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Wrong Again

June 28, 2011

Oh, how I wish this were the knockout blow. Sorry, it’s not. Nothing will ever get through the thick skulls of the ideologues. How many times must I tell you? Ideologies are oversimplifications by the intellectually constipated that appeal to the intellectually lazy and are usually wrong? Harsh? Hardly. Regrettably, my vocabulary is inadequate to […]

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The Wrong Lessons

November 5, 2010

The Democrats will learn the wrong lessons from the election. The Republicans will learn the wrong lessons from the election. How can I say that? Because of the truth embodied in the old saw, garbage in, garbage out. The bulk of the society has decided that what they want to be facts really are facts. […]

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Shake Things Up

October 22, 2010

First a little quiz. It is said that there is a tradition at the Supreme Court where every Justice shakes the hand of every other Justice prior to entering the courtroom to take their seats. The question is: how many handshakes are involved? Do you think the answer is obvious? Not once has anyone answered […]

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Thin Ice

March 13, 2010

As young males we were told that a certain private activity could cause warts on your hands and/or blindness. That appears not to have been accurate. However, I have since learned that ideology and politics can cause blindness. Blindness has become pandemic across the country. Those that suffer from this form of blindness also seem […]

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