Facticity

Texas Slips Further into the Dark Ages (0)

3/13/10 •

Texas Ultraconservatives pushed through changes to the Texas Curriculum that will help ensure Texas’ youth are educated based on a far-right world view, helping to ensure that ultraconservative memes survive another generation. The changes include:

stressing that the United States is a Constitutional Republic rather than a Democratic entity.
highlighting Judeo-Christian influences on the nation’s Founding Fathers, but [...]

Progressives and Regressives – A Difference in World View (0)

3/09/10 •

A friend sent me yet another study that found that very liberal people are smarter than most very conservative people. This is no surprise to anyone who has lived among both groups for any length of time. It’s also obvious that very liberal (i.e. progressive) people have above average education and intelligence (defined as broad [...]

Untruth and Unreason – Cantor and the GOP (0)

2/25/10 •

I’m always a little surprised by the lies uttered by the GOP and their Ministry of Truth (Fox News), and at the capacity of otherwise intelligent people to accept them without analysis. I expect people like Palin, whose world view is about 2,000 years out of date, to accept and propagate this nonsense, but those [...]

Cool Math Problem I Found on XKCD Blog (0)

2/19/10 •

Check out this math problem I found on the xkcd blog:
Alice secretly picks two different real numbers by an unknown process and puts them in two (abstract) envelopes.  Bob chooses one of the two envelopes randomly (with a fair coin toss), and shows you the number in that envelope.  You must now guess whether the [...]