How did American [reactionism] end up so detached from, indeed at odds with, facts and rationality? For it was not always thus. . . .
The point is that today’s dismal [White-Wing Party] field — is there anyone who doesn’t consider it dismal? — is no accident. Economic [reactionaries] played a cynical game, and now they’re facing the blowback, a party that suffers from “severe” [reactionism] in the worst way. . . .
Google “Ignorant Asshole,” then for shits and grins, no pun intended, Google “Santorum.”
As Seen On:The Maddow Blog
On February 12 we’ll commemorate the anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, a celebration around the world known as Darwin Day, to appreciate the advancement of human knowledge and the achievements of science and reason. It must also be a day when we push back against the politicization and undermining of science by ideologues and zealots. . .
Unfortunately, too many politicians are gripped by an anti-science fervor. . .
Last year, [Representative Pete Stark (D-CA) California’s 13th district and the only self-described non-theist in Congress] introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives to designate February 12 as Darwin Day in recognition of Charles Darwin as a worthy symbol of the achievements and importance of reason, science, and the advancement of human knowledge.
Source: Camels With Hammers
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There are many ways to respond to this, one of which is to echo George Bernard Shaw when he said “The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.”
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