Content 16+ Imagine, if you will, a car speeding down the highway of life. It has all the trappings of modern engineering: a glossy finish, touch-screen dashboard, and perhaps a neuro-integrated GPS that pings you with every poor decision you’ve ever made. Now imagine the driver—no, not some sleek AI or hyper-rational cyborg. Instead, it’s a monkey. A jittery, banana-hungry, dopamine-fueled primate with the emotional restraint of a toddler in … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 21+ It is more than a little bit interesting how stating one’s political views can ruin a friendship. So wise, the old saying about two things to avoid at a party: religion and politics. Well, religion can be put on the back burner at most punch bowl bashes these days, but politics always seems to find a new life no matter what. Kind … Read the rest
Content 18+ There was a time when news was something you read in print over morning coffee or watched on an evening broadcast. Today, news is a stream, continuous and relentless, capable of shaping perceptions, reinforcing beliefs, and, as some claim, dividing society into impenetrable ideological camps. But is this truly the fault of “the media,” or is there something subtler at work?
Let us, like curious scientists, examine the … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ The overwhelming mandate in favor of Donald Trump was also an indictment of the ‘mainstream’ American media. Nothing could be a better statement of the general good sense of the public at large than this categorical rejection of Far Left Wing propaganda, which has been nonstop for years now.
Who am I to say this? Well, I am a 75 year old white male … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ There are a lot of ways to look at Donald Trump’s stunning victory, and perhaps even more ways not to. Among the latter are to demonize Trump and stomp one’s feet about ‘populism’ and start calling every Trump-supporter a nazi or fascist. But beyond the inevitable sour grapes and name calling, there is one error that leaps off the charts: pretending that Trump’s win … Read the rest
