Is US Electoral Politics Irreparably Broken?
In which I try to think and write my way through a bunch of stuff [really, there’s no better noun] in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election.
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Happy Fucking Blasphemy Day
To be precise, it is International Blasphemy Rights Day (BRD). How did I not know of this earlier?
Happy What Now?
Every year, I steel myself for this day and its unwelcome celebratory wishes. This year, I have a place to rant about it.
Of Roses and Odors and Word Meanings
One of my greatest difficulties as a college professor teaching Introductory Psychology was getting many students to see that commonplace words often have a more restrictive definition in psychology, so that they would use them more precisely in their work. This has long been an issue: common words were used in psychology and given more specific meanings (e.g., “learning” and “instinct”); and psychological terms’ definitions have changed and/or expanded over time (e.g., “psychopathology”). The recent misappropriation of a psychological term for another purpose has brought these issues to mind again.