This is Part II, a Tactical overview of a suggestion I posed here on June 29. “Dealing With Public Insanity as if Our Lives Depended on it” To be at this point, you’ve at least gleaned over the principal points…
Category: How Things Work
How Things Work: Racism and Higher Education
I’ve never known a person who believed it was racist to simply notice the differentness in another person…UNTIL I began meeting people who had learned it as a method of observation, a diagnosis, even as a social rule. And all…
How Things Work
After spending 20 years learning how things worked on the upper floors of government (military) bureaucracy and Fortune 500 corporate management I spent another 20 years at the other end of the economic and social spectrum in the collapsed communist…
“Want-to”: A History Lesson on Stretching Logic Too Far
As you have noticed, especially on Twitter and other social media, a lot of conservatives of every age lead with their biases to come to a conclusion about underlying facts of conservatism. I call these kinds of biases “want-to’s” for…
Bart Simpson be Damned, Twitter be Double-damned
I started out with a piece on applying logic to fact-finding from a by-gone historian’s persective and ended up with this. I thought it was an easy subject. Bias can distort any opinion. But it is not supposed to alter…