banana splits

There are differences in the brains of men and women.  In general men do better in math and women do better at reading and writing.  Some studies show that while the IQs average out to the same, there is more variance in men, more geniuses and more morons.  When Larry Summers was president of Harvard he suggested that maybe that should be looked into as a reason why almost all the big time mathematicians have been men.  But academia is the garden of political correctness and he was soon run out of Harvard as a sexist pig for even thinking it should thought about. 

Every now and then you see a well-educated woman in a hijab explain how she thinks the strictures of  conservative Islam protect rather than restrict women, but I ain't buying it

Trump was well-behaved in his State of the Union.  Maybe once a month he gives a good teleprompter speech, and fools, like Charlie Brown running at Lucy's football, think maybe he is ahem, growing into his office and the next day he is calling dems who didn't applause him treasonous.  Then his handlers say, oh no, he didn't mean that, and then Trump says he sure as shirt did.  More chairs tossed in the cable news afternoon.  I haven't heard those new words Old Dog cites.  I will look out for them.

Forbes won't let me read articles because of my ad blocker, but there are a slew of articles about scientific philosophy indicating this and that, and you know, life goes on.  In 1931 Kurt Godel proved that some truths are unprovable and people went on about their daily lives as if nothing had happened.


That is true that when people of the same language group are isolated from each other their languages begin to diverge.  I wonder what patios Beagles was speaking that people couldn't understand half of what he said.  Some kind of army argot I suspect.  I am a peacenik but I do love army slang.  Well I love slang, it is like a nursery of new words and some of them will grow up to be full-fledged English words and some will whither on the vine but be embedded in the amber of their time..  Like if someone says groovy, we know they are talking about the sixties.   

When you are talking about morals, a lot of people think you are talking about sex instead of about good and evil.  A person who is loose with their sex habits is considered immoral, but in fact they could be either good or evil.  Why is sex so strongly conjoined to morality?

Is a question for another day.  Right now I am getting into moral dessert.  In cornball movies they will have some guy wrestle with some moral dilemma and in the end do the right thing.  And then because he did the right thing he will get the girl or the money or whatever.  A lot of movies are not complete until the good are all rewarded and the bad are all punished.

But that's no-risk morality, who wouldn't do the right thing if they knew they would get the girl or the money?  Shouldn't virtue be its own reward?  Don't those canny Catholics insert a phrase into the confession where the sinner has to state that he is not confessing just because he is afraid of going to hell, but because he feels bad about displeasing god? 

If you do the right thing in order to get the banana split, are you actually doing the right thing?  I am asking you, dawgs.