What makes a strongman is the willingness to take advantage of the weaknesses in institutions to accumulate power, money, military might, territory and the ability to control and thereby subjugate others. Their appeal is contained in their offer to the masses: If you give up your rights, your...
Swatting is a newer form of cyberbullying in which a bully makes a phony call to emergency services, describing a hostage situation, bomb threat, or other critical condition. Police then rush in (sometimes with a SWAT team, hence the name), and things can escalate drastically from there. An...
I haven’t done it perfectly and don’t expect I ever will. I have fallen behind at times and had to catch up. I’ve burned the midnight oils and had to set my alarm for the wee hours of the morning because I needed to get a post out. But it is always a labor of love. The...
While average can be understood in various contexts and is applied according to the situation (e.g., median in a skewed distribution to avoid the skewing effect of outliers), mean always involves the same arithmetic process, making it consistent across applications. This makes mean particularly va...
I mean, I want to protect them from the lies that are out there in the culture, but I also want to protect them from those voices that I think are going to exploit what our real issues and lead them in a wrong direction. And that’s what I think the red pill does. So that’s...
That doesn’t mean that everyone dies. In fact, in some movies, like Atonement and The Irishman, living into old age is more of a punishment for the main characters than an early death would be. Movies where everyone loses can be pretty bleak, but they are often fairer and more ...
There are many articles on the Internet about DNA and IQ, I suggest you simply search them out and read a few. The data is conclusive, the rationale explaining the data is not. Brown I’m not sure I understand what you mean when you said the rationale explaining the data is not conclu...
A woman mentioned a habit she now does regularly: if there’s something positive she’s heard about someone, she makes a point of telling that person what was said. She said it makes them feel so good to know. That story pinged for me so I plan to do the same. Instead of looking ...
I have always loved this metaphor, as it validates a deep yearning in me, and makes me feel brave. Because I am a person who wants to look inside those places. And see what is there, to name it, to own it. It has been my personal quest, to become more aware, more conscious. My...
She described her mom as a “brilliant five-foot tall brown woman with an accent” and a “tough, courageous” person who dreamed of curing breast cancer. “I miss her every day,” Harris said. “And especially right now.” And, like other Democratic speakers throughout the week, she ...