This post was made on The History Channel’s Facebook page. There are many more like it. I hesitate to call it ignorance because that would imply the ignorant person could learn. This person is stupid and is happy staying that way. Source.
Backed by stunning illustrations, David Christian narrates a complete history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the Internet, in a riveting 18 minutes. This is “Big History”: an enlightening, wide-angle look at complexity, life and humanity, set against our slim share of the cosmic timeline.
What the pope said. As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a “reductive vision of the person and [...]
There continues to be a strong connection between religiosity and poverty. From the NY Times op-ed piece.
Why is this important, you ask? Glenn Beck is fond of warning his viewers that America is sliding towards some sort of mutant totalitarian amalgam of socialism and fascism (oxymoronically ignoring the fact that through most of the early 20th Century Nazis and Communists were at each others throats) but Beck seems to have learned [...]
Flickr user, Straatis, has a nice collection of photos of New York City, broken down by years. If you’ve got some time, consider browsing this phenomenal collection. I miss the days when kids were actually allowed to play and create their own adventures. 1948 – Boy Jumping into the Hudson River by Ruth Orkin 1938 [...]
