These are the most exciting, dangerous, complex, strange times in history. This blog is my attempt to navigate through it.
Friday, February 17, 2017
Sam Harris: Chasms of Conversation
In an "Ask Me Anything" episode of his podcast, author and neuroscientist Sam Harris discussed the chasms of conversation - widened by the sustained, willful lying by Donald Trump. In a fact-free world, how do we even talk to one another?
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Trigger Warnings for McConnell?
Should we start offering "trigger warnings" for Republican Senator Mitch McConnell so he won't be triggered by the words of Coretta Scott King, as quoted by Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren? (source)
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
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