The Shambling Mound's Fourteenth and Fifteenth Weeks

[tcpip]

Has the Shambling Mound finally stopped? No, of course not. It's just for the second time in a row other events have had priority and let's face it, the stumbling of Lord Dampnut, mayor of the global village, after a while, do give a sense of more of the same. It's almost that sheer incompetence, random lurching, and a complete disdain for facts

Comments

[airiefairie]

It is indeed sad that people have to rally in support of science, reason and critical thought well into the 21st century. In one of the most advanced societies in the world. What has gone so wrong that American society has taken such a huge step backwards?

[johnny9fingers]

Lack of education, a media displaying no love of facts, disempowerment, and religion.

Of which, if you look at it closely, religion is the main culprit ollowed by education. Anywhere else as religious as America has even more nutters.

[airiefairie]

So the media dumbing down the populace for decades, is not backfiring on the media as the administration is showing an open disdain for the media, undermining its credibility among the populace. How ironic.

[johnny9fingers]

You have to laugh. Or cry.

But the media is split between the serious news organisations, and the stuff that sells or gets viewers like Fox or the National Enquirer. The former have a small circulation; almost all to the educated elite. The latter have vast circulations and viewers; and that's down to starting conditions: i.e. education, religious beliefs, and the ease of consuming popular and populist media.

Many folk without college educations are going to find the NYT rather uninteresting.

[telemann]

One bit of good news this week: it's looking like New York state is going to enact single payer Health care. New York's Assembly passed the Universal Health Care Bill. If it passes in the state's Senate, it will be the first state to have universal heath care, with California maybe a close second. With Obamacare under GOP attack, New York could fight back with a single-payer plan

[johnny9fingers]

That is old news.
:)

[telemann]

Nah.

[johnny9fingers]

My phone replaced good with old. :) Flipping irritating. But that's predictive text and spellcheck for you. My bad.