Showing posts with label Rationality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rationality. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Well, at least Bolsonaro didn't say "rationalist."

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Come Now, and Let Us Reason Together

Sunday, August 07, 2016

"See, Nancy, your head only gets in the way 
of your gut feelings."

Monday, May 23, 2016

Trump Love and Hillary Hate: 
Two Sides of the Same Irrational Coin

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Whether conspiracies are real or imagined, conspiracy 
theories are spawned by the desire to give a rational 
explanation for why things happen the way they do.  
For many, a conspiracy theory is much more 
reassuring than the notion that "Life is just one 
damn thing after another."

Saturday, May 22, 2010

"Why are we doing this, Captain?"
"For the same reason that Mockingbirds
prefer to eat insects rather than seeds."
"Thank you, Captain, that warms the
cockles of my heart!"
"Cockles? Did you say 'cockles'?"

Saturday, July 11, 2009

The highlight of Spain's annual Homo Rationis
Festival is always the Baby Jumping Contest.

Thursday, December 04, 2008

The case for human irrationality was clinched when
the prosecution presented as Exhibit A a heart-shaped
chunk of carbon for which someone paid $6 million.