From Wikipedia: The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This …
The Weeper of the House Watching the newly installed Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (Crybaby-OH) read the Preamble to the US Constitution today had me on the edge of my seat, half expecting him to burst into flames as he spoke the words “to promote the general welfare.” Fortunately, ours is a merciful God and the day of reckoning …
Gays and Muslims and Compromisers, oh my! Well, February is rapidly approaching and with it the next edition of the Conference of Conservative Political Action Committee, aka CPAC. We’ve enjoyed covering the Wingnut Woodstock conferences here at US.; see here, here, and here. But a dark undercurrent is roiling ‘neath the Winger Sea, a rip-tide that could rip this year’s …
This is just too funny. Salon published an article titled: Mosque foes launch Bieber boycott The unlikely story of how the teen pop sensation became ensnared in the “ground zero mosque” fight Andy Sullivan, a construction worker and Brooklyn native, has been one of the loudest opponents of Park51, the planned mosque and community center near …
Map of The Master Universe Nothing like being on the edge of the edge. Fer sure, being so ‘far out’ has its disadvantages– distance from The Source maximizes the potential for error, evil (sin), and iniquity (the persistent and knowledgeable pursuit of evil). On the upside, being so positioned places us at the the crossroads of creation, the cutting edge …
As Commander in Chief wanna be Sarah Palin might put it: How’s that surge thingy workin out for ya, Mr. President? Not so good, as The Wall Street Journal reports this week: Internal United Nations maps show a marked deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan during this year’s fighting season, countering the Obama administration’s optimistic assessments of military progress …
As the author of the Warren Commission‘s magical single bullet theory, used to whitewash JFK‘s assassination to make it appear that only a single shooter was involved (subsequently rejected by the US House of Representatives), I had early developed a disdain for retiring Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. He always struck me as the consummate Beltway insider and opportunist. His last …
