Or frustrated actors-turned-interpreters who are now SUPER frustrated after years of having to regurgitate other people’s inanity, even if the job does pay eight thousand a month, and what they’d really like to do is grab that microphone and explain the facts of a messy divorce to all 1...
the example of perceiving that Donald Trump is the president, seems to state something beyond my immediate sensorimotor stream of data. It’s less about “perceiving” what these observations mean. And more like “knowledge” that can be drawn upon to make other predictions. Knowledge seems to ...
‘What would you tell a friend?’ Bare facts on Israel/Palestine I wrote this the day after the IDF (read: Israeli army) demolished a building in Gaza that housed several news agencies, including the Associated Press. It's currently running in our local alternative paper, the Shepherd Expres...
In the aftermath of the Donald Trump election, when people were talking about books to recommend to understand liberal versus conservative perspectives, I thought that The Heretics would be a good book to read because it shows you how to understand points of view that you think might even be ...
I don’t think the Republicans should crow about the mess the Democrats are in. Their candidate, Donald Trump, is 78 years old, just three years younger than Joe Biden. If elected, Trump will be the same age Biden was when he began his term. Granted, Trump is far more robust than Bi...
One of the features of the Donald Trump ‘Presidency’ (and I use that term in the loosest possible sense) has been the supposed threat from North Korea. Intercontinental ballistic missiles (they’re like a Charlie Adam penalty, but not as dangerous) are supposedly capable of striking at any...
“Truth, facts, press freedom, and the future of open discourse are all on the ballot this November,” PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said in a statement. Noseel and Penguin Random House U.S. CEO Madeline McIntosh said they were pleased to be working together to provide credible and ...
“The Cult of Trump” “The Flores Exhibits” “The Great Trials of World History” “The I-Team” “The President and Immigration Law” “The Under Assistant West Coast Promo Man” “The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism and the Rest of Us ...
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I don’t think I should be – I don’t think I did or any of the jury members did anything that says we believe one way or the other about politics, about any of these issues. I think we were empaneled to find facts, and I think we did our best to find those facts and ...