Regarding the cartoon at left, a reader notes: Yeah, because NASA landed a man on the moon and flies drones on Mars by fudging numbers.
Exactly. We live among people who believe that our climate scientists are all in on an international scam to lie to the world’s people.
There is no doubt that poverty, ignorance, intolerance, and support of criminal tyrants are deeply interconnected. It’s a shame that nothing can be done to help these people.
It’s almost inconceivable that there was a time in history that the most powerful person on the planet, in this case the emperor of ancient Rome, was a supremely good person.
Nowadays the precise opposite is trending: vicious criminal dictators.
Exactly.
Even we mere mortals have figured that out.
Socrates couldn’t have cared less if the Athenians wanted to learn from him or go for a walk in the park.
As anyone could have predicted, there is a huge correlation between poor education/ignorance, moral poverty, and incarceration levels.
This short video provides a look into Trump’s base and, in particular, how they are not on board with his policies that cost them money.
The northern parts of the country that do a great deal of business with Canada are hardest hit.
Apparently, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who majored in political science, was absent the day they taught the U.S. Constitution in college.
It wasn’t too long ago that crackpots spewing nonsense like this with no supporting evidence were ostracized by society. Now, our Republicans elect them to the U.S. senate.
You’d have to believe that “the elites” a) conspired with the top people in the other 200+ countries on Earth, b) had a motive to kill over 7 million people worldwide, c) wanted to cripple the world economy, and d) didn’t mind watching their loved ones die agonizing deaths.
I seriously doubt that Trump will be the most powerful person in the world three years hence.
He is so roundly detested by people of intelligence and compassion around the globe that it seems impossible that something somewhere isn’t going to derail this sociopath.
Power is the ability to do good things for others. – Leo Tolstoy
