textbook anti-intellectualism part 2.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” — Isaac Asimov As promised Part 2 regarding the Steve Nass agenda. and this quote from mike…

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textbook anti-intellectualism part 1

“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.” ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It appears to me that Dr. King was ahead of his…

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National Politics: Sugar Sugar and the Honeyed Gall

  Sugar Sugar: Sugar Daddy’s Sugar Coating, Sugar Pipes… this post is all about sugar: the cloying and the sickeningly sweet that makes a fine icing over our national politics. First up for the sugar fix – a bona fide whistle blowing mindblower that exposes the viciously arcane – where…

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Isaac Asimov is Smarter Than You

And he’s certainly more psychic than you.

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Heaven Help Us…..

I have written before about anti-intellectualism and nothing i can write can speak to it better than this little 3 minute clip from the Hannity show. I am not even going to editorialize it, this speaks for itself:

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