Nobody asked but … A thing worse than judges making looney decisions is the media loonies’ misreporting of logical decisions. Here is a major network headline — “Court Rejects Ohio Law That Bans Police From Sex With Minors.” Headlines are supposed to be a means of finding which stories to read, not a deception, as…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
False Dilemma
Nobody asked but … One of the reasons why a dilemma can be false is that life, in reality, seldom sorts itself into two distinct and mutually exclusive choices. The more classical definition of the false dilemma is where one person tries to convince another that the failure of A will certainly cause the advent…
Involuntary?
Nobody asked but … I don’t recall a day, in my 73 years on this planet, in which I was confined to a condition of involuntaryness for more than 12 hours. And I only use that number as a placeholder — I really can’t remember even that long of a drought of free will. Sure,…
Words Poorly Used #75 — Problem
” … there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” — H. L. Mencken Why is this true? Firstly, we have to recognize that this may not be true in all cases. After all, it is a simple solution for explaining human error — a persistent problem underlying…
Due Process
Nobody asked but … A drone that executes Americans is no more acceptable than cops who truncate due process. We hear people who say that cops know their jobs, but the very term “law enforcement” includes the preservation of due process, the very oath includes upholding of ALL of the Constitution. — Kilgore Forelle
Reconfiguration
Nobody asked but … We need to “reconfigure” the mindsets of all those computer nerds who are disciples of whoever thought up “reconfiguring.” He/she was just a person. We users, however, are in the 100s of millions. If I were hopeful of making a living as a computer nerd, I would cater to the 100s…
The Call of the Wild
Nobody asked but … We are in our twelfth year of living on the farm, but a thing happened last week that made us feel helpless for the first time. The dogs who live with us, who run free, caused the death of a yearling deer, close enough to us that we had to try…
Voluntaryism is Stupid
Nobody asked but … Today I was searching the Web for a good definition of voluntaryism (finding several) to create a link in my friend Verbal Vol’s column for this week. The search engine performed admirably until I saw its suggested other searches in the right margin. Number 1 on the list was “Voluntaryism is…
A Secret Statist Decoder Ring
Nobody asked but … Here are some of my Facebook responses to a person who seemed to want man-made legislation, which he incorrectly calls “law”. The choice to do an evil happens at a concrete place while the formulation of a law is an abstraction, and the combination has at least two faults, 1) the…
The Narcissist Who Would Be King
Nobody asked but … Who is more narcissistic, the rich person who wants to buy the opportunity to run the world or the do-gooder who wants to force the rich to buy him the opportunity to run the world? In either case, the running of the world will not be by voters, nor by the…