Almost half the country lives in a fairyland in which reason and intelligence have ceased to matter. The irony here, of course, is that Jordan is referring to the anti-vaxxers as “real America,” where the precise opposite is the case. …
Category: Renewables – Science
Predictably, Oklahoma Announces Deeper Cuts To Education
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, …
Predictably, Oklahoma Announces Deeper Cuts To Education Read More »
COVID Disinformation
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 …
Tagged with: Johns Hopkins
Buckminster Fuller on Technology
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, …
Tagged with: electricity and magnetism
Pastor John Pavlovitz: Why the Right Hates Fauci
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 …
Pastor John Pavlovitz: Why the Right Hates Fauci Read More »
Tagged with: Why the Right Hates Fauci
Anti-Science and the Pandemic
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 …
Tagged with: Anti-Science and the Pandemic
Two Viewpoints on Education
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.
Who Is This Dr. Fauci?
This is what the Trumpers/anti-vaxxers believe. Seems a bit unlikely to me.
Tagged with: Trumpers
Anti-Vaxxers and Our Society
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 …
Tagged with: anti-vaxxers
Don’t Make the World an Even More Idiotic Place To Live
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 …
Don’t Make the World an Even More Idiotic Place To Live Read More »
