The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Congress Subpoenas Ali

The Sammy Davis Jr. lookalike is now world-famous: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol on Thursday subpoenaed additional organizations connected to the “Stop the Steal” rally that occurred prior to the attack on Congress. The committee sent the subpoenas to Ali Alexander, an organizer of the Stop the Steal […]

Milwaukee Teen Killed by Racist System and High-Speed Head-On Collision, But …

. . . well, yeah, mainly it was the collision: Dashcam video shows the crash that killed a 16-year-old and injured five other teens. It started with a police pursuit on Milwaukee’s northwest side, lasting around 6 minutes. On June 15, when the crash happened, Milwaukee police said the pursuit ended before the deadly crash. […]

FBI Now Targeting Parents as Terrorists

The Justice Department has now decided that the real terrorists in America are parents upset about local public school policies: Attorney General Merrick Garland called on the FBI to “use its authority” against parents who threaten or use violence against public school officials in a Monday memorandum. Garland said there has been a “disturbing spike […]

$3.5 Trillion = Zero-Point-Zero Dollars?

Look, I’m no expert in math, but you’re never going to convince me that the cost of a $3.5 trillion legislative package is zero: In recent weeks, the Biden administration has been slammed for claiming the $3.5 budget reconciliation packages “costs zero dollars.” On Monday, the president said once again that the $1.2 trillion infrastructure […]

Tide Rolls, Dawgs Dominate, Ducks Lose, Cincinnati Defeats Notre Dame

There will be a shake-up in the college football rankings after Saturday’s games, although the top two teams will remain unchanged. Alabama faced its first big test of the season at home against previously unbeaten Ole Miss, and won 42-21 in a game that wasn’t really that close. Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin had his […]

Don’t Question ‘The Science’?

Luke Rudkowski of We Are Change called attention to these headlines: It’s Time to Give Up on Facts — Jess Zimmerman, Slate, Feb. 8, 2017 You Must Not ‘Do Your Own Research’ When It Comes To Science — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, July 30, 2020 Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole Critical thinking, as we’re taught […]

Identity, Opposition and Hate

Did you study developmental psychology when you were in college? For a couple of semesters, I changed my major to secondary education — thinking I might become a high school teacher, before realizing I lacked the temperament for it — and one of the courses I took was Childhood Psychology. This provided me a lot […]

‘The Negro Problem,’ Then and Now

For about four decades, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1841-1906) was among the leading professors of science at Harvard University. In 1884, Professor Shaler published in The Atlantic Monthly a lengthy article entitled “The Negro Problem,” which begins with this paragraph: When the civil war determined by its result the political position of the black people in […]

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