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
Humorous Aphorisms
I didn’t intend to give this posting an innocuous title, but it kind of hits the nail on the head. An aphorism is a brief statement of truth or principle… They’re even better when they’re funny: 1. If I had
Many Examples of Republicans Without Principles
Update These are the most recent set of Washington RINOs: Roy Blunt Richard Burr Shelley Moore Capito Susan Collins Joni Ernst Cynthia Lummis Lisa Murkowski Rob Portman Mitt Romney Dan Sullivan Thom Tillis Todd Young You’ll see that their names
The American Left
You can talk until you are blue in the face about the mendacity and moral turpitude of the current Leftist movement in the United States. Interestingly, there is a recent commentary from an acknowledged philosophical leader of the Left that
Is Anything Else Happening in the World Besides COVID?
The orderly control of pandemics always starts with quick and reliable testing as well as proactive and selective prevention… Neither of which are being practiced with the response to COVID. It appears that the current state of medical uncertainty (i.e.,
Defending Democracy?
Am I the only one hearing this Democrat pitch line and cringing incredulously? Doesn’t anyone find it ironic that the political party that openly embraces the virtues of Socialism is claiming that they are “defending democracy”? The same people that
Deceptive Democrat US Senate Candidate in Ohio
Update Here is the icing on the cake: An elected Democratic official in Ohio penned an op-ed Friday calling Democratic senatorial candidate Tim Ryan “a fraud.” The op-ed, published in the Cincinnati Enquirer, was written by Hamilton County Auditor Dusty Rhodes
Do US Tech Companies Have Too Much Influence?
If you want to review business and political fireworks that will become front-page news, then take a look at the major US-based technology companies: Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter. These six behemoths control the vast majority of information flow,
The Science is Settled
More on the “Science is Settled”… July 18, 2016 First rule of science is don’t trust anyone that tells you “the Science is Settled”. If Einstein were alive today, he would tell you that his Theory of Relatively is not
An Energy Crisis?
Update Some pertinent humor: October 11, 2022 JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon comments that Biden has screwed up the country’s approach to energy. He exclaims that we have it completely backwards now: But we have a longer term problem now, which
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