The meme here is funny, but it’s not 100% true. My mom is a political junkie who has little patience for liberals, but even she has to smile when I ask her about Bernie Sanders. “Oh, poor Bernie. He really …
Category: Sustainability
Are All Politicians Insincere?
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And Justice for All
Is it just me, or is justice starting to make a comeback? Who knows what will be the consequences to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his role in the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Yet it appears …
The Disturbing Shift Towards Indifference
Almost half of Americans look at this quote from British actress Audrey Hepburn with disdain. A left-over hippy? Someone grossly out of touch with the grim realities of living in a competitive world? This wasn’t the case until fairly recently. …
Tagged with: Indifference
Generalism vs. Specialization
There is no doubt that our world would be a much better place to live if we used our resources to educate young people across a wider sphere of disciplines. Until the 17th or 18th Century, there was very little …
Synthetic Beef
With the help of every mainstream media outlet imaginable, Bill Gates is heavily promoting his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. I won’t be reading it, because based on what I can discern, it contains very little that …
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Critical Thinking and Public Ignorance Are at War
We’ve all seen the argument that favors replacing some of our kids’ high school classes with those covering some of the practical life skills discussed in the meme here. Some use sarcastic humor to make this point, e.g., “I’m glad …
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Tagged with: 2020 election was stolen, American schooling deficient in math and science, climate change and the pandemic are hoaxes, college experience enables young people to think critically, competing on the global stage, Critical Thinking, Trump was an honest hardworking servant of the American people, we actually want our kids as uneducated as possible
It’s Incorrect To Call This Stupidity
This isn’t stupidity. This is marketing. This woman was elected by people so ignorant and hateful they eat stuff like this up with a spoon. She’s in the business of making asinine statements that please morons. It’s her brand. Demand …
Which Way, America?
The photo here suggests that there is no way out but to back up. Perhaps that’s what we need to do here in the United States. Before the presidential election in 2016 there was no QAnon, condoning of overt racism, …
On Stupidity
I’ve long admired Bonhoeffer, and the punch of this short essay is one of the reasons why. Trumpism as a 21st Century American phenomenon, however, is only partially fueled by stupidity; strangely, there are some very intelligent Trump supporters. And …
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Left-Wing Bias in Academia
We hear a great deal about the supposed liberal bias in American colleges and universities, yet whoever wrote the thoughts at the left here poses an interesting idea: suppose reality is closer aligned to what we think of today as …
