RufusTFirefly

At least that’s what Gen. Michael Hayden stubbornly insisted:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4560247/user-clip-michael-hayden-rejects-concept-probable-fourth-amendment

And believe you me, he knows!

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“The plural of anecdote isn’t data.”

I remember hearing stories about people who supposedly survived a crash because they weren’t wearing seat belts or of someone’s grandma who smoked two packs a day and yet lived to 103.

The problem is that exceptions often loom larger than rules and get disproportionate attention as a result.

Now that trivia is over, I checked. In the calendar of Romulus, September was the seventh month. That was before January and February were added. What ultimately became July and August already existed as months. They just had different names: Quintilis and Sextilis, both of which made sense, given that they refer to fifth and sixth.

The Gregorian…[Read more]

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… this poor lady is suffering from some serious delusions:

“You are not the President of the United States Biden!!!! Cheating isn’t winning!!! … If my president Trump was in his rightful seat then my son and the other Heros [sic] would still be alive!!!!”

Not just COVID, but also the subsequent trauma that results when they receive their medical bill.

Most STM (short-term memory) experts will tell you that the number is closer to four.
Miller (1956) summarized evidence that people can remember about seven chunks in short-term memory (STM) tasks. However, that number was meant more as a rough estimate and a rhetorical device than as a real capacity limit. Others have since suggested that there…[Read more]

And if we don’t watch out, they may succeed.

They destroy good paying jobs and kill local businesses. The few local businesses remaining have little choice but to raise their prices in order to pay their rising rents and stay afloat. Further impoverished, people are left with even less disposable income, which means they feel they can’t afford to shop local anymore. Thus, more businesses…[Read more]

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It’s easy to defend the speech you agree with.

But that’s not the point of the First Amendment.

I realize the poster probably knows this, but the way the excerpt is formatted it might lead some to mistakenly believe that the article was written by Gladwell.

Taibbi’s article is a review of Gladwell’s book.

… is there a response other than an ad hominem that effectively rebuts his allegations?

Inquiring minds want to know.

I’m fine. Thanks for your concern!

Just very busy.

P.S. Mars is good.

Thom Hartmann is NOT on KPFA, and the name of the city is Berkeley, not Berkley.

In addition (and I could be wrong about this), but to my knowledge, he does not do any fundraising for KPFA.

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That was back in November, and the topic was the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, but the underlying theme was essentially the same:

“The donors clearly were fine with having a Justice [Amy Coney] Barrett. You know we supposedly live in a representative democracy, but it’s pretty clear, we have two corporate parties that are both playing to…

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