by Win Lose or Draw | Jul 8, 2025 | Education, Science and Emerging Technology
The debate about the future of Digitized Intelligence often incorrectly centers on the question of Sentience. For the record, Sentience is defined in terms of feelings, perceptions, and emotions, attributes that even the lowliest of animals demonstrably have and that...
by Win Lose or Draw | Jun 6, 2025 | Culture Wars, Education, History as it applies to the Future, Politcal Parties, Politics
In 1960, John Steinbeck decided he wanted to tour America. He packed a few essentials and his dog, Charley, into a camper he had named Rocinante, after Don Quixote’s horse. Why did he go? A skeptic might answer that he was a writer, and, by natural inclination, went...
by Win Lose or Draw | Feb 26, 2025 | Education, Politics
Elon Musk knows how to do political theater, but the intended rhetorical message is way off base. Yes, the government in my beloved country, America, is wasteful and inefficient, but the chainsaw approach is the wrong idea. You don’t fix the plane with a chainsaw when...
by Win Lose or Draw | Feb 26, 2024 | Education, History as it applies to the Future, Science and Emerging Technology
A lot of the information below comes from EarthSky.org. What follows is from my extremely limited and non-scientific perspective. Today’s eighth grader is learning things about which I am only vaguely aware. Here’s what I know: The ancient Greeks had various ideas on...
by Win Lose or Draw | Oct 31, 2018 | Education, Politcal Parties, Politics, Witty Repartee on any topic
The One Question Quiz: Below you will find four distinct sets of political statements/opinions. Each group of statements is meant to be representative of a distinct group of American voters. Therefore, the four sets of statements are theoretical Party Platforms for...
by Win Lose or Draw | Jun 15, 2016 | Education, Politcal Parties, Politics
Unstoppable I picked up Unstoppable by Ralph Nader for $5.00. It was on the “Last Chance” rack outside of Books-A-Million. In the book, Ralph Nader gives examples of times when political factions have overcome their normally antagonistic natures to form an...
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