Yes, men rate women, Uber riders rate their drivers, and callers into phone banks rate their experiences. But is it possible we’ve taken this whole thing too far?
Who rates cemeteries, and why?
Does this guy really believe this, or does he simply want attention?
Here’s an interesting article entitled: “What Would Happen if the Earth Were Flat?” Whole bunch of things I had never thought of.
Why are today’s conservatives trying so hard to drive American education into the pavement? My parents were both lifelong Republicans, but they worked hard to put my brother and me through college.
Now, that was the 1970s, long before the GOP went off the rails and we wound up with Donald Trump.
What are some possible reasons for this vicious attack on education? A few ideas include these (general) truths about educated people. They:
• Understand science, and are therefore very hard to lie to about vaccinations, climate change, etc.
• Believe that it would be good if the United States could continue to produce its own doctors, scientists, astronauts, and so forth.
• Tend to accept people of all races, religions, and sexualities.
• Are able to see through the bald-faced lies of political leaders.
• Tend to be relatively affluent and are therefore less desperate about the price of gasoline and eggs.
• Understand that American national security is not threatened by the presence of undocumented farm workers and restaurant dishwashers.
• Do not want federal troops unlawfully sent to our cities.
• Resent Christianity being forced upon our school children.
• Believe that life is more rewarding when we’re able to broaden our understanding of the world around us.
The story told at left should give us hope that the United States can survive Donald Trump intact.
Sure, you could spin expanding oil and gas exploration into the Alaskan wilderness as “promises kept.” The truth, of course, is that these were promises made to billionaire fossil fuels magnates.
“The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity .…They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.”
A couple of points:
Actually, there are 11.4 million deer hunters, 4.6 million use archery and 6.8 million use guns. It just takes a second to look this up, and doing so prevents one from spreading malicious lies.
Hunters don’t use assault weapons, which are almost always chosen by mass murderers. No one with any sense objects to rifles being sold to hunters.
To the reader who sent me this:
Maybe we should think about the “job” of the president.
Was he elected to commit a wide array of felonies and flout the Constitution? Please clarify.
With each passing day, Trump’s rhetoric reveals to an even greater degree his cruelty, his vindictiveness, and most of all, his lack of understanding of the U.S. Constitution. The only thing he has on his side is his capacity to mirror the hate and ignorance of his MAGA base.
We used to be proud of our country.
Unfortunately, the trend we really see here is the lie that a sustainable future for our human civilization lies in the things laid out at left. Of course, there is nothing wrong with making our clothes out of cotton or wool, or growing our own tomatoes.
The truth is that we’re baking our planet with greenhouse gas emissions, which accounts for a million or perhaps a billion times more damage than we’re doing to our Earth using nylon and rayon in our fabrics.
It’s almost as if the fossil fuel industry is deliberately trying to misinform us.
