Douglas Murray on the travails of a gay cruise ship in the Middle East. Tyler Cowen on ‘AI maniacs.’ Will Democrats try to impeach Trump for the third time? And more.
We are reminded daily that there really is no bottom when probing the depths of stupidity. I’ve been stopped by law enforcement about 40 times in 50 years. Mostly exceeding the speed limit, a couple of DUI check points, once for not wearing a motorcycle helmet (coasting across a road with bike turned off), not once did I flee and not once did any officer draw a gun. And not once have I ever been on a gay cruise and try to disembark in a country with zero tolerance for gay men. I also don’t tug on Superman’s cape or spit into the wind, and I don’t mess around with Jim.
I graduated from Houston’s Memorial High School in 1967. We produced State Champions in basketball and National Champions in Debate. Many schools in Texas no longer even have debate teams. We have lost a great deal.
Debate forces students to vigorously defend both sides of a resolution. One round your team debates one side of a proposition and the next round your team debates the other side. You learn to be part of a team. If you wish to be successful, you must see the strengths and the weaknesses in your own arguments as well as those of your opponents.
It places a premium on reasoning over “evidence.” As soon as an opponent begins a sentence with… “experts say,” “science proves,” “sources report,” or worse yet… “studies show” even the rankest novice can smell blood in the water. Evidence is important but it is secondary to reasoning and logic.
I have faced some vicious opponents when I boxed but none had the rapier like thrust of some I faced in debate. Sharp elbows were a weapon on the basketball court but cutting comments were the bread and butter in Cross-Examination. However, debate taught comity as well. A team could overwhelmingly win an argument but being an asshole could cost you dearly.
I believe we need a return to comity. God knows I do from time to time. BUT even more importantly I wish we could get back to respecting the other fellow’s argument. Intelligent and good people can see the world differently than we do. The fact that they hold a different opinion doesn’t necessarily make them bad just wrong.
Wonderfully said! I wish I had been on a debate team because it took many more years before some of those lessons sank in for me. Whenever I think that my argument might be weak, I look for logical fallacies and whenever I think that my argument has no holes, I think about the Dunning-Kruger effect.
“Twice-Rejected American Cruise Puts Spotlight on Rollback of LGBTQ Rights, Passengers Say.”
We enjoy civil rights in this country because brave men and women died for us. It is foolish to think that when visiting a foreign country you have any rights whatsoever. You MAY have privileges, but no rights. What idiot thought that a Muslim nation would grant any privileges to our gay brothers and sisters? Oh, but I forgot that it's all because of Trump...
Follow @DanBurmawi on X and Substack an ex Muslim now Christian who is dedicated to fighting the Islamic Onslaught against Western Civilization
We need an actionable plan beyond just posting on social media
Our elected governments (UNIPARTY) will not save our country
the courts are too busy protecting Islam rather that understanding that t is a political system (UMMA) that happens to have a religion -the whole think is simply incompatible with American Law and way of Life
From this article we do not know what the status of the young man's alcohol use was - when was his last drink? was he sober for months or years or was he intoxicated when he was admitted?Why was this crucial information not supplied ?
without that information it seems as though that history was included by someone to deflect from the real and dangerous problem of Cost cutting measures made by enormously wealthy Hospital systems like this one YALE implemented under the guise of "tech will heal all that is wrong with the healthcare delivery system in America"
what's wrong with it , is that hospital systems are pillaging the health care dollar at everyone else’sexpense. Follow @dutch Rojas on X and Substack for the details of the scams
We are reminded daily that there really is no bottom when probing the depths of stupidity. I’ve been stopped by law enforcement about 40 times in 50 years. Mostly exceeding the speed limit, a couple of DUI check points, once for not wearing a motorcycle helmet (coasting across a road with bike turned off), not once did I flee and not once did any officer draw a gun. And not once have I ever been on a gay cruise and try to disembark in a country with zero tolerance for gay men. I also don’t tug on Superman’s cape or spit into the wind, and I don’t mess around with Jim.
