Pranks, bubbles, disappointments

 In 1996, Alan Sokal, a professor of mathematics and physics, submitted an article titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity" to an academic journal of postmodernist cultural studies. It passed through peer reviews with flying colors and garnered...

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The second debate

 I had been wrong, there was a second debate. I didn't want to watch it first, as I find watching or listening to Trumpcringeworthy, but eventually, I decided to do it. I wanted to see Biden one more time (for reassurance, like many others), and I also didn't want to form an opinion based on second-hand sources.Trump surprised me and many others I guess. He has dialed down the volume to the minimum...

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Anti-anti-Trumpers

Yesterday I listened to Coleman Hughes's interview with Niall Fergusson. Among other things, the discussion touched on America's handling of the pandemic. I had expected Fergusson to come up with his usual trope that how biased the mainstream opinion is for putting the blame fully on Trump, and he didn't fail to disappoint. He is probably right pointing to the mistakes and ineptitude of the CDC and...

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Stuart Stevens: It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump (2020)

For decades, Stuart Stevens had been considered as one of the best in the business. And his business was helping Republicans win elections. As a campaign strategist and media consultant, he worked on every political level from local elections to high-profile Republicans like Mitt Romney or George W....

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Trump contracted COVID-19

The virus cannot be conned.Are we too jaded to be shocked by the news anymore? These last 2 weeks have been testing the idea. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's died and the ugly fight to fill her vacancy has just started. Then came the not-so-surprising revelations of Trump's tax record - it still would have sunk any other president. Then the horrific debate. Then the $4m sexual-harassment settlement of the barking-mad...

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The first Trump-Biden debate

Finally, I had a break to write something about it.What a trainwreck... At half time I already decided not to watch the next debates. It was so terrible. My only consolation was, based on the press, that half the world felt the same.Trump was, and I don't find any better word to describe him, aberrant. At this point, whether he is mentally ill or just a pathetic, repulsive moron is a distinction without...

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