They need to work with us, even though we disagree with everything they stand for — Thanks to the Medium members who supplied this material. Some of the following is direct quotes, but in the interest of brevity, the portions in italics are paraphrased from the author’s sentiment. My greatest disappointment with American life is polarization. After all, I’m not saying everyone on the other side…

Do I really know what she wants? — Hey, author guy. It’s Fiona. I have a bone to pick with you. What’s the problem? I don’t like the way you’re writing me. C’mon, you’re the female lead in a love story. What more could you ask for? How about not lying here in a cold bed every night…

It would be hard to be a homophobic musician — In my younger days, back when our species first experimented with walking upright, “gay” was the worst thing you could call someone with a Y chromosome. No one ever really explained why, it was just a fact of life. I was glad I wasn’t. Yeah, I know that take hasn’t…

It’s a crap shoot out there — “Everything happens for a reason!” “What about the Haitian earthquake? Or cellulite on skinny women?” ~ Garfunkel & Oates, “29/31” It was 1926, and Albert Einstein was pissed off. Forget “every action has an equal and opposite reaction,” the new physics was all probabilities and Schrödinger’s f*cking cats that were…

Hands-off is the way to go — Einstein once said God “does not play dice (with the universe).” At the risk of arguing with the gold standard in intelligence, I disagree. If believing in a Grand Plan makes you happy, knock yourself out. But not believe believe, right? I mean, c’mon. …

When you can be a jerk is exactly when you shouldn’t be — I am opposed to the death penalty. Mostly. You might get my vote if we stopped focusing on murder. Humanity has a flourishing asshole population, thinning the herd isn’t the worst idea. I meet a few candidates every week. “I’ve got a little list — I’ve got a little list Of…

It’s obvious if you think about it — By Tucker Carlson, July 4th, 2023 According to the Fake News Lamestream Enemy Of The People Media, Vladimir Putin of Russia may use nuclear weapons in a war with Ukraine. That’s nonsense. These are the same people who said a group of conservative tourists at the Capitol was an insurrection…

Pastor Phil T. Lucre tells it like it is — All you need to know about America is one simple sentence: this country was founded on Christianity and Capitalism! Ignore skeptics who point out the Constitution doesn’t mention either. “There sure are a lot of details in there,” they say. “If the Framers meant that, they would have written it.” …

Some of you people give crazy a bad name — People look at me funny a lot. There are various reasons, one being I’m a mathematician, nature’s most potent human repellent. But a side effect of a life in the sciences is I hate conspiracy theories. The tinfoil hat types have it all wrong. …