He Never Said It

Posted on September 14, 2012 by muser

This is probably one of the least urgent matters that still manages to trouble me…

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Relativistic Bullshit

Posted on July 9, 2012 by muser

There is a quotation that is going around, attributed to physicist Albert Einstein. It goes:

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.

Einstein never said it. It is a quote by Darryl Anka. About the only statement in this quotation that is accurate is that it’s not philosophy. It certainly isn’t that; nor is it physics. It’s bullshit. As physicist Wolfgang Pauli said, “It’s not even wrong.”

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Hero’s Welcome

Posted on July 6, 2012 by muser

According to this article, a lifeguard was fired for saving someone’s life.  Supposedly, by abandoning his post to run to the rescue of a drowning swimmer, Thomas Lopez endangered the lives of the people Lopez was supposed to be watching.

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The Higgs Boson

Posted on July 6, 2012 by muser

At long last, physicists at CERN in Europe have found something that looks like the elusive Higgs Boson, also called the God Particle.  It seems to me that the physicists themselves are pleased, but not ecstatic.  It seems to be the media who are waxing poetic about this particle.

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Richard Wagner

Posted on June 20, 2012 by muser

Every so often someone asks me, with awe, “did you know that Wagner never went to music school?”  My response is that it’s obvious from his music.  I don’t know *why* so many people are amazed that Wagner didn’t go to music school.  In fact, I don’t even know if it’s true.  But every so often someone brings it up again.

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The Dangers Of Combat

Posted on June 9, 2012 by muser

A New York Times article reports that more of our soldiers are dying as a result of suicide than from enemy fire.

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The Grammar Nazis

Posted on November 15, 2011 by muser

I often encounter people who make a big deal about spelling and grammar.  They insist that these issues are important, that a person who doesn’t use “correct” grammar and spelling is ignorant, or at least beneath notice.  I disagree with them.

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Missing Persons

Posted on August 1, 2011 by muser

A recent news article informs me that a man kept his deceased wife’s body in a freezer for the past ten years.

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Hate Crimes

Posted on August 29, 2010 by muser

In New York someone attacked a cab driver, allegedly because the driver was a Muslim.  There is a question of whether this is a hate crime.

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The Trouble With Kids These Days

Posted on August 6, 2010 by muser

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

Attributed to Socrates
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