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John Carlos, whose iconic black power salute at the 1968 Olympics generated outrage among many Americans, was greeted as a hero at Liberty Square in New York Monday night . . . [W]hile most Americans know that Carlos and fellow sprinter Tommie Smith wore black gloves and raised their fists in a salute at the medal ceremony, the pair also did not wear shoes in protest of poverty and wore beads in protest of lynching.
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What is more ironic, the proud, explicit, demonstration of ignorance via this drivers cacography, or the implicit ignorance shown by their faux support of the troops who died in vain supporting this driver’s SUV gas guzzling addiction? [MSH]
. . . [I]s Herman Cain actually proud that he has no idea what he’s talking about? It sure seems like it. In Republican world, any country on the map that isn’t labeled U.S. fuckin’ A. is “insignificant.” Until we try to invade it and steal its resources, that is.
But you just go ahead and insist that the things you don’t know about obviously don’t matter, Mr. Pizza Man. Because for the voters you’re trying to woo, being a total ignoramus isn’t a problem; it’s an asset.
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. . . [O]ur fight is not with 2.1 billion believers, most of whom could care less about politics or Constitutional law. Our battles are with the fundamentalist extremists who would like to see us dead and gone, and with the right wing Dominionist nutjobs who are trying to turn our Nation into a theocracy that encompasses our legislative, judiciary and executive branches of government; including our public school curriculum. They want all of us to live under the authority of their god.
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I don’t believe in gods for much the same reason that I don’t believe in fairies, bogeymen, ghosts, lucky gems, leprechauns, Santa or the Easter Bunny. There isn’t a shred of convincing evidence for the existence of any of them, plenty of evidence that they are grossly surplus to requirements for explaining any phenomenon, and that proposing them just creates more problems than it solves . . .
Faith is by definition belief without evidence – it’s pulling things out of your ass; it’s clinging to things that you might well know are faintly ridiculous; it’s putting up barriers to honest enquiry; it can be used as an impediment to curiosity and intellect, and it is simply the most ridiculous method of discovering or knowing anything about reality. It’s not a virtue – and it shouldn’t be a virtue in wider society any more than it would be in a court of law.
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Always Question Authority 