Oklahoma should cut its educational programs like a starving man needs to go on a diet. It’s already among the states in which Trump did best; it’s hard to imagine why these people need to become even more ignorant. Coincidentally, …
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A reader sent me the chart here, noting that Facebook had labelled it “false information.” He adds, “I guess they don’t like the fact that people are indeed surviving COVID.” I respond: I think the reason that FB called this false …
No one can say precisely where our civilization began to experience the surge in technology that we’re now enjoying. A case could be made for the electrification of essentially everything in our lives, which happened when people like Tesla, Edison, …
Here’s the personable and astute pastor John Pavlovitz, explaining the seething hatred that Republicans have for Dr. Anthony Fauci. This is an excellent piece, and I don’t want to give anything away, but let me offer a hint: it’s not …
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A learned economist said recently, “We know that COVID-19 is temporary, but we also know that it will cause permanent effects.” Interesting. It doesn’t seem certain that humankind will be able to put pandemics and their variants behind us anytime in …
A reader sent me this, to which I respond: Keep in mind that there IS an alternative to school. It’s called social isolation, illiteracy, unemployability, impoverishment, and QAnon. Note that I didn’t say it was a VIABLE alternative.
This is what the Trumpers/anti-vaxxers believe. Seems a bit unlikely to me.
Here’s an anonymous free-form poem about the pandemic and the anti-vaxxers. Poignant, to say the very least. “We wanted to help people We were smart and driven We loved science and physiology, humans and disease So we made a commitment …
No one can accurately quantify the effect that sharing bull**** on Facebook has on the dumbing-down of humanity, but it must be considerable. This is all a part of the massive disappointment that we call life in America. We believed …
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Modern education, at least as it exists in the United States, seems to have very few fans. The major line of criticism is that our schools force kids into ways of thinking that conform with what we want of them …
