No one is immune to falsehoods, in part because of how our cognition is built and how misinformation exploits it. We use mental shortcuts, or heuristics, to make many of our judgments, which benefit us. At the same time however, our cognitive tendencies can make us...
Recent Commentaries
When Sally became Harry
My wife tells me I write too much about climate change - perhaps, but it just galls me to no end how the left (with the aid of a complicit media) has highjacked a legitimate medical issue and turned it into a political one - but hey, she' probably correct, I have...
A Parable for Today
Once upon a time, six old blind men lived in a village in India. Because they could not see the world for themselves, they had to imagine many of its wonders and listened carefully to the stories told by travelers to learn what they could about life outside the...
The Wehrmacht, the Red Army and US
I am far from a political scientist, but I have a good grasp of history and have long argued that the differences between communism and fascism were minor in comparison to their similarities. Consider, both 20th-century ideologies promised a utopian vision of the...
A few more thoughts on climate change
A deception is a deliberate act to mislead; and the misinformation being disseminated by the UN and this administration regarding climate change is the most extensive and expensive public relations campaign in the history of the world. True, mankind has experienced...
Random Thoughts
The headline of a Greenpeace Report released last fall read, “Plastic Recycling Is A Dead-End Street—Year After Year, Plastic Recycling Declines Even as Plastic Waste Increases.” But being liberal means never having to say you’re sorry, and, true to form, Greenpeace...
N’gurro & Mama Kali
Obviously my mind has been on buying/selling/ closing and hassling with objections on two pieces or real estate, so not much time for writing commentary, however, that didn't mean I had to miss today's post. But vis-a-vis my mind being eleswhere, I thought I'd change...
Science or Ideology?
Transgender individuals claim to have a gender identity that differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. But the population size of transgender individuals in the United States is not well-known, in part because official records, including the US Census, do not...
Unfit for service!
When questioned about teaching Critical Race Theory (CRT) at West Point, Annapolis, and the Air Force Academy, Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it’s is important for leaders to be well-versed in many schools of thought. “I’ve read...
Two of these stories are true
When I was still teaching skiing in Vail I would play a little game with the guests called “two truths and lie.” Each guest tries to fool the others by telling three things about themselves—but only two are true. Usually it’s a great icebreaker, it gets the guests...