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Land of the freak, home of the brainwashed

I don’t mean to brag about being a lot smarter than other people or anything, but I think perhaps sometimes we assume that other people are capable of thinking like us, when they aren’t. Yesterday, I helped my friend Wayne order a new lamp for his projector. It’s a Sony XL2200, and of course, while [...] [...]

Why are we arguing about THAT?

Again, we see that the problem with the “debate” in American politics is not one of ideology (The US is harshly divided between humans and non-humans, and so are its two major political parties, so it probably should be) but one of rhetorical idiocy. Apparently the contest is to see who can be the [...] [...]

Words have meanings

Today’s post is, of course, not intended to be particularly opinionated, contentious, or otherwise argumentative, but for the most part, just informative and educational. It has come to my attention that a lot of folks are tossing around a lot of ideological and political labels that they themselves don’t fully understand, with a nearly [...] [...]

Dumbassed comments (no, they really are dumbassed)

You can often recognize political comments online (usually after news articles or following blog posts) that aren’t worth bothering with by their form, even without paying much attention to their content. These tell-tale signs ought to indicate to even the most casual reader that the statement is relatively illogical, untrue, or devoid of content. [...] [...]

Writing posts and comments

Having standards is not fascist A recent discussion (on a Facebook thread, started by a Networked Blogs automatic post, incidentally, not here) prompted today’s essay. A reader (who isn’t even a registered user of this blog– I checked) claimed that the resistance to his “two-cents worth” (posted there, not here) tangentially addressing the subject of [...] [...]