Education and Culture (2012-2015)

George Stephanopoulos’ 20 December 2015 Interview of Donald Trump — Illustrated American Media’s Propagandizing Function — Glaring Bias and Intellectual Dishonesty Concealed as Inquiry (21 December 2015)

Prominent Republicans Are Promoting a Jackass America which Christ and Lady Liberty Would Reject with Contempt (17 November 2015)

“White Boy Speak” from University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe — How to Read Confederate Code(09 November 2015)

Imagine if You Were One of the Many Victims in this String of Sexual Assaults — and None of the Criminal Accountability Jury Looked Like You (06 November 2015)

Legatum Institute’s Impressionistic 2015 Prosperity Index — Implies that the United States May Not Be Exceptionally Great — but — We Are Still Pretty Good (03 November 2015)

Looking for People to Emulate? — Matthew R. Francis Highlighted African-American Dr. Claudia Alexander — Whose NASA Project Scientist Story — Should Inspire anyone Seeking to Beat the Cultural Odds against Achievement (08 October 2015)

Philip Giraldi’s Juxtaposition of a Handful of News Stories — Tells Us the Reasons — for the United States’ Carefree Slide into History’s Landfill (30 September 2015)

Americans Think that Religion Is Good — until It Starts Telling the Truth — the Cynically Humorous Result of a Bloomberg Opinion Poll regarding Pope Francis (24 September 2015)

Jess Zimmerman’s Darkly Delicious Pseudo-Conspiracy Theory about the Ultra Rich Leaving the Planet(18 September 2015)

The Infuriating Absurdity of the US Racial Condition — Is Concisely Symbolized by the Arrest of a Brown Skinned Kid and His Clock in a Texas School (18 September 2015)

The CIA’s Denial of Torture Wrongdoing Rises to Laughable Hot Air Balloon Heights — with an Apparently Out of Control Government Like This, Who Needs Stalinists? (15 September 2015)

Denali — Semantic Cultural Justice — Predictably Opposed by Some Prominent Members of the Republican Party’s Band of Bigots (01 September 2015)

Regarding the United States’ Dangerously Air Headed Mainstream Media — CBS Sunday Morning’s Decision to Help Dick Cheney Promote His — “I’m always Wrong and Proud of It” — Book (31 August 2015)

The Painful Joke that Is the US Congress — Going after Litigation Financing — while Accepting the Gargantuan Overflow of Quasi-Bribery that Citizens United Permitted (28 August 2015)

North Dakota Police Are Now Allowed to Fly Drones — Carrying Bean Bag Cannons, Tasers and Tear Gas — apparently because Drone Manufactures Need Profits — My Observation about Frittering Freedom away (27 August 2015)

The Joy of a Fine Mind’s Products — Belen Fernandez Smartly Reviewed — Insightful Greg Grandin’s Book — about Quasi-Nihilist (Former National Security Advisor) Henry Kissinger (26 August 2015)

Pew Research Center’s Distorted Overview — of a Recent “Russia versus US” Global Reputation Opinion Poll — Represents a Heads Up for “Wannabe” Strategists (25 August 2015)

Witnessing History’s Momentum — An Anecdote about Seeing Institutional Inertia Create the Future(24 August 2015)

Humanitarian Comic Jon Stewart Handed off His Baton with Two Memorable Reminders, Humbly Delivered (08 August 2015)

Former President Jimmy Carter Recently Acknowledged that the United States Is an Oligarchy — but the Mainstream Media Ignored His Statement — Collaterally Proving His Point (03 August 2015)

President Obama’s Imperious Hypocrisy in Africa Ruffled Some Feathers (31 July 2015)

Professors Muhammad Khalifa and Felecia Briscoe Met Opposition while Trying to Obtain Student Discipline Numbers by Race in Texas — and My Related Comment about Academicians’ Mission-Defeating Jargon (20 July 2015)

Can One Take a Working Measure of Someone Based on Only a Couple of their Sentences? — Consider the Casually Malevolent Mayor of Airway Heights, Washington (16 July 2015)

Chris Hedges’ Take on Corporatism Is Accurate — Now What to Do? (14 July 2015)

Sharks ‘n Terrorists Gonna Kill Us! — Fraidy Cats — Orwellian Government — and D-Day Beaches (07 July 2015)

