Category Archives: How I Learned The Facts of Life

Yes, the Russians did attack the 2016 election

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Naomi

I’m reading — slowly but steadily — the nearly 1000 page report just issued by the Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Senate. I’m pleased to say that while I lacked the granular details, part two (The Fakes of Life) … Continue reading →

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QAnon is real. What it produces isn’t. Does that mean we should be extra-agitated?

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Naomi

Part one of my book, How I Learned The Facts of Life, is called…The Facts of Life. In it, I describe the numerous lessons I’ve had throughout my life in getting and trusting in factual news. Part two is The … Continue reading →

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Fake news versus real news in a dictatorship: upsidedownism and samisdat in the U.S. of A.

Posted on August 8, 2020 by Naomi

How peculiarly upside down things are. As I was commenting on the scary Charlie Warzel interview with a games designer,I kept thinking about samisdat. I kept reading and typing and thinking, “What the hell?” Trump calls our free press, our … Continue reading →

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