Jim Croce had more common sense than all the pols in D.C combined.
RETURN TO COMITY
I graduated from Houston’s Memorial High School in 1967. We produced State Champions in basketball and National Champions in Debate. Many schools in Texas no longer even have debate teams. We have lost a great deal.
Debate forces students to vigorously defend both sides of a resolution. One round your team debates one side of a proposition and the next round your team debates the other side. You learn to be part of a team. If you wish to be successful, you must see the strengths and the weaknesses in your own arguments as well as those of your opponents.
It places a premium on reasoning over “evidence.” As soon as an opponent begins a sentence with… “experts say,” “science proves,” “sources report,” or worse yet… “studies show” even the rankest novice can smell blood in the water. Evidence is important but it is secondary to reasoning and logic.
I have faced some vicious opponents when I boxed but none had the rapier like thrust of some I faced in debate. Sharp elbows were a weapon on the basketball court but cutting comments were the bread and butter in Cross-Examination. However, debate taught comity as well. A team could overwhelmingly win an argument but being an asshole could cost you dearly.
I believe we need a return to comity. God knows I do from time to time. BUT even more importantly I wish we could get back to respecting the other fellow’s argument. Intelligent and good people can see the world differently than we do. The fact that they hold a different opinion doesn’t necessarily make them bad just wrong.
Wonderfully said! I wish I had been on a debate team because it took many more years before some of those lessons sank in for me. Whenever I think that my argument might be weak, I look for logical fallacies and whenever I think that my argument has no holes, I think about the Dunning-Kruger effect.
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/fallacies
If more kids took debate they might discover that both sides of an issue usually have valid points.
There is a humility in the self-awareness that there are holes in your own thinking.
BUT above all being forced to debate both sides of a proposition makes your own beliefs more nuanced, stronger, and better constructed.
“Twice-Rejected American Cruise Puts Spotlight on Rollback of LGBTQ Rights, Passengers Say.”
We enjoy civil rights in this country because brave men and women died for us. It is foolish to think that when visiting a foreign country you have any rights whatsoever. You MAY have privileges, but no rights. What idiot thought that a Muslim nation would grant any privileges to our gay brothers and sisters? Oh, but I forgot that it's all because of Trump...
"Oh, but I forgot that it's all because of Trump..."
FINALLY, you get it!
From the Bubonic Plague to the Hindenburg Disaster, Trump was behind the evil.
Remember, remember it has taken you a long time but you have finally figured it out.
WELL DONE!!!
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LMAO!
The headline attributes the death to the system but the article doesn’t. Not good. Not fair.
Follow @DanBurmawi on X and Substack an ex Muslim now Christian who is dedicated to fighting the Islamic Onslaught against Western Civilization
We need an actionable plan beyond just posting on social media
Our elected governments (UNIPARTY) will not save our country
the courts are too busy protecting Islam rather that understanding that t is a political system (UMMA) that happens to have a religion -the whole think is simply incompatible with American Law and way of Life
"The War on the West" by Douglas Murray and "The West's Last Chance" by Tony Blankley should be required reading by everyone in the West.
Again you are spot on.
The Republican Party is not going to solve our problems and the Democrat Party will just exacerbate them.
From this article we do not know what the status of the young man's alcohol use was - when was his last drink? was he sober for months or years or was he intoxicated when he was admitted?Why was this crucial information not supplied ?
without that information it seems as though that history was included by someone to deflect from the real and dangerous problem of Cost cutting measures made by enormously wealthy Hospital systems like this one YALE implemented under the guise of "tech will heal all that is wrong with the healthcare delivery system in America"
what's wrong with it , is that hospital systems are pillaging the health care dollar at everyone else’sexpense. Follow @dutch Rojas on X and Substack for the details of the scams
Did the cruise ship make a stop in israel when turkey and Egypt said you're not welcome here?
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How many data center protesters are there in china?
Two incredibly good comments in a row both of which I wish I had posted.