I Love Cynics!

In a recent assessment of American student achievement in science education, it was found that by 2005 only 18% of graduating seniors were considered proficient. Forty-six percent were considered below a basic achievement level. That was up 3% from 1996.
How did we arrive at this situation? How did the United States go from being one [...]

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Today is Make-fun-of-contradictions Day. Some choice quotes from today’s News-Miner article on Lisa Murkowski’s Health Care Town Hall Meeting.
Rick Sikma of North Pole asked why the federal government thought it ought to be involved in health care in the first place.
“I don’t see that in the Constitution,” he said, applause drowning out the rest of [...]

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Read that. Think about it. Get pissed off.
Then read the rest and demand action.
Oh, and if you’re curious about the above quoted court case, read here. Basically, they’re justifying torture by citing a court case that affirmed the right to paddle grade school students without a hearing.
Ingraham is one of a series of cases in [...]

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Wedge issues, voter myopia, corrupt politicians? What are the causes of increasing economic disparity in the United States? In his book, Unequal Democracy, Larry Bartels examines the history of increasing economic inequality since the end of World War II.
Economic disparity is at its highest point since the 20’s with the top 1% income earners holding [...]

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Been a while since I’ve posted a book review. Recently completed the book Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights (Barnes & Noble Classics).
I won’t beat around the bush, this is a difficult book to finish. It’s long, and let’s face it, standard English has changed a lot since the [...]

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The GOP released a list of stimulus provisions they view as a waste of money. From this list, I can only surmise that republicans dislike the following things:

A healthy population. Particularly if that population happens to be Native Americans.
Saving energy, thereby reducing utility costs.
The FBI. Or, at least paying the FBI. Weird.
Flood prevention and reduction [...]

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To much happy. Need cynical, angry posting. Raaarrrrgghhhhh.
Here are some lessons for the day.
Lesson 1 – Race Relations

Being a racist asshole can win you two Pulitzer prizes.
Lesson 2 – Global Warming

One cold snap during one winter totally debunks all that “science” about “Global Warming”. Long term trends? What are those?
Lesson 3 – Elections

Being sure to [...]

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The events currently unfolding in Gaza are absolutely appalling. As we near 1,000 casualties, many civilians, you may feel there’s not much you can do to help. Well, you’d be wrong.
A thread on the Something Awful forums has a great list of charities that provide aid to the Palestinians caught in the cross-fire. I plan [...]

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I wasn’t going to post twice today, but then I ran across this on the Something Awful forums…
SA has a forum titled Laissez Fair, which is mostly about political satire and silly political debates. One of the discussions, Bruce Tinsley drunk Mallard Fillmore Megaguglugluglug, is about republican oriented political cartoons. A recently uploaded image is [...]

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That’s it. Nothin’ more to say. Just go do it. It’ll make you feel good. Honest.

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