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Foundations of thought

Maybe it is because I am a scientist type personality that I find the following discussion so discouraging.  The recent installment of the culture wars brought another striking example of how lost we as a nation must be.  President Biden's Supreme Court nominee was confronted with the question of what was a "woman" according to her understanding.  At the risk of being dismissed by many, I am taking a few quotes from a Fox News report.  I don't follow Fox at all, but when I googled the exchange between Judge Jackson and Senator Marsha Blackburn, a Fox report popped up first, so being lazy, I just copied the following.   "Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's  Supreme Court  nominee, said she was unable to define what a woman is." "Jackson told Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., that she was unable to answer the question because she is "not a biologist." "It is a simple question. What is a woman?"  said Blackburn. Now, most p...