So how do you feel about this? The Cleveland baseball team had the nickname “Indians” for over 100 years; and there is a reason now to eliminate the name? Is it now the Guardians for Guardian Insurance? Did Guardian pay
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,
Many Examples of Republicans Without Principles
Update There are certainly a number of folks in the US Congress posing as Republicans: May 20, 2021 Among the Republicans in congress who voted for a special commission of Democrats to investigate the events in Washington on January
Does AI Mean ‘Augmented Intelligence’?
Update After the IBM “AI” system, known as Watson, bested many humans on the gameshow Jeopardy ten years ago, many of the managers at IBM thought they had a magical box filled with super human intelligence. They violated what I call
Islam and Western Culture
An very useful expose’ on Islamic motivations, from Raymond Ibrahim: The problem is that modern historians tend to sideline this religious aspect, and focus instead on national identities. For example, we know that for centuries, a great array of “Eastern”
A Common Democrat Debate Position
Update Here is an incompetent Leftist Democrat that is leveraging two of the positions identified in the original June 9 posting (see below). The Mayor of Chicago, which is a city now suffering a spate of felonious crimes, has claimed
Anti-Semitism
People often ask me: “Why do people hate the Jews?” I start the answer with this contextual retort: Always remember that jealousy and greed are very strong human motivators (and often not for good purposes). I further postulate that anti-Semitism
Medical Reality versus Baloney
With the American Medical Association and medical journals such as Lancet now joining the delusional leftists and their scientific fairy tales, it is becoming more difficult to separate medical fact from fiction. As a counterweight, there is a great posting
Avoiding Stereotypes?
Given the subtitle to this web site (Thinking Stereotypically, Acting Individually), it’s worth examining these comments from a mainstream newspaper about avoiding stereotypes when it comes to crime: The Austin American-Statesman newspaper said on Saturday that it is not publishing
Cicadas Everywhere
Given the quantity of these “17-year locusts” (exaggerated just a little: cicadas) that we have around our house, we must be in the prime area infested by these insects in Ohio. These large pests, which look like 3″ super-sized flies,