Friday, January 27, 2012

The Conservative Attack on Education


Rick Santorum recently voiced his opinion that Obama's encouragement of higher education is a tactic to brainwash children into becoming liberals. He accused Universities of being guilty of "indoctrination" and encouraged his followers to stop funding such institutions.

I find it astounding that there is a portion of our population that genuinely believes this conspiracy theory. To these individuals, it makes more sense to believe that experts in various academic fields arbitrarily decided to doctor their research so that it would consistently support left wing perspectives.

The true source of their anger at education is sparked by their frustration with the fact that issues which are examined objectively with honesty and rigor tend to agree with a progressive perspective rather than traditional conservative perspectives.

If ultra conservatives had it their way, Universities would uphold traditional claims-even though these claims cannot be substantiated by evidence or research. But if this were the case, wouldn't the purpose of Universities as truth finders become obsolete?

Also, accusing Universities of indoctrination while you parade your own religion around as unquestionable truth reeks of hypocrisy and ignorance. But for some reason, conservatives love it.

















Monday, January 16, 2012

Happy Martin Luther King Day

But it seems that I can hear the God of the universe saying, "even though you've done all of that, I was hungry and you fed me not. I was naked and ye clothed me not. The children of my sons and daughters were in need of economic security, and you didn't provide for them. So you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness." This may well be the indictment on America that says in Memphis to the mayor, to the power structure, "If you do it unto the least of these my brethren, you do it unto me."...Martin Luther King, 3/18/68





Sunday, January 8, 2012


"As he was walking along the road, some boys came out of the town and jeered at him. "Get out of here, baldy!" they said. "Get out of here, baldy!" He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty two of the boys.

....And then he went on to Mount Carmel and from there returned to Samaria."

2 Kings 2:23


Obviously, those boys had it coming. Just another day in the Old Testament.



Sunday, January 1, 2012


"Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath at the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy." -Wuthering Heights