Tag Archives: logic

My response to Glen Beck’s silly “We surround them”

Glen Beck not too long ago did a silly lit­tle thing in which he posted a list of 9 state­ments and said that if you believe in them to send in a pic­ture for him to do dis­play them or some­thing. This is my response to the list. Amer­ica is good. Right a coun­try is now …

March 11, 2009 – 1:00 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

One isn’t Many and Many isn’t All

One of the argu­ments that I hear for why peo­ple express an –ism belief (racism, sex­ism, ageism, etc), is that they had this expe­ri­ence with this one per­son and you know that must be how every­one of that par­tic­u­lar group is. I love this kind of rea­son­ing it’s so illog­i­cal it’s almost funny and yet …

January 7, 2009 – 10:34 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Ummm, You have to umm be confident, like yeah

Are you seri­ous??? Is pretty much what went through my head all yes­ter­day lis­ten­ing to a round of speeches by stu­dents on their future career. Some quick back­ground infor­ma­tion, cur­rently I am tak­ing a pub­lic speak­ing class, and the class admit­tedly is pretty bor­ing for me as I did debate in high school. The class …

March 13, 2008 – 10:07 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Random | Tagged , , , | Comments Off