The last post was more than long enough, and attacked the basic problem of 'what is wrong with this coherent argument about fairness?...

AVI has posted an interesting challenge , an article that strikes me as making a coherent but wrong argument; yet saying just exactly why it...

Nobody's thinking about Syria right now, but there is a little complication in US policy there.  Congress is nearing a vote on the Pent...

That's quite a hat .  The article is paywalled, but the photo caption says, "Kefan Wang (4th generation Shaman of Liaoning Province...

Grim got me started listening to Jimmie Rodgers and I've been exploring the early 20th century for other musicians like him. Although th...

1. The King Arthur Trilogy by Rosemary Sutcliff The King Arthur Trilogy is a worthy retelling of the Arthurian stories for a younger audien...

Why not?

The late 19th & early 20th century Austrian poet Rilke was recommended to me by a literature professor, so I gave him a try. Here are a...

Eight airmen dead after a B-52 crash. We’ve been flying the same planes since before any of us were born, on the same mission. They are the...

As I said at  AVI's place , I tend to think that this "peace deal" is just an attempt to push the matter off until after the m...

I went to UFC headquarters last time I was out in Vegas. It's quite a thing, really.  I have heard that the President slept through part...

So claim " other psychologists ."  Not serious ones, I imagine, though serious psychology strikes me as a philosopher as a sort o...

No, it's ironic, but it's no joke .  BYD said the Denza Z featured “shattering high performance” with over 1,000 hp and the ability...

I think I may have mentioned here some time ago that my uncle, late in his life, gave an interview to preserve his memories of taking Okinaw...

I had been told that hate was always wrong; apparently that's not operative any longer . SpaceX is set to make Elon Musk the first trill...

The Swedish athlete mentioned yesterday: Many people helpfully explained that “some items are stolen more than others.” That’s true! And it’...

A man in Scotland writes, but has to channel it through an American because he is now forbidden to say it aloud. Once upon a time, North Am...

Here was the song he was running down the road. The song sets it up as a reference to an older piece, though, and it is. Here's a versio...

Apparently there's a soccer series going on right now that has brought a bunch of foreign soccer players to America. Soccer is not an Am...

A named fallacy, but : A fallacy doesn't mean it's wrong , it just means that logic can't guarantee truth preservation. Fallacio...