"In the end, if the cosmic dice rolled in your favor, how should you feel? Modest pride in one’s hard work is no vice, but boastful arrogance at one’s good fortune is no virtue. Cultivate gratitude."
https://t.co/2qeUxfpYdn
The BBC Four doc series "A Rough History of Disbelief" is well worth watching:
https://t.co/t1mFhnWEQw
"Atheism itself has acquired almost sectarian connotations and it hardly seems worthwhile having a name for something that scarcely enters my thoughts at all."
RIP Sir Jonathan Miller, scientist, artist, humanist. His documentary series "A Rough History of Disbelief" is a model for how to engage in life's deepest issues with reason and courage.
https://t.co/8Gusl95a6r
I just had a rather interesting discussion with Col. Kevin Randle (Ret), PhD, on UFOs, the nature of evidence, and why scientists are skeptical that UFOs = extraterrestrials, how science works & why unexplained anomalies ≠ your pet theory about X is true.
https://t.co/pGm0lOdYXU
"When Jews take over a country, they kill millions of Christians," says a @realDonaldTrump supporter arguing against impeachment which he says will start a civil war and the military will have to choose sides. Why do people who hate Jews love Trump?
Trump admin. is withholding more than $100M in US military assistance to Lebanon that has been approved by Congress.
The White House and the Office of Management and Budget have declined to comment on the matter. https://t.co/hUklT4skX7
Congrats to @neal_katyal and Sam Koppleman who wrote, edited and published this book within 50 days. Clear, concise, persuasive. A brilliant lawyer using his expansive experience to make the case to the American public using the facts, law, ethics and love of country. Pick it up.
Trump claimed he got the permits for a LA facility that got its permits under Obama. He claimed he was responsible for a PA facility Shell decided to build under Obama. Yesterday he claimed to have "opened" a TX plant that's made Apple products since 2013: https://t.co/VqXUbnSjGd
MALONEY: Why do you have confidence that you can ... tell your dad not to worry?
VINDMAN: Congressman, because this is America. This is the country I've served and defended. That all of my brothers have served. And here, right matters.
MALONEY: Thank you, sir.
Applause break out.
Rep Nunes is confusing this story (on many levels), but specifically, VP Biden was pushing to remove a prosecutor who was NOT effectively investigating Burisma.
I'm skeptical of this claim that Stanley Milgram's shock experiment subjects "saw through" & "went along" with obedience:
https://t.co/lzK75oyDHw
Replications have held up, including my own for Dateline NBC (expanded discussion in The Moral Arc):
https://t.co/lEo00DJtJF
Tucker Carlson claimed former Ambassador Yovanovitch did not tell the truth about an email exchange when she was under oath in October. But his claim is False.
Yovanovitch never said she didn’t respond, as Carlson claimed.
https://t.co/ly1AUfbkjY