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HEMMED In - Base-ic Math is Logical
Today's output from Blogistan Polytechnic Institute’s state-of-the-art HEMMED (High-Energy Meta Mojo Elucidation Detector) machine is some Basic Math about Our Base and Our Progressive Agenda.
View ArticleWaving the bloody teabagger
Right now there are all sorts of scary diaries about what's going to happen if the latest Gallup poll happens to be accurate. Undoubtedly seeing the Republicans take back the House, maybe even the...
View ArticleLogic and Reason are Dead
Glenn Beck turns out let's be generous and say 100,000 last week on the Mall. He gives an incoherent speech about faith and God and America and the trouble we're in. The crowd praises the Lord and says...
View ArticleProgram or be Programmed: Q & A with Douglas Rushkoff
As we shuffle in this morning, we're all gathering on a plane of electrons, held together by... well, for most of us it might as well be library paste and fairy dust. But hey, who needs to understand...
View ArticleMr. President, Will You Work With The Opposition To Bring About Your Own Demise?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think John Boehner and I and Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are going to have to sit down and work together... "The single most important thing we want to...
View ArticleIt's Time to Give Up on Climate Change
As the mood of the Cancun Conference tells us there is no realistic hope that anything meaningful can happen to stop the effects of climate-change. The United States has, from the beginning of the...
View ArticlePolitical Logic:Defeating Conservative Theories of Rationality
The following diaries are excerpts from my book Political Logic:Defeating Conservative Theories of Rationality published by Decent Hill. I hope that you find it helpful. In light of the results of the...
View ArticlePolitical Logic: Defeating Conservative Theories of Rationality part 2
Hypocrisy....we all know it when we see it. Some of us are appalled by it. Others have no concerns over it at all. For those people, justificationism is a fundamental element of their ideological DNA....
View ArticlePolitical Logic: Defeating Conservative Theories of Rationality part 3
What is Logic? We all claim to be logical, but what is it that we lay claim to? You’re not being logical! Why don’t you try using some logic once in a while? You’re the most illogical person I know!...
View ArticlePolitical Logic: Defeating Conservative Theories of Rationality _ Logical...
A friend named Matt Dioguardi, made an interesting point here. He said "If people have values,then they are "their" values and they aren’t dependent on demonstration. You can’t demonstrate them...
View ArticlePolitical Logic:Defeating Conservative Theories of Rationality_the Inductive...
Deductive arguments force us to choose between the truth of their conclusions and the falsity of one or more of their premises. Inductive arguments do not. This, in and of itself, does not show that...
View ArticleConditional Love
It’s official. I have permanently moved unconditional love over to the con column with colorblind and tolerant. People claim these traits with pride and expect me to be impressed or grateful. I’m...
View ArticleThe Ideological Refudiation of Logic
Krugman today called this the War on Logic But Republicans have a small problem: they claim to care about budget deficits, yet the Congressional Budget Office says that repealing last year’s health...
View ArticleThe end of argument: teacher suspended for just ASKING about homosexuality
I originally wrote this in November of 2009, but it's still relevant today. Since I've written this, our political discourse has gone off the deep end in so very, very. many ways. What we saw during...
View ArticleBoolean versus Arithmetic Thinking
A common logical error I observe on DKos is the use of boolean "black-and-white" thinking as opposed to arithmetic "shades of gray" thinking. A detailed explanation of how the problem often manifests...
View ArticleAbortion is not enough
It's great that so many progressive guys vote for abortion. But it's not enough. In some ways some men of all political persuasions buy into a sweeping collection of sexist tropes about women,...
View ArticlePaul Krugman: Not-A does not Imply B
Paul Krugman recently wrote about the US, Argentina and defaults in one of his The Conscience of a Liberal blogs on the NY Times and got a lot of illogical criticism from people commenting on the...
View ArticleInvincibly Ignorant
Barney Frank nailed the problem we have with the GOP last week. On July 21, Barney was on Rachel’s show talking about the debt ceiling problem and said of the GOP: We have this reality problem ....
View ArticleMr "No New Taxes" makes his case for the Tax Phobia Pledge
Read My Lips: No New Taxes by Grover G. Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform. Op-Ed Contributor, nytimes.com -- July 21, 2011 [ ... Grover Norquist: ] The problem to be solved is not...
View ArticleTo Believe or Not To Believe
I’m getting sick and tired of politicians and people in the media saying they “believe in” or they do not “believe in” evolution or climate change, as if it were a matter of faith. “Uh,...
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