PonkaBlog

Month: September 2021

Total 15 Posts

Confirmation Blindness

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! President Trump said in June of last year that the more we test for COVID-19, the more cases we’re going to find.  And he was right.  As soon as testing went through the roof, the number of cases detected

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Unbelievable

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Back in 1964, Congress passed a little thing called The Civil Rights Act.  Title VII of the act spells out what a company can and can’t do with regards to all types of discrimination.  One of the things a

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Ending the Gender Argument

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I’m a heterosexual white male.  Which means no one cares what I think.  I’m not allowed to be offended by anything.  Nobody wants to hear me bitch.  But I’m going to anyway. I have a problem with the “C

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PonkaBlog Shorts #2

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Every once in a while, I come across some things that need to be talked about but can’t fill an episode on their own.  Today I’m going to cover four short items instead of one longer one. Racial Disparity

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Control Group Update #4

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! As many of you are aware, I’m a member of an elite group of people known as “The Control Group”.  I, along with the other members of The Group, bravely sacrifice our safety and wellbeing by not getting vacksinated

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Gender-Neutral Pronouns

You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! The other day I had to take a workplace harassment seminar as part of my new hire orientation for my new job.  The “training” touched on gender confused people and cautioned me how to interact with them.  I’m supposed

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Fool You Thrice

You can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Let me start out by saying that the PCR test is not flawed.  It does exactly what it was designed to do.  It’s the interpretation of the data provided by the PCR test that’s flawed.  To be honest, the interpretation

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My COVID Vacation

Now you can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! I have a petty good work ethic.  I’ve worked through too many vacations to count, answered emails when I was too sick to get out of bed and I once went right back to work only minutes after getting

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Less Crazy by Comparison

Now you can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Years ago, before Jimmy Fallon and before Jay Leno, a guy named Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show.  If you’re old enough, you might remember him.  Johnny’s faithful sidekick was Ed McMahon.  They had a shtick where Johnny would

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Sustaining Ignorance

Now you can listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Now that the booster shots are on the table, I seem to be having the same conversation I had before with the same people.  Back when they were first deciding whether or not to get vacksinated, I asked them

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