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Month: November 2020

Total 26 Posts

The News Media and the Bear

If you’re out hiking and you come across a bear, do you assume that it’s dangerous or do you assume that the bear is friendly until it proves otherwise?  You’re obviously going to assume it’s dangerous.  There are numerous examples of hikers being killed by bears so clearly the potential

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Open Kimono

This is going to sound strange because I’m talking about the election but let’s take some of the politics out of the conversation for a bit.  It’s really easy to define a fair election process.  Put simply, in a fair election, all valid votes will be counted.  But only valid

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Election Flawed

Voter fraud is all well and good, if you want to impact an election in a small way.  But, if you want to steal an election, you’re going to have to commit election fraud.  Voter fraud committed on a huge scale is election fraud.  But, to be successful, you need

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Unacceptable Behavior

When I was a little kid, I had two brothers and three sisters.  One of us, I can’t remember which, had received as a gift one of those paddle thingies with the elastic band and a rubber ball attached.  The life expectancy that toy wasn’t great, so the ball was

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Dark Soul

I recently saw/noticed the sign on the front of Joe Biden’s podium.  The sign said, “BATTLE for the SOUL of the NATION”. It struck me odd that the Biden campaign would have the audacity to put the focus on the word “soul”.  Whoever approved the use of that slogan should

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Ignorance vs. Stupidity

I commented on a post a couple of weeks ago and told someone they were ignorant.  She immediately took offense and said I was calling her a name.  But I wasn’t.  If I had said she was stupid, then she’d have been correct.  But I didn’t.   I said she was

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