The New York Times and the Washington Post — Missed the Point about the Senate’s Decision to Fast Track the Trans Pacific Partnership — Why Care about Workers, when Camouflage and Political Legacies Are More Fun to Force Feed? (25 June 2015)

Professor Chris Lebron Recently Asked the Only Pertinent Racial Question — Malcolm X Answered It(23 June 2015)

Twisted Souls, Guns Out the Wazoo, and an Apparently Murder-Loving Society — from Germany, My American Culture Looks beyond Nuts (20 June 2015)

The Editors of the Los Angeles Times Think that It Is a Good Idea to Prosecute American Whistleblowers Like Edward Snowden — Talk about Sheep Worthy of Totalitarian Takeover (09 June 2015)

Educators Take Note — Neil Halloran’s The Fallen of World War II Brilliantly Demonstrates the Educational Utility of Intelligently Animated Graphic Representations (08 June 2015)

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Implied that Republicans Are Not Happy — unless They Are Wrecking the Founders’ System (05 June 2015)

France Just Did Something Experimental and Possibly Helpful regarding Hunger — In Contrast, Consider How American Government Would Approach the Same Problem (29 May 2015)

The Terms “Post-This” and “Post-That” — as Indicators of an Inability to Think and Communicate (28 May 2015)

In a Seemingly Universal Culture of Lies and Misdirection — How Can anyone Know whether Seymour Hersh’s Alleged Expose of Osama bin Ladens Execution Is Bogus? (20 May 2015)

Chris Hedge’s Essay — “Pathology of the Rich White Family” — Will Reward with a Defensible Slant on Truth — but You Will Need a Strong Stomach and an Open Mind to Get through It (18 May 2015)

Robert Scheer Gave Edward Snowden His Due — in a Few Words that Would Jolt Americans — Provided Anyone Were Paying More than a Branch-Sitting Monkey’s Attention (16 May 2015)

Texas Governor Greg Abbot, Senator Ted Cruz, and the Jade Helm 15 Conspiracy — Republican Sub-Monkey People Arise (07 May 2015)

France Appears Ready to Join the United States — as another Example of Quavering Poodle People(06 May 2015)

Stephan Richter Sized Our Smallish President Correctly (05 May 2015)

A Truthful Paragraph from Ajamu Baraka — about the Right to Resist Oppression (30 April 2015)

When a Dad Role Model Is Not Immediately Available — a Baltimore Riot Video Shows the Difficulty of Dealing with Male Adolescence (29 April 2015)

The Immense Value of Robert Reich — Writing Understandably about Stomp-Down Capitalism’s Obvious Wrongs (28 April 2015)

Government Giving Authority a Bad Name — According to the Washington Post, the FBI Consistently Lied about Forensic Evidence (25 April 2015)

According to John Oliver — NSA Surveillance Does Not Matter to Americans — Unless They See Our Dick Pics — the Depressing Scope of Public Ignorance (07 April 2015)

The Occasional Rewards of Reading Escapist Trash — Long Deceased John D. MacDonald’s Interjections of Condensed Rumination — into His Macho Man Dialogs (19 March 2015)

Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Kevin Berends Perfectly Explained Why We Reluctantly Tuned President Obama Out — When He Spoke on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge — and Why Tragedy Stings (13 March 2015)

What a Joke the National Security Argument Is — Former General David Petraeus Skated on Having Loose Lips because He Is “Da Man” (04 March 2015)

Dale Hansen at WFAA Television Illustrated American Media’s Usually Unfulfilled Potential — with His Wise Comment about How to React to Racism — Why Aren’t There More Like Him? (27 February 2015)

Jim Hightower Admirably Explained How Plutocrats and Judges Pickpocket Our Wallets (26 February 2015)

Edward Snowden Is apparently More Thoughtful than His Critics (25 February 2015)

Matt Taibbi Took Rudy Giuliani’s Crass Nastiness and Made Something Funny Out of It — and a Comment about Evolving Prejudice (23 February 2015)

Arguing about Who Loves America — without First Discussing How Sound Patriotism Would Manifest — with Regard to Choosing Wise Policies — Does Constantly Missing the Point Characterize the United States? (20 February 2015)

The FDA Evidently Colludes in Hiding Medical Industry Corruption in Clinical Trials — according to an Investigation by Charles Seife and His Students (10 February 2015)

There Should Be a Larger Uproar over the DEA’s Plan to Surveil Us — Wherever We Drive — Gestapo America Rolls on (28 January 2015)

Representative Alan Grayson Says Politically Incorrect Things that Are often True — His Latest Zinger about the Republican Tribe Made Me Smile — and my Sneaky Parallel to the Satire at Charlie Hebdo (09 January 2015)

Ryan Bell’s Three Sentences about Dropping Theism Demonstrate the Use of Ockham’s Razor — a Comment about the Utility and Occasional Disutility of Clarity (05 January 2015)

Seeing Democracy as a Defense against Torture and Unnecessary War Is Naive — A Comment about Henry Giroux’s “Radical Democracy” (19 December 2014)

Depressing Decades Culminate with the Torture Report — Stephan Richter and Patrick L. Smith Draw the Only Historically Reasonable Conclusion (18 December 2014)

Could an Entire Country Be Affected by ADHD? — The United States as an Example of “Frenetic Twit Affliction” — Ebola’s Disappearance from American News Is a Telling Example (04 December 2014)

Sometimes it Is Difficult to Distinguish between Stupidity and the Lack of Intellectual Integrity — TakeBusiness Insider’s Misleading Story about Russia’s Alleged “Brain Drain” — A Comment about the Consequences of Making Unsupported Statements (03 December 2014)

Thanks to Missouri’s “Kill Em on Sight” Use of Force Statute — Grossly Incompetent Officer Darren Wilson Escapes Moral Justice — Even with Michael Brown’s Contributing Violence, African-Americans Have Reason to Be Enraged (25 November 2014)

Budgeting the Military Industrial Complex and Other Juxtapositionally Humorous Indications of Our Anti-Strategic Stupidity (24 November 2014)

Professor Jonathan Gruber Said Something True about Voting Stupidity — and the Lack of Government Transparency that Fosters and Takes Advantage of It — Now, Democrats Are Trying to Pretend that Deception in Writing the Affordable Care Act Never Crossed their Minds (17 November 2014)

An Illustrative Media Non Sequitur — from Fox Television’s Lisa Kennedy Montgomery — Who Told Shepard Smith that Elon Musk Is Wrong to Fear Aspects of Artificial Intelligence because — “Machines can’t make souls” (28 October 2014)

Detroit’s Water Shutoffs to the Poor Have Caught the United Nations’ Attention (22 October 2014)

A Matt Bors Editorial Cartoon — Sums US Race Relations, Totalitarian Policing, and our Inane Media — in Just 4 Picture Panels (07 October 2014)

A Valuable Essay Requires a Concisely Substantive Point — that Illuminates Something Unknown or Misunderstood — Two Examples from Matthew Yglesias and Jim Newell (10 September 2014)

Ian Millhiser’s Observation — about Georgia’s Eagerness to Arm Criminals — Is a Good Metaphor for Americas Accelerating Slide into Sheer Lunacy (26 August 2014)

White Denial and Apathy Constitute Racism — an Illustration of Ethically Rotten Culture Taken from Michael Brown’s Apparent Murder at Police Hands in Ferguson, Missouri (20 August 2014)

Alex Kane’s and Chris Hedges’ Cautionary Perspectives on Gaza Can Be Understood More Universally — Both Are about the Global Trivialization of Evil for Profit (14 August 2014)

William Rivers Pitt’s Assessment of President Obama’s Excuse for America’s Torture Program Parallels My Own — Cowardly Platitudes (09 August 2014)

Leonid Bershidsky’s Observation — that Leaders of the Developing World Emulate President Putin’s Authoritarian Ways — Is Insightful — as Is His Comment that American Hypocrisy Has Itself to Blame (06 August 2014)

Consider the Broad Cultural Significance of Kentucky Republican State Senator Brandon Smith’s Cartoonish Comments about Mars and Earth (10 July 2014)

Speaking of Monkey Brains — a Map of Influential American Fools from ThinkProgress — and Some Surprising Numbers from CJ Werlman about the Prevalence of Idiocy in US Culture (03 July 2014)

