The educated and expert scientific communities have reached a consensus on global warming’s existence; it’s the skeptics who need to prove not only that the scientists are wrong, but that they themselves are right. It’s a pretty tall order.
We want to live in a post-racial society, and we don’t want to be considered racist. So naturally, in order to accomplish that, we avoid talking about race all together–even in games. But as evident here, failing to discuss race only exacerbates the problem and does little to help “win” the game.
Watch as academic and author Reza Aslan suffers through the provincial probing of yet another witless FOX News anchor who can’t seem to wrap her mind around the fact that people can be knowledgable about beliefs and views to which they don’t prescribe. Not everyone has the pleasure of being conservative.
So in case you’ve been too caught up in the trials and travails of Carlos Danger, a quick recap on actual news: Russia has some pretty terrible anti-gay politics going on right now. The latest: Vladimir Putin’s virulently anti-gay airline service. (Yes, this is satire. Yes, it’s great.)
Want to curtail fights about welfare? About “entitlement programs”, poverty and abortion? Support family planning services! Starting in the 1970s, Mechai Viravaidya combatted all of the above just by educating about and distributing contraception…and Thailand has seen incredible success.
