What causes ordinary, caring people to use outright lies and deception to promote their political views? We naturally expect such behavior from our politicians or corrupt business leaders. But the act of using...
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Tim Patrick
Today’s Breaking News: It’s Not All Bad News
The last twenty years have been tough for the news industry. Although I still subscribe to a daily newspaper ("Now available five days per week!"), the service is a bit of a dying art, as well as a decreasing source of...
Fake News, Fake Conclusions
Fake news is all the rage these days. Whether the source is a tweet by Donald Trump, or the musings of some web site of questionable impartiality, anything that smacks of propaganda, or that includes outright lies, or...
Surviving in a World of Partial Information
It seems we have overcome our most recent national nightmare concerning healthcare. Advocates of the Republican's "American Health Care Act of 2017" are crying themselves gently to sleep, while those who opposed the...
Jobless Rate Rises Unexpectedly to 527 Percent
Numbers issued this morning by the US Labor Department showed a sudden increase in the total count of unemployed Americans, rising sharply from 10.1 percent to 526.8 percent. Experts in the Obama administration and at...