matt ralston

What The Left And Right Can Learn From Quantum Theory 2

What The Left And Right Can Learn From Quantum Theory
The new film Arrival touches on a basic theory of time, that it is never ending, or circular. The circle could be seen as a metaphor, but if you read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time he explains that on a long enough plane, time can theoretically bend back onto itself due to the ...

Why Isn’t Election Night More Violent?

Why Isn't Election Night More Violent?
Presidential Election Day in America is not statistically more violent than the same day in non-election years. That’s troubling. I mean, it’s good that people don’t flip out and act crazy, but if the low voter turnout doesn’t doesn’t signify our apathy or that we’ve been beaten into submission, shouldn’t our docile and obedient nature on this day? ...

Rufus Gifford Jumps The Shark To Idiocracy

Rufus Gifford Jumps The Shark To Idiocracy
Around the time Donald Trump became the Republican nominee for President of the United States, many of the clever and astute among us remarked that the 2006 film Idiocracy was in essence becoming reality. The movie’s theme is that of a dystopian future wherein people become hopelessly dependent on technology and the species regresses to the point that the ...

Why Feminists Ignored Being Forced To Sign Up For The Draft

Why Feminists Ignored Being Forced To Sign Up For The Draft
It’s official, starting in two years all women 18 years of age must register for Selective Services, meaning they can legally be forced to go spread Agent Orange and kill villages full of babies overseas or be sentenced to prison. There wasn’t any measurable response from the feminist movement. Mostly because it’s understood that the US ...

The Terms Liberal And Conservative Mean Nothing 2

The Terms Liberal And Conservative Mean Nothing
The guys who run Westinghouse and Fox literally sit around and laugh at people who identify as Democrats or Republicans. While they smoke cigars and the caterers clean up. It’s always been the objective. With some notable exceptions, people with money appoint politicians. When that’s not the case, that person is referred to as an ...

Hillary Clinton, Basta!

Hillary Clinton, Basta!
Hillary Clinton’s hispandering is increasingly patronizing to Latinos in my opinion. She was recently discussing Donald Trump’s shameless race bating on the issue: “I called him out when he was calling Mexicans racist. When he was engaging in rhetoric that I found deeply offensive, I said Basta…” Basta means ‘stop it’ or ‘cut it out’ or ...

Merry Christmas, Assholes. 2

It’s hard to gauge a sense of right and wrong in an increasingly partisan United States of America. Everyone seems to feel superior to some other group. It’s possible anyone who is deeply partisan is inherently wrong. Republicans are up front and slightly more bullish about their adherence to corporate welfare and class warfare. Democrats ...