April 29, 2013
oldbookillustrations: Falling in of a mine. From The underground world, by Thomas Wallace Knox, Hartford, 1877. (Source: archive.org) Why do people still do this? Is your computer plugged in? 

oldbookillustrations:

Falling in of a mine.

From The underground world, by Thomas Wallace Knox, Hartford, 1877.

(Source: archive.org)

Why do people still do this? Is your computer plugged in? 

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(Notes: 146)
  
Filed under: mining dumbness progress energy fossil fuels 
March 4, 2013

secretrepublic:

Wealth Inequality in America

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(Notes: 88)
  
Filed under: fairness dumbness inequality wealth 
February 13, 2013
azmatzahra: Confused by Washington’s bitter two-year fiscal fight? To help, I’ve been working on this interactive “Guide to the Gridlock” that breaks down the dramatic saga. Check it out, part of FRONTLINE’s Cliffhanger special airing on PBS tonight. A disheartening guide to Congressional gridlock on fiscal matters.

azmatzahra:

Confused by Washington’s bitter two-year fiscal fight? To help, I’ve been working on this interactive “Guide to the Gridlock” that breaks down the dramatic saga. Check it out, part of FRONTLINE’s Cliffhanger special airing on PBS tonight.

A disheartening guide to Congressional gridlock on fiscal matters.

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(Notes: 5)
  
Filed under: frontline fiscal cliff sequestration congress politics dumbness 
January 16, 2013
More than 900 people have been killed by gun violence since Newtown. Awful.

More than 900 people have been killed by gun violence since Newtown. Awful.

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Filed under: gun violence gun control dumbness 
January 4, 2013
bostonreview: The filibuster has gotten out of hand.  Via Common Cause. Amazing that Obama has gotten anything through Congress.

bostonreview:

The filibuster has gotten out of hand.  Via Common Cause.

Amazing that Obama has gotten anything through Congress.

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(Notes: 2)
  
Filed under: politics filibuster Congress dumbness 
December 18, 2012
motherjones: The bullet-proof backpack industry is a real thing—and it’s booming, post-Newtown. Kid-friendly, portable body armor is the only reasonable solution to the problem of gun violence in America.

motherjones:

Kid-friendly, portable body armor is the only reasonable solution to the problem of gun violence in America.

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(Notes: 352)
  
Filed under: gun control safety newtown dumbness 
November 7, 2012

cordjefferson:

I will use Bill O’Reilly’s delicious white-man tears to salt my militant black-power soup this fine evening!

“The white establishment is now the minority and the voters, many of them, feel that this economic system is stacked against them and THEY WANT STUFF.”

Obama didn’t run on giving non-white-male people (Hispanics, Blacks, and women, according to O’Reilly) stuff and things. Remember in 1992 they called Bill Clinton the ‘first Black President’ so O’Reilly is wrong. Okay, not really. An actual Black Presidential candidate would have lost in 1992. 

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(Notes: 2,603)
  
Filed under: obama romney politics election 2012 dumbness white privilege 
October 2, 2012
George Will Suggests Obama Would Be Losing If He Weren't Black

mediamatters.org

If anything, Obama would be even farther ahead. Come on, Mr. Will.

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Filed under: obama racism george will media matters dumbness 
September 28, 2012
How We Know That Humans Are Getting Smarter [Excerpt] By James R. Flynn, scientificamerican.com Show­cas­ing more than fifty of the most provoca­tive, orig­i­nal, and sig­nif­i­cant online essays from 2011, The Best Sci­ence Writ­ing Online 2012 will change the way… Reprint­ed from Are We Get­ting Smarter? Ris­ing IQ in the… Gotta say it doesn’t seem like this is true. And what about regression to the mean for IQ? If children’s IQ tends to be lower than their parents, how can we be getting smarter?

How We Know That Humans Are Getting Smarter [Excerpt]
By James R. Flynn, scientificamerican.com

Show­cas­ing more than fifty of the most provoca­tive, orig­i­nal, and sig­nif­i­cant online essays from 2011, The Best Sci­ence Writ­ing Online 2012 will change the way…

Reprint­ed from Are We Get­ting Smarter? Ris­ing IQ in the…

Gotta say it doesn’t seem like this is true. And what about regression to the mean for IQ? If children’s IQ tends to be lower than their parents, how can we be getting smarter?

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Filed under: science IQ intelligence dumbness 
September 4, 2012
think-progress: Yesterday, much of America had the day off to celebrate Labor Day. Here’s how a decline in unionization has negatively impacted the American labor force, and benefitted the one percent. UNIONS are to blame for the SHRINKING MIDDLE CLASS because they let all their members quit!

think-progress:

Yesterday, much of America had the day off to celebrate Labor Day. Here’s how a decline in unionization has negatively impacted the American labor force, and benefitted the one percent.

UNIONS are to blame for the SHRINKING MIDDLE CLASS because they let all their members quit!

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(Notes: 210)
  
Filed under: politics charts unions middle class one percent dumbness 
August 31, 2012
motherjones: This Single Chart Explains a Lot About the GOP Convention (via NY Mag) This was an unscientific poll of 50 people at the GOP Convention but, still, the President is the greated threat to America? Really? It does make a strange sort of sense, though, because they see the President as enacting policies that bolster the actual threats facing America, rather than mitigate them. He is the greatest threat because he exacerbates the other threats. (I disagree on the basis of reality but I can see it their way.)

motherjones:

This Single Chart Explains a Lot About the GOP Convention

(via NY Mag)

This was an unscientific poll of 50 people at the GOP Convention but, still, the President is the greated threat to America? Really?

It does make a strange sort of sense, though, because they see the President as enacting policies that bolster the actual threats facing America, rather than mitigate them. He is the greatest threat because he exacerbates the other threats. (I disagree on the basis of reality but I can see it their way.)

(Source: Mother Jones, via bostonreview)

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(Notes: 622)
  
Filed under: GOP extremism dumbness 2012 election 
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