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"She Means We’re Bouncing Into Graceland"

“I Told Ya, Didn’t I”: Thomas Sowell Wouldn’t Understand — And Neither Do You

16 Jun 202416 Jul 2024
We all have our heroes -- and that’s a healthy thing when looking up to them elevates us. Hero-worship is something else entirely. As I said in my doc that…
"She Means We’re Bouncing Into Graceland"

Just Where Do I Go to Find In-Depth Discussion in a World of Yahoos Who Think They’re Houyhnhnms?

25 May 202415 Jul 2024
The crude, dirty "brutes" of the land of the Houyhnhnms in Gulliver’s Travels. The Yahoos are irrational people and represent the worst side of humanity. By contrast, the wise and…
"She Means We’re Bouncing Into Graceland"

What Happened to All This Jazz? Sowell’s Army of Mindless Slogan Slingers

21 May 202415 Jul 2024
While I'm a fan of Sowell, it would be nice to get the WMD issue out of the way. If one Sowell supporter could grasp that about my goal, why…
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What Happened to All This Jazz? Sowell’s Army of Mindless Slogan Slingers

21 May 202415 Jul 2024
While I'm a fan of Sowell, it would be nice to get the WMD issue out of the way. If one Sowell supporter could grasp that about my goal, why…
"She Means We’re Bouncing Into Graceland"

The Critical Thinking of Sowell’s Crowd: Where Even Math is a Matter of Opinion — Part II

14 May 202424 Sep 2024
Long before brain imaging to understand human behavior, we already had all the tools we needed for a hopeful humanity. We didn’t take advantage of the gifts we were given,…
"She Means We’re Bouncing Into Graceland"

Mr. Sowell: Could You Tell Me What JAEIC Is?

11 May 202414 Jul 2024
The Russians said so.The British said so.Bill Clinton said so.Leaders of both political parties said so. “The British said so”? https://youtu.be/P72p7iWdwyA What Bill Clinton said is entirely irrelevant to the…
"She Means We’re Bouncing Into Graceland"

The Thomas Sowell Affair: “You Walked Into the Party Like You Were Walking Onto a Yacht” — Part 2

28 Mar 20242 Jul 2024
Funny thing about information: It can seem incoherent when you don’t take any of it into account. Would you browse a textbook then blame the teacher for your failure to…
"She Means We’re Bouncing Into Graceland"

“You’re Like an Old Friend”

21 Mar 20242 Jul 2024
I got a text at 6:22 AM from a friend on her way back from Spain. Her connecting flight got rescheduled to arrive after midnight and she asked if I…
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What’s Wrong With This Picture? The Religion of Ripping on Race & Woke Religions

17 Mar 20242 Jul 2024
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. — Attributed to Mark Twain Skip Opening Section (same…
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“When Prophecy Fails”: The Force Field of Fallacy Around Thomas Sowell — Part 1

3 Mar 202427 Jun 2024
The Yellow Brick Road is the path of America’s pursuits. Believing things that have no bearing on reality has become a plague across America — erosion of reason that took decades…

“She means we’re bouncing into Graceland”

