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Thursday, May 28, 2015

The Myth of Happiness

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What most people define as happiness is really just self satisfaction. Some may achieve it through counter-intuitive means, like self sacr...
Sunday, May 24, 2015

How do you know?

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With the 2016 presidential primary already underway, I've been thinking about the way people get their information now, and how it has c...

Authority

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My employer had one of his periodic foaming shit fits yesterday. These typically consist of a disproportionate rage response to a triggering...
Monday, May 04, 2015

The Basics of Conspiracy Theory

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Conspiracy theory boils down to one essential principle: Everything supports the theory. Lack of evidence is some of the best evidence. It...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Habit change equals habitat change

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Raking the garden beds today, I noticed that the ones that had been underneath the piles of snow I'd blown from the driveway had many li...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Burning Desire

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It's been a long, cold winter. The wood pile is almost gone. At times like this, those of us who heat with wood start to rate everythi...
Friday, January 09, 2015

The uselessness of mockery

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What self-dramatizing murderers did to the staff of Charlie Hebdo was completely reprehensible. But it illustrates the limitations of satir...
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I like to explore under my own power. I like to avoid using motor vehicles, but I'm not obsessive about it. Okay, maybe I'm a little obsessive about it.
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