Trump Is a Poster Boy for Innumeracy, my piece in 3 Quarks Daily 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Sounds like a soulless Trumpian move. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Gracias, Inma.

Read some of Trump's 200! posts of deranged nonsense on Christmas. This demented clown has the nuclear codes. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Trump just rated the performance of the economy as A+++++ (5+'s) in part because he's cutting the price of many items by 500% or more. He has an undergraduate degree from Wharton but won't release his grades, especially the one in arithmetic. I suspect they average around D-----.

A Klan rally without the hoods.

It is absolutely wild that the guy who won’t stop yelling about law and order is now personally stepping in to keep January 6 documents hidden from the police officers who were attacked that day. He knows exactly what’s in those files and he is terrified the country will see it.

The double attack on the boat is troubling. More so should be the single attacks on all the other boats. There doesn't seem to be a good rationale to call them anything but murders.

If the killing of the two survivors of the bombing of their boat is a war crime, and it is, then why isn't the killing (murdering) of those fishermen and other innocents on the various blown-up boats also a war crime?

Hannah Arendt expressed in first order logic: Give me A and then give me Not A and I'll prove anything you want. x.com/PhillfromPhi...

The 40 billion dollars cost of the USAID program (including food) is is about half of 1% of the US budget.

Trump, poster child for innumeracy. He has done vastly more to underline innumeracy's harmful effects on public policy (tariffs, the economy, healthcare, energy, climate, corruption, etc) than untold copies of my books on the subject. pbs.twimg.com/profile_bann...

What's with Baum is vintage Woody Allen - funny, neurotic, addictive, occasionally even thought-provoking. It's a fine whine. Loved it. a.co/d/7O5Q9iI

The ignoramus can't take any criticism even from abroad. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

The problem isn’t only that he’s auto satirical, it’s that MAGA voters lap this (literal) nonsense up like candy. 🍭 To protect the American people from this long con we need Innumeracy by @ja-paulos.bsky.social incorporated into the standard curriculum. johnallenpaulos.com/innumeracy.h...

A suggestion for today's NO KINGS protest, Dancing in the Street by Martha and the Vandellas (1964). Not just in Portland and Chicago, but all around the USA. share.google/WPMO4srFBXAP...

A musical suggestion for tomorrow's No Kings protest, Dancing in the Street by Martha and the Vandellas (1964): youtu.be/CdvITn5cAVc?...

What a non-surprise www.nbcnews.com/business/con...

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit. This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2016...

Trump: "Portland is burning to the ground." The truth: There is a fire-free nonviolent protest on one city block in Portland whose area is 145 square miles.

It shouldn't take much imagination to realize that the military on the streets of blue cities could easily be directed by Trump, after inventing another bogus emergency, to intimidate people and discourage them from going to the polls next year. It might be the only way the GOP can hold on to power.

Trump: "Portland is burning to the ground." The truth: There is a fire-free nonviolent protest on one city block in Portland whose area is 145 square miles.

Trump is alternately a real arsonist and a pretend firefighter.

Memorialized on a plaque outside Bascom Hall at the UW–Madison: “Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”

An Autocracy of Dunces open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

We desperately need more matriarchs (as defined below). “Common Knowledge, A Parable” certainly has contemporary resonance. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u... The Supine Court surrenders again.

"Common Knowledge, A Parable." My piece today in 3quarksdaily.com has contemporary resonance. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

Thx, David. Much appreciated!

Thx, Gary. I enthusiastically endorse your endorsement. In Trumpian terms I agree with it 1500%

Dated, but the question is of even more relevance than when I wrote the piece. archive.nytimes.com/campaignstop...

Funds for monitoring foodborne infections including listeria (primarily milk products), campylobacter and salmonella to be cut by CDC in move to reduce food safety by MAHA - which again, akin to environmental protections and vaccines being reduced will make Americans much less healthier 🧪

Math books are like Examples of group: Example 1: Integers under addition Example 2: Tarski Monster group 🧪⚛️

The inmates are in charge of the prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...

Sundown syndrome? thehill.com/homenews/med...

It's so easy to concoct postings in Trump's style: THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA, RADICAL LEFTISTS, & WOKE ELITES ARE AT IT AGAIN! SPREADING LIES, ATTACKING LAW ENFORCEMENT, & PUSHING THEIR ANTI-AMERICAN AGENDA! NOBODY BELIEVES THEIR BULLSHIT ANYMORE! THESE PEOPLE ARE SLEAZEBAGS. THEY ARE A DISGRACE.

A wonderfully clear exposition of refinements of the notion of entropy that allow room for subjective knowledge. www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...

Trump's every policy change, executive order, and norm-defying action incrementally increases the temperature of the water for the proverbial frog (us) from croak to coast.

Promoting "land swaps" is gaslighting. A burglar steals a diamond necklace from your home, but will give it back if you give him a rare gold watch. That's a loot swap.