I am going to try not to do this too often because I do not want to give the appearance that I am abusing my position on the RNL to drive traffic to it, but I have another blog page where I post on much more narrowed subject matter. Since my most recent post on…
OK, if you read my post on basic logic and constructing arguments, this is your first pop-quiz. the topic is logical extension. I am going to show you how and why the title of this post is not straw man or ad hominem. We start with a recent comment by Comrade Karl: Joe the ‘great…
I’m tired of being lectured by people wholly ignorant of logic and right reasoning. I would never pretend to lecture Utah on any matter dealing with the oil or even energy industry. Nor would I lecture Augger about health care or medicine. I wouldn’t even lecture Melfamy about matters related to skippering a commercial vessel. …
…and when they aren’t, Texans have an answer for that: This was an actual ad in the sports section of today’s Houston Chronicle.
Droughts in 2011/2012 caused by global warming? Sure, said the New York Times: BY many measurements, this summer’s drought is one for the record books. But so was last year’s drought in the South Central states. And it has been only a decade since an extreme five-year drought hit the American West. Widespread annual droughts,…
