“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Proverbs 16:1 (NIV)
Proverbs 16, NIV: A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. 2 The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool…
Don’t let your victories slip through your grasp through neglect, lost focus, distractions, and a host of other causes.
First Five reading. Judges 8. When we think we are there. When we met our goal. When victory is in our grasp. Let us not forget there is more to…
“Confirmation bias” and “I know a case/person” story may be disheartening but they appeal to your emotions rather than facts
This is a story based upon confirmation bias. Of course it is heartbreaking. Just as heartbreaking as those when someone is killed by amn illegal alien with a record and…
“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.”
Thinking about freedom of speech now being practiced at some of our ‘liberal left’ college campuses. Shut em up, shut em down, shut their mouths. Once upon a time schools…
Subsidiary of the government-run British National Health Service has decided to bar obese patients and smokers from undgergoing hip and knee operations.
A story from Forbes’ Magazine. Admittedly pro-business, but objective and factually based. If you’ve been concerned about the fate of veterans’ health care in the U.S., look to its cousin…
The Statue of Liberty is a noble symbol representative of a caring and compassionate goal, but it is not our nation’s law. A line from a poem to those yearning to be free. But still just a line from a poem.
Some are relying upon the phrase that America is “melting pot” and the Statue of Liberty as support for a nation without borders, the establishment of sanctuary cities, limited restrictions,…
Link farming, feeds, and likes on Facebook
Link farming, feed clutter, and more. Like or unlike. Sad, wow or angry. These emotional responses have consequences. And who has not clicked away on them. Heck, I do not…
Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-1863). On war, duty, and faith.
Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (1824-1863). On war, duty, and faith. Judges Chapter 7. “It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They…
“Even This Shall Pass Away” by Theodore Tilton as read by Thomas O’Bedlam
Poetry once so much a part of our lives as students seems to have taken a back seat to the events of today and the pleasures of the spirit. Novels…
Anecdotal evidence, confirmation bias, “I know a case ….”, and hiding the ball.
Anecdotal evidence aka “confirmation bias or cherry picking fallacy”. This is a debating and presentation trick used by so many. You see it when presidents point to individuals in the…