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Bonobo Liberals? Chimp Conservatives?
Concerning a study of bonobo altruism, this was in The New York Times recently: The subjects were all orphaned bonobos at the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In one phase of the study, bonobos were given a pile … Continue reading
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Tagged bonobos, chimps, conservative, Darwin, evolution, liberal, psychology
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What’s an undergraduate education for?
I like the way Tim Lee, a CATO Institute scholar, thinks about undergraduate education: [T]he primary function of an undergraduate education is to allow the student to join a scholarly community, and in the process to soak up the values and attitudes … Continue reading
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Tagged college, critical thinking, education, liberal, life, philosophy, reason, the Enlightenment, Thomas Jefferson
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Brief Film Review: “Indoctrinate U: Our Education, Their Politics”
The film, Indoctrinate U: Our Education, Their Politics, has low production values, and appears to have been created entirely by two conservative university students visiting numerous college and university campuses around the United States (one holding a boom mike and speaking, the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1st amendment, conservative, documentaries, film, free speech, freedom of speech, indoctrinate u, liberal, Politics, religion
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Mental Health Break: Peter, Paul, and Mary Sing Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer”
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Tagged 1960s, activism, justice, liberal, music, pete seeger, poems, poetic justice, poetry, Politics, psychology, revolution
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Turkey with, eh, Gravy?: Sarah Palin Does a Thanksgiving Interview with Turkeys Being Slaughtered Directly Behind Her!
Caution: In males the clip below may stir castration anxiety. As governor of Alaska (2008), Sarah Palin had just “pardoned” one Thanksgiving turkey, then stepped forward to take a few press questions, apparently oblivious to the other turkeys being slaughtered over her shoulder:
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Tagged Air America, castration anxiety, Freud, funny, humor, liberal, Politics, progressive, rush limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, thanksgiving
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PZ Myers, Illiberal Iconoclast: Why Catholics, Agnostics, and Atheists Who Value Freedom Should Be United in Their Opposition to What PZ Myers Did
When University of Minnesota biologist, PZ Myers, in a blog to his readers, asked them to “score” consecrated wafers from Catholic churches, and send them to him for Internet desecration, a line was crossed that no sensible liberal, secular or religious, should condone. Mockery, parody, and blasphemy … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, atheist, Catholic, Christopher Hedges, Democrat, fascism, freedom, liberal, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Santi Tafarella
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Prometheus Unbound 