The conservative assault on reality continues this week with right-wing parents who believe elementary schools are teaching critical race theory (CRT) adding selective emotional learning (SEL) to the list of things that set them off. Unlike CRT, SEL really is part of elementary school curricula. According to an NBC News article, it is: …a teaching … Continue reading “The Conservative Assault on Reality”
Every year around Halloween, Americans share variations on a very scary story — the story of Tainted Candy! As the story goes, there are evil people out there — probably Satanists — who are placing things inside the Halloween treats. Razorblades in apples, needles in candy bars, perhaps drugs! The machinations of these evil-doers are … Continue reading “Tainted Candy: A Scary Halloween Story”
There are quite a few politically-charged subjects around these days. I’ve done the required digging on three of those subjects, and the truth about each is summarized below. Ivermectin While the two wings of mainstream media argue about whether ivermectin is a horse dewormer or a miracle cure for COVID-19, the truth is something quite … Continue reading “The Truth About: Adrenochrome, Ivermectin, and the Shipping Crisis”
This is satire. It is a joke. Last week, police in the small town of Redding, California responded to reports of antifa infiltrators invading in buses with the intent of doing terrorism. Unfortunately, the police were not able to locate the terrorists, so they could still be at large in the town, ready to do … Continue reading “Antifa Bus Invades Redding, CA”
Today is the first day of school for Columbia Public Schools which makes it a good time to review the predicament we’re all in regarding COVID-19. When this all started, it was conceivable that we could solve the problem of COVID-19 by holding back the spread long enough for a vaccine to be developed and … Continue reading “Solutions vs. Mitigation”
You’re probably familiar with the five historical epochs referenced by Marx. He didn’t invent them, but he did help maintain that conceptualization of history. Here they are with an additional stage for the sake of clarity: communal: Primitive communism slave: When evil people first enslaved other people feudal: The feudal system, with monarchs, serfs, and … Continue reading “Artificial Intelligence and the Quest to Recreate Slavery”
Leon Thomas spent a couple of years on this video; it is extremely thorough and also a lot longer than what you typically see on YouTube. It is worth your time because the right-wing evangelical movement — perhaps more accurately called the Christian dominionist movement — is the most important component of the far right … Continue reading “Left Behind and the Translation of God | Renegade Cut”
I know you may have thought that the US presidential election was over, but it isn’t! Much like a Romero zombie, it just keeps shuffling forward hoping to make enough new zombies along the way to take over the world. Republicans are calling it the “Arizona audit”; they’re saying that the purpose of it is … Continue reading “The Arizona Recount”
There’s a lot of confusion among fans of capitalism over what exactly capitalism is. They really feel like it means “good freedom stuff that is not socialism”, and of course socialism means “bad Satan stuff”. On a more serious note, I can’t seem to find a good definition of capitalism from fans of capitalism; they … Continue reading “What is capitalism?”
There’s a story by Will Morris in the Columbia Missourian from yesterday entitled Lawmakers close to approving law promoting teaching the Bible in public schools. Basically, this comes down to the State of Missouri requiring public schools to teach Christianity. The far-right extremists pushing this bill pretend that the Bible is some kind of neutral … Continue reading “State of Missouri May Require Teaching of Christianity in Public Schools”
