The meme here is a joke, of course, but it points to something very real, and quite important, in this time where so many people reject all evidence they see around them in order to hold on to one or more strange and unsupportable beliefs.
If that weren’t the case, Trump would have literally no support, common sense gun laws would pass easily, and we’d be working climate change mitigation full-bore.
From an old friend (pictured at left):
Stephen King:
If Penguin Random House gets its way, it will soon own Simon & Schuster—leaving only four major publishers in an industry that once had dozens.
In a country built on free press, where Common Sense helped launch the Revolutionary War and The Grapes of Wrath helped spark the New Deal, the idea of just four white CEOs deciding what books reach the shelves is nothing less than alarming. (more…)
We need to admit that we live in strange times.
Yet that doesn’t make Trump’s torrent of conflicting excuses for being in possession of stolen classified documents any easier to swallow.
Set theory and its representation by Venn Diagrams have been around long before I was a boy in 6th grade math class, and we spent probably a month on this discipline that was considered very important at the time.
For some reason, I’ve haven’t come across this lately; I can’t remember ever tutoring a kid on this subject. Was it a fad?
Virtually no response to the epidemic of school shootings, exposure to disease, greatly restricted methods of teaching and discipline, narrowed curricula, book bans, forced unpaid overtime, as well as lousy pay, have all teamed up to create a huge teacher shortage.
Who could have possibly seen that coming?
The result? Our kids are getting rotten educations, and are falling further and further behind the rest of the developed world.
The rich are getting richer at the expense of the common American.
We need to keep in mind that Reality Winner isn’t beloved by tens of millions of Americans. Trump leads a large group of hateful morons who will go bananas if the justice system treats their hero the same way it would deal with any other citizen who had committed a long string of felonies.
Some of these memes that allude to OJ Simpson’s drive down the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles are better than others. This is a good one; I especially like “karma” in the back. (more…)
Thanks to cartoonist Adam Zyglis for this gem.
The international community looks on with a mixture of pity and contempt as the United States wrestles with fascism. Will Trump, still supported by tens of millions of voters and a large contingent in Congress, successfully stave off our justice system?
As a fellow from Sweden told me when I asked about his country’s opinion of Trump a few years ago, “He probably has 8% – 10% support. The rest of us simply feel sorry for you. We just never imagined that this could happen in America, the country that used to be the most admired nation on Earth.”
When it comes to the transmissions in their cars, almost all Americans prefer automatics, and increasingly few of our millennials even know how to drive standard (manual) transmissions. (more…)
