ratiocinations out of thin air and elsewhere
WARNING: This is where all the really political things are found. Know that I am so liberal that I don’t mind at all that others are conservative—as long as your opinions are based on facts. While I have mellowed considerably with age, I still suffer fools poorly.
As Artemus Ward reputedly observed: “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble, it’s the things we do know that just ain’t so.”
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A RECENT QUORA posed the question, “Why is there such animosity between liberals and conservatives in the United States?” A Tom Wetzel offered an intelligent comment that opened with this statement: “It’s ironic in a certain way. Both Democrats and Republicans espouse forms of liberal ideology that are intensely pro-capitalist.” [Read more] “when my people are in control vs. when your people are in control”
IN A RECENT POST on The Round Place In The Middle (“If I Tweeted”), host Nondisposablejohnny addressed a variety of issues with hypothetical tweets, including several about the 1991 movie JFK by Oliver Stone. This led me to want to address all those silly conspiracy theories out there. [Read more] “oliver stone and clint eastwood and all those silly conspiracy theories”
NFL NOW AMERICA’S LEAST FAVORED SPORT! What the Fudd!??! Can that be true? Well, it depends on who you want to believe and how low your threshold of credulity: “According to a poll by the Winston Group, 42% of men between the age of 35-54 had a favorable view of the NFL in September, but has since dropped to 31%—making it the least favored major sport on the survey.” [Read more] “have you heard? NFL football now america’s least favored sport!”
AN ARTICLE TITLED “More plastic than fish in the sea by 2050” draws attention to a new Ellen MacArthur Foundation report on plastics and the oceans of our world. Greenpeace constructed their consciousness-raising quote for their current “Demand big corporations do their part to end plastic pollution” petition (in bold grey print below) from this report. [Read more] “our world is choking on plastic (demand corporations do their part to end it)”
