Sorry, Sam Cooke (A Change Is NOT Gonna Come)

PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES 'GOD' HAVE NO ONE TO BLAME BUT THEMSELVES: 

RZA of Wu-Tang Clan Has a Beef With Meat

STEADY BUSINESS: 

Call for contributions: Cults, spirituality, and new religious movements

SHE NEVER COULD'VE PREDICTED IT: 

Horrifying final moments of minister's astrologer wife

FANS KNOW BETTER THAN FAM: 

Was it misguided to #FreeBritney? Inside Britney Spears' toxic spiral from 'abusive' conservatorship to becoming 'completely dysfunctional and at risk of going broke'

HUNTER'S GOT FRIENDS, TOO: 

OnlyFans star claims she was paid by Biden administration to spread 'political propaganda'

DOES COLLEGE MAKE YOU SMARTER? 

Desperate college grads are falling victims to scammers

REALLY - DOES COLLEGE MAKE YOU SMARTER? 

Man Used A Resume Filled With Nonsense & An Offensive Name To Apply For 100 Jobs — He Got 29 Calls For Interviews

QUESTIONING THE QUESTIONABLE: 

How do you counter misinformation? Critical thinking is step one

THANK YOU, SCIENCE: 

An Engineer Says He’s Found a Way to Overcome Earth’s Gravity

BONUS QUESTION: 

If you know - 100% - the president on the left killed more innocent civilians than any other, the one in the center is currently funding a genocide, and the one on the right is a three-time rapist, how do you pose for a picture of yourself smiling with them?

 

Best If Read With Expectations Of Sanity Set So Low They're Not Met Very Often

 

  A riot of colors and religious iconography, this home was designed for apocalyptic times

Popeyes' New Munchies Menu Will Elevate Your 4/20 Experience

Dr Oz accused of using his mother's dementia diagnosis to promote his 'bogus' supplements 

   

  Religious fanatic is seen tossing pipe bomb into Satanic Temple in Salem after scrawling note claiming God sent him to 'smite' the occult

Katie Couric’s slam on MAGA voters lifts the veil on Dem groupthink

Is my girlfriend’s lack of critical thinking a problem?

They Don't Want A Nation Capable Of Critical Thinking!

I've come full-circle - thanks to conservatives - and it's GREAT!

There's A Good Chance The Unemployed Aren't Crazy

"Biggest brain we ever saw - obviously you belong in the streets!"

All I have to consider is two little words derived from the workplace - office politics - and this very-important failure in American education, oft repeated here, doesn't matter anymore: 

"There is no set curriculum for critical thinking or applied reasoning." 

A nation of critical thinkers wouldn't need to be told this

Nope - you either have it or you don't - and most currently employed adults don't have it now. Evidence: office politics. 

Raising a nation of failures wasn't OUR goal (or doing)

And that's why we're so fucked up. Why Americans can still argue over things as brain-dead simple as reparations. Our people can't think or reason, relying instead on misinformation and their feelings.

"I think I'll need to see a resume' for this dishwashing position!"

So, until they really want some critical thinkers in the workplace - and will show their commitment to it through firing (or re-training) those who aren't - we'll keep bumbling along, rewarding the lost for losing their minds.

400 years of playing Whack-A-Mole with American lives should be enough

While always knowing where to find me,...

 

Wave Away (Talk To The Hand)

When you're powerless and outnumbered, is it worth it to speak up, even if you're right?

"The people most likely to be sensitive to evidence—and therefore most worth listening to—often disagree with the consensus of the people around them on factual matters. We ought provisionally to regard people who frequently act as dissidents, heretics, and pariahs in their own political group as being more committed to speaking the truth than people who usually or always agree with the consensus."

"My Concern Is With The Ultimate Fate Of Knowing."

