Talking It Out

A couple videos provided without comment. First, from Newsroom ... And second, from The West Wing ... These clips were the topic of a conversation a while ago, and as I just now got around to watching them, I felt they belonged in a slightly bigger conversation. I'm sure you've seen them before. Enjoy.

Have you seen the VICE video? If not, take 22 minutes...

I've been neglecting this blog since April. Not because there aren't things to say. I think it's because it's all been coming at us fast and furious, and it's hard to boil down feelings to just one topic. So, today I thought I'd post this video I stumbled across about three weeks ago. I meant to post it before now, but, well... It kind of explains a lot, don't you think? I found this via the Huffington Post . Check it out to find links to the Dunning-Kruger effect and Salience Bias.

un•com•fort•a•ble ənˈkəmfərdəb(ə)l,ˌənˈkəmftərbəl/ adjective causing or feeling slight pain or physical discomfort. Or causing or feeling unease or awkwardness. REDNECK. HILLBILLY. MORON. FANATIC. OBSTRUCTIONIST. FRINGE WING NUT. MISOGYNIST. RACIST. ZEALOT. EXTREMIST. IDEOLOGUE. LIBTARD. HIPPIE. LIBERAL. ELITIST. CRONY. BLOWHARD. LOON. CUCK. SNOWFLAKE. BETA. CRYBABY. SJW (SHORT FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR). First, we have the Oxford Dictionary’s list of the most commonly used “slurs” used by left-leaning internet users, when confronting right-leaning internet users. Followed by the list used by right leaning toward left leaning. It is interesting to me that while the majority of the Left’s insults are recognized as universal language ( Oxford’s study found that the words most used by the left are also used by the right, just in fewer instances ), more than half of the Right’s insults are rooted in the Alt-Right movement . Please be sure you understand this: The “Alt-Right” is...

In the June 26, 2008 District of Columbia et al. v. Heller US Supreme Court majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia, LLB, wrote, "Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose… nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms." Scalia was known as a believer in Originalism, meaning that the Constitution should be taken as it is written, in precise language, without any undo interpretation. As one of the most conservative Justices in our nation’s history, his ...