There was a time when the media deserved our trust. We believed that they carefully researched things to find facts that led to the truth. When you turned on the news or opened a paper, you trusted that you were going to get the truth, backed up by facts. There
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What do all these phrases have in common? Black Lives Matter All Black Lives Matter White Lives Matter Blue Lives Matter All Lives Matter The Entirety of Humanity is Significant If you said that these are all true, you are right. Any reasonable person would agree with you. No rational
I’ve talked with two black men this week. Both are educated and in the upper-middle class. Both are about the same age. Both have successful jobs. Both live in California. One is a Liberal and the other is a Conservative. The Liberal believes in the message and agenda of the
Consider this phrase: buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Yup. That’s an actual sentence. Now, I’m going to add some punctuation and capitalization. Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo. That’s probably not a lot clearer. The sentence means: “Buffalo from Buffalo, NY, that are confused by
I had an epiphany. People object to the phrase “All Lives Matter” because they want to protect the BLM brand. Here’s my proposal. Not quite as catchy as their phrase but they can hardly complain about the sentiment. If they do then they’re racist. 🙂
The Washington Post maintains a database of all police-related shootings. It’s the database nearly everyone uses when quoting statistics about police violence. However, it only contains shootings. So, for example, George Floyd isn’t in their database. According to their data, there have been two instances since May 25th (George Floyd’s
All life isn’t precious. Maybe a more accurate statement is that all lives aren’t equally precious. Don’t get mad at me. I came to that conclusion by watching you. I’ll explain. The argument is that we should all wear masks and social distance because we need to prevent the spread
In the early 90’s I was working at the South Florida branch of a large telecommunications company. One day, the HR people were seen walking around looking at everyone’s offices and cubes and taking notes. When they reached the cube of a good friend of mine, they pointed to a
When my son was 3 or 4 years old, we decided to paint his bedroom. He was watching us paint and said, “I hope we don’t do this very often”. I asked why. His reply, “Because every time we paint the room, it gets a little bit smaller.” Wow. That’s
As you all know, I like things to make sense. Recently, I’ve been trying to understand why people would vote for any Democrat this fall. I couldn’t understand why seemingly smart people would abandon fact, logic and reason to blindly support the Democratic Party. I spent a long time pondering