Showing posts with label logic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logic. Show all posts
Monday, May 3, 2021

Is covid natural or engineered? Plus other covid topics.

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This question is a political football, but it shouldn't be since it's a question about fact and any answer will be based on scientif...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Epidemic progression... past Easter

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Hospitals are have now been slammed in several cities: Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, San Jose, Atlanta, and New Orleans. Nine states saw s...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Greatest show on earth: Impeachment Circus

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Finally, the impeachment has started. No big surprises so far, which means that I've been well informed, the news media has been on top ...
Saturday, January 4, 2020

Impeachment follies - the slow beginning

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I expect bigger impeachment fireworks in the future, but the recent developments deserve note. The House voted largely on party lines to imp...
Friday, December 27, 2019

November - December links

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I wrote more posts in November than in any other month in the past year. The collection of links aside from the Ukraine scandal are paltry. ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

September links

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Good news about elections. Elections were administered more fairly in 2016 compared to 2012. The metrics included wait times, which is a g...
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Sunday, February 11, 2018

No natural law

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I never studied  the concept of natural law, and was familiar with it mostly from conservative writings. Natural law justified discriminatio...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Devastating: Victim statement in the Stanford rape

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A fair amount has been written about the convicted rapist in this case, and how his sentence was too short. Not enough has been written abou...
Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Short: Accusation about paid protesters

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I don't have much time to write this. However, I want to get it on my blog. I've seen commenters say that the protesters against Tru...
Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Debunking idiots who believe conspiracy theories

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Sigh. I know I spend too much time on the internet, and sometimes get enraged (or merely involved) with gullible people who have fallen for ...
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Friday, March 11, 2016

Caring to the bitter end

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I just realized something that seems obvious in retrospect. I already knew that I was more tenacious in arguments than many. I also knew t...
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Rubio scores with rhetoric and (gasp) truth

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I'm very impressed with part of Rubio's performance in the recent debate. He took down criticism of a local paper, the debate modera...
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Sunday, July 5, 2015

My pocket analysis of the same-sex marriage ruling

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Ok, I broke down and read much of the Supreme Court's same sex marriage ruling. We have conservatives calling the majority opinion jumbl...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015

The many enemies of Christianity

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Somehow I managed to resist writing about how the death battle between same sex marriage and conservative Christians for twelve days, but th...
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Sunday, March 8, 2015

When is executive fiat OK?

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Liberals loathed Bush's executive actions. Perhaps the most criticized action was the torture and long-term detention of terrorist priso...
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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Did you notice we survived 2014?

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  Image: gopixpic.com According to conservatives, the world was almost certainly going to end in 2014. The Russians were overrunning ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Why don't we have a travel ban?

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The Ebola issue is much more political than it should be. Of course, many politicians can't restrain themselves from engaging in bashing...
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Saturday, October 18, 2014

Evidence-based thinking vs. assumption-based thinking

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I've read many comments about how the US is doomed to have an Ebola outbreak because Obama is such a horrible president. I agree that th...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Ayn Rand is Nietzsche

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Nietzsche is commonly credited with offering an alternative morality, where the supermen didn't have to follow the same rules as the she...
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