I Want You: To join me in poorly educating my civilians
It’s tough sometimes, being an American. Sure, we have a bit more money and a couple more bombs than anyone else in the world, but on some issues, I feel like we’re just that little bit inadequate. Like… evolution. It seems that our little secret has gotten out. Little Johnny America doesn’t understand evolution, and his dad, Big Johnny America, believes that if it’s going to be taught in schools, creationism should be taught too! Which is sort of like believing that if gravity is going to be taught in schools, the hypothesis that the earth is a big flat disc constantly accelerating upwards at 9.8 m/s2 also deserves it’s rightful place in the physics textbooks. So forgive me, my friends across the pond, if I take a little bit of happiness from the fact that it seems that 60% of you are idiots, just like us. … continue reading this entry.
I have no objection, in principle, to celebrities using their bully pulpits to push whatever cause they like. If I were a wealthy, gorgeous, powerful individual with millions of people following my every move, I would do everything I could to bend the teeming masses to my will. What depresses me is how many of said celebrities don’t seem to have two active brain cells to rub together, and use their vast influence to peddle various forms of ineffable twaddle. As a result, we have millions of people accepting medical advice from anti-vaccinationist dingbat Jenny McCarthy, even though her primary contributions to world culture have been displaying her surgically-enhanced charms for Playboy, and pretending (I hope) to eat her own boogers on TV reality shows. Kirk Cameron is the latest entrant in this celebrity clown cotillion.