The problem with dramas built around scenes where one character eloquently tells another character off — (and I am guilty of this sin, too; such scenes are all over the Andrea Cort series, which is at least a group of murder mysteries where one brilliant person gets to explain her epiphanies) — is that in […]
Originally published on Facebook 10 December 2014, in response to an adamant torture supporter. It didn’t make a dent. Just a few short days ago, I wrote as a status update, “As I get older it is getting harder and harder to resist beginning my rejoinders with, ‘This is why you’re an idiot.’” Johnnie, I […]
For some of us, a wrong-headed answer to a question doesn’t just reveal that we’re uninformed, or stupid, or evil; it reveals that there’s something profoundly dysfunctional about the very mechanism we use for thinking. It can serve as diagnosis, by showing the precise path we take as we travel from Point A to Point […]
