I Could be TOTALLY Wrong, but ...

And Trump has won.  I'm very disappointed, and feeling vaguely inclined to retaliation, but I realize that my 'bubble' is strongly liberal.  When I started teaching here in Billtown, I began to...

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He does not care about the economy.   He does not care about guns.  He does not care about Israel.  He does not care about immigration.   He doesn't care about the Democrats.  He doesn't c...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/11/what-does-trump-want.html

The Washington Post (famous newspaper in the D.C. area) chose not to endorse either candidate, at the urging of its owner, Jeff Bezos (a millionaire, and former owner of Amazon). I had no idea t...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/11/washington-post-and-non-endorsement.html

In our family, we always talked over the political situation, and each of us might suspect how the other will vote, but we never expected them to vote the same way.  Now Fox News is making a fus...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/11/husbands-voting-one-way-wives-voting.html

One interesting thing about Vice President Harris is that she always speaks in complete sentences.  That might be annoying to some of Trump's most ardent supporters, but for those who are drawn ...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/10/kamala-harris.html

By now, my readers have concluded that I was not born in the US, but elsewhere, though you might still be uncertain as to exactly where!  I was born, and grew up in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon. ...

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For a long time, I have deplored the spelling, the grammar, and the choice of words used in posts on Facebook, and now on YouTube as well.  Earlier, I would make a comment, correcting the mistak...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/10/are-our-social-media-controlled-by.html

We're within a month and a half of the elections.   We now have to just make sure everyone goes out to vote on Election Day.  I'm new to this business, so I don't know how mail ballots and stu...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/09/well-that-was-debate-that-was.html

'Ti's the season for candidates to accuse their opponents of flipflopping on the issues.  In border policy, on abortion, on tax policy; practically everything.  (I'm not talking about the Rep...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/09/flip-flopping.html

There are a huge amount of books that have been published, both by commentators, and by politicians themselves.  This disclosure may completely discredit me with the cognoscenti, but I haven't r...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/09/books-on-politics.html

If you watched the final night of the DNC—and earlier too—you would have seen members of the Republican Party, supporting Kamala Harris.  Their main point is that the post-Trump GOP has deve...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/08/republicans-at-democrat-national.html

An interesting thing I have observed is that Mr Vance replies to questions a lot more intelligibly than Trump. If Vance is asked about some action of Trump's that is not in line with what is ex...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/08/sophistry-from-maga.html

One of the things I'm hearing from political commentators is that perhaps Harris should not have picked someone "so far to the Left" to be her running-mate. This is silly.  The initiatives that...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/08/bogeyman.html

British politicians had been feeling sidelined by European politics for a long time, when they were a part of the European Union.  In particular, Nigel Farage, and Boris Johnson, and a few other...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/08/nigel-farage-and-brexit.html

Feelings—resentments, excitements, humor, pleasure—quietly add up, sort themselves into big piles, and, after a while, put us in political groups.  One of the biggest causes of frustration...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/08/new-insights.html

First off, as the election draws closer, some politicians don't say what they mean.  For instance, JD Vance has said that he's a never Trumper.  He was being careless, and didn't realize that s...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/08/election-talk.html

Jonah Goldberg, a conservative columnist writing in The Greenville Post, has explained the Trump phenomenon in a way that I understand. Republican politics have (has) always been a serious thin...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/08/trump-is-entertainer.html

So this is the first notice of the closing of a public library that I have noted.  Corpus Christi is a famous town in Texas.  But it appears the town is finding it hard to balance their budget,...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/08/closing-down-garcia-library-corpus.html

Trump visited a meeting of black journalists, and tripped over himself while trying to make the point that Kamala Harris was a DEI hire.  This describes someone who is hired for the sake of maki...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/07/diversity-hire.html

I had a fellow student in graduate school who had a broad Western PA accent.  One time, I said that something was made out of bamboo, and she exclaimed "Biyam-BEW??" That was the first time I ...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/07/bamboo.html

I don't know what switches on these important flashes of reason, but they are often wonderful, and far too infrequent. What made me sit up and take notice is a quote from Nikki Haley reported i...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/07/not-every-republican-politician-talks.html

Just got the news that Biden has dropped out, and endorsed Kamala Harris to be the nominee.  I'm excited; the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that this choice will work.  Some D...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/07/kamala-harris-is-democrat-nominee.html

When I was a student, and just getting interested in politics, I was told about Paulo Freire, the author of the book "Pedagogy of the Oppressed".  He wrote: The oppressors do not perceive their...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/07/philosophy-from-teacher.html

Various experts—notably Jon Stewart—have been urging the Democrat Party to urge Biden to step aside, and field a fresh candidate/nominee. I know where Jon Stew is coming from.   He is, ul...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/07/there-are-few-downsides-to-switching.html

The title of this post was written with tongue in cheek!  But the motives of the Republican leadership is very opaque, and we have to wonder: are these motives as despicable as they seem? Soon...

http://archimedes-icouldbewrong.blogspot.com/2024/07/despise-and-detest-without-hating.html