Not the Same … More Alike than Different
Someone opined on a radio show that something or other isn’t going to happen “…until white people realize that black people aren’t the same as white people.” Well, duh. “White” people aren’t even the same…
Someone opined on a radio show that something or other isn’t going to happen “…until white people realize that black people aren’t the same as white people.” Well, duh. “White” people aren’t even the same…
Now that I am no longer depressed by the heat of 110+℉ temperatures, I’ve resumed programming, and, with this, am resuming posting. I think I’ll start a series analyzing the Constitution of the United States,…
Diogenes was a controversial philosopher in Hellas (Greece) during the end of the Classical period. Among his stunts was to carry a lamp during the day, claiming to seek an honest man. That he was…
The latest lie I’ve detected coming from President Donald J. Trump is that his speculation about using disinfectant internally was “a sarcastic” response to a “sarcastic question”. From watching video clips of the Thursday press…
First, an apology to anybody who has been reading this weblog: I have not posted in a long time, because my energy has been taken up with surviving my new environment, coping with the heat…
Watching a Youtube video that mentioned the Milankovitch cycles got me thinking about absolute coordinates of space, which may exist, but which we can never know, which we can never access, much like time. There…
It seems to me that the future holds more distribution, more decentralization, of electrical power, with more and more people having photovoltaic (solar) panels or wind generators. The primary mode of these is direct current…
I was just this morning, on my way out to a measuring of the grade, ruminating on how I had not seen any scorpions. Apparently, I had merely not set up conditions favoring the sighting…
The definition given on the Wikipedia page seems adequate: Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded. Those who deny that we have free will must falsify either the…
But, first(!) an apology: I’ve not been updating actively…, or, rather, at all for the last couple of months. Learning to cope with my new environment, and taking thought for the Big Plans, have required…