Saturday, March 28, 2026
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Brandolini's Law
Brandolini's Law explains why it is so difficult to refute lies and distortions. Here's a Wikipedia article on this subject:
Brandolini's law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle) is an Internet adage coined in 2013 by Italian programmer Alberto Brandolini. It compares the considerable effort of debunking misinformation to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The adage states:
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.[1][2]
The challenge of refuting bullshit does not come just from its time-consuming nature, but also from the challenge of defying and confronting one's community.[3]
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Thursday, March 19, 2026
While The Looting Was Happening
Thom Hartmann wrote this today (3/19/26) and it's very accurate! Blaming someone other than the wealthy who are taking your money! >>
"While the looting was happening, the oligarchs had a problem. People were getting angry. So they built a machine to point that anger somewhere else. Welfare queens. Immigrants. Crime. Culture wars. Voter fraud. Pick your decade and they had a fresh villain ready to go, always someone at the bottom of the ladder, always someone with even less power than the working people being robbed. It’s the oldest trick in the book, going back to the Caesars and the Confederacy. And for forty-plus years it worked like a charm. Working people were so busy being furious at each other that they never looked up to see who was actually picking their pockets."
https://hartmannreport.com/p/no-i-wasnt-kidnapped
Restarting This Blog (March 2026)
I'm restarting this blog after a long absence. In reading through the earliest posts (covering the election of 'Cadet Bone Spurs' and continuing on for about two years) it's uncanny how accurate some of the writings I had quoted were and still are. Sad but true!
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