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Just a brief note to inform you of my recent interview by another blogger, Nancy Julien Kopp, a remarkably productive writer who has been in the blogging game since 2009. Since that time, Nancy had posted (amazingly!) thousands of essays on her website. She calls her site Writer Granny’s […]
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Hunter Biden’s laptop and NPR. I understand Uri Berliner’s story has hit TV Land, but my Samsung is misbehaving, so I haven’t seen any of that. I have, however, been looking back and trying to put the Berliner story in context with other past events. One part of Berliner’s article […]
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An insider’s view of NPR’s leftist politics was published yesterday. Here’s a tidbit from the article on leftist NPR. (Actually, it doesn’t much surprise me.) In 2021, among those working in editorial positions at NPR, 87 were registered Democrats and none was a registered Republican. Yep, not a single one. […]
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Does a striking football player let his teammates down? That question came up recently, and I’ve taken a crack at answering it. To come up with a reasonable answer, I’ve tried to imagine that I’m a valuable player on an outstanding professional football team, the reigning Super Bowl champion, no […]
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Should artificial intelligence be your doctor? A warning for you. As I’ve mentioned here recently, AI is an amazing animal. As a “Chatbot,” AI can respond like a human with seemingly infinite knowledge. But to me AI is something of a murky creature facing an undefined future. Despite its eloquence, […]
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Here are two odes to the heart written by that rapidly emerging poet (and soon to be anointed Poet Laureate of the World), Artificial Intelligence, or, as it prefers to be known by its common designation, AI. Each ode, AI might tell you modestly, was composed in a flash and […]
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How can smart people think differently from me? How do they develop opinions so contrary to mine? If they’re so smart, I reason, why don’t they see the light? It’s a well-worn riddle. Well, thanks to a stroke of serendipity, I’ve come to see clearly how conflicting views may be […]
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If you’re a college student, or a parent of one, or if you just wake up most mornings, you already know a lot about our exorbitant college costs and campus troubles. But do you know what caused them? Do you know why college tuitions have gone crazy? Do you know […]
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Have you been following the wooden-headed world of woke? The nonsensical, fatuous, obtuse, moronic, dimwitted, imbecilic, and dopey world of woke? Admittedly, the word means different things to different people. To read a broad view of the varied meanings click here. One of the least divisive definitions of woke I […]
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The story of how a one-time house painter attempted to become an “artist” never entered my head until an observant neighbor sent me a thought-provoking email, one that prompts me to tell you this story. It started earlier this month when I posted a photo of the Christmas lights decorating […]
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