Author Archives: John Wallenfeldt

Why America is flunking science | Salon

Here’s a pretty honest report on the state of our nation’s education, or, rather, LACK of education when it comes to science.

Don’t cast all the blame on our underfunded schools. Also give some jeers to the anti-science Talibangelicals trying to destroy public education and to the media who someone ALWAYS gets science wrong.

So basically, fund the schools, take the Luddites out to the woodshed and deal with them, and promote science instead of just making stuff up.

Easy, no?

Yahoo Will Switch To Bing Search Engine – Lifehacker.com

Granted, apparently Bing is actually useful and a decent search engine. I wouldn’t really know as my history with Microsoft search has been awful. And no, I’m not a knee-jerk Microsoft basher; I’ve just been burned repeatedly to give such reviews much creedence.

So, basically, I use either Google or Yahoo for searching stuff. At least, I used to. Apparently, since Yahoo has some bills to pay off, they are joining forces with M$ and will soon be using the Bing search engine instead of their own useful one.

I guess this only leaves me using Yahoo for email and fantasy sports playing. Boo!

Michael Steele and the GOP Don’t Care About Latinos | The Stimulist

I couldn’t have said this better myself.

If Republican reaction to the first black president is to stock up on weapons and then question the man’s citizenship, how do you expect them to react to any Latino government official? They grilled Sonia Sotomayor as a reverse racist who hates white people and then say they aren’t racist.

Bull. This is the same party that tries to make every Latin immigrant into a job-stealing, plague carrier. No wonder not a single GOP rep showed up to the La Raza meeting. It isn’t that they were afraid of being called hypocrites, they were probably afraid of getting their asses deservedly beaten.