From this:

Kurt Gottfried, physicist, professor emeritus at Cornell University, advocate for peace, and co-founder of the Union of Concerned Scientists, has passed away at age 93. Throughout his career, Kurt Gottfried encouraged fellow scientists to become involved, to speak out on issues, and to hold their leaders accountable on topics ranging from nuclear arms control to human rights and scientific integrity. He was an iconic and inspirational example of an engaged scientist, and will be sorely missed by his colleagues and friends. (more…)

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Dude, I love what you’ve done with the front steps.  But at least you’re on the right side of this issue (“No On Oz”).

Pennsylvania isn’t all golf courses, squash courts, and top-notch universities, but even folks of lesser means are going to make it impossible for this career criminal conman to win a seat in the U.S. Senate.

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Whether it’s called a “sin against the human mind” or a “path toward the certain destruction of a society,” the United States sure is walking down that road. As a matter of fact, we’re galloping down it.

Isaac Asimov refers to America’s “cult of ignorance.” Yes, it’s a cult, one with more adherents every year.

Stolen election?  Climate change hoax?  Government planned pandemic?  Nothing is off-limits.

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It seems that all our concern about China’s military expansion is simply needless worry.

The Chinese are on a path toward world domination, but it doesn’t involve violence; it’s being accomplished by harnessing the stupidity of the United States and using it to drive America into irrelevance on the global economic stage.

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I was a fairly avid camper in my youth, but it sounds pretty unappealing at age 67.

Having said that, the author of the meme makes an excellent point.

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Here’s one of those claims that seem so absurd that it needs to be confirmed.  But yes, Marjorie Taylor Greene actually did say this.

As Rep. Adam Schiff of the Select Committee pointed out, “Most of these people (in Congress) are intelligent, and couldn’t possibly believe the Big Lie.”  He immediately qualified his remark, naming Greene by name as a notable exception.

 

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A fabulous yet frightening prediction.

And from almost 150 years ago.

 

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At left we see the reason that Socrates is often regarded as Western Civilization’s greatest philosopher.

Being aware of how little one really knows requires a profound level of humility.  I’m sure it was rare back in his day, and it’s almost completely absent in our public forums today, at least in the U.S.

In fact, now we have a relatively recent theory in psychology, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a type of cognitive bias in which people with little knowledge of a particular subject tend to grossly overestimate their level of understanding in that arena.

Thus, we have the MAGA crowd, featuring tens of millions of experts on constitutional law, epidemiology, and macroeconomics.

 

 

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As the United States regresses back into time, opportunities for humor arise on an almost-daily basis.

Of course, this would be funnier if it didn’t represent such a grave assault on women’s rights and the quality of their lives.

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In an earlier post, I referred to Trump’s ploy of arguing with “childishly poor logic,” and I suggested that he can’t get away with this forever, as he’s forced to increase the extent of each lie so as to cover up the one before it.

Apparently, the creator of the meme here sees the situation similarly.

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