Tweet of the evening:

[applegrove]

Link to tweet

[hlthe2b]

1. Yup... Even equally disconcerting to me is those who fall victim to the latest sensational headline

and disseminate it widely with self-expressed near-panic, rather than researching further... first. Even among some who are already aware of the disinformation campaigns and poor reporting by non-medical MSM. I hope we can contain this here, but...

[dmr]

2. Boy, is that ever right!

I know someone who thinks very highly of himself and his intelligence. This fits this friend to a "T".

He thinks he's got it all figured out, but what he doesn't know ...

[Skittles]

3. he was so cool

[applegrove]

4. Late in his life he visited the Sudbury, Canada's SNOLAB, 2 km below

the surface. He was amazing.

[Skittles]

7. I saw him at my workplace!

I'll never forget - he was going to make an appearance but seating was extremely limited, and done by lottery....even though I got ALL my team members to enter along with me, I did not get a ticket. But then on the day of his appearance, I received a call from someone who wouldn't be able to attend, and would I like their ticket! Hoo boy!

Whatever the subject was he was going to talk about (I can't remember) - the first thing he said was, forget that, let's talk about TIME TRAVEL! Standing ovation, we loved it!

[applegrove]

8. Such a great guy. I was one of the many who bought "A Brief History of Time"

in the 1990s and could not understand the first chapter so
I stopped there. Lucky you. One of those memories that makes you smile and wiggle both your ears.

[Tadpole Raisin]

5. If someone is 'ignorant' about something but

Wants to learn more I find that heartening - someone who is not afraid to say I don’t know much about this topic but I’d like to learn more.

These people know little and think they know everything.
Mini-mes in trump form.

Gag!

[Lonestarblue]

9. Exactly. Trump claimed he was a genius but was mostly ignorant.

His primary claim to knowledge is how to manipulate the media. That he knows, along with how to break any number of laws and get away with it—at least so far. I keep hoping that he will be held accountable eventually.

When world leaders laugh at you, you’re a total jackass. To my knowledge, Trump is the only ignorant jerk that has caused so many world leaders to wonder what the hell happened to voters in the US.

[Escurumbele]

6. That is not something the MAGAt crowd would understand, to them we are the ignorant, or

have the illusion of knowledge.

[IronLionZion]

10. It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble

it's what you know for sure that just isn't so.

Or what assholes like Tucker Carlson and Donald J Trump tell you.

[Tadpole Raisin]

12. Mark Twain - excellent!!

M. T. , George Carlin, and John Kenneth Galbraith…
Wise men with slightly different ways of saying things!

JKG: The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

and one of my favorites: The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

I met him many years ago. He was a deep thinker (and very tall!!).

Stay safe IronLionZion.

[SergeStorms]

11. Hang that on Rand Paul's office door.

If there were ever a person who gives the illusion of knowledge, and is so damned smug in doing so, it's Rand Paul.

The quintessential psuedo-intellectual.

[DallasNE]

13. Along That Line

You can lead a human to knowledge but you can't make it think.

Author unknown.