People have posted a lot about guns and the control of guns over the past several days. I’d say that this happens every time there’s a shooting that makes the news, but that’s almost continuous. There’s a constant competition for attention between the stupidity and evil of Trump and friends on the one side and people killing each other on the other. As usual, the … Continue reading Cars and guns
Sometimes people create and freeze embryos. Often these people are married. Sometimes they divorce after the creation but without bringing them to term. Then sometimes one partner wants to bring them to term and the other wants them destroyed. Courts get involved. The arguments made for leaning towards the one favoring keeping them alive invoke the personhood of the embryo. This strikes me as rather … Continue reading When did freezing people become okay?
Popular Facebook page Occupy Democrats posts a video slamming the Trump tax scam. It begins with some stores closing. Second and third on the list are Sears and K-Mart. The problem is those two have been on the decline for years. The stores were closing either way. The new command of the businesses has been pretty transparent in his plan to gut them. To blame … Continue reading Occupy Democrats, being dishonest makes everything you say suspect
It always strikes me as weird how a certain population puts a wall around political beliefs. Say some group of people should have their lives uprooted and moved elsewhere against their will? Okay. Say some racial group should be rounded up and killed? Or that people in the wrong place or having insufficient funds should be left to die? Apparently within the realm of things … Continue reading The pernicious wall around political beliefs
Pretty much anyone who’s paid attention to a few meetings has enough information to notice the status quo is generally easy to hold, and the easiest move to hold it is to delay change. Fighting change is risky. To fight change to have to open the floor to discussion. If a case is presented, it gets at least thought about. If I talk about how … Continue reading Saving the discussion for another day is just a dishonest way of supporting the status quo
Some of the people in office in the US on the right are pushing to decimate the protections on endangered species. Harnett-White gave away the real reason pretty straightforwardly: The administration and friends consider the Endangered Species Act to be “economically harmful” and a “formidable obstacle to development.” This is a rather transparent way of saying the people with a lot of money that they’re serving … Continue reading Another duplicitous argument from the political sphere (regarding endangered species)
I say with some regularity a lot of words need to be abandoned because they’re always contorted and the discussion goes off the rails pursuing the One True Definition of a word. But perhaps more imagination needs to be developed before the lexical space can be sorted out. Take “communism” and “leftism” for example. The former many people associate with the stuff Stalin did rather … Continue reading Bring on disambiguated terminology (CSSism vs Communism)
So I’ve seen a post floating around to an ad-laden clickbait article that’s just a screenshot of a tweet that “destroys the pro-life side”. Something about the argument seemed pretty off to me, and I think I figured out what. The argument is as follows: If you were in a room and had to save either a five year old child or a container of … Continue reading A bad argument for abortion rights
There was an image circulating listing the current natural disasters and then saying climate change is evident. I don’t deny climate change, but that’s a really poorly-made point. Change implies things used to be one way and are now another way. Moreover, to my knowledge, California gets wildfires and the east coast gets hurricanes. So pointing out those things are happening is not indicative of … Continue reading Argue more effectively for climate change
I have noticed most people working for reduced MW plus tips are in favor of the current system, despite the rhetoric about how servers are underpaid. It usually comes up when the “if there were no tips, prices would increase” argument comes up. The counterargument goes: 1. As it stands, if someone is making less than full MW after tips, the employer has to make … Continue reading Be honest; people like getting tips
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