Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
This might or might not happen, or might happen but be watered down. The LA Times reports it as follows … EPA poised to scrap fuel economy targets that are key to curbing global warming — setting up clash with California The Trump administration is poised to abandon America’s pioneering fuel economy targets for cars … Read more
If you don’t know who Scott Pruitt is, then simply imagine Trump tracking down the most incompetent corrupt anti-environmental climate-change-denying candidate possible and appointing him to run the US Environmental Protection Agency. You might perhaps consider that to be a politically-motivated exaggeration. Sadly it is not, it is a quite literal fact-based observation. Incompetent and … Read more
What becomes rather obvious is that the way words are used by some is often determined by skin colour. This has been not just underlined by the Austin bombing terrorist, but announced in big bold 60′ high flashing red neon sign. Not to be outdone by the absence of the term, the White House press … Read more
The term “Cambridge Analytica” has popped up and so you might perhaps be wondering what this is all about. We have a few reliable sources we can use to dig into this a bit. I’m going to strive to keep this short and simple. 50 Million Facebook profiles Essentially the claim is that 50 million … Read more
It is distinctly possible that after Salman Rushdie published his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, back in 1988, you would normally have never heard of it. Can you for example name any other novel he has written? Everything changed when the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader of Iran at that time, issued a formal fatwā calling … Read more
If indeed it was a choice between Mr T or Oprah, then that is quite frankly a no-brainer. In fact, it would prove to be incredibly challenging to find anybody as ill suited and as incompetent as Mr T. That however is not the choice … yet … and until it is, then it is … Read more