Pride 2015. What a week!

I never thought that I'd see a week like this in my lifetime, but if you live long enough the things that you get to experience will continue to amaze you.

To recap:

• An attempt by a racist piece of shit to start a race war instead started a war on racism.
• The battle flag of a foreign nation that fired the first shot at the United States of America is finally coming down. Forever!
• The Affordable Care Act will continue to provide millions of Americans with much needed access to health care. (Good for now but we must get Single Payer)
• The Fair Housing Act will continue to protect millions of Americans from discrimination when trying to put a roof over their head and that of their family.

AND FINALLY!!!

• Millions of Americans woke up this morning to learn that their lives and the people they love actually matter and now have equal rights and protections when it comes to marrying who they love.

Holy Shit! America got it right for a change!

HAPPY PRIDE EVERYONE!

Idiocracy

After a wonderful State Of The Union Address last night the low information, easily misled, right wing base has completely lost their minds over the fact of man made global climate change. Every single day dumb, silly, things are reported as news. Uninformed opinion is considered fact. I just can't take it anymore. So much stupid everywhere, everyday, all day long.

Everything I am feeling right now can best be summed up by Carl Sagan when he said:

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance