Two Scandals

The Republican Governor of Tennessee, site of the famous "monkey trial," is about to sign a bill attacking science, in this case the science of biology. Biology, probably the key sector of science in this century, has natural selection at its heart--except in Tennessee. But the attack is more general. The bill was written to encourage students and teachers to disparage science and treat science as mere controversy when it conflicts with ancient folk beliefs. This is part of the tea-party Republicans' war on science, which includes a denial of climate change and a more broad denial of reality. Unfortunately reality continues no matter what you say about it. Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that if someone told him that she did not believe in science, he would not know how to continue the conversation. Such a fundamental difference in belief is difficult to bridge. There might be no discussion possible with tea-party types. They live in a primitive toolless subculture.

Mittly RawMoney, in an attempt to divert the tea party from pondering his membership in the Church of the Latter Day Saints, invented by Joseph Smith in the early 1800s to justify sexual access to many young women, has taken to asserting that President Obama (a Protestant) is a secret secular humanist (atheist). This is a whopping Big Lie, but that is RawMoney for you. When he gets up in the morning he tells a few lies to loosen his jaw. Then he farts and tells his appalled wife that he stepped on a frog ( a lie). Next he begins to lie in earnest and lies all day long until his tongue grows too tired to continue. At that point he sits down at his desk and begins to write lies with a $7,500 fountain pen and writes until his hand cramps and he falls asleep and dreams falsehoods until dawn. I'm telling you, this man is unique.