag Archives: psychology
Crispier Than Thou
2015-03-26 – I don’t eat a lot of potato chips. I did once and I have fond memories of their potato-ey goodness. But I try (often unsuccessfully) to avoid empty […]
Piety Porn
2015-03-22 – I grew up in a Conservative Jewish family. Conservative, not Orthodox. We had a kosher home, we observed all the holidays, we went to the synagogue on the […]
The Risks of Living in a Safe World
2015-02-26 – I have a Facebook friend who seems to be an anti-vaxxer. Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t. You can’t always tell from Facebook. My Facebook friend is […]
Scape Goats Are Existential Analgesics
2015-02-09 – I can’t believe it, sometimes, how unpleasant pain is. This was brought home to me very vividly today when I was out walking Lefty. The walks are very […]
Big Pharma vs. Big Insurance
2015-02-08 – One of the knocks on the widely accepted wisdom that #vaccineswork is that this knowledge is corrupted because of Big Pharma. The idea is that Big Pharma falsified […]
Dead Squirrel in the Middle of the Sidewalk
2015-02-01 – You don’t normally find dead animals lying on the sidewalk and, if you do, it’s normally food. So that’s what I thought when I saw the reddish bone […]
Winter Chill Is an Assault on Freedom
2015-01-08 – I was planning on writing about the nasty weather today. It is really nasty out there and, what’s more, I knew it was coming yesterday. I should have […]
Thanks for Making Me Defend Sarah Palin
2015-01-06 – You kneejerk liberals are a pain in the . . . okole? Yes, the word is “okole.” I never heard the word before, but apparently Sarah Palin picked […]
Wildcards in the Economy
2014-12-28 – Economists say that 20 percent of all gifts are unwanted. I don’t know where I got that statistic. I vaguely remember reading something. But since there is really […]
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