I couldn't resist

 

More Constitutional law

So when TF are they going to be prosecuted for their crimes, kicked out of office and thrown in jail? Huh AG Garland?

 

There is a better alternative

And here's a prime example. Unions are necessary in a crapitalistic system. Co-ops are even better.

 

Crazier and more obvious?

We're already there and any crazier or more obvious than that is too late for democracy. Perhaps Cher can help you snap out of it!

 

A well-regulated militia

The 2nd Amendment gives we the people the right to keep and bear arms but in the context of a "well-regulated" militia. So all of the opposition to guns being "well-regulated" in that context are basing their excuses on something other than the Constitution.

 

It's still slavery

With some slightly better privileges. And the whippings are more subtle but just as damaging.

 

Legitimate cancel culture

You cannot negotiate with fascists or domestic terrorists. You must defeat them and work to cancel their their hateful and destructive propaganda.

 

MTG: Peach tree dishes and the poop police

I'm the first one to want regular, working-class folks in government instead of those elitists who have never worked hard a day in their lives. But they also need to have had a good public school education to the point of being at least halfway informed. Margarine Traitor-Spleen obviously skipped school more than she attended because she is a complete idiot. Her latest rant only adds to that evidence.

"They want to know when you’re eating.  They want to know if you’re eating a cheeseburger, which is very bad because Bill Gates wants you to eat his fake meat that grows in a peach tree dish. [...] They probably also want to know when you go to the bathroom and if your bowel movements are on time or consistent."

There is a far better alternative

Wolff commenting on this story:

 

The world's most disgusting man

He graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School, so he's not stupid. Which makes him all the more disgusting since he knows exactly what's he doing.

 

If only we learned how to do this in school

But we didn't and hence the high divorce rate. Maybe for your second or third time around?

 

What GOP stands for

 Aka the pro-death Gilead Gestapo: Gilead Obliterating Progress.

Pathological complexity and the evolution of consciousness

According to the following article it seems that consciousness evolved to handle the 'pathological complexity' problem. The key for this solution appears to be the development of our feeling valence that allowed for an evolutionary functional fit with our environment. (Sounds a lot like Damasio here).

It also seems that the crux of the problem is how our 'false' reasoning takes a regressive step back into pathological complexity because of its obsession with ever more abstraction that dissociates from our feeling valence necessary to what Lakoff calls 'real reason.'

 

Complexity and the evolution of consciousness. Abstract:

 

"This article introduces and defends the ‘pathological complexity thesis’ as a hypothesis about the evolutionary origins of minimal consciousness, or sentience, that connects the study of animal consciousness closely with work in behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology. I argue that consciousness is an adaptive solution to a design problem that led to the extinction of complex multicellular animal life following the Avalon explosion and that was subsequently solved during the Cambrian explosion. This is the economic trade-off problem of having to deal with a complex body with high degrees of freedom, what I call ‘pathological complexity’. By modeling the explosion of this computational complexity using the resources of state-based behavioral and life-history theory we will be able to provide an evolutionary bottom-up framework to make sense of subjective experience and its function in nature by paying close attention to the ecological lifestyles of different animals."

Reich: Educating for the common good

He reminds us, and I remember, when civics was taught to us in public schools. Such training gave us a sense of our society, our place in it and responsibility to it. While vocational training it also necessary, it replaced civics altogether with a total focus on individual knowledge and skill acquisition. Reich thinks we need to bring back civics if we are ever to have a functioning democracy, since the latter depends upon it.

"One of the most important initiatives would be to restart civic education in our schools.[...] But education is not just a personal investment. It’s a public good. It builds the capacity of the nation to govern itself.[...] If the common good is ever to be restored in America, education must ground people in responsible citizenship. This requires that schools focus not just on building personal skills but also on inculcating civic obligations."

If we've learned anything

 

TYT: 3 retired Generals warn of possible millitary coup

WaPo story here. The chain of command is breaking down in US armed forces along partisan lines. The Gilead Gestapo is becoming more a reality by the day. Cenk names and quotes these credible sources.

"The potential for a total breakdown of the chain of command along partisan lines, from the top of the chain to squad level, is significant should another insurrection occur." 

Compare NM with CDC transmission rates

As you can see by the NMDOH calculations (first chart) they consider >14.28 cases per 100k to be high transmission, 7.14-14.28 to be substantial, 1.43-7.13 to be moderate and 0-1.42 to be low. The CDC requires considerably higher numbers per 100k (2nd chart). Even so, the CDC US transmission map (3rd chart) has a significant number of US counties in the high category. So yeah, let's have a pandemic party!