The Most Popular Postings on this Site

These are some of the most visited and popular postings on this dzsokol.com web site: Is Anything Else Happening in the World Besides COVID? Is Greece the “Canary” for Economic Decline? Does AI Mean “Augmented Intelligence”? American Jewry & Israel

DuckDuckGo Search

I’ve been a Brave browser and DuckDuckGo search engine user for many years now.  I’ve recently run a test of the DuckDuckGo search engine and I must admit that I’m surprised and disappointed by the results. In my test case,

A Threat to Democracy… or Democrats?

Update A great observation and quote from Daniel Greenfield, which clearly summarizes the Leftist Democrat playbook: Given enough human ingenuity and technological development, most problems can conceivably be addressed and that is why the Left has to contrive to make

Honesty and the Leftist Democrat

Update Just remember that this black pseudo-intellectual, known as Ta-Nehisi Coates, has come out publicly in support of the mass murder of Jews. Woke activist author Ta-Nehisi Coates suggested Wednesday that he would not have been above participating in Hamas’

Does AI Mean ‘Augmented Intelligence’?

This is a cumulative posting, started in March 2018, that covers the realities of “AI”.  I will be sharing observations and various snippets that illustrate that the latest advancements in neural networks and machine learning do not constitute “intelligence”.   A

American Jewry and Israel

The relationship between American Jews and the state of Israel is very complex and forever evolving. This posting, which started in July 2014, originated during the Obama presidency when many leftist American Jews started to openly place the priorities of

Raising Corn in Ohio

I like to claim that I live in Exurbia, which is the label used to describe a mix of suburban and rural population density.  I point to the fact that there are 100-acre corn fields located about 1 mile from

Is it Time to Ban “Assault Knives”?

The plans for controlling violence always seem to focus on “gun control”.  Meanwhile, many crimes around the world are actually committed with other common devices that are repurposed as weapons, such as automobiles and knives.  This cumulative posting, which began