“In trying to get votes for the Superconducting Super Collider, I was very much involved in lobbying members of Congress, testifying to them, bothering them, and I never heard any of them talk about postmodernism or social constructivism. You have to be very learned to be that wrong.”–Steven Weinberg, “Night Thoughts of a Quantum Physicist” … More Quote of the Day

“Trumpism is Republican conservatism stripped of its politesse.”–Paul Waldman http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/opinions/mitt-romney-gop-trump-waldman/

“Far from secularization inexorably leading to the death of religion, it has instead given birth to the search for new forms of religious life. The imminent victory of the Kingdom of Reason has never materialized. As a whole, mankind can never get rid of the need for religious self-identification: who am I, where did I … More Quote of the Day

“The Clean Airwaves Act assumed that fucking is a participial adjective. But this is not correct. With a true adjective like lazy, you can alternate between Drown the lazy cat and Drown the cat which is lazy. But Drown the fucking cat is certainly not interchangeable with Drown the cat which is fucking.”—Steven Pinker, “What … More Quote of the Day

  “Donald Trump is America’s back mole. It may have seemed harmless a year ago, but now that it’s gotten frighteningly bigger, it’s gotten hard to ignore it.”—John Oliver  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnpO_RTSNmQ      

“If idiots could fly, the sky would be like an airport.” ― Laura Davenport

“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.” ― Robert Orben

“It’s been said before that Trump is America’s Berlusconi, and the comparison is easy to see. Both are older white men with a lot of wealth of dubious provenance. Both decided to enter the public arena after promising they would run their countries the way they run their companies. Both are openly misogynistic while claiming … More Quote of the Day

“One should try everything once, except incest and folk-dancing.”—Sir Arnold Bax

“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular … More Quote of the Day