Of course he didn’t. But that’s something like the argument they’re using for El Paso and Trump. [NOTE: If you don’t know what I’m referring to, it’s this: Officers Steven Spiro and Peter Cullen were the first policemen to arrive … Continue reading →
Don’t underestimate how emotionally difficult it is. I know precisely what “Jan in MN” is talking about here: Self-image shouldn’t be underestimated as a reason to close one’s mind to facts. I remember, in my change process, how frightening it … Continue reading →
…then you’re in a heap of trouble. How can a problem be solved if it can’t even be named, or described, or discussed? This isn’t about Trump and Baltimore’s rats, although that’s one of many recent incidents that sparked the … Continue reading →
Just go to a site like Drudge today and you’ll see the furor in the list of headlines, which I reproduce here minus the links: Get out of USA, Trump tells congresswomen! Cortez fires back: We don’t fear you! President … Continue reading →
Yesterday commenter “huxley” wrote: I just discovered there’s a new ultra-SJW-intersectional, black, female SF writer, N.K. Jemisin who has won three Hugos and a Nebula since 2016. That’s a very big deal. It puts her into grandmaster level with the … Continue reading →
I often read about something that makes me think of Shakespeare’s line from Hamlet: A phrase used by the title character in the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Hamlet suggests that human knowledge is limited: There are more things in … Continue reading →
Franco Zeffirelli died Saturday at the venerable age of 96. But to me, he was and always will be the director of the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” a movie that breathed extraordinary life into Shakespeare. The sweep, color, costumes, … Continue reading →
It’s not possible yet, but they’re working on it: Progress toward making “artificial gametes” has been accelerating. In Japan, mice were born from eggs scientists had manufactured in a dish from a tail cell. Chinese scientists later claimed they had … Continue reading →
I’ve written about the great poet Yeats before, and in this post I dealt at length with his attitude towards aging and sexuality. In it, I mentioned that he had a lifelong love for and fascination—you might say “obsession”—with the … Continue reading →
Here’s an interesting question from commenter Geoffrey Britain: What is the practical difference between an entrenched ‘confirmation bias’, that is immune to contrary fact, logic, reason and common sense…and ideological fanaticism? How does a person who stops “all such meanderings … Continue reading →
Sex is a strong drive in human beings for a reason: the life of the species depends on it. But in this age of what might seem like no-holds-barred sex, sex has lost its luster for an enormous number of … Continue reading →
I’ve read Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four many times, but I haven’t opened it for a long long time. I recall a great many of his Newspeak terms—and I think his explanation of Newspeak’s nomenclature and aims is one of the most … Continue reading →