We don’t need another reminder of how broken our democracy is, but if we did, the meme here would certainly get the job done. It’s hard to imagine anything with a higher rating of public approval than universal background checks …
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It’s a tragedy that we have people who lack a 6th grade education in science influencing policy-making that will mean the difference between life and death for the human civilization. That doesn’t mean that we can’t smile at comments like …
We expend a good deal of resources here advocating for science. This may seem like a subject that should take care of itself, but sadly, it isn’t, given the influence of big money and religious fundamentalism. What is suggested in …
Venn diagrams, popularized by John Venn in the 1880s, show the logical relation between sets. Right around the time I was in elementary school in the early 1960s, set theory was becoming an important part of math curricula, and our …
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There can’t be more than a handful of intelligent people in the world today who believe that religion, generally, is currently operating at its optimum capacity in human civilization. The aetheist intellectuals, e.g., Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late …
There are probably enough people poking jabs at the youthful climate activist Greta Thunberg without my jumping on the bandwagon, but this is all in good fun, and it’s far too clever to ignore.
There are people who believe that an armed society is a safer and therefore better society. One can argue about the meaning of “better.” But there can be no equivocation on the word “safer,” and anyone with a 4th grade …
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As suggested at left, some people are more qualified to present their views on certain subjects than others. Most of the world is appalled that Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s opinions on the pandemic are putting the health of 29 million …
It was only a few years ago that the Republican party in the United States was based, at least loosely, around the principles of the traditional conservatives, things like small government, personal responsibility, deregulation, and whites-only country clubs. Of course, …
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