Tag: homo sapiens

• “Nobody Knows Anything”

  “Nobody knows anything” was screenwriting god William Goldman‘s terse, brutal, spot on assessment of how show business works. The people at the top of the food chain – the decision-makers – will insist that a combination of logic and personal insight rule their thinking. But, at the same time, they’ll insist that past results can’t […]

  A L Katz

  October 17, 2022

  Culture, Movie Reviews, Movies, Showbiz Stories

  All The President's Men, Butch Cassidy, Food Chain, homo sapiens, Hunter Gatherers, Magic, Misery, Nobody knows anything, Princess Bride, Specialization, William Goldman

• Why Does Technology Always Seem To Promise More Than It Can Deliver?

  The alternate headline to this post could have been “Why does technology consistently underwhelm us?” Don’t get me wrong. I give full credit to our species. In relative terms, it was only yesterday that we were hunting and gathering on the African Savanna – as we had been for 99% of our time as a […]

  A L Katz

  March 23, 2022

  Culture, Magical Thinking, Marijuana Legalization, New Ways of Thinking, Showbiz Stories

  Animal Protein, Bells and whistles, Bordello Of Blood, Homo Erectus, homo sapiens, Hunter Gatherers, Podcasting, Secret of fire, Technology, Upper Paleolithic Period, Waze, WordPress

• America’s Love Affair With “Stupid”, Part III: When Democrats Get Stupid, There’s Nothing Stupider…

  Not a revelation: smart people are as capable of profound stupidity as the profoundly stupid. The instant even an Einstein-level genius begins to view the world with limited or diminished perspective, it’s just a matter of time before they turn as deeply, utterly, right-down-to-his-tighty-whities stupid as Texas’ Louie Gohmert — the (certifiably) Stupidest Man In […]

  A L Katz

  June 11, 2019

  Atheism, Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Climate Change, Live Bullshit Free, Magical Thinking, New Ways of Thinking, Political Commentary, Republicanism

  Abraham and Isaac, Climate Change, Conservative thinking, Conservatives, Democrats, extinction, Greed, homo sapiens, Louie Gohmert, Progressives, Religious hypocrisy, Stupidity

• Slavery Sucks. All Forms Of Slavery, That Is — Including The “Subtle” Ones…

  Slavery has been a thing homo sapiens do (we don’t know if any other human species did it) since we figured out we could force someone else to work for free. Slavery, in its essence, is stolen labor. Yes, it’s a stolen life. But, from the point of view of the enslaver, the goal is […]

  A L Katz

  February 9, 2019

  Atheism, Live Bullshit Free, New Ways of Thinking, Slavery, The Branding Age, Trump

  ‘Both sides do it’, Donald Trump, False Equivalence, homo sapiens, Ignorance, Main Stream Media, Political Indoctrination, Religion, Slavery, Slaves, Trumpism