Author: craigshields

As we see all around us, the Trump administration is doing everything it can to minimize the percentage of voters with college degrees, for the obvious reason that educated people do not believe the utter crap coming out of the …

Spreading Propaganda against College Education Read More »

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The answer to the question at left fully would take me several days.  But for the sake of brevity, let’s focus on the environment. To facilitate North America’s coming together to clean up its electricity grid, President Obama announced the …

What Obama Did Better than Trump, But Let’s Talk about Environmental Progress Read More »

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The U.S. has done fairly well for itself over the past 250 years with no official language. Switzerland has four official languages, and its GDP per capita is far greater than that of the United States. Only hateful morons believe …

JD Vance and His Enormous Appeal to America’s Idiots Read More »

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There is only one way for Republicans to remain in power, and that is to make more MAGA idiots. Education is kryptonite to ignorance.      

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Our problem isn’t really dementia; it’s criminal sociopathy. All through his life, Trump has operated on the basis “what’s good for me?” with no regard for the wellbeing of others.  That’s a sociopath. On top of this, you add criminality.  …

Trump’s Dementia Is the Least of Our Problems Read More »

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Exactly.  Being indifferent to the suffering of others makes it easy to keep a smile on your face.

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Insofar as the Constitution clearly assigns the states the responsibility to regulate and conduct elections, what Trump wants so desperately to do will require a significant re-write of the document that (most) Americans hold sacred.  

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Maybe a single day will pass sometime in America’s future during which Trump or one of his moron cabinet members will refrain from making some idiotic remark like the one at left. Our founding fathers couldn’t have been more clear …

The “Godless Left” Read More »

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Until I came across this statement from Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss years ago, it hadn’t dawned on me that teaching children evangelical Christianity could be properly called “child abuse.” I can tell you that I took some grief …

Respecting Geologic History Read More »

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At left is another illustration of the fact the folks in the red states honestly don’t want education, wealth, healthcare, or any of the other things that are valued in the Northeast or the Pacific Coast. If it punishes everyone …

Owning the Libs, Punishing the Non-Whites Read More »

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