Turns out that not only did I peg the Oscar wrong, but it’s a movie I’d heard almost nothing about in either promotion or discussions: *Moonlight. *Turns out the whole LGBTBBQ thing was a bigger deal this year than women in STEM, as both dealt with “the struggles of black people” – though arguably Hidden Figuresdealt more with overcoming systemic racism. At least I was not so far off as to have Hell or High Water, Hacksaw Ridge, Manchester By The Sea, Arrival, or La La Land win. First of all,…
> I said in a [recent posting](http://thelastredoubt.com/2017/02/i-know-what-i-know.html): “I care more about arriving at the truth than already having it when I started a conversation.” My blog header also states: “This blog is a redoubt in search of truth in a world darkened by lies,” and I have [argued](http://thelastredoubt.com/2017/02/asimov-and-tyranny-of-smart-kids.html) that when we want to throttle petty, tyrant bureaucrats that it is not just *simple *honesty we crave, but that “We wa…
While I’ve long seen him around the Mad Genius Club [https://madgeniusclub.com/] environs and have enjoyed the posts at his own site, I had not read anything of Peter Grant’s until the western Brings the Lightning, and Take the Star Road is, after all this time, only the second book of his I’ve read. Steve Maxwell is an orphan, born on a deeply socialist earth that is in danger, due to most of the smarter and more driven (K-selected?) people leaving for other colonies, of becoming a backwater.…
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I know what I know I'll sing what I said We come and we go That's a thing that I keep In the back of my head -Paul Simon, "I Know What I Know", Graceland I was digging around some odds and ends over at the Didacts site, chasing rabbits down holes, and “INTJ” caught my eye. He has posted [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-care-and-feeding-of-deep-introverts.html] several [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2013/08/blessed-solitude.html] times [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2013/03/…