[above: We were staying right on a trolley line, and the buzzing of the overhead power lines was incessant. I doubt that it’ll make a record, as we had better songs this time out, but this fact gave rise to our loudest endeavor of the session, a number called Stray Voltage.] The weekend of November […]
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Alt State Department issues list of politically vulnerable GOP Reps
For those of you who might have missed it, what with all the hoopla about the Oscars, our Alt State Department issued a list earlier this evening of those GOP Representatives who, according to the data, may be most vulnerable in the upcoming midterm elections, and the state of Michigan has two Republican members of […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Alt State Department, Dave Trott, House of Representatives, midterm elections, vulnerable politicians 7 Comments
The war against critical thinking
For as much as we talk here about the anti-intellectualism of the right, I don’t think I’ve ever shared this piece of George Carlin video with you. (See below.) It’s only three minutes long, but it gets right to the heart of things. In it, Carlin says bluntly that public education in America will never […]
Posted in Education, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Accelerated Christian Education, ACE, anti-intellectualism, behavior modification, biology, Bobby Jindal, challenging fixed beliefs, Christian Spurling, Colonel Robert Wilson, competing visions for the future of America, critical thinking, dismantling of public education, evolution, fixed beliefs, George Carlin, higher order thinking skills, hoaxes, libraries, Loch Ness Monster, Marmaduke Wetherell, philosophy, Plesiosaur, public education, public libraries, school vouchers, sea monsters, the future of America, Thom Elliott 86 Comments