I once saw a cartoon in which one guy says to another: “I’ve made a careful study of logic and it’s all a bunch of hooey.” It’s really impossible to do without logic so we might as well try to get it right. “Deductive” logic is what is usually taught in college classes and involves…

I was born in the middle of the Great Depression, lived through World War Two and the Viet Nam debacle, and survived a string of Republican silliness, including the worst President America has ever seen. All through these most difficult of times America has muddled through and has come out stronger than ever. Because of…