Judi S.

Just a few comments.

I’ve only really come across the singling out of Jews since I’ve been in the USA.

I can say the same Strega. I lived for a few years on the East End Road in East Finchley, London. The population was mainly English, Jewish (English and East EuropeanRussian), Indian and Irish. But nobody cared about that. To the point that it…[Read more]

Yes, the wholesome traditional family values of the Heritage Foundation as mentioned in that little known document called the Old Testa Project 2025.

Have a great week!

@Simon

In the comments people talk about how the worst part, in the new relaxation of modesty rules, is the change in God’s unchanging and immutable Word.  How does that work?  It’s a contradiction in someone’s world view.

One of the Elders must have had a divine revelation from the Creator of the Universe. “Seeing a female shoulder is no long…[Read more]

I am immune to “ChatGPT rotting my brain”:

I bring my thinking to ChatGPT, rather than leaving my thinking to it.

I value thinking as a craft, not a checkbox.

I interrogate my own ideas before accepting them.

I enjoy the process of discovery, not just the conclusion.

I use tools (including me) to refine thought, not to substitute it.

I rem…[Read more]

Yes, I agree with much of that assessment but its never to later to start. Banning cellphones during school hours and ongoing teacher training and development would be good too. In every country.

A.I. or Human…..take the test here.

One solution is to teach children critical thinking as a dedicated school subject, like math or history. Teach children how to question, explore ideas, and understand the history of thought. Learn to spot the differences between valid and invalid reasoning and cause vs. correlation. Understand how arguments are constructed and defended by knowing…[Read more]

The challenge facing the current American administration is not the pace of change, but its utter lack of a coherent vision for what should replace existing structures. This is not the “traditional conservatism” so often touted during GOP campaigns, where reform is pursued with caution and respect for institutional continuity. Instead, it is a rec…[Read more]

Have a great week everyone!

And docs are so overworked i think that it is understandable that they can’t always give good care.

One of my professional roles is to improve the IT systems of small medical practices. Most are owned by one MD with maybe a 2 or 3 other medical staff. They close every Wednesday afternoon. I once asked what she did for those afternoons. “About 5 o…[Read more]

Israel may not be satisfied with negotiating yet. I think they want a decisive end to that Iranian regime.

I can’t see any other viable option for Israel. If the Iranian regime is not ended, it will grow another ugly head and just start to refinance and restock Hamas and Hezbollah, both of whom are terrorist branches of Iran.

“What is it like to be a pistachio tree on the outskirts of Tehran?”

Nervous, they don’t like being shelled.

Yes, noticeable by its absence but I decided not to mention anything about the nation whose supreme leader of the religion of peace said, “We will support and assist any nation or any group anywhere who opposes and fights the Zionist regime, and we do not hesitate to say this,” (Khamenei’s official English-language Twitter account).

I could h…[Read more]

Have a great week!

Title: Candide in America
Subtitle: “All is for the best… in the best of all possible tax brackets.”

[EXT. SUBURBAN STRIP MALL – FLORIDA – DAY]

CANDIDE, wide-eyed and ever-optimistic, now wears a red Make America Great Again hat slightly askew. He’s holding a Chick-fil-A milkshake in one hand and a dog-eared copy of The Art of the Deal in the…[Read more]

Thanks Strega, Unseen gave me the idea and this eternal waiting for a remote server to reboot allowed me the time……and there it is as I pen these words….back as a mirror image of itself from 90 minutes ago….its present state identical to its past…….and me with a little less gray matter and a lot more gray hair…….:-)

Title: W.L. Craig and the Cosmological Flatulence
Subtitle: “Yes, it began to exist… but that doesn’t mean it was mine.”

[INT. UNIVERSITY DEBATE STAGE – NIGHT]

The room is hushed. WILLIAM LANE CRAIG sits onstage beside a noted atheist philosopher. Midway through a point about the Kalam Cosmological Argument, a loud, unmistakable FART echoes ac…[Read more]