Monthly Archives: April 2012

An excellent article on climate change and groupthink. Watts Up With That? In groupthink, organizations value consensus more than free thought. The emphasis on consensus leads to group polarization, in which a group’s positions become more extreme than any individual … Continue reading →

An excellent allegory for our times.

Originally posted on self evident truths:
Chen Guangcheng, a man much braver than I’d likely be, has apparently taken sanctuary in the American embassy in Beijing. Chen has been pursuing legal means to get the Chinese dictatorship to stop forcing…

Originally posted on Asylum Watch:
It’s Sunday and today’s poem by The Bard of Murdock is of the all time favorites from his archives. It was originally published on March 26, 2011. **************************** I Am the Very Model of a…

I have posted a comment on a wall in my office. Doing so took most of my enthusiasm,but I did it.

Originally posted on Charles Rowley's Blog:
In September 2005, blind  lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, is arrested by the Chinese government. His alleged crime is helping to mount a legal challenge over policies designed to force Chinese women into abortions in conformity with the…

Originally posted on The Neosecularist:
Now might be the best opportunity available to become an anti-American terrorist, if you listen to anything the Arianna Nation (HuffPost) has to say on the matter of prisoner “torture” and enhanced interrogation techniques, which…