Gun fanaticism and rewriting history
Anti-choice activists are really the shock troops of the conservative movement. This isn’t my observation, but...
Rejecting anything seen as liberal re...
From the everything-is-culture-war files: Yesterday a guest blogger from the Sierra Club posted on Think Progress about the House Republicans’ fit over the transportation bill. Yes, the headline-grabbing aspect of it is mostly the pipeline battles, but the overgrown children that run the Republican party have also decided to whine and cry about other provisions regarding transportation methods they no doubt see as pussified liberal methods that must be stomped out.
Creationism isn’t innocuous
Look at the courses conservatives are most interested in attacking: science, history, and health education. A good science education or a good history education is exactly the sort of thing that can inspire a kid to go into the sciences or the humanities when they go to college, because their imagination has been turned on by learning that there’s more to this world than what they immediately see. I can speak from experience; my high school biology course didn’t teach evolution. Without evolution, biology actually doesn’t make sense, and instead it’s just an anatomy class. Dissecting cats and labeling pictures of flowers is passing the time, and not really education. I had no idea how fascinating biology actually was until I was an adult, and long past any chance of starting on that as a career path.
Demographics and right wing panic
There’s a number of reasons that we’re experiencing our current bout of right wing extremism taking over...
When we say they hate women, we mean ...
So, Sandra Fluke — Georgetown law student — testified in front of Congress about using birth control and...
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