Fauxlosophy

The difference between an open mind and ideological mind is this; when an ideological mind learns conflicting facts it changes the way it argues. When the open minded person learns of inconsistencies, it changes the way they think.

Come Halliburton or high water

Halliburton has pleaded guilty regarding the 2011 Gulf spill, but not because the record shows them doing anything wrong. No because they records don't show anything at all since Haliburton destroyed them and that's what alas they are pleading guilty to doing. The CEO and major stockholders such as Dick Cheney, how could their moral compass go awry?

A goose that's worth a gander

The jury in Sanford, Florida has spoken and George Zimmerman has been acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin. According to many legal experts this verdict was a good call, since the state did not meet the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt.  So  those who are upset with the verdict as well as those who are jubilant about it, all have to abide by the rule of law. And as is his  undeniable right, George Zimmerman chose not to testify in his own defense, an option which is ingrained in our legal system and should, of course,  continue. What should not continue, as I have so often heard from my friends on the right, is the presumption that when someone won't testify citing their right not to incriminate themselves it infers that they must certainly be guilty. That is an argument they can never legitimately use again, since their guy, George Zimmerman took that option. This would indeed appear to be food for thought as a sauce for the goose that is certainly worth a gander.

This week in dumb da dumb, dumb, dumb

 The High Court in Iowa had a pretty low standard when they backed up a dentist who said that he could fire his assistant because he considered HER too attractive.  It gets better. He said because of her attractiveness he had to fire her because - and this would not be his fault - he could have an affair with her. Are we sure Anthony Scalia and Clarence Thomas are not on that court?