For reading between the lines with greater comprehension
“And he was never known to make a foolish move.” Bob Dylan “You can fool all of the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” Abraham Lincoln To fool anyone all of the [...]
If you want a simple but accurate explanation for why civilizations sometimes veer toward evil, here’s a theory worth considering: Psychopaths are overrepresented in positions of power and they make sociopaths out of large numbers of us. Robert Hare, psychology’s most famous expert on psychopaths distinguishes psychopaths from sociopaths as follows. Psychopaths are without conscience [...]
Dear Medieval Doctor, We’ve got a plague-like apocalypse just starting here and we’re trying to figure out what to do to minimize its nightmare effects. Our “Nobles” (Congress) just voted 240 to 184 to defeat a royal decree (Waxman Amendment) that our plague (global warming) is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses [...]
“Put your money where your claim of prudent skepticism is,” I say to my denier friends, “I’ll bet you a Ferrari that the climate crisis is real and of the magnitude established by more than 99% of juried scientific research.” One of the things I like about the climate crisis (actually the only thing) is [...]
Among the July 4th Tea Party picnic rally speeches, here’s one I would have liked to hear: America doesn,t rest on formulas. It innovates faster and more responsively than other nations. The Tea Party’s liberal critics think we’re backward-thinking conservatives and conservatives think liberals are pie-in-the-sky futurists. We’re neither. We’re realists responsive to today’s opportunities [...]
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