Month: August 2020

My personal opinions on how the the world works.

Red and Blue

The News Media for decades now have screened maps showing places that favor Democrats in blue and those that favor Republicans in red.  Why this plan?  It seems fairly clear that the MSM chose this scheme to confuse as much as possible the facts that true-blue Americans generally vote Republican while the Reds generally vote…
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What’s a Jury For ?

When a legal dispute comes to trial, the argument is almost always between two lawyers, in front of a judge who is also a lawyer.  The job of the lawyers for the plaintiff and the defense are tasked with seeing that their clients get the best deal possible within the limits imposed by the law. …
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Law and Order

There are two essential functions of government.  One is defense, defense against threats from other societies.  The other is Law and Order, the imposition of rules to protect our rights against threats from within our society.  Over the millennia, governments have taken on other tasks, but these two are essential.  Other functions may be nice…
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Corporal Punishment

In times past, corporal punishment was common in western culture.  Today it is anathema.  When Jesus was whipped on his way to the Cross, corporal punishment was anything but a new invention.  What are the pluses and minuses of corporal punishment?  To inflict corporal punishment on a human being does seem cruel and barbaric.  Worse…
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Stupidity in Organizations

Large organizations seem to be very good at finding stupid tasks for themselves, or finding a worthwhile task and doing it in a stupid way.  Examples abound.  When I was in the military, I heard a few stories…. Colonel Custer led a couple of hundred troops to attack thousands of Sioux under Crazy Horse, who…
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