John Oliver — Bless His British Heart — Highlighted a Snippet that Shows the Bottomless Nitwitism of American Culture — Will We Smile in Self-Recognition? (24 June 2014)

The Feds Can’t even Play with Anthrax Correctly — Is Stupidity America’s Most Deadly Terrorist? (23 June 2014)

The Increasing Hold of Capital on Wealth Is so Obvious that Criticisms of Thomas Piketty’s Bad Math in Proving the Proposition Are the Moral Equivalent of Laughable (30 May 2014)

Tabloid America versus the Real World (14 May 2014)

A Paragraph by C J Werleman — Illustrates How to Make a Point before Losing Audience Attention (09 May 2014)

What Happens to Democracy when Nobody Cares enough to Preserve Its Efficacy? — The Triumph of the Greedy Minority Is Probably Inevitable (16 April 2014)

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370’s Predicament Demonstrates How Questionable Engineering Can Cause What Should Have Been Avoidable Problems (06 April 2014)

An Angry Column from Andre Vltchek Attacks Western Hypocrisy in Regard to Ukraine — by Pointing to the Indefensible Things the West Has Done around the World — If You Can Get Past His Enraged Presentation, Much of What He Says Is True (03 April 2014)

Why Let a Competitive Commercial Advantage Slip Away by Being Lazy and Brainless? — That Is What Many Brick and Mortar Electronics Stores Have Done (31 March 2014)

The Out of Context Quoting of Donald Rumsfeld’s “Trained Ape” Comment — regarding the Obama Administration’s Undiplomatic Handling of Afghanistan President Karzai — Perfectly Demonstrates Robert Reich’s Hypothesis about Destructive American Tribalism — and Probably Equally Well Illustrates Chris Cilizza’s Observation that Americans Historically Have only Read Headlines — Ignorance’s Debilitating Brew Served Hot (25 March 2014)

England’s Anti War, World War II Member of Parliament, Tony Benn Died Last Week — Reminding Me that Horrific Shared Personal Experiences Make No Dent in Subsequent Generations’ Rock Headed Sensibilities — a Comment about Futility and Hope (18 March 2014)

Homophobic DC Lawyer-Lobbyist Jack Burkman — Earned His Minutes of Fame by Being a Dumb Ass on So Many Levels — that He becomes an Exquisite Expression of Human Stupidity (25 February 2014)

I Doubt that the United States Could Have Produced the Meaning-Filled Artistry of the Russian Federation’s 2014 Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony at Sochi — which May Say Something about Comparative National Soul — and Cautions Us against Hypocritical Screeching about Purported Evil(24 February 2014)

Maybe We Should Select Just One American State and Pour All of the Nation’s Most Spiritually Reprehensible People into It — Arizona’s Republicans Want the Title (22 February 2014)

Justin Peters’ Intelligent Vignette about Bode Miller and NBCs Inane Coverage of Him — at the 2014 Sochi Olympics — Stands as a Summary Example of How Stupefyingly Useless American Media often Are (19 February 2014)

The Unbelievable Stupidity of America’s Olympic Speed Skating Authorities — the Suit that Apparently Slows Our Athletes Down at the 2014 Sochi Olympics Was Never Tested in Competition — even after the Dutch Abandoned a Similar Design — and Guess Who Bears the Lifelong, Painful Burden of these Nitwits’ Brainlessness (14 February 2014)

“I wanted him to have dignity as he crossed the finish line” — 2014 Sochi Olympics Canadian Coach Justin Wadsworth Pays Forward Norwegian Bjornar Hakensmoen’s Kindness from the 2006 Torino Olympics — Cathal Kelly’s Toronto Star Story Tells It Best (11 February 2014)

Moral Hypothetical — Is It Better to Trash School Lunches — or Continue to Give them to Poor School Kids — Whose Families Are behind in Paying? (03 February 2014)

Is All of Washington DC Rotten? — DC Fire Station Refused to Aid Man with Heart Attack, Who Later Died — This Probably Would Not Have Happened in New York City (31 January 2014)

America’s Pretended Outrage Syndrome — MSNBC Staff Member Fired for Relatively Mild and True Anti-Conservative Tweet — another Example of Just How Idiotic Our Political Times Are (30 January 2014)

