A logical mind dealing with an illogical world
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” Harlan Ellision This is going to be a long one. I am stepping way out of my comfort zone on this one, but I consider it a good object lesson on being careful about …
Continue reading “Gamestop and the r/wallstreetbets end game”
“A resolution is a promise to yourself that you haven’t broken….yet“ Now that the New Year has been rung in, leaving behind a year like no other, what next? If you are like me and most other people, you have probably made some resolutions for the New Year. The beginning of a new year is …
“And if everything we do saves even a single life, I’ll be happy.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Let me preface this post by saying that the pandemic is real and serious. All deaths due to the virus, directly or indirectly, are tragic and cause for making our best effort to mitigate the effect of the …
I could hardly believe my eyes and ears. After months of shaking my head and saying to myself (and others) “this doesn’t make sense. It makes no sense,” others are beginning to do the same and openly declaring some scientific truth in the discussion of Covid-19 and our unprecedented response to it. It strikes me …
“Social media has such an outsize presence and influence in our daily lives that it has become the proverbial elephant in the room.” Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. Everyone knows what this means. In discarding something bad or undesirable, take care that you do not throw out aspects that are good …
It is hard to argue with the fact that speculation has been one of the most, if not the most, significant factors in the Wuhan virus pandemic. There has been speculation as to the origins of the virus. Was it man made? Did it originate in a Wuhan lab or did it arise de novo …
Continue reading “Speculation: the one thing we can all agree on regarding the Wuhan virus”
I have repeatedly said that to understand the numbers in discussing the Wuhan virus, you have to understand the context. What this means is that just giving out total numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and even deaths must be clearly understood in their proper context to be meaningful. I have long felt that that the numbers …
Continue reading “The CDC and the 6% “solution”- is it time to start celebrating?”
Daniel Mintz, Chair of the Department of Information Technology at the University of Maryland Global Campus posted on Facebook a very interesting thought experiment. Mintz openly acknowledged that he suffers from TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). He describes the lead up to a Trump victory in November based on his speculation that Trump decides to control …
Continue reading “A Thought Experiment- musing on the November elections”
When I was a boy, I lived in a wonderful neighborhood filled with kids my age. One of these was Skipper Jaffe, who lived two doors down. When I was around 7, Skipper came down with measles. When the news got out in the neighborhood that the Jaffe house had measles, all the other moms …
In the ongoing, seemingly never-ending crisis due to the Wuhan virus, SARS-CoV-2, which causes the illness Covid-19, the new battleground has become the issue of opening up the schools in the fall. Social media is rife with heated arguments for and against returning children to school, from elementary to college. In the elementary area, this …
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