I’m trying to remember when, in elementary school, we learned about the three co-equal branches of the U.S. government, and I’m going to say it was somewhere around 5th grade.
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Understanding High School Chemistry Can Help You Spot BS
The meme here is total BS. How do I know? CO2 is one of the products (stuff on the right side of the arrow) in CH4 + O2 -> CO2 + H2O + energy, the combustion of methane, which is …
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RFK, Jr.
It’s so hard to be a self-respecting American with garbage like this happening on a day-to-day basis.
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At This Point, Presidential Lying Is an American Institution
The hat shown here expresses a wish that most of us support, but one that seems unattainable at this point. The concept of a “lying politician” has been around at least since the days of ancient Greece, but no one …
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DOGE and Our National Parks
All this stupidity is not sustainable. It’s hard to know exactly when it will end, but slashing $1 from the federal budget to cut into a revenue stream 17 times larger and alienate tens of millions of people will not …
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Trump Most Dangerous Person in America
The top brass of the U.S. military has an extremely negative viewpoint on the president and his personal character, which raises the question why his supporters don’t seem to care.
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What It Takes to be an Anti-Vaxxer (or Climate Denier, Flat-Earther, etc.)
The author of the meme here posits that narcissism is required to be an anti-vaxxer, because without it, people would simply listen to the scientists who have spent their lives studying the subject. True. But the same could be said …
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Fox News on Trump
Fox News is still garbage, but, as shown at left, it appears to be making an effort to inject some level of truth into its coverage. For those wishing a “news” source that makes no attempt in that direction whatsoever, …
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The 1950s: “I Like Ike”
American life in the 1950s had a number of terrible features, in particular de jure racial segregation and the assumption that war was required to stop the spread of communism. Like all progressives, I don’t want to go back there …
What’s at the Core of Trump’s Strange Relationship with Putin?
National Priority #1: Get rid of Trump. National Priority #2: Get to the bottom of Trump’s relationship with Putin.
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