There are few things that chill the blood more than a politician who proudly describes himself as a “Law and Order Candidate.” Well, we can actually make an exception to that. The late Fred Dalton Thompson spent a year playing the D.A. on LAW & ORDER. He also ran for President. I have no problem […]
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 […]