Zone of Free Thought

 Used to be that if you needed information first you went to periodical publications like newspapers or magazines then your only other choice was libraries where you found drawers full of 3” by 5” index cards you had to slog through to find what you’re looking for. Or you go to the research desk where the person there would either know off the top of their head where to find it, or they would slog through the catalogs for you. It was hard for average people to check the accuracy of things they read. Then through the mid to late 1990’s libraries and other just about every other thing in the world became networked. From then if you really wanted to know the facts all you had to do was point click and type into search engines. That’s it. Virtually everyone born after 1985 or so has had all the information in the world at their fingertips. And yet through seemingly pure laziness many or most have squandered it!!! The world can be made safe from misinformed people and purposeful

The facts are.... Rosburg has always been a nervous type. He suffers anxiety and is not really comfortable in his own skin. I thought he’d pretty much outgrown this jitteriness, but he evidently still gets stress induced anxiety that sometimes makes his brain freeze. There’s actually a clinical condition called “stress induced amnesia” most people are familiar with when the run across someone they know, and suddenly can’t remember their name. It’s a kind of panic mode, and it explains how he could have screwed up his start setting, and then the “oh my god” full blown panic you see when he’s trying to race the car, find what’s wrong with the setting, fix it, steer the car look in the mirror all at the same time. It led him to make a really bad decision. I don’t know under whose rules you’re allowed to run someone off. His indecision was obvious, Lewis saw it, went for the gap with a huge overtake advantage and was driven off the track on the right hand side of the track with a r

I meant to finish this long ago, right after the Democratic convention when I became, rightfully as it turned out, concerned that the way Bernie supporters talked about Hillary Clinton sounded alarmingly like the way Trump supporters talked. A young woman responded to something I wrote in the comment section of a YouTube page that showed Bernie supporters leaving the arena when Hillary came on stage to speak. They had drank the same coolaid Trump supporters had with the whole false narrative about Hillary that was fact free. When I challenged her to prove she knew what she was talking about, and she couldn't defend her position, she did what Trump supporters do. She went fact free into another rant mentioning she had protested the Iraq war. I think I told her something along the line of "opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one. You are entitled to  your own opinion. However, you are NOT entitled to your own facts. You don't know what the "f"you are talkin