Here’s one: Say you don’t want to spend more than $X; call it the Spend. How do you determine your Budget? My mistake was thinking the Spend equals the Budget. I know, those of you who have been there before are laughing at me, and I deserve it. Obviously (to some, and to me, now, […]
When I was working in Lyon in 2017/18, an old love of Guignol was re-awakened. I saw Guignol shows when I was a little child in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris. And in the 5th grade, my teacher, the beloved Mme Benzaken, gave me a book about Guignol. It had puppet show scripts and […]
Oh, sure you can. Here are the gripes, and here are my responses. You can’t say anything anymore! It may feel that way because you’re not the only one talking. You can say whatever you want, whenever you want, but a thousand people may respond to you and tell you what a jerk you are. […]
I used to listen to Sam Harris’s podcast. I had admired his atheism books, at the time when teaching evolution in schools was a whole thing, and he, along with Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and Daniel Dennett were the 4 Horsemen of the New Atheism. His podcast was interesting, until, I speculate, he interviewed Charles […]
There is such a thing as a Perfectly Good Business. It provides a Perfectly Good profit for its owners, a Perfectly Good living for its workers, a Perfectly Good product for its customers at a Perfectly Good price. It is a Perfectly Good neighbor to its community. Obviously, the people running this PGB are total […]
Lies are quick and easy, truth is slow and laborious. Lies are fun and sticky, truth can be complicated and counterintuitive.
Listening the the 538 Politics Podcast, the recent episode, What Could the GOP’s Future Look Like? Very interesting, quite right-leaning panel. One of them (I think Henry Olson) said that the clear center of the Republican Party included religious people who wanted to fight for a country where they did not feel cast out into […]
I updated my tablet, from a Galaxy Tab S2 to the S5e. The S2 I bought in December 2017 when I was working in Lyon, France, and my prior Android tablet, a Dell Venue, just gave up the ghost. The S2 worked well, until the battery finally died in March 2020. I replaced the battery, […]
Yes, impeachment has become cheap. I think the Clinton impeachment set the tone. Mind you, he was a cretin, but still. There’s an interesting trend in science fiction having to do with super-intelligence… in humans, not machines. The template was a wonderful novella (or novelette, no idea, not looking it up) called Understand. Highly recommended. […]
We all think that what we experience during our waking hours is the World. This is called naive realism. I could link to Wikipedia for this, but I’ll let Googling be an exercise for the reader. The gist is we see stuff, we think stuff, we don’t ask too many questions. In some corner cases, […]