tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post4407474562902362575..comments2024-01-19T02:23:51.665-06:00Comments on Journal Wunelle: Get Ye Back to the Stone Age!wstachourhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12447198404608861357noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-74128335053807197832012-02-02T23:08:20.586-06:002012-02-02T23:08:20.586-06:00Interesting Apple stuff. You just have to feel bad...Interesting Apple stuff. You just have to feel bad for the poor kids in Indiana who are having every door out of their dark ages hellhole barred by the paranoid folks who fear the undoing that will follow from fact-based reasoning.<br /><br />Sam Harris has an interesting essay out now trying to get non-religious folks to understand just what is involved in a believer trying to face up to the rise of atheism. He makes the analogy that all of us love the comfort of a fire in a fireplace but it almost certainly one of the least healthy things we can do for ourselves and our communities. It's an interesting read, though the consequences of these things are not equivalent: a person having to give up their religion will feel like they're in a terrifying, anarchic free-fall.wstachourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12447198404608861357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-72926333304869554772012-02-02T22:57:25.213-06:002012-02-02T22:57:25.213-06:00I don't understand why anyone thinks it makes ...I don't understand why anyone thinks it makes sense to try to inject their favorite fables into a science curriculum. That makes about as much sense as if the state board of education stipulated the science content that should be included in the religion classes in churches.<br /><br />Our math and science education is already in a sorry enough state without watering the content down and confusing the students with non-science.<br /><br />Other recent news illustrates where this lack of judgement leads. Apple was taken to task for not creating more manufacturing jobs here in the US. Apple execs tried to explain that they have not moved their manufacturing to China solely due to the lower labor costs, but also because of the higher quality labor. It has become very difficult to find the talent they need here in the US. According to an article in the NYT, the factories that manufacture the iPhone employ 200,000 assembly line workers, and to oversee those workers and the manufacturing process they also employ 8,700 industrial engineers. It was estimated that it would take as long as 9 months to find and hire that many engineers in the US. In China it took 15 days. We think we lead the world in having an educated workforce, but we are rapidly falling behind, and making the schools worse by forcing them to teach BS isn't doing anything to help.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13860812772132171202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-61463721866097605322012-02-02T07:40:24.574-06:002012-02-02T07:40:24.574-06:00I second your point of view.I second your point of view.VVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08751403913379728345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-31760250076488822452012-02-02T00:29:09.610-06:002012-02-02T00:29:09.610-06:00I might have imagined we would be piqued at the sa...I might have imagined we would be piqued at the same things. I sent a nasty gram to Komen and needed to vent the other poisons here. <br /><br />I just can't get over that these pea-brained control freaks have half the country nodding along with their American Taliban thinking. I keep coming back to this. We're supposed to be an educated, civilized country, yet we're more backward and draconian than most of the rest of the world. Just look at this frickin' nominating circus! What a menagerie of third-rate wackos and losers! We have become a laughingstock. With a huge nuclear arsenal. God.wstachourhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12447198404608861357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15935045.post-61092233973577869842012-02-02T00:19:26.375-06:002012-02-02T00:19:26.375-06:00I haven't really talked politics on my blog in...I haven't really talked politics on my blog in quite awhile, but it was exactly these two stories that I heard earlier today that had me wanting to rant. I should have expected that you would have been of a like mind.<br /><br />Between these things and the Komen flap, I'm just about apoplectic. Then I slowly calm down and realize that the Right is overreaching. They think they have a little power and they are going to try and shove through every nutty thing they can as quickly as possible. <br /><br />With the economic issues of the past couple of years, an Obama 2nd term seemed out of the question, but with the absolute farcical nature of the Republican primaries and debates, reasonable people are seeing the candidates for what they are ... petty children. And Obama seems like the only adult.<br /><br />Only this group of idiots could make Ron Paul appear reasonable in comparison.dbackdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10700991588554336491noreply@blogger.com