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Federal employees do not deserve their jobs. Federal employees do not deserve their paychecks. And these are jobs that can be fired at will. They’re consuming taxpayer dollars. Those jobs are paid for by the American tax people, who work real jobs, earn real income, pay federal taxes and then pay these federal employees. ~Marjorie … Read more

When Maher Is Less

Last night, Bill Maher became the most recent defender of Michelle Wolf’s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD). He echoed others by saying, “She did her job!” Yes. If her job was to create sympathy for Donald Trump. On April 28, the day of the WHCD dinner Trump’s net approval rating according to … Read more

The Fair Way

The Bible is very clear about one thing. Using politics to create fairness is a sin. ~P. J. O’Rourke There is a debate going on in America about fairness when it comes to designing a system by which winners are chosen. It is an obsession for some people, myself included. If you think I am … Read more

Who Ya Gonna Call?

A hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes completely alien to humans, uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. Technological Singularity/Wikipedia The question is no longer, “Will we reach technological singularity?” Instead, the only missing variable is “WHEN will we reach it?” The answer, based on the attention to and rapid deployment of … Read more

How to Build a Conspiracy Theory UPDATED

BLOGGER’S NOTE:  I occasionally skim through previous posts to see if they held up over time.  At best, I am batting .500.  This one, however, originally written as satire, unfortunately proved to be more truth than fiction. Disclaimer:  One modus operandi of the Donald Trump campaign has been the creation and distribution of conspiracy theories about … Read more