On March 13 my family and I began physical distancing and sheltering at home. At that time there were 2,224 reported cases of COVID–19 and 50 deaths in the U.S. Nearly two months later the infection number has grown to 1.5 million cases and the death rate has soared to 90,000 , and both these…
No masks; large group; infection spike in Ohio on its way? Countdown by countingdownto.com
Tucker Carlson: He Has Always Been That Bad I have made no secret of my contempt for Tucker Carlson. As I have noted in several blog posts how his extremely poor reasoning skills were nearly as offensive as some of his politcal positions. Well, as it turns out, I didn’t know the half of it….
I can’t figure out whether Tucker Carlson is really bad at making sound, non-fallacious arguments, or whether he intentionally uses fallacious reasoning to score points with his audience (while hoping they don’t catch what he is doing). Once again Carlson has shown that he’s the master manipulator of poor reasoning in a recent commentary on…
In the late 1990s, when I was in graduate school in Canada, there was an ongoing debate about what it meant to be a Canadian. Some of this soul-searching can be attributed to the fallout of the failed 1995 Quebec referendum. It was also a product of Canadian’s reflecting on how it should deal with…