Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

914: Large Graft Warming

DENIAL NATIONAL PARK (August 3) 
The only reason they’re having this hurricane
is to make me look bad.
There’ll be lotsa wind, there’ll be lotsa rain.
Waste of effort. Pathetic. Totally SAD.
My people — wonderful folks — know I am not to blame
for anything bad that ever happens. And they know I am sane.
America’s number one stable genius. The smartest guy in the room.
Who has no need for facts and figures. Or Fauci and Birx presumed doom and gloom.
Who will never panic over some fake pandemic.
(Which is fading, so laugh it off.)
Who will never acknowledge racism’s systemic
and may even ask O. J. to come play some golf.
Who is not afraid of fake climate “science”.
(Global warming’s a Chinese-made myth.)
Who eschews clean air and water compliance.
Who always gets what he wants forthwith.

Friday, June 5, 2020

№ 872: Tell Me Why (or Walking The Planck)

SOMEWHERE (June 4)  — 
is an intriguing tautology
Though, by itself, it cannot explain
the lack of advance in astrology
and other fields of fuzzy thinking
where practitioners, lacking all inkling
of analysis and methodology,
often fall pray to mindless doxology.
(Looking at you, my dear theologians.
Your hypotheses are, pace, untestable.
Yet you insist your devined doctrines
are not only true, but uncontestable.
Which I find indigestible.)


There also are those who profess economics
which is less scientific than newspaper comics,
all complex equations mixed with evasions
amounting to nothing whatever.
It’s all mumbo jumbo, all smoke and mirrors
lacking consistency, despite changing gears,
with different persuasions for different occasions.
Along with religion, it lives forever,
changing with time to conform to new norms.
(Amazing how nonsense weathers all storms.)


To return to the theme of facts changing minds — 
largely unheard of among [sic] humankind.
It seems sub-optimal, but there must be some WHY
rather than changing, we prefer to die.
Someone would win an MacArthur Grant
if they could explain it. Not ME! I can’t.

Bonus: Unrelated except by title (Click)

Friday, April 26, 2019

№ 582: Œdipus Perplex (ah gnats!)

Belief, be it in science or some other god —
please believe me I say this with charity —
is mental illness if only because
believers believe there is clarity
somewhere and they can find it.
(Or there will be once they've defined it.)

Humans think themselves witty.
They believe they achieve the real nitty-gritty.
Therefore their ends can be rather unpretty
as Œdipus “saw” as he sought to know more.
(He was so open-minded, he ended self-blinded.)

A gnat understands being a gnat.
And being a gnat, leaves it at that,
content in knowing that that is that.
Had Œd been a gnat, I have no doubt that
his end would never have come down to that.
(Although he may have died with a splat.)

Whether small insect or royal and great,
at the end of the day your FATE is your fate.

Sunday, April 21, 2019

№ 577.3: EXTRA! Doctrine Air (an Easter special edition)

GILEAD, April 20

Our preacher tells us THE BIBLE
is ultimate, absolute TRUTH.
Neither he nor we can read the original
so whatever he says is our proof.

We prefer praying to thinking.
There's no need for science with God.
To think otherwise is unseasonable
and is considered a little bit odd.

We see no need for logic.
Logic's like witchcraft. But worse.
The only thing you ever need know
is BIBLICAL chapter and verse.

We are opposed to Sharia.
But. . .since we've no sins to atone. . .
in the event Sharia's imposed,
we'll happily cast the first stone.

All we want is our freedom
to live in accord with God's will.
Those who choose some other way
therefore will have to be killed.

Thursday, October 26, 2017

No. CLXL: Antimatter Matters

“All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist,” says Christian Smorra, a physicist at CERN’s Baryon–Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) collaboration.

If we heed “science”
it becomes clear,
we've no need to worry.
We're not really here.

Liberal/Conservative,
Republican/Dem:
there is no US,
there is no THEM.

Jew, Christian, Muslim,
Hindu, Buddhist:
calm down, relax,
you don't exist.

Red, black, brown, white, 
yellow, mixed “race”:
quit fussing, there is no
first or last place.

All nations, all peoples,
all things on Earth,
are, theoretically,
part of the dearth.

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So much for theory.
Fun to discuss.
WE “win”, THEY “lose”.
Seems fair to us.