What's worse?
Major candidate to US presidency tweets an image with stereotypical antisemitic imagery and ...
a) Does it knowingly.
b) Is so ignorant that does not realize why it's bad.
c) Does not lose any votes over it.
Two observations: 1. Politicians do not pay a price high enough for lying, so for them the math works out and it's worth lying. 2. Debates and the nation would benefit greatly from live fact checking.
This article is from before the events in Baltimore.
Click%20through%20and%20zoom%20in%20to%20your%20city.
Pretty shameful, honestly.
The fact that things like this are happening in the USA is truly hard to believe and understand for foreigners.
It's astonishing that a full third of the richest nation in the world choose to "reject" one of the most widely agreed upon scientific theories in biology. Horrendously backwards.
People who have opinions that aren't based on facts but in faith (or hatred) and TV news channel that is happy to spread them. Recipe for a disastrously divided, ignorant society.
Absent from public discourse, the harm that America's lax gun policy has outside of the USA. From the article:
According to former President Felipe Calderon, who oversaw the government’s efforts to crack down on drug cartel-related violence, Mexican authorities seized over 140,000 weapons (including 84,000 high-powered assault weapons) during his term. Up to 70% of these firearms were traced back to the US. In a press conference earlier this year, Calderon lamented that “One of the main factors that allows criminals to strengthen themselves is the unlimited access to high-powered weapons, which are sold freely, and also indiscriminately, in the United States of America.”
The nerve of those Obama hippie supporters who think people should have access to health care! Every sane Romney voter knows the only right people should have is access to assault weapons!
Interesting article about Michael Oren who is in the difficult position of being Israel's ambassador to the US in the time of Bibi and Obama.
Michael Oren is a historian and wrote one of my all-time favorite books: Six Days of War.
Funny rant.
Interesting article on the broken immigration policy in the US. I lived through this hell... Instead of making it easy to bring in highly educated workers, they are making it hard which is deflecting them to other countries. First you lose your technological edge, then you lose your first world nation status.
A mathematician looks at the obesity epidemic in the US. Math is a great tool to abstract and model reality in a way in which opinion and sentiment does not get in the way. Very interesting article.
Unbelievably retrograde.
More frightening statistics highlighting incredible levels of ignorance. Who's to blame?