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Daily Archives: May 24, 2010
Party of No: How Republicans and the Right Have Tried to Thwart All Social Progress
You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation, women’s rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, social security, LGBT rights, welfare, immigrant rights, public education, reproductive rights, Medicare, Medicaid. And through the years the right invoked hysterical rhetoric in opposition, predicting that implementing any such policies would result in the end-of-family-free-enterprise-God-America on the one hand, and the imposition of atheism-socialism-Nazism on the other.
This is about as close to truth as you’re going to get about the GOP.
30 Reasons the Empire Still Rules
There’s a reason that I watched the better part of the original trilogy and the Family Guy parody this weekend. After 30 years, Empire and it’s companion pieces still work their magic.
Uncompassionate Educators
I was going to go in another vein with one of these stories but they keep cropping up.
So, here goes.
Conservatives bitch and moan about how the “liberals are brainwashing our children” and how education teaches kids to think and care for others and the environment. You know, stuff like where things are, not everyone brown needs bombed, science and condoms exist: use them, and so on. I’ve spent some time highlighting the lies passing as history in a Texas history book coming to a school near you.
But there are other problems with having conservatives involved in education.
In San Antonio, teachers apparently feel comfortable in bashing Mexicans to the faces of their Latino students. Said teacher was told to take a week off and is already back in class.
In Alabama, a teacher used to concept of assassinating President Obama as a means to teaching parallel lines and angles. You know, just in case some hillbilly teen might want to take a shot at our nation’s leader. Once again, the teacher wasn’t fired, and the Secret Service decided not to make an example of them. Again. Can we at least put ONE of these assassination lovers behind bars?
And, just for kicks, in Florida, two teachers are accused of dousing their atheist co-worker in holy water in the hopes of converting them.
Apparently that’s the compassionate thing to so in the Sunshine State.
Jerks.