Daily double in Indiana

[pbrower2a]

Another state ruined restored to free market principals by Republicans.

As a firm believer in competition of idealologies in the educational field, this is a good idea.

Would you like competition from Marxism-Leninism? Or the official ideologies of Saudi Arabia or Iran? Maybe we could publish millions of the Green Book of the late Muammar Qaddafi as an alternative to what we now have.  I'm sure that the Klan and neo-Nazis could come up with something. While you are at it, consider the merits of faith-healing or homeopathy as a substitute for medicine.


Junk learning does not belong in school; it only discredits those who do the teaching or those who set the policies. Teachers can teach well only if they can create and maintain a climate of trust. Face it -- there is no moral lesson to be had in creationism. It is nothing more than a power play by the Hard Right to push superstition.

Oh, by the way -- when you see a squiggly-red object under a word, then you have either a foreign word or a neologism (possibly legitimate) or a misspelling (not so legitimate).  

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It also makes it far easier for employers to impose sub-market wages upon working people and have more despotism in management. Nobody can effectively negotiate pay against a bureaucratic elite that exists largely to depress wages by finding out a worker's vulnerability. In the absence of a union that is exactly what one faces. Our economic elites have no morals other than raw self interest.

Working people need unions to deal with such management.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

I have no problem with teaching creationism in a religious class. However, courts have ruled that, as it is not a scientific theory, it is not to be taught in science class. And if creationism is taught as science in public schools, which creation story do we go with?

[All Along The Watchtower]

Arizona has right-to-work laws. As a result, wages are waaaay low, so a lot of people are in debt up to their eyeballs.

All signs, of course, of a healthy  economy.

EDIT: on this subject, notice how the right-to-work states have huge problems with income inequality?

[pbrower2a]

I have no problem with teaching creationism in a religious class. However, courts have ruled that, as it is not a scientific theory, it is not to be taught in science class. And if creationism is taught as science in public schools, which creation story do we go with?

Or, for that matter, as literature. But there is the Epic of Gilgamesh from which the Biblical account is a  heavy redaction, and there is an accessible and better version -- at least as literature -- in the Metamorphoses of Ovid.

Ovid was not a closet Christian.

[opebo]

Given 1000 people would you rather have say, 600 paid well and 400 unemployed or 900 paid 1/3 less and 100 unemployed? 

I'd prefer the former (which I have underlined for your convenience).