Jon Stewart Has Admitted Trump Is 'Exposing Corporate And Political Corruption'

GOD SAID - BUT THE SHOW MUST GO ON:

  Omar Apollo announces world tour ahead of ‘God Said No’ album release

THAT WHICH MUST NEVER BE SPOKEN MUST NEVER BE SPOKEN:

  Columbia Law Review student editors to strike after directors intervene with article on Nakba

WHAT INTERNATIONAL LAW?

  Israel’s Widespread Use of White Phosphorus in Lebanon, Gaza Violates Int’l Law: Human Rights Watch

BYE-BYE, BIBI:

  Israeli minister Benny Gantz resigns from war cabinet over absence of post-war Gaza plan 

     

THEY GOT YOU COMIN' AND GOIN':

  Ideological Shaping of the Possible Part II: How Corporate Think Tanks Function as Influence Laundromats 

   

 THE GIRLS DON'T SEEM TO CARE:

  The Meaning Behind “FM (No Static at All),” a Song Where Steely Dan Mocked the Airwaves that Helped Make Them

DO WHISKEY NEXT:

  Florida Sen. Rick Scott says he'll vote against recreational pot after brother's death

WHO CARES - HOW OFTEN DOES IT MAKE SOMEONE PLAY DUBSTEP?

  Huge Study Reveals How Often Cannabis Triggers Psychotic Episodes

STARTING A FIRE IN THE WOODS:

  A history of the LGBTQ+ aspects of the Boy Scout movement

I WOULD'VE EXPECTED THE PRODUCE DEPARTMENT:

  Gay sex club in supermarket basement arouses imagination of genteel Brooklyn neighborhood

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, BUDDY:

  Danica Patrick Calls Out 'Bulls--t' Fact About Pride Month

IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR:

  Trans high school girl, 17, gets her jaw broken in two places after going into the boys' bathroom

FROM TINKERBELL TO JACK THE RIPPER:

  How transgenderism is viewed around the world: From the country that celebrates trans people to where they are deemed 'mentally ill'

THIS IS A WARNING:

  LGBTQ+ cruising: ‘My husband’s bisexual so I thought we’d like it’

EDMOND:

  Disgraced Team USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is 'paying gangsters with sexual favors for prison protection'

GOOD FOR YOU - WANNA COOKIE?

  THE HIGH LIFE I went from antiques trader to biggest meth dealer who got high with George Michael, all it took was an ecstasy tablet

BUT HOW DO PEOPLE BECOME TAYLOR SWIFT FANS?

  ‘Tranq’ Turns More Illicit Drug Users Into Amputees

I BELIEVE I CAN FLY:

  Florida woman, 38, warns of risks of psychedelics after she hurled herself off a stairwell on LSD, leaving her paralyzed from the neck down

LEAVING GETTING CRAZY TO THE EXPERTS:

  Woman approached by adult website after flashing crowd at hockey game forced to make major change

CAN'T GET IT UP ANYMORE:

  'Fake Viagra' Utah GOP Senate candidate Trent Staggs who is running campaign based on his business experience filed for bankruptcy in 2010 and claimed $1M in liabilities

WHOLESOME LANGUAGE FOR DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP:

  Former Mormon lays bare fascinating DATING slang used by members of the ultra-strict church - and the meanings behind the quirky phrases, from 'Levi lovin' to 'filling your canteen'... so, how many do YOU understand?

THEY'RE BOTH DEAD BUT THE SYSTEM ONLY LET "HER" DOWN:

  Mom-of-three is 'killed by her ex-husband in murder-suicide' after 'the entire system let her down'

EVERY LITTLE THING SHE DOES IS MAGIC:

  Woman are sick of being celebrated only for marriage and babies. Enter: Divorce registries

AS PEOPLE ARE KNOWN TO DO:

  34 Beauty Products With Results So Magical, People May Accuse You Of Being A Witch

AMERICA SHRUGS:

  A woman was found dead in Yosemite. Now she's been linked to a cult and a serial killer.

YOU'RE STILL IN AMERICA:

  Vermont Conversation: Surviving and escaping the Twelve Tribes cult

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HELL:

  Where O.J. Simpson Found Acceptance, No Questions Asked

STILL ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS:

  The Great Bay Leaf Debate: Are They Culinary Wonders Or Pseudoscience?

WE ONLY USE 10% OF OUR BRAIN'S POTENTIAL, MAN:

  The brain can store nearly 10 times more data than previously thought, study confirms 

    

 WE'VE TRULY ARRIVED - IN THE WORST WAY:

  Carl Sagan's future 'celebration of ignorance' prediction from 1995 was spookily spot on

A World Of Lies (Is One Result)

Steve Jobs' Baby Mama, Chrisann Brennan, the folks at the SF Opera, and the SFGate, all want us to think Steve Jobs' "greatest personal mistake" was denying his daughter - not being yet another of the Bay Area's NewAge fanatics, who *accidently* killed himself using alternative medicines.

