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Richard S Russell Premium

A lefty (both senses) SF fan retired from a career in public service, currently living in Madison, Wisconsin, a state so wonderful people are willing to put up with the winters just to live here.

Recent Comments

  1. about 12 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

     You just confirmed that you don’t understand fundamental logic. The A in your example is rain.

    So you apparently think that a noun about a substance (“rain”) is identical a gerund about a process (“raining”). Also interesting. Do you have any more bits of your continually fascinating insights into the English language and rules of logic to offer?

  2. about 13 hours ago on Doonesbury

     This: “I suppose it’s easy to quit looking once they’ve deluded themselves that they’ve actually found [The Truth].)”

     You suppose wrongly.

    Gee, I dunno. If I’m looking for my missing sock, I stop looking once I’ve found it. You say that most people just keep on looking, hoping they’ll turn up another one? I guess I must be an oddball, then. Thanks for bringing me up to speed on the way the rest of humanity chooses to spend its spare time.

  3. about 13 hours ago on Calvin and Hobbes

     It’s an absurdity to say “A is A, but also not A sometimes”. Do you not understand fundamental logic?

    Sometimes it’s raining. Sometimes it’s not. You see this kind of observation as a fundamental flaw in logic? Interesting.

  4. about 13 hours ago on La Cucaracha

    I not only go to a lot of movies, I make sure to buy a bag of popcorn (overpriced tho it is), because that money stays with the theater locally. Most of the ticket price goes to the production and distribution companies.

  5. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

    I appreciate what the King James Bible did for literacy and standardizing the English language. But, having encountered a few documented criticisms of the translation, I’ve gained new appreciation for the Muslim view that you can only understand the Koran properly in the original Arabic.

  6. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

    Thank you for the link. Did you see the conclusions at the end of the executive summary?

     The end users indicated that, although some accuracy was observed with regard to broad background characteristics, the remote viewing reports failed to produce the concrete, specific information valued in intelligence gathering.

     The information provided was inconsistent, inaccurate with regard to specifics, and required substantial subjective interpretation.

     In no case had the information provided ever been used to guide intelligence operations. Thus, Remote viewing failed to produce actionable intelligence.

    Which is pretty much what I said.

  7. 1 day ago on Doonesbury

    How so? Was it the part about religions claiming they’ve found The Truth? Because a whole lot of them say exactly that. And they’ll be delighted to tell you why their version of it is SOOOOOOO much better than everybody else’s. You know “everybody else”, of course. It’s all the other religions that also claim they’ve found The Truth.

  8. 1 day ago on Calvin and Hobbes

     The claim is that Hobbes is “real” WITHIN the strip. I’ve shown why this is false.

    Sometimes. Sometimes not.

  9. 1 day ago on Mike Luckovich

    I don’t want anybody suppressing anyone else’s point of view, but any broadcast network that wants to retain a shred of credibility isn’t obliged (nor should it be) to provide a platform for every crazy idea that comes down the pike. That’s not censorship, it’s just a good business decision.

  10. 2 days ago on Mike Luckovich

    If Trump didn’t want her (and he didn’t), no way Fox would have her, either.