Category Archives: Critical Thinking
CANNABIS: “Booze Industry Using Sneaky Tricks to Fight Marijuana Legalization” / Jimmy Dore ☮
Wikileaks recently revealed that the Wine and Spirits Wholesalers of America (WSWA), under the guise of promoting safety, used an email advertisement on a Politico produced newsletter called ‘Huddle’ targeted at lawmakers to insist that regulations be added to marijuana legalization laws. It included deeply misleading statistics.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — August 11, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
CANNABIS: “Records vs. Raises” ☮
CRITICAL THINKING: “Team USA Athletes are Cupping Themselves at the Rio Olympics for No Good Reason” ☮
If you’ve watched the Olympics, you may have noticed a few big-name athletes — including swimmer Michael Phelps and gymnast Alex Naddour — with large circular welts on their bodies. It’s the result of a process called “cupping,” in which you put suction cups on parts of your body to make the blood flow faster. Or so they think.
REPUBLICAN PLAYBOOK: “GOP Rats Desert the Sinking Ship They Built Themselves” / Ring of Fire / Farron Cousins☮
ATHEIST COMEDY: “Making America Great Again!” / David Cross ☮
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — August 9, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
POLITICS: “Clint Eastwood: ‘Pussy Generation’ is too Harsh on Donald Trump” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
Clint Eastwood has some thoughts on Donald Trump and how the “pussy generation” of Americans is reacting to him.
Eastwood did a joint interview with his actor son Scott Eastwood––whose new movie Suicide Squad is getting such critical reviews, it’s driving fans to Republican Party levels of meltdown––and the Esquire interviewer brought up Trump to get his thoughts.
BRITISH POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Occupy Pie” / Jonathan Pie ☮
JP gets moved on by security and it’s all Tim’s fault.
