General Discussion

won a little prize drawing recently started thanking God for giving it to her. I had my usual knee-jerk irritation -- it wasn't like it was the first time, or tenth, around here for that nonsense. As usual I imagined asking if she wasn't going to give it back since she didn't win it honestly. We'd all paid for our chances, after all. She was way too happy and nice for anything like that, of course.

Scientists say conservatives and liberals literally see moral issues differently. And of course, religious conservatives. Don't I believe it! But how about rationality and cognitive function? Carson is a man of science who also believes implicitly that the planet is only about 6000 years old or so. Very common phenomenon. No conflict. Both beliefs held at once.

Maybe that's why so many want that wall on the southern border. The ones in their heads work so well.