Dr. ESP [BLOGGER’S NOTE: On the Deprogramming101 home page, I warn readers not to take everything I write as gospel. Today’s post is one for which I urge everyone to take that advice.] In the runup to the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, the contenders for the Republican nomination for president have uttered words one … Read more
On December 15, Dictionary.com selected “hallucinate” as its Word of the Year 2023. It is not the word I would have chosen, even considering their focus on hallucination’s relevance to artificial intelligence. Below is the official announcement. The definition strikes me as an inaccurate description of both “hallucinating” and “artificial intelligence.” If they intended to … Read more
More revealing than yesterday’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify Donald Trump as a candidate for President in the state’s primary was the reaction of the other contenders for the Republican nomination. Let’s begin with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and whatever Vivek Ramaswamy. Remember all three raised … Read more
On Tuesday, New York Representative Elise Stefanik asked the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania a simple question. “…does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (your university’s) code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment? Yes or no?” There are only two possible answers. #1: Of course it does. #2: … Read more
Was it coincidence or some cosmic reminder that yesterday, Americans saw a crime committed on live television, almost 60 years to the day after the Sunday when ABC News aired the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby in real time? To add to the paranormal nature of these two events, both offenses took … Read more