Let’s Talk It Out, Shall We?

By - January 31, 2025 Leave your thoughts
Since the inauguration I've watched as hysteria spews forth about the incoming administration with zero reflection as to their own "side" and its sins. It's nothing more than the same divide and conquer, partisan bs. We dealt with four years of constant panic last time Trump was in office, and it's already at a fever pitch once again. <Pleas…

Treating the Symptom

By - October 14, 2024 Leave your thoughts
I'm reminded of the Thoreau quote, "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root," because all I see around me are efforts to treat the symptoms of a problem while hardly anyone is trying to find the reason for the problem so it can be stopped at it's source. It's everywhere; in politics, medicine, ec…

Misunderstanding Simple Concepts (Because it’s easier than thinking)

By - March 14, 2023 Leave your thoughts
From my perspective, I've been warning people that they're being lied to by the experts and authorities they trust, and I've been doing so since the early 90's. From almost anyone else in my life's perspective, however (I'm assuming; no one is very willing to engage me on the topic for some reason), I've been spewing nonsense conspiracy theorie…

Anthropomorphized bugs or human action?

By - September 23, 2021 Leave your thoughts
Seriously, it's annoying as hell. First, I digress: when the US government decided to wage war on a tactic in 2001 I was skeptical, especially since the original uses of the term referred to terrorism as, basically, "rule by terror". The establishment inversion of the term to remove governments from the definition and turn terrorists into non-stat…

What makes an expert?

By - August 19, 2021 Leave your thoughts
We hear a lot about experts. But what makes someone an expert? A lot of education? Good guesses? A really fast computer that can run complex simulations with lightning speed? Sure, all of these help, but what REALLY matters is who is calling you an expert. A note: there are several Wikipedia links in this post and I'm not normally a fan, but for b…