Have you ever observed or participated in an argument that leaves you scratching your head? Something may have gone awry other than you getting lost, or the facts becoming too inscrutable to grasp. Chances are someone plunked a wowser of a logical fallacy. Last Monday, I touched one of the most common, the ad hominem […]

Disagree with someone’s viewpoint? Call them a Liberal pinko, or narrow-minded, or a bigot. If you really want to close the deal, boom, Nazi! That will show them, right? That will shut down their dumb ideas with some pizzazz! Well, it might make us feel good to get that off our chest, but unfortunately, it […]

In the days leading to this Fourth of July celebration, a certain presidential candidate made remarks regarding immigration and how a certain nation to our south doesn’t send us “their best.” While those remarks have gotten him in substantial hot water, perhaps because I don’t hail from said country, but one a few hundred miles […]