Remembering My Dad, Spooner Quote #6, Logic Fallacy #13

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Organized Lying

Nobody asked but … As long as government functionaries have complete discretion over secrecy, why would even a babe in arms or uneducated wretch be so foolish as to give them trust?  I was graciously informed by my freshman composition professor that any occurrence of journalism which might coincide with truth and/or fact was the…

Killing Fictional Babies, Spooner Quote #5, Logic Fallacy #12

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Two Realities

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The Great Salt Solution

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Bad Ideas

Nobody asked but … Lily Tomlin posed the difficulty, “I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.”  The same could be said about a jillion bad ideas.  United Nations?  Allying with Joseph Stalin?  The TSA?  The NSA?  The Iraq War.  Don’t you worry that the current incarnation of…