How do you know when a politician is lying? For that matter, how do you know when anyone is lying? The answer is – You don’t. The world is full of bull shit, and so am I. So there!
So tonight I gots to thinking about how I’ll be remembered when the end of my days has been reached. Just so happened that an episode of Two and a Half Men was streaming away on the tube, and this exact topic was being discussed. Alan was quoting the Talmud with words to the effect
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This just in from the folks who brought you government shutdowns, legislative obstruction, tariffs, and world chaos: “Some people that got COVID shots also got cancer.” Next up from the Department of Things That Sound Scary But Mean Absolutely Nothing: Meanwhile, back in the boring world of science and logic, researchers continue to confirm the
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Perusing the Bible this morning, I came across a proverb that hit me square between the eyes. You know how sometimes a verse just leaps off the page and won’t let you go? That was me with Proverbs 6:16–19: “There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a
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I read this article in The Atlantic the other day. About halfway through, I ran upon the following section which I think does aptly capture the gist, at least for me it did. Musk’s moral idea goes by the name longtermism, which he has called “a close match to my philosophy.” This reductio ad absurdum
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What would it be like if puddy tats ruled the world? I can’t say for certain, but I can hazard an educated guess based on my own resident despot: Bootsy Collins, a ten-year-old tuxedo cat who, like his namesake, walks with funk but governs with iron (and fur-covered) paws. He is the template for our future
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Lately, I’ve been having these odd, harmlessly dystopian thoughts. You know, the kind where you fantasize about waking up in a completely changed world. Not like a “new job, new car, new hairline” kind of changed. More like “everyone has calmed down, politics aren’t blood sport, and people at Thanksgiving actually talk to each other”
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The other night, I was watching a crime drama. You know the type—dark lighting, brooding protagonist, improbable genius wrapped in a trench coat. The hero in question, a brilliant forensic scientist, was offered a “big job upstairs”—a fast-track promotion. He politely declined with a simple line that hit me like a slap in the brain:
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A tragicomedy in three acts, starring your government. Congratulations, democracy! You handed the keys to the kingdom over to a group of people whose primary qualifications are “owns a webcam,” “has strong opinions about lizard people,” and “once went viral yelling in a truck.” And now, surprise! Everything’s broken, nothing works, and your national discourse
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Is the apple that is the world getting more rotten with each passing day? And if so why is that? Let’s apply the scientific method to our analysis and see what becomes of it. First let us lay out what the scientific method is. Step one is to create the null hypothesis. A null hypothesis
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Every once in a while, someone gets it twisted. They stand at the crossroads of power and ego, puff out their chest, and start acting like they were born in charge. Like they own the place. Like the pot of gold is theirs, and the rest of us should be grateful just to catch a
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