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Darwin exhibit at St. Louis Science Center, Rep. Cynthia Davis, Rep. Jeanette Mott Oxford, Texas gun laws
I’ve been one of those behind the scenes collecting articles, doing research and writing short pieces in an attempt to educate my fellow Americans about the giant blood-sucking squid that’s draining the life out of our democracy. But I’ve finally realized that “educating” voters is a fool’s errand so long as they prefer to be alternately entertained with patriotic ego boosters and scared shitless by the big bad wolf.
Two things in today’s (Saturday’s) Post Dispatch summed up just how crazy our society has become (maybe it’s really the fluoride after all.)
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Texas law: People now have to go through a metal detector to enter the Texas Capitol, but under state law, those with permits do not have to surrender their firearms.
No comment needed on that one !
2. In his review of a speaker in the Darwin series at the St. Louis Science Center, religion reporter Tim Townsend felt it necessary to call Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-O’Fallon) for her expert opinion on Darwin’s theory of evolution. As always, Cyndi was able to put the whole “controversy” in perspective in her own succinct way. “Evolution is based in atheism.” There you go. Nice and simple, easy to remember, likely to infuriate and oh, so, effective. So why bother trying to “educate” people about Charles Darwin, his life’s work, theories and accomplishments? When newspapers feel an obligation to consult idiots like Cynthia Davis when there are probably 3,000 other people in the St. Louis area better equipped to understand a topic, we are doomed.
Rep. Jeanette Mott Oxford (D-St. Louis) hit the nail on the head in the letter section of the paper. The media is not interested in covering bills that they know haven’t a chance of passing in a Republican controlled legislature. So there is no public information out there that might stimulate a public debate. It’s a Catch-22. No chance of passing, so no need to educate the public about it. And so the giant squid tightens its grip on the pitiful remains of what was evolving into a rational society.
because she is the embodiment of the crazy right fringe – and her proclamations are almost always highly entertaining since she has no internal censor helping her tone down the absurdity in order to keep from frightening the uninitiated in the mainstream (as opposed to Akin who, at least sometimes, tries to run under the radar).
It is also significant that this idiot has occupied a position of relative power within the state and is trying to get another such position. She has been and may continue to have the wherewithall to influence policy – leading the charge of the crazies so to speak. For this reason, it is not only appropriate to get her response, but I say give her all the publicity possible – just maybe there are more sane people voting for senator than among those who made her a state rep.
I do, though, get your point that crazies and the corrupt are being allowed to dominate the media narrative without apprpriate challenge.
Writing in the Sunday P-D, he quotes an astrophysicist:
Cynthia Davis, not to mention the entire state of Texas, can give one a gloomy view of the human race. But Kevin Horrigan is there too. And he has lots of fans.
Yes, that “Toe of God” article by Horrigan was great. And I also saw on the evening news last night that climate scientists are getting death threats. Somehow the KKK has gotten involved and is targeting Jewish scientists specifically. What the hell is going on?
I can understand the dirty energy companies putting money into disinformation campaigns to discredit climate change scientists, but what’s the KKK got to do with it?
The anti-abortion lobby has been successful in practically overturning Roe v Wade. (In a practical sense, women can’t use their “right” to abortion if there is no one performing them within 500 miles of where they live.)
Will the anti-climate change lobby be just as successful? The dirty energy companies were able to tamp down all the furor over Cheney’s secret energy policy. Now that his policy is destroying the ecosytem known as the Gulf of Mexico, puppets for the oil companies like Sarah Palin are turning the public discussion to the Obama administration’s lack of effective response (from the people who say govt can’t do anything right !) and getting MSM people to demand to know how much money the oil companies give to Democrats, for chrissake. I go back to my original point. As long as the media is complicit in poisoning public debate, we are chasing a train we can never catch.
Did I send you the email msg about the primary results in Kentucky last week? The top two vote getters in the Democratic primary EACH received more votes than Rand Paul. Combined, there were twice as many votes in the Democratic primary as there were in the Repub primary. I think that bodes well for a Dem senator to replace Bunning, maybe?