A Lesson in Knowledge and Writing from Germany’s Der Spiegel International — Its Made-Relevant World War I Centennial Series — Not Something Major American Press Outlets Would Generally Attempt (17 January 2014)

Self-Confessed “White Trash” Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty Spoke Like Such — So Why Is this News? (27 December 2013)

Goodbye 60 Minutes — John Miller’s “Whatever You Say” Report on the NSA — Stupider You Could Not Get (16 December 2013)

Rajiv Narayan Dug Up a Clip from a 1996 Charlie Rose Carl Sagan Interview — that Warns about the Divorce between Science and an Ignoramus Public — One Cannot Present the Concern about Uncontrolled Government, Ruling an Ignorant Society, More Succinctly and Persuasively than Professor Sagan Did (15 December 2013)

A Superb Essay and a Deprecating Quote — regarding President Obama on Nelson Mandela’s Passing — as Seen through Azad Essa’s Eyes — Exceptional Insight into Something Still Close in Time (13 December 2013)

Time Magazine’s Choice of Pope Francis as Person of the Year — Demonstrates How Irrelevant Most of the Major American Media Are to anything True or Insightful — “Cowardly Dunderheads” Describes this Pack of Influence Peddlers (12 December 2013)

Do You Want to Emulate Superb Opinion Writing? — See This Column about U.S. Senator Rand Paul from Joan Walsh — with Its Incorporated Reference to Journalist Jill Lawrence’s Worthy Work — a Combined Display of Admirably Effective Political Kneecapping (07 November 2013)

In Fat Cat America — Our Metaphorically Porky Upper Class Never Pays the Price for Sucking other People’s Lives Dry — a Completely Representative Example from the Marine Corps’ Alleged Sacking of Two Generals — an Action that Rewarded, rather than Punished, the Incompetence that Led to the Camp Bastion (Afghanistan) Disaster in September 2012 (03 October 2013)

As Senator Ted Cruz Blabs His Narcissistic and Absurdly Well Televised Way — into the Hearts of His Tea Party Supporters — in Regard to Defunding ObamaCare — We Can Representatively Conclude that America Has Gone Psychiatrically Crazy — Just as Henry Giroux Has Suggested (25 September 2013)

Someone Else’s Perspective Can Be Eye Opening — Provided We Are Neither Stupid nor Abysmally Ignorant — an Example from a Context Shifting European Article about U.S. Gun Control (24 September 2013)

The Washington Navy Yard Shooting Is a Good Example of the Federal Government’s often Deadly Incompetence — a Comment regarding What Has become a Lunatic Nation (18 September 2013)

The United States Actively Promotes Socioeconomic Inequality — Sometimes in Subtle Ways Motivated by Institutionalized Greed — an Eye-Opening Education Report from Pro Publica (16 September 2013)

A Methodologically Clever Psychology Study Shows that — Politically Biased Bone-Headism Leads Us to Sink with Our Peer Group — in Defiance of Fact (10 September 2013)

David Sirota’s Timely Reminder about the Meaning of Labor Day — When You Forget Your Own History, You Have No Idea How Far You Have Fallen (02 September 2013)

The One Sentence Observation — that Synopsizes Government, Politics, and the Human Condition (01 September 2013)

Bill Moyers and Mark Leibovich on Washington DC’s Insider Narcissism — Stealing Our Wallets and America’s Future (26 August 2013)

Representatively Docile Reporting from the Atlantic Wire — Regarding the Death of Reporter Michael Hastings — Exemplifies, in Reverse, How Dependent We Are on a Skeptical Press and a Reasonably Trustworthy Government (21 August 2013)

A Revealing Excerpt from The Colbert Report Illustrates Why so Many Americans Can Be Characterized as Intentionally Sheep-Like — when It Comes to Understanding and Reacting to What Is Going on around Them (18 July 2013)

In Racist America, a Self-Important Pussy with a Gun Is a Dangerous Thing — Regarding the Not Guilty Verdict in George Zimmerman’s Killing of Trayvon Martin (15 July 2013)

Is This the Beginning of a Transportation Paradigm Change? — Elon Musk’s Convincing Demonstration of Tesla Electric Cars’ “Fill Up” Convenience — Learning from a Man whose Vision Combines Forward Thinking with Absolute Practicality (21 June 2013)

