September 2009
2 posts
Obama's speech to students →
This is a great speech, I think everyone should read it. It even makes me want to go back to school. One of my favorite excerpts:
It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the...
The mainstreaming of crazy →
If I sound angry, then, yeah, I am. I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.
It is things like this that really upset/scare me about the direction our country is moving. As a place that, in the last 50 to 100 years, has used science, technology, and intellectualism to...