Necessary Facts

Observations, reports, and discoveries that are true of necessity because they are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical, evidentiary and rational, synthetic and analytic. Truths are objective statements.

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Tuesday, December 31, 2019

“Star Trek: Discovery” and the Conflict of Values

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Star Trek: Discovery is an adventure story about conflicts of values. The characters act purposefully and in accordance with their values t...

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Ayn Rand and Star Trek

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Ayn Rand was a fan of Star Trek. As surprising as that may be, it is understandable. First, she knew about the show becau...

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Star Trek: (Not too Far) Beyond

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It was all right as such things go. I know from numismatics that the coins we cherish today – Bust Half Dollar, Peace Dollar, Walking Liber...

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Good-bye, Redskins

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“Redskins” was always an insult, at best (and not much good), it was a crude name, lacking even the poetry of Bruce Springsteen’s ...

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Monsters from the Id

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Monsters from the Id: Science is Mankind’s Last Great Hope a film by David Gargani. Science fiction movies of the 1950s, despi...

Monday, December 3, 2012

Redshirts: Expendable in Fiction and Fact

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As a security guard, I found Redshirts by John Scalzi (Tom Doherty Association, 2012), at once intriguing, humorous, insightful, and di...

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