watching the (diversity) deniers : Breitbart's Alt-White tin hats

Like many of you, I was a great admirer of the the Australian blog "Watching the Deniers".

Mike's blog started out closely monitoring those who denied the existence of man-made climate change but he quickly discovered that the people who denies this also denied a whole host of things.

On the surface at least, it is hard to know what this variegated bunch of tin hats won't deny : starting with the birth of Christ and ending with the denial of any smoke at Auschwitz.

Would you let your daughter marry an eighty year old ??!!

Happy 80th to Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones, in case I forget in October when my grand daughter is keeping me busy.

Eighty years young !

That might explain why rock music is as popular with the Alt-White geriatrics on the far right of the Republicans as it is with the young 'uns on the left of the Democrats....

grant the ALT-RIGHT a modicum of intellectual consistency...

Whenever you cross the street to avoid the snarls of the guard dog accompanying your local neo-nazi skinhead member of the racial purity ALT-RIGHT (ALT-WHITE) brigade, you can be plenty sure of just one thing : that the dog is a purebred , never ever a 'mixed race' mongrel.

A partial review of Robert P. Jones' "The End of White Christian America"

Yesterday's Pure modernity : attending Jesus's churches, but not to his words.

Today's Diverse modernity : not attending Jesus's churches --- but attending to his words.

Robert P. Jones' new book looking at the recent sharp decline in church attendance among America's youngest white evangelicals seems to have nothing but bad news for Jesus's churches --- and nothing but good news - Gospel Good News - for Jesus.

If Babies had the vote, would Trump stand a chance ?

Five hundred kids have boiled to death in hot cars in the US after being forgotten by their old-enough-to-vote-parents since 9/11, far far more than the number of people who have been murdered in the States by Moslem terrorists since then.

There is a possible solution to help remind forgetful parents : a mandated very loud alarm that goes off automatically if a car is not in motion for twenty minutes and the carseat straps are still buckled up .

But kids can't vote so their needs are ignored at election time, when they are not kicked out of political rallies all together, while many adults will be allowed to give their vote to a charlatan ---- all in mindless fear over the very remote statistical chance they will be murdered in their beds by Moslems.

A sad world....

wartime penicillin's 3Ps, 1As and 4Fs

The wartime Allies and their publics had three "P" questions to decide, each involving a choice between different kinds of penicillins, different kinds of producers to make it and different kinds of patients to receive it.

belief in Conspiracy Theories and belief that world is Chaotic, Complex, Dynamic don't go together

Counter-intuitively, I argue that Donald Trump supporters, for example, don't really see the world as complex and chaotic, though they are quick to say they do.