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Just the Facts

I dislike it when people bloviate about some subject and provide no verifiable point of reference to back up their sweeping statements. Is it laziness, fear of a challenge or both that causes people to behave this way? Or are they so used to talking to people that agree with them that they expect the…

If anything, the argument that the National Endowment for the Arts isn’t doing enough should result in the idea that their funding be increased, not shut down. In 2015, their budget was some 145 million, which is pitifully minuscule and what they accomplish each year is extraordinary and borderline profound.

Steve Wardrip Interviews Himself

by m.s.wardrip

When in doubt, check it out

Insight from my morning study:

I did smile a bit as I read that line … part of the smile was related to the understatement in the self-reference, and part of it was a non-verbal nod to your passion for taking on spongy thinking. Sisyphus had no greater task.

It all got me thinking of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” … and the line: “Lord, what fools these mortals be ….” Methinks you’ve got your work cut out for you : )

Just the Facts

Today the President of the United States of America has declared the news media an enemy of the American people.

H. Nemesis Nyx, I know you are better than this.

I didn’t get the impression from her piece that Kitten Holiday holiday was talking about all women or claiming that all men are victims. To me, it seemed like she was giving another side to the story.

Is man-made climate change dogma or established scientific theory?

As a vascular endocrinologist this is well outside my area of expertise, but even so, I’ve yet to speak to a climatologist about this and actually understand what’s going on beyond the fact that we know the world is…

Comments Shared with my Colleagues on the Responsibility of the Intellectual

The study of silence has long engrossed me. The matrix of a poet’s work consists not only of what is there to be absorbed and worked on, but also of what is missing, desaparecido, rendered…

This is Why Californians Pay Crazy Gas Prices

It’s time for a Tesla, my dude.