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Egghead and Blockheads – Maureen Dowd

So we’re choosing between the overintellectualized professor and blockheads boasting about their vacuity?

The occupational hazard of democracy is know-nothing voters. It shouldn’t be know-nothing candidates.

via Egghead and Blockheads – NYTimes.com.

Let’s Equalize The Right To Vote

I got involved in a conversation on Facebook the other day that led to one hell of a light bulb over the head moment.

Let’s make elections fair… Let’s put a limit on the amount of money you can give to all candidates for office equal to the amount of income taxes you paid. Limit [...]

Food Rules…An New Old Way To Eat

It’s a short little book…Takes maybe an hour to read but it could change your life. Being the chief cook and bottle washer for a bunch of independent cusses, I can’t implement all of the rules…But…I’ll be sneaking them in one at a time till the majority have become habits…

From Amazon…Food Rules: An [...]

Education In Texas – Ruled by Conservative Ideology, It’s Failing The Nation

This is getting to be a familiar scenario: The Texas Board of Education, preparing to adopt new curriculum standards, makes our schoolchildren’s textbooks a matter of highly partisan wrangling.

When the board met last week to discuss what to teach Texas’s; public school students in history, geography, government and economics, their preliminary druthers were heavily [...]