Unseen and Robert,

What’s the surprise here? Trump gets support for his tariffs from Peter Navarro who gets his bogus advice from an imaginary economist friend “Ron Vara,” whose name is an anagram of “Navarro.”

Trump’s Anti-China Trade Advisor Invented a Fake Economist To Sell His Protectionist Views
Peter Navarro also said Americans wouldn’t…[Read more]

Robert and Unseen,

Using a word for a concept should not be taken to mean belief that the concept actually exists. I use the word “Supernatural” to mean a thing that is “beyond” the Natural Universe and not operating by Natural Laws. I suppose all the other prefixes could apply too, as well as “Supranatural” or “Extranatural.”. It could include…[Read more]

John Oliver enlightened me on the trans athlete situation.

I feel bad for one of my favorite bloggers who never talks trans issues. So I now really think trans were weaponized by the right.

Unseen wrote:
WHAT IS IT WITH TRUMP AND GOLF?

There has to be some sort of flaw in the homo sapiens brain when it comes to picking leaders. Every once in a while, people get lucky, but for the most part we have been and still are, ruled by the biggest assholes.

WHAT IS IT WITH TRUMP AND GOLF?

Putin never loses at Judo, Kim. who also plays golf, gets holes in one all the time, and Trump has a mysterious talent for winning golf tournaments which are never covered by the sports press, with mysteriously anonymous opponents, and on his own golf coursess.

Would you trust this man with the country’s…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:
Just wondering as the US economy grinds to a crawl, if environmentalists will declare The Mango Mussolini an eco-friendly president, LOL. He doesn’t understand why drivers in Tokyo or Paris don’t want to buy a Chevy Silverado.

Would they buy a Honda or Peugeot if it was made in Mississippi or Kentucky?

Just wondering as the US economy grinds to a crawl, if environmentalists will declare The Mango Mussolini an eco-friendly president, LOL. He doesn’t understand why drivers in Tokyo or Paris don’t want to buy a Chevy Silverado.

@Reg

On the matter of gravity stretching space, the example is often given of a heavy ball on an elastic surface like a trampoline. That’s fallacious. It is at best a faulty analogy and here’s what’s wrong with it.

That example envisions a three-dimensional object, the ball, on a two-dimensional surface, which is easy to visualize. However, a…[Read more]

“Super” means either “over” or “above.” “Sub” means either “under” or “below.” However, even over, above, under, and below are ambiguous themselves, having different meanings in different contexts.

Context is everything in language.

To many it seems the term “supernatural” presupposes a spiritual realm actually exists. It is a meaningless word. The prefix “super” is typical ape-brain bias. I will use the term “subnatural”, because all of these religious fantasies are certainly below reality in terms of worth.