One of the worst crimes of the Bush years – indeed of any Luddite conservative policy – is that we basically turned off the spigot of new scientific learning through an active policy of fear and loathing of science. The genetic throwbacks ruining our education system are going to destroy a generation of young minds with their creationism and bullshit watered-down science as well.

The Chinese communist system may be lacking in a lot of things, but their ability to turn on their nation’s creative juices for researching green energy solutions is one of the reasons that their economy may eclipse our’s in the coming years.

And we’ll have the conservative’s fearful interference and our own spineless response to their anti-American stupidity to blame when it happens.