"Aggressive ignorance defiantly shoves its utter lack of knowledge in your face and brays: 'Facts? We don't need no stinkin' facts!' "

Susan J. Douglas

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truth without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."

Thomas Jefferson

Conservatives can't keep their cool in times of uncertainty.
#6 | Posted by snoofy

When what is now called covid was first discovered it was called the "novel coronavirus" because scientists had never seen it before. They based recommendations on similar bugs that had seen. They were very clear that this is what they were doing. As they got to know it they discovered that this new virus was different from others they had seen. And so their recommendations changed. Unless you're really dense this is not hard to understand.

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
Carl Sagan

"Our trouble is not the over-all absence of smartness but the intractable power of pure stupidity, and no machine, or mind, seems extended enough to cure that."

Patrick Appel

Fauci is exactly right.

What kind of idiot cleans a loaded gun?

"There are lots of people who lack education but who have great natural intelligence and a desire to learn, including most of the people I grew up with. Stupid is different. To win a degree in stupid, you have to willfully reject facts in favor of superstitions, myths, fears and conspiracy theories. And then get all your news from fake or biased news sites targeted at the stupid."

Alan Caron

"Eighty international scientific societies have endorsed the concept of a primarily human-caused climate crisis that is already starting to threaten the health and well-being of millions, and soon to be billions, of people in the next few decades. The total number of scientific organizations that dispute this is zero. If you were watching a basketball game where the score was 80 to 0, with one minute left in the fourth quarter, and you decided to bet your entire nest egg on that losing team, no one would argue that you were not severely delusional. ... Inability to discern reality is the hallmark of schizophrenia."

Dr Brian Moench

Why is it that sex offenders so often rise high in the Republican Party?
#2 | Posted by Zed

Is it maybe because a sex offender runs the party?

"There is a virus here, it kills people," he said. "The only way we prevent it is get vaccinated, get masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about, 'Well my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.' No, screw your freedom. Because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities, you cannot just say, 'I have the right to do X, Y and Z,' when you affect other people, that is when it gets serious. It's no different from a traffic light, you put a traffic light at an intersection so someone doesn't kill someone else."

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved, indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It won't do any good.

'Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved, indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Why don't they campaign on keeping Martians out of our schools? Everyone knows they're evil. That would be just as true as schools teaching CRT and even more scary.

"Here in the 21st Century the Republicans have become the new Know Nothing Party. Just as the original Know Nothings employed fear, bigotry, ignorance and hate to motivate its base, so too does the Republican Party."

John Atcheson

"Against stupidity we have no defense. Neither protests nor force can touch it. Reasoning is of no use. Facts that contradict personal prejudices can simply be disbelieved, indeed, the fool can counter by criticizing them, and if they are undeniable, they can just be pushed aside as trivial exceptions. So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self-satisfied. In fact, they can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make them aggressive. For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Have these people never heard of a weather forecast? I guess they put them in the same category as doctors who warn them about covid. All those scientists who want to restrict their freedumb.

"Our trouble is not the over-all absence of smartness but the intractable power of pure stupidity, and no machine, or mind, seems extended enough to cure that."

Patrick Appel

"a political party that seems openly hostile to the very premises of democracy." That's our Rs. And a near majority supports them. It's worth remembering that in the last election he allowed Hitler got over 90% of the vote.

"Ernby remained an ardent and vocal opponent of COVID-19 vaccination mandates."

Nuff said. Sigh.

"He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws " he would make a Trump."

Michael Stevenson

Look up San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station sometime. They pf-ed that one up big time. I was working for SCE at the time.
#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

That's for sure. Steam generators that were supposed to last 20 years lasted one. San Diego taxpayers got to spend $4 billion to shut the thing down. The facility still stores 4,000 tons of radioactive waste. But gee, nuclear power is supposed to be cheap.

The problem with nuclear waste is as much political as anything. It MIGHT be possible to tunnel deep into the Canadian Shield and store the crap so it's safe for the remaining life of the planet. One problem is that where the Shield extends down into the US it's in states that have large Congressional delegations and they would never let legislation to do that pass. They will not want that crap in their back yard. Another problem is that would be very, very, expensive. That's some really hard rock and you'd have to go very deep.

It's worth remembering that most of those explosions you saw at Fukushima were chemical explosions. The only nuclear explosion was in a spent fuel pool. And after a few million years have passed and the waste is no longer radioactive it is still the nastiest stuff we've ever created.

Burying the crap would be really expensive but babysitting it for the next several million years is going to be expensive too. How would we feel if waste created by the early Roman Empire was still deadly and we had to spend millions of dollars each year to keep it from killing us?

"When people don't like facts, they ignore them."
Michael Specter

"We have had half a century to find a good solution to the problem of nuclear waste, and we are no closer now than we were in the 1960s. That is because there is no "good solution." We will never be able to find a risk-free method of storing nuclear waste."

U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich

Rich people write our tax laws so what do you expect? It's just one of many ways they avoid taxes even if they don't feel like just cheating. Warren Buffet says he pays a lower tax rate then his secretary.

"The cable network is actively harming its audience's health." But it makes money for them so they don't care.

Those guards, and Epstein, did us all a favor.