November 4, 2016

Dante’s Republicans

Well whaddaya know. George Will, Republican establishment maven whose pronouncements some view as akin to received wisdom, has declared that Donald Trump’s landslide defeat is the only hope the Republican Party has for the future. Now, people a...

October 29, 2016

Trump Fights

The last few days have seen continuing discussion of Donald Trump’s being seduced into responding to his leftist opposition’s personal slams and slurs against him -- which, incidentally, are not confined to alleged sexual indiscretions....

May 9, 2016

Donald Trump and the Dictates of Prudence

For years -- arguably even decades -- the craven Republican establishment, often called the GOPe, has submitted to the Democrats and betrayed its own conservative voters in the process.  Many of those conservative voters have concluded, based on...

March 12, 2016

Infantile Egoism and Environmental Science

Psychologists, perhaps most notably including Jean Piaget in the early-to-mid 20th century, have established the existence of a psychological phenomenon sometimes referred to as "infantile egoism". This phenomenon has been identified, defin...

November 25, 2014

Anthropogenic Global Warming and the Scientific Method

Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) alarm has been with us for a good while, now. The matter seems to become more contentious, rather than less, over time. Unhappily, as a result of the mediocre quality of science education, many people do n...