Jaber Borran

Category: Logic and Reasoning

  • Any Price: A Backwards Justification

    This was an old conversation from several months ago, when Trump’s department of war crimes in collaboration with another war criminal, Netanyahu, suddenly decided that after totally “obliterating” the entire nuclear capability of Iran a few months earlier, somehow it was only two weeks away from making a nuclear bomb, and that the only way…

  • The SAVE Act

    I had previously quoted a professor of mine that if someone offers you an oversimplified solution to a complex problem, either they are a fool, or they are taking you as a fool. The SAVE act is a very good example of the scenario in that quote. I will explain, but let me start by…

  • Not Just a Right, But Also a Responsibility

    To those friends of mine who did not listen to their wiser friends and voted for a lunatic communist Marxist in 2024: I kept telling you that voting is not just a right, but also a responsibility, but you laughed at me and told me things like: “what else? now I am responsible for what…

  • Bias Blinds

    Sometimes ago, a friend of mine expressed, with awe and astonishment, that during the Iranian uprising of 2009, he had witnessed very smart and knowledgeable colleagues support Ahmadinejad. And wondered how it would be possible for someone capable of solving very complex problems in their field of expertise, to not see through the deceptions and…

  • Minimum Wages

    My rather extreme liberal political and socio-economic leanings are no secret. But, like most others, I have very close friends with vast amounts of knowledge on different subjects and impeccable critical thinking abilities in their professional field, but somehow obsessed with the following two things: And, in recent years, this obsession has gone insofar as…

  • Facts, Opinions, and Misunderstandings

    In a previous post from over a year ago, I had tried to highlight the differences between facts and opinions. Even back then, my feeling was that that writeup was mostly redundant and unnecessary, as I assumed pretty much every reasonable person knew the difference. So it came to me as a huge surprise when…

  • A Shameful Stunt

    What a shameful stunt! Now that the pressure has built up and Trump knows he will be losing the House vote on Tuesday, he is suddenly all for releasing the files. Because, you know, he has nothing to hide. Only, so far he has been calling it a hoax (although he and most of his…

  • Thou Shalt Not Have Bias

    Corporate media’s obsession with providing equal coverage for all “points of view” or making sure that they do not criticize one party more than the other, is ridiculous and has nothing to do with fairness. Fairness does not mean giving platforms equally to truths and falsehoods. Social media is already providing ample opportunity for dissemination…

  • The Last Line of Defense

    The Trump administration is celebrating a new ruling from the DC circuit court today: “Appeals court tosses judge’s contempt order in case over Venezuelans sent to El Salvador.” In a 2-1 ruling, the two Trump-appointed judges in the three-judge panel resorted to absurd arguments to justify their opinions. One of them (Katsas) argued that the…

  • “Reality” or “Reality TV”?

    For someone who has been in and out of courts so many times, either as a defendant or as a plaintiff (and I don’t mean just since he ran for public office, but even much before that, pretty much his entire adult life), and as someone who claims to be the smartest person on the…