This, even though - after sitting at Jobs' death bed - his biographer said, “He [treated his treatable cancer] with diet. He goes to spiritualists. He goes to various ways of doing it macrobiotically and he doesn’t get an operation. I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don’t want something to exist, you can have magical thinking. We talked about this a lot.”

And grown men - working in high tech - going to spiritualists, was Carl Sagan's nightmare.

 

The Conversation, Part II

 

 You know when Hell's veil is pulled aside: "These people will eat a scab off a dog's knee."

 

Continued from Part I 

Dylan Mulvaney wanting to pair-up with Meghan Markle, an idea that's so Hellish, spiritually-speaking, the public should be reminded of the Nazi philosophy of self-promotion: "Find out what people HATE and make them hate it MORE" 

So, in the late, great Carl Sagan's 1995 book, The Demon-Haunted World, he expressed a specific fear - an atheist's vision of Hades. It was that, in the current day, we'd read a story like "Missouri pastor Rick Morrow resigns from school board after claiming that children with autism are possessed by a 'DEMON'" not long after a major publication was asking for our opinion on the question: "The mayor thinks New York gets ‘special energy’ from crystals. Is he right?"

How, in 1995, did Sagan predict that this would be happening? (Was it that obvious?) And why, in 1995, did Sagan fear these specific things, specifically happening now, in 2023, when everybody knows autism isn't a 'demon' but the MMR vaccine, as Oprah Winfrey, Jenny McCarthy, and Jim Carrey assured us - in their fight against misinformation - all the way back in 2007? 

  

   

As Sagan explained, collectively, talk of demons and belief in crystals are evidence - that society's already in Hell - or, at the very least, on the edge of a black hole before entering. He said the culture is getting totally stretched-out, as "we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness." He totally predicted people, today, trying to fill a bucket full of holes with imaginary water. Literally, coming undone.

And, even worse, we can do nothing to stop it. In Hell, we're too smart for that. For instance, tell people that doing yoga 'for exercise' doesn't change the fact the practice itself is religious, and they don't care. NewAge arrogance, and ambivalence are doing the real stretching - but of society's fabric: They become more fanatical, rigid, and insist on the practice, never noticing the Modi government - that has been promoting yoga worldwide - is also doing the same: by all accounts, becoming more fascist by the day. 

America's going through it, but all we talk about is how partisan everybody is now. In Hell. That's our bullshit: focussing almost exclusively on politics, as politicians encourage us to find a religion to guide our lives. No one asks what influence, say, Oprah has had over Obama. Like - except for the fact we're in Hell - how'd she win the 2013 Presidential Medal of Freedom, after promoting The Secret, John of God, and making "America's Doctor" out of a quack named Oz? Aren't those NewAge "achievements" that could only win rewards in Hell, from a (formally-assumed) "Lightbringer"?

The best we can hope for, is that one step-forward, two steps-back, contradictory force of nature called "The Human Condition" to pull us out of all this. Like when Dave Chappelle, and a French Doctor, both notice "a cavity is not a vagina." That's a glitch in the Matrix. And thank goodness for them, because we need all the glitches we can get.

 

 

Or else we're about to lose it.

 

Oprah's Favorite Thing

'I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.' 

 - Carl Sagan, 1995

The Symphony Of Science: A Wave Of Reason

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Hat Tip: One Good Move

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Carl Sagan said:

"We have designed our civilization based on science and technology and at the same time arranged things so that almost no one understands anything at all about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster."

These were prescient words, and since Sagan’s day the situation has only gotten worse. A new survey shows the depth of the problem: American Adults Flunk Basic Science:

ScienceDaily (Mar. 13, 2009) — Are Americans flunking science? A new national survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences and conducted by Harris Interactive® reveals that the U.S. public is unable to pass even a basic scientific literacy test. ...

According to the national survey commissioned by the California Academy of Sciences:

* Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.

* Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live at the same time.

* Only 47% of adults can roughly approximate the percent of the Earth’s surface that is covered with water.

* Only 21% of adults answered all three questions correctly.

"Not only do we not understand the universe, if someone explained it to us, we wouldn’t know what he was talking about."

— Isaac Asimov

Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs (Actually, this post is a complete rip-off of two posts on the lizard's site - but TMR is part of their army - so all we expect to get is a tongue flicked on our faces,...)

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