Maddow recaps the achievements of Obama's first term.
Rachel documents the accomplishments of Obama's first term
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Rachel Maddow: Time for the right to leave the bubble
Rachel Maddow: Time for the right to leave the bubble
Well, I'd actually been planning to write something along these lines. Rachel made my plan moot.
Well, I'd actually been planning to write something along these lines. Rachel made my plan moot.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
On Paul Ryan’s mendacity, by none other than Fox News
Fox News: Ryan's speech "an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech." That's right. That's from a Fox News reporter.
Maybe citing Fox News will get it through to some of you that you're being duped by your candidates and your party. That GOP candidates, along with Faux Noise and their ilk, can so blatantly, nonchalantly, and repetitively lie to you indicates a couple things: (1) they think you're too dumb to realize you're being lied to; (2) they think you're too lazy to diligently research facts and hold candidates to account for blatant, provably false statements and hypocritical positions; or (3) they believe your blind tribal loyalty to party so far supersedes your regard for factual reality that you simply don't give a shit that you're being lied to.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Mass. Health Insurance Base Rate Up 1.2% on Average for Third Quarter
Mass. Health Insurance Base Rate Up 1.2% on Average for Third Quarter
Bending the cost curve. The average increase of base insurance rates in Massachusetts has fallen from over 8% in 2010 to under 2% in 2012. M.I.T. economics professor Jonathan Gruber estimates the benefits from sustained lowered health care costs to Massachusetts businesses and employees will be between $8 and $34.5 billion over the next decade. As of the end of 2010, 98.1 percent of the state’s residents were insured compared to 87.5 percent in 2006 when the Mass. health care reform law was enacted. 99.8% of children in the state were insured as of 2010 (See Myth vs. Fact: Health Care Reform in Massachusetts http://bit.ly/Ir1NXo).
Bending the cost curve. The average increase of base insurance rates in Massachusetts has fallen from over 8% in 2010 to under 2% in 2012. M.I.T. economics professor Jonathan Gruber estimates the benefits from sustained lowered health care costs to Massachusetts businesses and employees will be between $8 and $34.5 billion over the next decade. As of the end of 2010, 98.1 percent of the state’s residents were insured compared to 87.5 percent in 2006 when the Mass. health care reform law was enacted. 99.8% of children in the state were insured as of 2010 (See Myth vs. Fact: Health Care Reform in Massachusetts http://bit.ly/Ir1NXo).
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Dan Kahan - The Great Ideological Asymmetry Debate | Point of Inquiry
Dan Kahan - The Great Ideological Asymmetry Debate | Point of Inquiry
A thoroughly enjoyable, thought-provoking discussion between Chris Mooney and Dan Kahan.
A thoroughly enjoyable, thought-provoking discussion between Chris Mooney and Dan Kahan.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
History Channel Albert Einstein (complete) - YouTube
History Channel Albert Einstein (complete) - YouTube
The full History Channel documentary on Einstein. What is Einstein's General Theory of Relativity? How did he prove it experimentally? Watch.
Interesting to me to consider how times have changed. In the 19-teens and early twenties, Einstein's theories upended Newtonian physics which had been accepted for over 200 years. Almost overnight, Einstein was catapulted into the stratosphere of celebrity. He was exhalted the world over. Science was exhalted and revered. When he sailed across the Atlantic, 15,000 people gathered in lower Manhattan to welcome Einstein to America on his tour. He crossed America by train. Imagine: A scientist. On tour! The masses were curious about Einstein's discoveries and their implications, and about science generally.
Contrast that with today. Last weekend, results from polls in Alabama and Mississippi in advance of Tuesday's GOP primaries showed that 73% and 76% of voters in those states flat out do not believe in or are not sure about the veracity of evolution. (http://slate.me/y0zE0H). Republicans like Santorum, Bachmann, Perry, Inhofe, Gingrich, Palin, and the rest of them, call climate science a hoax. Science that is recognized and accepted by more than 27 international science bodies, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and 18 other countries, and nearly 100% of scientists who conduct primary climate-related research. (http://bit.ly/ffhAdL). In the 150+ years since Darwin first described his theory of evolution by natural selection, thousands of peer-reviewed research papers on evolution have been published. Not a single one -- none! -- has produced evidence to prove that theory false.
What the hell happened?
The full History Channel documentary on Einstein. What is Einstein's General Theory of Relativity? How did he prove it experimentally? Watch.
Interesting to me to consider how times have changed. In the 19-teens and early twenties, Einstein's theories upended Newtonian physics which had been accepted for over 200 years. Almost overnight, Einstein was catapulted into the stratosphere of celebrity. He was exhalted the world over. Science was exhalted and revered. When he sailed across the Atlantic, 15,000 people gathered in lower Manhattan to welcome Einstein to America on his tour. He crossed America by train. Imagine: A scientist. On tour! The masses were curious about Einstein's discoveries and their implications, and about science generally.
Contrast that with today. Last weekend, results from polls in Alabama and Mississippi in advance of Tuesday's GOP primaries showed that 73% and 76% of voters in those states flat out do not believe in or are not sure about the veracity of evolution. (http://slate.me/y0zE0H). Republicans like Santorum, Bachmann, Perry, Inhofe, Gingrich, Palin, and the rest of them, call climate science a hoax. Science that is recognized and accepted by more than 27 international science bodies, the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and 18 other countries, and nearly 100% of scientists who conduct primary climate-related research. (http://bit.ly/ffhAdL). In the 150+ years since Darwin first described his theory of evolution by natural selection, thousands of peer-reviewed research papers on evolution have been published. Not a single one -- none! -- has produced evidence to prove that theory false.
What the hell happened?
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence | Video on TED.com
Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence | Video on TED.com
Excellent TED lecture by UVA professor Jonathan Haidt explaining how evolution by group selection in humans leads to religion and the ecstacy of self-transcendence.
Excellent TED lecture by UVA professor Jonathan Haidt explaining how evolution by group selection in humans leads to religion and the ecstacy of self-transcendence.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
GOP Not Listening to Its Own Scientists on Climate Change | InsideClimate News
GOP Not Listening to Its Own Scientists on Climate Change InsideClimate News
I'll return to editorialize at a later time.
I'll return to editorialize at a later time.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Bruce Bartlett on Where the Right Went Wrong on Vimeo
Bruce Bartlett on Where the Right Went Wrong on Vimeo
Great interview. Bartlett, as usual, is dead on with his assessments. I include Bartlett in the group comprised of David Brooks, David Frum, Mark McKinnon, David Stockman and maybe a couple others. They are the handful of moderate conservatives out there that have not abandoned reason, rationality and pragmatism for empirically unsupportable and indefensible ideologies regarding economics, science, and public policy. I would reword Moyers' definition of ideology slightly. Ideology is a worldview that one believes and cannot be unmoored from despite all the evidence which proves that worldview to be false.
Great interview. Bartlett, as usual, is dead on with his assessments. I include Bartlett in the group comprised of David Brooks, David Frum, Mark McKinnon, David Stockman and maybe a couple others. They are the handful of moderate conservatives out there that have not abandoned reason, rationality and pragmatism for empirically unsupportable and indefensible ideologies regarding economics, science, and public policy. I would reword Moyers' definition of ideology slightly. Ideology is a worldview that one believes and cannot be unmoored from despite all the evidence which proves that worldview to be false.
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