The best dissection of the moon landing "hoax" ever created,…

Life Is What You Make It (If You've Won Life's Lottery)

We've got scams hidden within scams, all declaring to be fighting scams (laid out to snare the unsuspecting) by scammers. And, if you're not trained in critical thought, they'll probably scam you:

  Since 1994, the NewsHour has been produced and primarily owned by the for-profit colossus, Liberty Media. Liberty, which is run by conservative billionaire John Malone, owns the majority stake in MacNeil/Lehrer Productions – the entity that produces the journalistic content of the show. While other standalone public television projects are often produced by small independent production companies, the NewsHour stands out for being owned by a major for-profit media conglomerate headed by a politically active billionaire. 

 That guy, and the Koch Brothers, and all the rest, probably have a blast laughing at those who think they know what's going on,…

 

They Always Tell You This AFTER Saying It's Wonderful

Physical slavery. Mental slavery. Westerners love slavery - can't get enough of it. Got to have control, bitch.



Anyone who understands slavery, knows, it's all about the training. Free your mind and your ass will follow. And (once you've bought into the mind/body connection) Massa - and I don't care if it's a plantation master or a reiki master - Massa's got something to put in both:

Don’t date a yoga girl because she doesn’t do drama. She won’t listen to your bullshit. She is busy living in the moment and letting things go. There are more important ways to spend your time. . . like maybe not thinking all the time.

Chances are, she has been through something….

Understatement. I've said it, and I'll say it again: 

Because Mommy and Daddy didn't instill even an iota of critical thinking skills in their little princess, some asshole got to have all the "fun" and we get stuck, being told to idolize some extremely-bendable, but empty-headed, husk of a "healthy" human being even her own folly discarded. 

The "smart and independent" cartoon who HAS to get to yoga class - which is only exercise. So are the retreats. And only eating certain foods. And claiming to be "spiritual" and, maybe, even a god. You know, the god of exercise.

And complaining. About the city. She's got to get out of the city. And she's got to take alternative medicine. And she's got to shop at Whole Foods because other supermarkets want to kill us. But, there's no telling how she knows that, since she doesn't watch the "negative" news. (She can't handle anything "negative".) She also can't make the all-important choice between detox or a fast. And then comes "energy" and,…sigh. 

From a physical slave's point of view - and trying to look at it on the bright side - hey, at least they get used to bending over,….

 

"We've Structured Society Wrong" Is A Difficult Concept

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century Eastern seaboard, to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, disorder -- most particularly the furious, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure -- that is not only to be expected; it is very near to inevitable. And it is richly deserved.

I Find The Biggest Rock I Can And Offer You A Piece

I don't know what the Tea Party types wanted from TMR.

When I reflected France the way I saw it - a crowd just tried to drown a police officer at the beach, BTW - did I join in the lying?

TMR shows you the way things really are.

There's been no talk of "principles" while facing demands for fairness.

Why would I do that?

As Americans we should be speaking the same language.

Instead the Tea Party turned French.

There's no way for TMR to fix that online.

We are contributing without our humanity; we're just our ideas.

But it ain't hard to tell who's got good ones and who doesn't.

Unfortunately, the Tea's miscalculated blacks weren't too bright.

Our place was made very clear.

But there's even a real way of looking at the same things.

So I've reflected the Tea Party Congress the way it is - it was just announced “The votes aren’t there” again, BTW - I wouldn't join in the lying.

And this hasn't been the Tea Party's best - they've missed the mark.

Mostly because they've forgotten how they've looked.

As not acting in good faith.

They lost the fight - in public - fair and square.

But now, for a lot of reasons, they can't accept the change.

Insisting on "negotiations" after the deal is done.

Imagining they're engaged in some epic struggle.

None of it was ever real.

The truth is the Teas lost in the world of ideas a long time ago.

So it was TMR's duty to show that - not to join in the lying.

Admit they did it to themselves. 

That was TMR's job.

You can't win a fight against an immovable object.

I told 'em to stop.

So now they've got the reality they wanted,...