In case you didn’t know, 2024 is an election year. There’s a seemingly endless flow of discussion about “the polls” on the news channels. Where are the pollsters getting their information? Who are they talking to? They’re definitely not talking to me. Every on-line, e-mail, or snail mail poll that comes my way ends with… Continue reading Who are the Pollsters Polling?

It’s that Time Again 2024 is a Presidential Election year.[1] The general election will be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.[2] It will be the 61st Presidential Election in our country’s history. This year, we vote for many other Federal, State, and Local offices as well. At the Federal level, in addition to the President and Vice… Continue reading Election 2024

The North Atlantic Treaty On April 4, 1949, in Washington D.C., the representatives of 12 nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty [1]. Those 12 nations were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Thus began the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The preamble to the treaty… Continue reading We MUST Support Ukraine

Hello. My name is Punxsutawney Phil. Today, at 5:24 PM EDT, the Vernal Equinox occurred … marking the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Forty-six days ago, I predicted that there would be 6 more weeks of Winter. (OK, I was off by 4 days. If a bunch of clowns in top hats were… Continue reading Happy Vernal Equinox 2023

Warning If you are a devout follower of the MAGA Cult, a QAnon believer, or (horrors😱) both, you’re not going to like this article. Rather than waste your time calling it “fake news”, making personal attacks rather than rational counter arguments, and painting ideological opponents with decades old, xenophobic tropes, I suggest that: About the… Continue reading Not Your Father’s Republican Party

Your Thoughts and Your Reality Is there an objective reality? Probably. Can we know what it is? Probably not. Does that mean nothing matters? Certainly not. Whether “your whole world you see around you is just a reflection” or what you see is what you get; whether we live in “The Matrix” or a reality… Continue reading Thoughts and Words; Symbols and Meanings

… some “MAGA” ads I can agree with: Mothers Against Greg Abbott

The Logical Fallacy The “Slippery Slope” argument is a logical fallacy. As described in a paper from the Department of Philosophy of Texas State University: In a slippery slope argument, a course of action is rejected because, with little or no evidence, one insists that it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an… Continue reading Slippery Slope

A Childhood under the Sword of Damocles When I was in elementary school, we were taught to crawl under our desks when we heard the air raid signal. By the time I was 10, the procedure had changed to filing out to the hall and lining up against the wall. I guess we’d grown too… Continue reading Is it Time to Dust Off our Little Desks?