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[S]cience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
— Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Ballantine Books, 1996) at p.32.
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[S]cience is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.
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A piece of Spam like you
FORD: I hate to interrupt… but… I think you spent too much time in the discos during the 70s — Village People rotted your brain. LT. AMOS: See that’s the difference between a great investigator like me, and a piece of Spam like you. FORD: Spam? You’re a piece of Spam — that’s what I think […]
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Doug Stanhope on farts
Jeff Brown and I used to eat at The Sahara Dinner Buffet where I had, to this day, the best spectacle of bowel-wrenching flatulence of my life. The room was full of mostly elderly people, tables tightly packed, and we were seated dead center. It was silent except for the slight tinkling of silverware on […]
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What’s happening just offscreen of famous album covers?
Kottke: On his Instagram account, Igor Lipchanskiy is imagining what’s happening just “offscreen” of musical album covers. Hilarious.
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Thought of the Day
FOR TWENTY DOLLARS: I will double your IQ, or no money back. (Limited time offer)
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Quote of the day
Give me money. Money me. Money now. Me a money needing a lot now. –Bonnie Kelly (Charlie’s Mom), It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, S8E6: Charlie’s Mom has Cancer (2012). Yeah, I’ve been re-watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, from season 1…
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“I’m working on a new book…”
Comedian Tim Cavanagh: I’m working on a new book called ‘How to Commit a Murder-Suicide’—Chapter 1: Do the Murder First.
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SNL: Sean Spicer Press Conference
Melissa McCarthy knocks it out of the ballpark: Before we begin, I know that myself and the press have gotten off to a rocky start. When I say rocky start, I mean it in the sense of ‘Rocky’ the movie, because I came out here to punch you…in the face. And also I don’t talk […]
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at the Inauguration
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was at Trump’s inauguration Now coming up to the stand are the Trump sons, also know as the less-motivated Menendez brothers. Do you like Melania? Did you see those naked pictures of her? Oh my god… well, let’s just say they should call her Laura No-Bush It’s like a pickup […]
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What the fuck was Ann Coulter thinking?
The Independent’s headline sums it up: Ann Coulter destroyed at Rob Lowe roast She didn’t do herself any favors, either–her set was fucking horrible. I guess everyone really does think that they themselves are funny. And, you know, her getting pummeled by all the other presenters had everything to do with politics, but her set […]
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‘Why Can I Never Seem To Say The Right Thing?’ Weeps Trump Into Pillow
The Onion: “Every time I open my mouth, the words come out all wrong,” Trump reportedly said in between long, heaving sobs, his voice muffled by the pillow as he occasionally pounded a balled-up fist into the mattress.
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