The Pragmatic Idealist

A New Museum of the American Revolution, Warts and All   The Crisis of Western Civ A New Exoplanet may be the Most Promising Yet in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. - Henry Ford Fantastic Catch by Lorenzo Rally Cat The Point of Hate

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made, in a narrow field." - Niels Bohr The Coming Incompetence Crisis Twitter Sues Government to Block Unmasking of Account Critical of Trump Jeff Bezos Says he is Selling $1B per year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space Why Expertise Matters

"Never argue with an idiot. They will pull you down to their level and beat you with experience." - Mark Twain (att.) The Weekly Standard's Arsenal to Fight Falsehoods: 'Facts, Logic and Reason'   How Uber uses Psychological Tricks to Push its Driver' Buttons     Middlebury, my Divided Campus

"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same things. Cats have the courage to live by them." - Jim Davis Why People Continue to Believe Objectively False Things The GOP's Existential Crisis Who Killed the Iceman? Clues Emerge in a Very Cold Case Cats are Actually Nice, Scientists Find

I am an optimist.  It does not seem much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill   Yes, Trump is Being Held Accountable   U.S. Indicts Four, Including Russian Spies