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!
Today, as I was listening to that bastion of liberal thought (NPR), it occurred to me that the decline of civilization can be linked to a single series of events. Possibly, it could be just one event, perpetuated by one man, that caused the cascade to commence. The man is Wolf Blitzer. On my wildest
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Way back in the before times, when engineering school was foremost in my mind, I took a couple of courses in control systems engineering. Control systems engineering studies the modeling of dynamic systems and the design of controllers that will make such systems behave in some predefined way. It makes use of complex mathematical equations
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I am outraged, you are outraged, the whole damn world is outraged. The adage that “old age is an excellent time for outrage” appears to ring painfully true. I do not remember ever being outraged as a young person. The older I get, the more easily I become outraged by any person, place, action, or
Let us try a little thought experiment. We’ll call it “Thought Experiment 1”, since I am feeling particular creative today. Say that you have a neighborhood kid that rakes your leaves every year and that you pay him a whopping ten clams to do an extra good job. Suppose that you get a wonderful tax
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According to the Rs, we will all soon be rolling in giant piles of gold like Scrooge McDuck. And according to the Ds, we will all soon be stuck picking cotton in the fields and scrounging through trash cans for uneaten McDonalds hamburgers. I can also assure you that if the Ds were in power,