#Opinion

Lately I have been thinking a lot about why it is so difficult to disagree with certain progressive ideas—you disagree on one point, and this is interpreted to mean that you must hold an opinion you do not have. For instance, if you suppose that the earnings gap cannot exclusively be attributed to discrimination, you must hold the opinion that women are inherently worse performers in the workforce. I find this line of reasoning incredibly frustrating. [Read More]

We will meet at three o’ clock GMT, the first of May. [sic] This is a subject on which I am extremely pigheaded. Often, when I am planning an online meeting with people who live in other timezones, they wish to choose a time and date using the GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) timezone. And often, that causes misunderstandings. The cause behind the misunderstanding is normally daylight saving time (henceforth called summer time). [Read More]