The U.S. has done fairly well for itself over the past 250 years with no official language.
Switzerland has four official languages, and its GDP per capita is far greater than that of the United States.
Only hateful morons believe that this “common language” crap is a problem here.
There is only one way for Republicans to remain in power, and that is to make more MAGA idiots.
Education is kryptonite to ignorance.
Our problem isn’t really dementia; it’s criminal sociopathy.
All through his life, Trump has operated on the basis “what’s good for me?” with no regard for the wellbeing of others. That’s a sociopath.
On top of this, you add criminality. Anything that won’t land him in prison is totally fine, whether it be fraud, theft, or treason.
Exactly. Being indifferent to the suffering of others makes it easy to keep a smile on your face.
Insofar as the Constitution clearly assigns the states the responsibility to regulate and conduct elections, what Trump wants so desperately to do will require a significant re-write of the document that (most) Americans hold sacred.
Maybe a single day will pass sometime in America’s future during which Trump or one of his moron cabinet members will refrain from making some idiotic remark like the one at left.
Our founding fathers couldn’t have been more clear that the United States was not established as a Christian nation. (See below.)
Until I came across this statement from Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss years ago, it hadn’t dawned on me that teaching children evangelical Christianity could be properly called “child abuse.”
I can tell you that I took some grief from certain family members when I didn’t send my young kids off to Sunday School. I explained that I wouldn’t have my son and daughter indoctrinated into a belief that is distinctly counter-scientific.
My family and I eventually mended the fences, but it was rough for a while.
If it makes you happy to tell your kids that, when they die, they will live up in heaven with grandma, that’s OK with me, since no one really knows what happens upon our demise. But there is something that’s particularly objectionable about explaining to young people that there were no dinosaurs, and that they must never trust scientists.
At left is another illustration of the fact the folks in the red states honestly don’t want education, wealth, healthcare, or any of the other things that are valued in the Northeast or the Pacific Coast.
If it punishes everyone but white, straight, Christian males, our nation’s tens of millions of hateful morons will open up their wallets and give you their last $2.
Decent and intelligent people respect the rights of parents to homeschool their children, but there are two reasons for concern: a) socialization, failure to expose children to their peers, so that they may make friends and come to understand the norms of society, and b) the quality of the education itself.
Almost all homeschooling in the United States is conducted on the basis of a radical rightwing viewpoint, normally a blend of evangelical Christianity and Trumpism.
These people (Big Oil PR teams?) write:
Celebrate the many benefits of increasing CO2! Deserts are shrinking. Forests are expanding. Increasing crop productivity is outpacing population growth. We love CO2 and so should you.
In truth, increasing levels of CO2 are not helping plants grow. Plants use as much carbon dioxide as they need, and no more. Similarly, healthy people do not benefit from higher concentrations of oxygen.
We live in world of misinformation, in which, if lies are repeated with enough frequency, they are accepted by the common American.
