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  1. 2 days ago on Non Sequitur

    It’s impossible to avoid any bias, but WSJ seems much less biased than, say, the NYT. Even the opinion pages have columns from multiple sides of the political minefield. And they’ve been steadfast in critiquing anyone in the oval office.

  2. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

    The Wall Street Journal hasn’t endorsed a candidate since 1928. It helps avoid the appearance of bias, which other newspapers seem to embrace.

  3. 7 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Remember, remember the 5th of November…

  4. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

    So you would argue, then, that the USSR was a democracy because the hoi polloi voted?

  5. 8 days ago on Non Sequitur

    I was a corporate scientist. While there weren’t a lot of examples of malfeasance I was personally aware of (some research labs penalized employees who overstated or fudged results to get continued funding or make their lab manager look good despite pressure from the latter to do so), there was at least one instance that hurt shareholders, not the public, quite a bit. Essentially that “lab manager” became a VP on the basis of inflated results, caused the company to invest 100s of millions of dollars into a new process and plant that didn’t actually work. (One of the reasons Motorola no longer exists).

    I can’t recall any instances where corporate labs did something that hurt customers (other than creating products that failed, but that always hurt stockholders a lot more and is hardly unique to corporate labs). I certainly don’t recall any instances where corporate scientists willingly contributed to hiding safety issues of products.

    But that doesn’t mean that research results didn’t get spun by marketing (or management) to say something different or at least more palatable. Don’t blame the researchers for that.

  6. 9 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    I think Nazis only applied that phrase to the Jews. They were very much in favor of eugenics, though (as the progressives were here at the time), so their solution for mental problems was for the most part sterilization.

  7. 9 days ago on Non Sequitur

    In a “true democracy” there are no representatives.

    The real problem is that those who have taken an oath of office (to support and defend the Constitution) don’t face treason charges (and eventual execution) for violating their oath.

  8. 9 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    You realize that’s the product of some think tank and has nothing to do with anything proposed by the candidates, right?

  9. 11 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

    The free market never asks for help. Large corporations, however…

  10. 12 days ago on Non Sequitur

    Yep, not just documentation. “Mind” can be considered software running on wetware.