A Cult Of Ignorance
from a 1980 article by I. AsimovÂ
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.â€
Read the whole article at the link .
It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.†It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, â€America’s right to know what, please? Science
CIv V on linux…One less reason to use WINE. Saweet. 
Civilization 5 is now available on SteamOS and Linux, and it’s on sale for a hefty discount for a limited time as well.
I thought most everything on twitter was bot created. 
In an homage to one of televisions finest leaders, I humbly introduce Sherman T. Botter. Periodically spitting out a quote from the the 4077th M*A*S*H’s veteran leader, this twitter bot is what happens when I get bored.
Violence and Chess….because at one time or another everything falls under the thumb of the anti crowd.
Whenever one is forced to bear witness to the predictable silliness of the moral panic of the day, it is useful to recall all the past moral panics that we now consider so equally silly. We’ve written before about the relatively recent…
