Wednesday, December 27, 2023
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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Monday, November 13, 2023
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
75 Short Short Stories
Stories to enjoy when you have five minutes to spare, grouped by category to suit your mood: Witty Stories, Introspective Stories, Morality Tales, Other-Worldly Stories, Feel-Good/Love Stories, Dramatic Stories, and Political Farce Stories
Monday, October 30, 2023
Somethings to Big Think About
WHY WE DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT TRUTH
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Your BS detector might not be as accurate as you think.
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* The notion of "epistemic vigilance" argues that humans are naturally equipped to detect lies and gauge the reliability of others.
* Studies and philosophers like Joseph Shieber challenge this idea, indicating humans are not as adept at deception detection as once thought.
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Monday, September 11, 2023
Doing the "Job"
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was voting on the floor of the House on the morning of June 23 when she saw her name trending on Twitter.
Ms. Greene, a high-profile, right-wing Republican who is no stranger to trending online, flicked through her feed and learned from the internet that two hours earlier, her colleagues in the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus had voted to remove her from the group. Just then, an emissary from the caucus, Representative Ben Cline, Republican of Virginia, approached Ms. Greene. He asked if she would attend a one-on-one meeting with its chairman, Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, who had been waiting to officially announce her ouster until he had spoken to her in person.
Ms. Greene balked. She couldn’t make the time, she said, because she had a meeting with Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s staff to discuss her legislation to ban transgender surgeries for children, an issue, she told Mr. Cline pointedly, “which the Freedom Caucus doesn’t care about.”
Ms. Greene and Mr. Perry never spoke.
On September 10, 2023, Lauren Boebert and a male companion were removed by security staff from a performance of the musical Beetlejuice in a theater in Denver, Colorado, after she caused a disturbance by vaping, singing, and recording the performance. Boebert initially denied having vaped as well as causing a disturbance, writing on social media that she pleaded "guilty to laughing and singing too loud!" After surveillance video footage of the incident was released, she apologized for "[falling] short of her values" and vaping. She said that "she had previously denied it only because she 'did not recall' having done so". The video also showed Boebert's companion fondling her breasts and Boebert caressing his genitalia while they were in their seats.
--from Wikipedia
Saturday, May 6, 2023
Friday, May 5, 2023
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Friday, March 3, 2023
Hergé - 40 Years Gone
Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 – 3 March 1983), known by the pen name Hergé from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin.
