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by PAUL DAMIEN
University Professor–mathematics/data science, novelist, martial artist, independent thinker, Emily Dickinson fanatic, animal lover.
The DEI War on Women’s Rights
The women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. is remarkable for many reasons. For me, its most striking aspect is how Black and White women that fought the dual war—the emancipation of women and the abolition of slavery—are forever tied at the hip. In this regard, consider two women—one Black, the other White. The following is from the former slave Sojourner Truth’s speech Ain’t I a Woman? at a women’s rights convention in Ohio in 1851. “And then that man back there in the black … That man back in the black says that women can’t have as much rights as men because Christ wasn’t a woman. Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with him. Now if the first woman that God ever made was strong enough to turn this world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again. And now they is [sic] asking to do it and you men better let them”.
A Supreme Blemish
DEI officially stands for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. Emeritus Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard University describes its harm to education and society.[1] Like the professor, several bloggers, who find the whole concept distasteful, define it as Didn’t Earn It.
As a professor at the University of Texas in Austin, and having served as Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee in my department, I think DEI is an excellent acronym to encapsulate Department, Eligibility, Inclusion, where I’m using the last word as a synonym for Admission. DEA would’ve been the automatic choice, but the latter is already taken. Alas, the Drug Enforcement Agency under Joe B’s administration has devolved into the Drug Enabling Agency, given his open borders immigration policy. More on the latter in another post. So, I support the letters DEI in universities only in the context defined above. Professor Dershowitz and the irate bloggers are right on…
BIDENOMICS—Story of a Dinner Conversation
Joe B recently, and apparently falsely, claimed that his uncle (2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr., also known as “Bosie”) was victimized—eaten, that is—by cannibals.[1] Perhaps, this fishy propaganda, defended by the White House press secretary[2], might give Americans insight as how it may have influenced Joe B’s policy-making abilities. Finally, we may be able to decipher the medically compromised mind that went into creating the worst presidency the U.S. has witnessed, as evinced by the chaos in the U.S. economy, the immigration and foreign policy debacles, the spread of antisemitism, the unhinged obsession with climate change, etc. Oddly, it can be argued that Joe B’s puppet masters, likely funded by George Soros, formulated the unappetizing claim above into a vision for America, labeling it “Bidenomics.”
The Delusion of the Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)
Mark Twain once famously said, “Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” In a series of posts, starting with the one below, I’ll substitute “statistics” by “democrats” in the U.S.; whence it’ll become transparent how the Democrat Party support their weak or utterly false claims by abusing data science, economics, physics, geoscience…and even common sense. They also rely on dubious “experts” to buttress their falsehoods. Every time you hear a Democrat speak, lurking nearby is the grinning ghost of Sir Robert Giffen, a Scottish Economist and Statistician, who in 1892 stated, “An old jest runs to the effect that there are three degrees of comparison…
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