Football, protests, psychology, and inertia, Oh My!

Filed under: BlackLivesMatter, Society

What does psychology tell us about the differences between conservatives and liberals in relationship to BlackLivesMatter (BLM) and Colin Kaepernick? Conservatives place a very high value on tradition, sameness (both congruity of group and congruity of situation), and loyalty. Liberals place a high value on things like social justice and equality. That doesn’t mean that […]

Ohh look a giant pink elephant

Filed under: 2016 Election, Bernie Sanders, Hilary Clinton, Politics

There is a big elephant in the room of the 2016 election that nobody has noticed yet. The down-ticket races. For the uninformed, the Presidential election is at the top of the ballot during an election. All of the other positions, such as Congress, are called the down-ticket races. The vast majority, probably in excess […]

Holy shitballs, that is huge!

Filed under: Random, Random thoughts

One thing I have noticed is that people (myself included) really have no sense of scale. We do fine on things that we can actually see, but when something is too big or too small for us to see completely, we very quickly fail to really understand. This even applies to things that we think […]

You might be a birther if….

Filed under: Dumb Stuff, Politics

I was trying to decide on what to write about in the 15 years worth of topics backlog in my brain. After the recent stupidity with the government shutdown, lead by the best and brightest of the Tea Party collective, the birther contingent is an easy target to write about. Amazingly, 5 years in, there […]

We the people

Filed under: Laws, Politics

I started a petition to demand a new amendment to the constitution. The amendment strips the power to manipulate elections from the politicians and political parties and makes the presidency and congress truly representative of the people. The political landscape in this country has become polarized to cater to the most extreme and the politically […]