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January 19, 2023 Malice and incompetence usually go together, not apart. Many of us have heard the maxim; “never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained  by mere stupidity or incompetence.” This has probably been stated in one way or other from the beginning of writing. It has been

January 19, 2023 The Indo Europeans; where they came from, where they went, why it matters. I have been hanging around internet discussion boards that deal with the present geopolitical situation. This often gets into the ideas various ethnic nationalisms have about themselves and their origins. Most have no scientific

February 3, 2023 About all these other Languages. A few months ago I got into a discussion about languages on an internet forum. It started with the Slavic languages and got into Indo European languages, where they came from and got to. I have my own ideas on the subject

March 9, 2023 The fish rots from the head down. Recently one of my fellow blogsters put up a piece complaining about the decline of human behaviour in the syndemic age. She referenced it to the famed Calhoun experiments with “rat paradises”. This produced some discussion. I have decided it

March 15, 2023 Logic must apply to all of reality. I have been blogging now for three years. My aim has been, first of all, to try to apply proper thinking skills to the important topics of the times. These are mostly about putting in place institutions which can secure

August 30, 2023 It is time for me to engage in some misanthropism I am now going to dip my quill into my inkpot and mess up some parchment about the wickedness of mankind outside my sealed off and secure little world. I really have become something like a monk