Plenty of people say that religion and science are mutually compatible.
Some believe that life couldn’t have come from non-life.
Of course, there are other, perhaps less thoughtful believers, who say that God and His son Jesus Christ are the only path to heaven, because the Bible tells us so.
Most scientists, like neuroscientist and public intellectual Sam Harris says that religion is to the human mind what a virus is to a computer.
Here’s a short video that addresses the assault that the U.S. federal government is conducting on the health of people in red states and counties.
Of course, this is another fine example of what Lyndon Johnson said: “If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the finest black man, he’ll open up his wallet to you.”
In this case, uneducated white people don’t care about their own ignorance or poverty or disease, as long as their president is vigorously punishing non-whites.
At left is a question typical of a Republican moron. Might someone say, “No, taxes don’t need to be spent on things that serve our interests?”
The question, of course, is what actually does serve our interests.
Believe it or not, there are people in countries on this planet who think that tax money serves their interest if it goes to creating a healthier, happier, better educated, more humane society.
These are the same countries that tax rich people heavily, where attaining a net worth of hundreds of billions of dollars is extremely difficult–probably impossible. But those nations don’t have homeless veterans living in the street and presidents who are rapists and convicted felons.
Unfortunately, there are tens of millions of morons who believe hateful garbage like this.
The average 10-year-old can understand that we can BOTH protect our citizens while obeying the U.S. Constitution and international law when it comes to treating the undocumented legally and humanely.
Again, this is what is called the logical fallacy of the “false dichotomy.” Only idiots believe we have to choose one over the other.
I would say that the regulations on energy (and transportation) companies should be sufficient to put pressure on them to phase out fossil fuels and decarbonize in favor of renewables and nuclear.
As I’m sure the idiot/liar who wrote this meme knows, California’s economy is by far the largest in the country, and, if it were a country unto itself, it would be the 4th largest in the world.
We have quality education, and we make money growing out of our ears.
There’s something to be said for great schools and colleges that crank out affluent, innovative people who kick ass in IT, agriculture, entertainment, and all the rest.
In 2001, I remembered being deeply disappointed that G.W. Bush had become our 43rd U.S president, on the basis that he was clearly unintelligent, and that the Republicans were already climate deniers.
That said, Bush was not criminally insane, and about half of all American voters would not support a psychotic in the White House.
Now, the vast majority of U.S. voters would be thrilled to trade out Donald Trump for the good old days of being led by a sane imbecile.
I can’t understand how a young history/poli-sci major who has become a social media “influencer” has superior credibility to tens of thousands of climate scientists, many of whom I know personally, who have been studying this subject since the 1970s.
Can someone help me here?
One might think that being surrounded by experts would be eutopia, but it’s not everything it’s cracked up to be.
At left is an expression of what life in the United States has become over the last decade, which differs greatly from the experiences of those in the rest of the world.
Trump supporters have, at various times, been experts in macroeconomics, epidemiology, and above all, climate science.
At first, I thought the meme at left was a joke, but upon further reflection, I realized that it was not.