If You Are Depressed by the Cesspool Quality of America’s Political Leadership — Get a Boost from Switzerland’s Solar Powered Airplane Flight across the United States — the Solar Impulse Across America Project (05 May 2013)

How a Canadian Legitimately Sees Hysterical America — Excerpts from His Insightful Article — and My Supporting Comment (24 April 2013)

Bob Garfield, a Media Expert, Summarized the Laughable BS that Constitutes Cable News at Major Events — Like the Boston Marathon Bombing and Aftermath— His Brief Article Is Worth Reading (19 April 2013)

Not a Peep from the Lamestream Media, when the Obama Administration Leased California BLM Land for Oil Fracking — without Proper Environmental Review (10 April 2013)

A Study of More than 600 Corporate Board Directors Finds That Female Decision Makers Do a Fairer Minded Job than Men — which, the Authors Conclude, Seems to Explain Previous Findings that Having a Higher Proportion of Women on Corporate Boards Results in More Profitable Company Performances(27 March 2013)

Journalist Chris Hedges Is Arguably too Vitriolic a Critic of Corporatist Culture to Gain a Foothold in Our Attention — but He Is Consistently Right (25 March 2013)

Writer Joshua Holland Asks whether Americans Are too Stupid for Democracy — He Says No, but His Facts all Point the Other Way — and Supporting Examples Provided by Our Leaders’ Foolishly Incomplete Discussions about Iraq’s Once Suspected WMDs, Iran’s Suspected Bomb-Building, and Syria’s Alleged Chemical Weapons Use (20 March 2013)

Psychotherapist Phillippa Perry Linked Lying about Alcohol Intake to Culturally Accepted Narcissism — and My Comment about Narcissism’s Spiritual Self-Destruction (28 February 2013)

Professional Honor — No Better Embodied than by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop — too Bad There Has Been So Little Public Reflection on His Passing (27 February 2013)

A Must Read for Wannabe Lawyers — Tucker Max on Why You Should Not Go to Law School — and Comments regarding My Own Statistically Unlikely Experience in Law (19 February 2013)

Collusion among New York Times, Washington Post, and the CIA — to Keep a Drone Base Location Secret — a Comment on the Decline of the Function of the Fourth Estate (07 February 2013)

An Ohio State Study — Demonstrated that Providing People with Immediately Corrected Information Does Not Reliably Change their Mistaken Minds — the Finding Corroborates Suspicion that Determined Stupidity Is Our Lot in Life — which May Account for American Politics’ Frequently Stubborn Resistance to Facing Facts (06 February 2013)

High Art in Advertising — a German Television Commercial for Mercedes Uses almost No Words and Virtually No Car — and Hits a Homerun that Even Its Competitors Will Admire — a Model for “Wannabe” Influencers (16 January 2013)

Bruce Alberts — Editor in Chief of Science — Made an Excellent Suggestion for Improving American Science Education — but Policy Makers Will Probably Ignore It — because So Many Do Not Understand How Science and Critical Thinking Work (14 January 2013)

Reflexive American Bigotry Makes an International Fool of Itself — Time Warner Dumped Current TV, apparently in Part because Al Jazeera Bought It — and Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly Thoughtlessly Followed Up by Slamming Al Gore — All without Looking at Al Jazeera English’s Actual Doings (04 January 2013)

If It Is “Them” Voters’ Fault — Can We Help by Improving their Knowledge Base? — Probably Not, Say the Findings from a Clever Political Science Experiment (03 January 2013)

A Quotation from Dr. Mary-Claire King — President of the American Society of Human Genetics — Advocates for Scientists’ Duty to Speak Up in a Culture Drowning in Lies and Ignorance — but Her Words Illustrate the Chasm between Thoughtful Evidence-Seekers and the Majority of the Population (and Its Often Intentionally Misleading Leaders) (08 December 2012)

The Jovan Belcher, Kasandra Perkins Murder-Suicide Sadness — Unhelpful (but Representative) Idiocy from Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association (07 December 2012)

How to Ad Lib a Speech from Notes, Eloquently — Vice President Biden’s Quietly Insightful Eulogy of Senator Warren Rudman (30 November 2012)

