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Driving sideways
I’m losing my mind. Nothing serious; I’m simply losing touch with reality. Shall I rephrase that? I know what color the sky is in the—not my—world. It has just turned August 28, 2009 in New York City....
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James Fallows shows you how to do this
Do not piss off James Fallows: he will take off your head, split your torso, slice out your knees, and sever your Achilles heels. In other words, the man knows how to burn. Mr Fallows, as I hope you...
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Don’t you ever get sick of being sick about it
How may I be irritated? Let me count the ways: *Irritation due to disagreement: This may be further divided into partisan (of any sort), preference-based, and personal disagreement, but it is just as...
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I have no opinion about that
Riddle me this how do we decide how much info/understanding should we have about a topic before we feel justified in having an opinion that is more than a gut hunch? —dmf I once introduced myself to...
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If I’m so wrong and you’re so right
is this all about convincing other people to share our intuitions and if people don’t share such faith (religious or otherwise) convictions on what possible basis would they be convinced by anything we...
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Don’t get your back up over this
I’m less clear about how we “get people to meet an obligation to inform themselves before offering an opinion is both to reward such information and punish its lack”. Online and off it has been my...
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Welcome back my friend to the show that never ends
I was in Camp Fire Girls as a kid (We are the Camp Fire Girls/We wear our hairs in curls/We never smoke or drink/That’s what our parents think. . .), and my mom and B.’s mom were our Camp Fire leaders....
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It’s all too much
The point is that evidence can be unreliable, and therefore you should use as little of it as possible. . . . I mean, people don’t realize that not only can data be wrong in science, it can be...
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Mayan campaign mashup 2012: Twisting round to make me think you’re straight...
Let’s play pundit! C’mon, it’s easy: Just take a stray thought (either your own or one you overheard standing in line for coffee or maybe from that always-wise taxi-driver) and expand it into a Theory...
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Mayan campaign mashup 2012: Hold it steady, hold it steady
I’m off shortly to volunteer unloading and distributing relief supplies, an effort organized by the Red Hook Initiative, (and found through the Brokelyn website, via the Red Hook Recovers Twitter...
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