What Went So Wrong in U.S. Education?
By the time young people in Europe leave high school, they are fluent in 3+ languages, have read Plato, and play at least one musical instrument fairly well.
Southeast Asians, as we all know, are more inclined towards math and science, which is why we see their surnames all over our hospital placards.
Americans are lucky if they can find Poland on a map of the world.
So, why this cataclysmic failure? I suspect that it’s a combination of factors, mostly rooted in U.S. politics. Americans have very little patience for solutions to problems that take years or even decades to play themselves out. If a certain politician advocates for something that doesn’t show immediate benefits, he’s a failure, and that now becomes ammunition for his opponent in the next election.
This is all coupled by the fact, that, at a certain level, we simply don’t care. If you disbelieve that, ask yourself why we pay our teachers so poorly, and why we allow charter schools to siphon the cream off the top of the student population.
Today’s piece in the WSJ’s Climate and Energy section is called “The Problem With Stuff.”
It’s common for people to wonder about human civilization, how it’s been dominated by men, and what form it would have taken if that weren’t the case.
The meme here reminds us that it may be a good time to repeat the oft-given advice to Republicans: Maybe it’s time to actually do something that improves voters’ lives, as opposed to making things as miserable here as possible, so as to enable blaming your opponents.
Denmark has a number of advantages over the rest of the world, one of which is that they actually care about environmental responsibility, and thus they refuse to allow moneyed interests to pollute their country for profit.
Here’s something that many of us wonder about: how it’s possible for Biden-haters to say that the economy is a disaster.
Of course, this is just the beginning; we haven’t gotten to the 91 felony counts stemming from the four indictments.
NPR reports: The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in an important environmental case today. It will consider whether to pause a federal rule obligating states to be “good neighbors.” At the heart of the dispute is a provision of the Clean Air Act that 
I post this not to ridicule Rush Limbaugh for his 
Senior energy analyst Robert Rapier writes: This is what sucking up to Putin and Russia gets you. First, Putin publicly humiliates Tucker Carlson, and now Russian media is laughing at Trump supporters.
