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

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?

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?

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…

Voting Away Economic Reality

I don't pay much attention to political Facebook posts because commenting on them is too tedious, but I feel I need to address something I saw earlier. It was a post about increasing the minimum wage to $15, and that we only need the will to do so and everything will be fine. This denies reality. This supposes that there are no negative effect…