  • “I Told Ya, Didn’t I”: Thomas Sowell Wouldn’t Understand — And Neither Do You
  • Lying By Omission: Lesson #1 for the Paying-Attention Impaired
  • “To Call Each Thing by Its Right Name”: Part 1
  • Just Where Do I Go to Find In-Depth Discussion in a World of Yahoos Who Think They’re Houyhnhnms?
  • America: You’re Not Too Bright — As You Believe in the Stupidest Sh*t Imaginable
  • Clear the Clutter: How Thomas Sowell Could Turn the Tide
  • What Happened to All This Jazz? Sowell’s Army of Mindless Slogan Slingers
  • V for Victory & Venom for Values: America’s Descent Into the Abyss — Part I
  • The Critical Thinking of Sowell’s Crowd: Where Even Math is a Matter of Opinion — Part II
  • The “Critical Thinking” of Sowell’s Crowd: Where Even Math is a Matter of Opinion
  • Mr. Sowell: Could You Tell Me What JAEIC Is?
  • “Oh, You’re So Condescending Your Gall is Never-Ending”: Part I
  • From Band of Brothers to Band of Bullshitters
  • V for Victory & Venom for Values
  • Old Faithful: Blame the Website & Writing — Blame Anything & Everything but You and Your Blameless Way of Life
  • From the Earth to the Moon to “WUT”
  • Thomas Sowell: A Magician Who Makes Magical Thinking for a Living
  • “WUT” The F#@k is Wrong With You? — The Cult-Like Following of Thomas Sowell
  • In a Sea of Insults — One Kind Comment is Like Wind in Your Sails
  • Glenn Loury is a Hypocrite: What Part of “WMD” Do You Not Understand? — Step 1
  • Glenn Loury is a Hypocrite: What Part of “WMD”Do You Not Understand?
  • Animals: Every Last One of Ya!
  • “WUT” The F#@k is Wrong With You? A Country That Can’t Even Get the Self-Evident Straight
  • The Yellow Brick Road: Path of America’s Predictably Counterproductive Pursuits: Part 2
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? “We All Know That Crap is King”
  • The Yellow Brick Road: Path of America’s Predictably Counterproductive Pursuits
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? Dukes of Hazard
  • The Thomas Sowell Affair: “You Walked Into the Party Like You Were Walking Onto a Yacht” — Part 2
  • The Thomas Sowell Affair: “You Walked Into the Party Like You Were Walking Onto a Yacht”
  • I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver
  • You Are a Liar: America in the Age of Unenlightenment
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? The Social Dilemma Division
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? Oh, How Birds of a Feather Flock Together
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? The WMD Brigade
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? Vanguard for Victories in Vocabulary
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? Critical Thinking Crowd
  • V for Victory: The Vacuum of America’s Interconnected Echo Chambers
  • “You’re Like an Old Friend”
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? The Death of Expertise Division
  • How Lebron is Like America: A Country of Chronic Complainers With Never-Ending Excuses
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? Cognitive Dissonance Camp
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? The Religion of Ripping on Race & Woke Religions
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? Facts Over Feelings Parade
  • “You Got Gold”: Don’t Believe Everything You Think & You’ll Find How Much More You Have to Mine
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? The Rolodex of Excuses Around Thomas Sowell: Part 2
  • What’s Wrong With This Picture? The Rolodex of Excuses Around Thomas Sowell: Part 1
  • To Claim That Iraq WMD Wasn’t a Lie Should Be Like Saying We Didn’t Land on the Moon: Part 1
  • “When Prophecy Fails”: The Force Field of Fallacy Around Thomas Sowell — Part 3
  • “When Prophecy Fails”: The Force Field of Fallacy Around Thomas Sowell — Part 2
  • Working the Refs: Part 1
  • “The March of Folly”: America’s Descent Into the Abyss — Part II
  • “The March of Folly”: America’s Descent Into the Abyss — Part I
  • “And Steel Is Strong Because It Knew the Hammer and White Heat”: My Indictment of Mankind’s Character
  • “When Prophecy Fails”: The Force Field of Fallacy Around Thomas Sowell — Part 1
  • “Consequences Matter” — But Not for You, Mr. Sowell: Part 1
  • Cognitive Dissonance & The Cult-Like Following of Thomas Sowell: Part I
  • Thomas Sowell’s Fancy Quotes to Float Amount to Fortune Cookies for Followers
  • Cloak of Loyalty’s Lies: The Cult-Like Following of Thomas Sowell
  • These People & Their Parties Lied on the Biggest & Most Costly Lie in Modern History
  • Are You Telling Me That I Can Grasp This But You Can’t Grasp That?
  • America Argues in a Vacuum Incapable of Correlating Anything: As if Blowback Has No Bearing on 9/11 & Today
  • “Substack Is a Scam in the Same Way That All Media Is”
  • Just What Would It Take: For You to Do What You Say You Do?
  • “Could’ve Avoided Being in That ‘Kill or Be Killed’ Situation by Not Being There”: That’s Not How Life Works
  • If That Abomination of a Human Being Wins Again: America Will Get What It Deserves for Being Staggeringly Stupid
  • Cozy in the KILL: Recoiling From Questions Secure in Your Cover on Safe-Space Central
  • Land of the Free Home of the Brave: Where Crap is King
  • Factions for All: Hiding Behind Your Force Fields of Fallacy With “Friends”
  • Never in History Have So Many Cared So Much and Done So Little
  • Something’s Not Right: With Thomas Sowell, With You, and With All of America
  • Something’s Not Right
  • “Consequences Matter” — But Not for You, Mr. Sowell
  • Thomas Sowell’s “Rock Stars” of Reasoning — Razing it Right on Cue: Part II
  • Slogans, Monuments & Movements, Oh My! — The Yellow Brick Road to Ruin
  • Dealing on the Moment is What America Does “Best”
  • Thomas Sowell’s “Rock Stars” of Reasoning — Razing it Right on Cue
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