There are times when I just feel swamped–so much crazy stuff going on, I can’t decide what to write about. So how about a little selection of simple observations?
Just because everybody says it’s true, doesn’t mean it’s true. The “appeal to consensus” is an invalid argument. But it’s the main support beam for Evolution, Climate Change, what have you.
But of course if the majority opinion is that some liberal scheme is wrong and totally undesirable, consensus then becomes irrelevant.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker doesn’t have a college degree; therefore he isn’t qualified to be president. Maybe he ought to cram for a degree in Women’s Studies. Then he’d be qualified to be president.
Every utopian scheme–are you listening, Humanist Manifesto fans?–is doomed to run aground on the rocks of sheer impossibility. They promise things that no one can give, and eventually succeed only in arousing a revolution of rising expectations. You can’t string people along forever.
If President *Batteries Not Included really loves this country, he has a mighty strange way of showing it.
If our current crop of leaders truly is the best a nation of 300 million can do, God help us.
I especially agree with that last one. I mean, good grief. 300 million, and all we could come up with was a black president who isn’t even fully black (yet it’s still racist not to vote for him), and who never held much of a job in his life yet somehow is still expected to be able to hold the highest job in the land.
It reminds me of the song with this line in it:
‘Grandpa, tell me ’bout the good old days;
Sometimes it feels like
This world’s gone crazy …’