Escaping the Herd Mentality — Climate Progress Points Out that Accurate Climate Change Reporting Would Blend the Existing Scientific Consensus with More Extreme Modeling Predictions — Rather than Erroneously Tempering Science with Anti-Scientific Denial — and My Related Comment about the Inertia of Ignorance and Its Grip on Science Journalism and the Public (27 November 2012)

A World of Lies — Evidence about Lance Armstrong’s Multi-Year Tour de France Doping Operation Is Saddening — Not So Much because of the Cheating, but because of His Apparent Witness Intimidations (11 October 2012)

On the Serendipity of Aggressive Imbecility — the Chain of Causation that Led to the Sad Deaths of American Ambassador Christopher Stevens and Colleagues in Libya (12-13 September 2012)

Each Anniversary’s Replay of Video of the 11 September (2001) Terrorist Attack Is Psychologically and Spiritually Damaging — The President and First Lady’s Televised Moment of Silence Is a More Healing Way to Commemorate the Losses (11 September 2012)

Is Everyone Acting Like an Ethically Challenged Rat? — Fareed Zakaria’s Time Magazine and CNN Suspensions for Too-Closely Copying another Person’s Paragraphs (10 August 2012)

Western Whining about the Alleged Harshness of China’s Olympics Training — Misses the Point (10 August 2012)

Parade of Homes as an Introduction to Cultural Oddities — Ridiculously Tall Ceilings, Blatantly Wasted Space and Charging Rhinoceros Materialism — and a Comment on the Invitation to Filth Posed by Wall-to-Wall Carpeting (09 August 2012)

America’s Bad Behavior Spawning Machine Took it on the Chin this Week — though I Doubt that Anyone Noticed — and That’s the Spiritual and Social Point (07 August 2012)

Perhaps the Most Appropriate Tribute to Gore Vidal Was Restricted to Quoting Him — See The Telegraph (01 August 2012)

Right Wing Denial and Too-Frequent Liberal Silliness Prevent Clear Talk — about Reducing Gun Violence within the Confines of the Second Amendment (24 July 2012)

Team Sky and this Year’s Tour de France — Presented an Uplifting Contrast to the Behavior that Characterizes the World’s Political and Financial Elite (22 July 2012)

Howard Fineman’s Essay, Partly Contrasting Romney Father and Son, Hints about Unfavorably Changing Times, as Well (20 July 2012)

President Obama and Columnist Rich Lowry Inadvertently Proved the Merit of Op Ed Writer Kathleen Parker’s Observation that — “Dumbness permeates every aspect of our lives” (18 July 2012)

Lance Armstrong’s Dishonorable Court Tactic Decreased His Credibility in My Eyes — Perhaps We Are Now Seeing the Man for Who He Really Is (10 July 2012)

Does the Impression that the Condition of Highways and Rest Areas Leaves on Out-of-State Travelers Matter? — A Short Comment on Crumbling Transportation Infrastructures (07 July 2012)

The Power of Sculpture — an Example from Comerica Park, Home of the Detroit Tigers — Statue Depicting Charlie Gehringer — by Julie Amrany, Omni Amrany, and Gary Tillery (03 July 2012)

Bill Moyer’s Comment about Thomas Jefferson’s Failure to Live His Equality Writings Reminds Us of Our Parallel Love Affair with Similarly Deep Hypocrisy — Greed Is the Common Theme (02 July 2012)

Regarding Revived Doping Allegations against Lance Armstrong — Given the Administrative Format, There May Be More Damaging Substance Here than One Might Suspect — which Takes this Go-Round Out of the Context of Poorly Founded Malicious Gossip (16 June 2012)

An Outrageous Idea, or Not? — Stephan Richter’s Thought that Europe’s Monetary Union Should Have Been Restricted to Cultures that Split from Catholicism during the 16^th Century’s Protestant Reformation (16 May 2012)

The Inevitability of Moral Error, Aging’s Subsequent Chance at Redemption, and Established Religion’s Complacence in Drawing on the Power of the Latter — Chris Hedge’s Account of Bishop George Packard’s Second Civil Disobedience Arrest (07 May 2012)

