Posted 10/28/2022 in Judd Garrett, Political,
Leeches
By: Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
October 26, 2022
Ancient Egyptians used leeches to treat a wide range of physical ailments, from headaches to liver and kidney disease to infections to hemorrhoids. They believed that “evil spirits” had infected the person’s body and the removal of the blood was removing the “evil spirits”. ...
Posted 10/24/2022 in Judd Garrett, Political,
Sin Tax
By: Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
October 23, 2022
In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced the concept of a “sin tax”. The goal of a “sin tax” is to change the behavior of people through the taxation system. It works under the property of elasticity – the greater the amount of the tax increase on a product, the less that product will ...
Posted 08/10/2022 in Judd Garrett, Political,
Our strength
By: Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
August 7, 2022
“Diversity is our strength.” They keep telling us that again and again and again, with such matter-of-fact certitude that we are supposed to take this assertion as self-evident. It is presented as a priori knowledge, accepted without empirical evidence, and cannot be ...
Posted 08/01/2022 in Judd Garrett, Political,
A Rigged Game
By: Judd Garrett
July 24, 2022
The more I watch the January 6 hearings, the more I’m convinced that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen. It is evident these hearings are primarily about preventing Donald Trump from running for President again. But why would the Democrats go to this extreme to prevent a candidate from the opposing party ...
Posted 07/01/2022 in Judd Garrett, Political,
Defending the Indefensible
By; Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
June 29, 2022
With the recent Supreme Court decision, Dobbs v Jackson which overturned both the 1973 Roe v. Wade and 1992 Casey decisions and turned the question of the legality of abortion back to the states which is consistent with the United States Constitution, pro-abortion activists ...
Posted 06/13/2022 in Judd Garrett, Political,
Confederacy of Dunces
By: Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
June 10, 2022
(Emphasis added)
“When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.” - Jonathan Swift
A confederacy of dunces took the stage last night on primetime television. This line-up of Nancy Pelosi, ...
Posted 05/30/2022 in Judd Garrett, Opinions, Political,
Senseless
By: Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
May 25, 2022
An 18-year-old Hispanic man walked into Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas yesterday, and opened fire, killing 19 students and 2 teachers. It was a tragic, bewildering, confusing act of violence. The natural reaction to tragedy like this is to want to do something, anything, so we don’t ...
Posted 05/20/2022 in Judd Garrett, Political,
Posted 05/16/2022 in Judd Garrett, Political,
The Process Matters
By: Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
May 11, 2022
Coaches always tell their players that the process matters, that the fundamentals are important, because, in the most pressurized situations of the game, the process, and the fundamentals are what we rely on to succeed. It is a natural tendency in critical situations for the player to divorce ...
Posted 05/16/2022 in Judd Garrett, Political,
Rights and Wrongs
By: Judd Garrett
Objectivity is the Objective
May 4, 2022
In response to the recent leak of a potential Supreme Court opinion that could overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade decision which enshrined the right to abortion, former President Barack Obama wrote, “The consequences of this decision would be a blow not just to women, but to all of us who believe ...