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“On Debating” or “Captain K, Karl Popper, Falsification, and how to Know You’re Arguing with an Intractable Asshole (or being one yourself)”
In early June of 1995, I was a young Marine Cobra pilot focused on one thing - the ops plan to rescue an Air Force pilot who had been shot down over Bosnia. By the time we got to port in Trieste, Italy, the word had spread of the rescue and a clique of Capt....
I hate to say I told you so, but…
I wrote a series of posts (first one was here) back in June about an article I had read (here) about Raymond Kurzweil, a pretty brilliant mathematician. My posts were about what it means to be human, but the article was about Kurzweil's predicitions about the...
Sanctimony, the Bible, and To Judge or Not To Judge…
Sanctimonious: adjective /ˌsaNG(k)təˈmōnēəs/1. Making a show of being morally superior to other people.There's almost nothing worse than someone, particularly evangelical preachers (although politicians are a close second), talking about the sin of others and their...
Torture, Enhanced Interrogation, etc.
Okay, at the risk of being considered potentially hypocritical and undoubtedly controversial - no matter how I go with it - I'm going to wade in. After all, that's never stopped me in the past from running my jib.This post is the result of a long process of...
Movie Review – Captain America
Despite being a fan of comic books as a kid, I wasn't really too jazzed up to go see this. The reason? I always thought Captain America (the comic books from my youth) kinda stunk. Iron Man (the comic book) didn't do it for me, either, but I thought...