I'm planning on packing my camcorder and asking a few dozen random people some questions to test their knowledge on various topics. I'm doing this because I suspect that many people lack basic knowledge regarding important topics. Other questions are geared to checking people's attitudes regarding important issues. Below you…
In Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know -- and Doesn't (2007), Stephen Prothero's describes the United States is described as the most religious nation in the developed world. Prothero also describes Americans as "the most religiously ignorant people in the Western world." How ignorant are Americans? It's shocking. Here is how…
I know that numerous chiropractors swear by homeopathy. I even know of a couple MD's who push homeopathic "remedies." It makes me shake my head because A) homeopathic theory (e.g., "the law of infinitesimals" and "the law of similars") makes no sense and 2) homeopathic remedies and double-blind studies don't…
Governor Bill Richardson's plan isn't nuanced: That means no airbases, no embedded soldiers training Iraqi forces, no troops in the Green Zone. Zero troops. I would leave the customary marine contingent at our Embassy, but if that became unsafe, then I'd bring them home too. Only then can the diplomatic…
I've made no secret that I admire and trust Bill Moyers for his enlightened journalism. Here is yet more evidence, an 8-minute video on the U.S. occupation of Iraq.