“When you search online for answers and knowledge, wisdom, and insight – What do you trust? How do you trust it? What is involved? – to decide whether something is true or not true? And it’s not easy at all.” “When I search things where I fully know the answer, AI gets it right 85% … Read more
The MAGA media has been zealously working to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr. Flags have been flown at half mast. Street parades have been held. Vigils and prayer gatherings and flowers and signs and moments of silence and tears have all been in evidence. The political rally disguised as a memorial service The 5-hour … Read more
The Republican Administration claims the right to arrest and “disappear” anyone to another state (or to another country), at any time, by masked men, without charging them with any crime. This is outrageous, illegal, and unconstitutional. The Republican Administration does not care. When ordered to stop the deportation of five named plaintiffs to a foreign … Read more
In 1961, psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton published Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, which is a book on the psychology of brainwashing (which he called “thought reform”). Lifton’s research subjects included American servicemen who had been held captive during the Korean War, and Chinese people who had fled their homeland after having been indoctrinated … Read more
The Trump/Musk administration, under the direction of the wealthy fascists behind Project 2025, is going crazy trying to root “DEI” out of every part of the government. Actually, of course, they are just using “DEI” as a boogeyman phrase to hide what they are really doing – which is firing people they don’t like, freezing … Read more
Note: I am posting this just before the 2024 Election, but many of you will be reading it afterward. Hopefully, Kamala Harris has won the Presidency and the Democrats have kept the Senate and taken the House. This is important because one of our three branches of government, the Supreme Court, is already controlled by … Read more
You know, Trump’s most fervent supporters … are not open to reason or not open to arguments. CBS News just put out a poll that suggests that Trump’s voters value him as a source of truth by eight points more than they value their friends and family and by thirty points more than they value … Read more
One of the Book of Mormon’s many cautionary tales for our day is contained in Alma chapter 1. This chapter tells the story of the demagogue Nehor. Nehor went about preaching that every priest and teacher should become popular and be supported financially by the people. Nehor quickly became very popular because he taught that … Read more