I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda’s Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History, 1980
I’m frustrated by the terrible moderation in the January Democratic debate, but I’m most disappointed in Elizabeth Warren. As mentioned in my previous post, the moderator asked Bernie why (not if) he said that a woman could not win the election, Bernie refuted, the moderator ignored him and then asked Senator Warren what she thought …
On Twitter, #CNNisTrash began trending after the January Democratic Debate moderated by CNN, and it is well-earned. CNN’s moderators, especially Abby Phillip, showed very obvious bias against Bernie Sanders, sometimes in almost cartoonish ways. I’ll repeat their loaded questions, with highlights added: Wolf Blitzer: Sen. Sanders, in the wake of the Iran crisis, Iran’s Ayatollah …
Are you socially awkward, or just “spiritually Finnish?” If you find it awkward to make small talk, you may be “jingfen” (精芬) or “spiritually Finnish.” That’s the newly coined Chinese buzzword for a burgeoning identity taking hold among [Chinese] millennials… In Finland, even the extroverts are introverts, or so claim the Finns. They have a …
Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in …
We judge everyone else in the world by their actions, and only ourselves by our intentions. Fix that in yourself. nono_baddog’s dad
Interesting exchange I saw on Reddit (emphasis added by me to indicate the point): Republicans think even $7.25 an hour is more than we deserve. Baby_Yoda_Fett Sad fact, i cant tell you how many people i talk to at work that think like this, they then say shit like “those arent meant to be jobs …
‘Deadbeat Cortez should pay her bills’ — House Dems not happy with AOC for refusing to pay dues and funding progressive challengers tl;dr: Democrats in Congress are expected to pay dues to the DCCC (aka ‘D-trip’), an organization that helps the campaigns of House Democrats. AOC, who has out-raised every other House Democrat, is purposefully …
So let me get this right.We support the Iraq government in the fight against ISIS. We don’t like ISIS, but ISIS is supported by Saudi Arabia who we do like. We don’t like Assad in Syria. We support the fight against him, but ISIS is also fighting against him. We don’t like Iran, but Iran supports the …
There was a Reddit thread about the complete extinction of the giant Chinese paddlefish (none found in the wild, none exist in captivity, and no living tissue samples to clone) and these two comments really stuck out to me on why species conservation truly matters in a big picture sense: Jesus. This planet is the …