Jeff Danziger (Counterpoint) sounds echoes of the bandwagon/Bellman effect discussed here yesterday. Yossarian was asked, “What if everyone felt that way?” and responded “Then I’d certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn’t I?” Understandable answer, but then again, Edmund Burke wrote, “Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the […]
Sometimes a person makes an innocent mistake, sometimes someone tells a deliberate lie. Most times, the effect is the same either way, but if what conservative Christians say of the Final Judgement is true, intentions matter. So we’ll start with the twisted view of religion laid out by Mike Luckovich: It is impossible to venture […]
Pat Byrnes starts us off with a reflection on how Biden has done fairly well in some areas, quite well in others, not so well in some, but still sees his approval ratings low and sees that fact trumpeted regularly in the press. I have a theory that Wordle and Squid Game would not draw […]