Rex W. Huppke’s Creatively Clever Chicago Tribune Obituary for “Facts” — His Essay Encapsulates American Culture’s Descent into Reality-Irrelevant Vacuity (04 May 2012)

Stirrings of Alarm at Greed’s Rising Distortion of the Scientific Process — (a) The Institute of Medicine’s Warning about Unsubstantiated Medical “Omics” Tests and (b) Academic Psychology’s Courageous Recognition that Some of Its Studies Require Reproducibility Confirmation (16 April 2012)

Clever Anti-Science Yahoos in Tennessee — Making Monkeys Out of the Smarter Portion of the State’s Citizenry (15 April 2012)

A New Way to Think about Teaching 1^st through 12^th Grade Science — 8+1 Fundamental Science Concepts from the PROM/SE Project (10 April 2012)

When Political Liberals Are Correct — Two Well-Communicated Essays Worthy of Becoming a Fiery Lawyer’s Closing Arguments — Comments on the Communicative Value of Reason-Able, but “Conclusory” Arguments (06 April 2012)

The Lamestream Media Knowingly Misrepresented the President’s Comments regarding the Supreme Court’s Review of ObamaCare (03 April 2012)

The Life-Enhancing Grace of a Few Imagination-Provoking Words — in a Culture Filled Mostly with Amplified Superficiality and Deadening Dross (27 March 2012)

Elon Musk and SpaceX — 60 Minutes’ Interview with an Inspiring Man — and the Contrast Musk’s Example Presents in regard to the Rest of America’s Pipsqueak Political and Economic Leadership (19 March 2012)

Outstanding Science Writing about Gravity and Climate from Germany — This Is the Way Science Communications Ought to Be Done in the United States (17 March 2012)

Bush Piloting 70-Year-Old DC-3s in and out of the Amazon Jungle — Al Jazeera’s Video Shows the Risks that Poverty and Primitive Conditions Bring with Them (07 March 2012)

Two Dissimilar Washington Post Articles Show Us the Fantasy World that We Are Living in — Columnist E. J. Dionne Jr. on Unrealistic Politics and Dr. Craig Bowron on Delusional Expectations about Dying — Where Has the Strength of American Realism Gone? (20 February 2012)

One Obvious Indicator of Why the United States Trails other Developed Nations in Science Education — the American Mentality that Opposes Adoption of the International System of Units — and Our Continuing National Stupidity in Not Fixing this Mistake (18 February 2012)

A Canada-Related Headline Illustrates the Difficulty of Focusing Attention where Alertness Is Most Required — Would Most People Pay Attention to a News Piece Entitled, “Tories Put Pipeline Ahead of Phytoplankton”? — Probably Not, and that’s the Point (10 February 2012)

Good Science Writing Compared to Bad — an Excellent National Science Foundation Press Release Compared to the Opaque Abstract that it Is Based on — regarding an Ellesmere Island Study of the Permian-Triassic Boundary Extinction (09 February 2012)

Professor Diane Ravitch’s Smart Questions about American Education — a “Must Read” for People Who Care (07 February 2012)

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s Pointing Finger — on the Difficulty of Sorting Prejudice from Legitimate Criticism in Regard to President Obama — and How Bigotry Creates Talented Social Survivors but Simultaneously Forces their Boat-Rocking Strength into Hiding (16 February 2012)

Newscasters Frequently Twist Truth in a Democracy-Damaging Way — an Example regarding Governor Mitt Romney’s Alleged “Gaffe” about Poor People (03 February 2012)

An Effective Animation of Global Temperature Change over the Last Century from the Goddard Institute of Space Studies — and Comments on the Art of Graphic and Animated Science Data Presentation in an Anti-Scientific Culture (28 January 2012)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Reporter, John Fauber, Uncovered the Appearance of Blatant Corruption at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health — another Instance of the Medical-Industrial Complex’s Distortion of Objectively Delivered Medicine (06 January 2012)

An Example of Poorly Phrased Communication in Atmospheric Science and Oceanography — Empathy for Those Who Distrust “Experts” (05 January 2012)

An Inspiring Way to Begin 2012 — Levi Lavalle and Robbie Maddison Set Motorized Jump Records in Red Bull’s No Limits Event during 2011’s Last Hours (01 January 2012)

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