The author is chasing his tail in so many different directions that it’s hard to respond. You should not write a looong post on “misinformation” without defining “misinformation.” For example, during COVID, a NY Times reporter said that getting a COVID vaccine doesn’t prevent you from getting or spreading COVID. Our government labeled that as “misinformation” and coerced tech companies to ban the reporter from social media. Of course, now we know that statement to be true. I could go through more examples but the point is that labeling something as “misinformation” is arbitrary. Pending a definition, I’ll say that “misinformation” generally means “something I don’t want you to read or hear” and is protected speech. The author mentions hate speech. Hate speech is protected speech. Supreme Court precedent is very clear on this. The author mentions fraud. Fraud is the intentional act of deceiving someone to gain a benefit.… Read more →
Author Archive: Paul Epps
An Experiment in Educational Equity
"During one meeting, an educator recounted their experience of finding a colleague crying in a closet because they felt like such a failure teaching multilevel." https://t.co/RhU4kDFbZz via @BostonGlobe — Paul Epps (@paulepps) December 11, 2024 Read more →
Hindsight to Foresight
What you’ve learned in hindsight about giant stories like RussiaGate and Covid should now be converted into foresight You won’t get everything right if you do this but if you don’t do it you will most surely get nearly everything wrong — Walter Kirn Read more →
What Is Your Life Worth?
I saw at the supermarket they were selling whole roasted chickens for six dollars. You get the whole chicken in one piece — six dollars. Imagine if your life was only worth six dollars. I wouldn’t know how to explain this to a chicken. A roasted chicken on its back still looks very much like a chicken, like it gave up its life for you, just like Jesus. For six dollars. Read more →
Supercut on the Hunter Biden Pardon
SUPERCUT! Corporate media: Obviously Biden would never pardon Hunter pic.twitter.com/gJRhASCAUs — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 2, 2024 Anti-Trump pundits and cable news talking heads singing Biden’s praises for his no-pardon pledge and using it to rip Trump to shreds, pointing out the “stark contrast” with Trump’s complaints that the Justice Department was weaponized against him. Did not age well. Read more →
Stop the Presses!
California Fast Food Restaurants Shed Thousands of Jobs after $20 Minimum Wage Hike https://t.co/TwFBK03Imc — Paul Epps (@paulepps) December 6, 2024 Who could have seen that coming?! Read more →
The Skeptics Were Right Again
Do the Right Thing
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What You’re Missing on BlueSky
An example of the elevated intellectual discourse currently taking place on BlueSky: Read more →
Love Will Return in Another Way
A story I read in a Facebook post: At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, was walking through a park one day in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would come back to look for her. The next day, when they had not yet found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “written” by the doll saying “please don’t cry. I took a trip to see the world. I will write to you about my adventures.” Thus began a story which continued until the end of Kafka’s life. During their meetings, Kafka read the letters of the doll carefully written with adventures and conversations that the girl found adorable. Finally, Kafka brought back the… Read more →
Employee Loyalty
This is deplorable conduct obviously, but I see a lot of “if companies continue to act this way, there will be no employee loyalty” posts and I always wonder if employee loyalty is a real thing. I have to admit here that while I’ve always tried to do my best work as a matter of personal pride, I’ve never made a decision in life based on my loyalty to a company, e.g., I’ve never said, nor can I imagine myself saying, something like “What you’re proposing would improve my financial situation, but I can’t do it because it would be disloyal to my employer.” Does anyone really do things like that? Read more →
What Rights Do Men Have That Women Don’t
What Could Cause This Behavior?
The election results? https://t.co/uzepYVG62w — Paul Epps (@paulepps) November 15, 2024 Read more →
Don’t Steal My Joy
You may have to go to X to hear the audio. I’m not hearing audio when I play the video here. Yes. This here is the single best video on the internet right now… ???? pic.twitter.com/sSJBnRagCH — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 17, 2024 Read more →
Don’t Alienate Family and Friends Over Politics
Does this only go in one political direction? I don’t feel insufferable hate toward people who disagree with me and I don’t understand people who do. Don’t Alienate Family and Friends Over Politics by Ana Kasparian It’s a blueprint for losers, by losers. Read on Substack Read more →
You Want Censorship and I Don’t
Money for Nothing
Outrage at MSNBC after Al Sharpton took cash from Kamala pre-interview https://t.co/fPKsGCA8eX via @MailOnline — Paul Epps (@paulepps) November 14, 2024 Sharpton has been doing this for decades — giving his blessing to people, companies and organizations in exchange for money. Given his history, why anyone would want to tout his blessing is a mystery. The payments to Sharpton’s organization came as part of a $5.4 million fund the Harris campaign dished out to black and Hispanic advocacy groups to help bolster her candidacy among minority voters. Given that minority group voters migrated en masse to Trump, I think Harris should be entitled to a refund. I’m not sure about this, but I don’t think Trump paid anyone to endorse him or give him a softball interview. Read more →
Democratic Governors Launch Pro-Democracy Group Four Years Too Late
Democratic governors J. B. Pritzker (Illinois) and Jared Polis (Colorado) revealed on Wednesday that they will spearhead a national gubernatorial initiative to protect against threats to democracy. — nationalreview.com These guys are a little late to the party. If they really cared about threats to democracy, the time to take action would have been the last four years, in which the government was censoring political dissent, censoring “misinformation” (i.e., facts that would expose government lies), criminalizing, prosecuting and imprisoning political enemies, trying to put the Republican presidential candidate in prison before the election, trying to remove his name from the ballot so no one could vote for him. The electorate has already solved these problems by voting out the dictatorial regime that was causing them. Read more →
You Know You’ve Got a Great Country
And Nothing Is Forever
Promise you’ll be with me in the end Say we’ll be together and that you won’t forget However far away (However far away) You will remember me in time — “And Nothing Is Forever,” The Cure Read more →