As the tax cut mania spreads, more and more public services are being cut. Some of you would have heard the appalling story of firefighters who stood by and watched a house burn down because the occupant had not paid a $75 fee for fire protection. That is yet another sign of how public services are now being privatized and will be available only to those who can afford to pay for them. Will police be next?
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie satirized this trend a long time ago.
He tells it like it is. Since it is George Carlin, there is the obligatory language advisory.
His comments about education were echoed by me in the last chapter of my second book The Achievement Gap in US Education: Canaries in the Mine (2005).
(Thanks to Norm)
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I have been a fan of the Doonesbury comic strip from almost its inception 40 years ago and it was nice to see the author interviewed on The Colbert Report.
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This cartoon is from 2008 but it never ceases to be topical.
At the opening of a recent conference in Cancun, the executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change invoked the Mayan goddess Ixchel as “the goddess of reason, creativity and weaving. May she inspire you — because today, you are gathered in Cancun to weave together the elements of a solid response to climate change, using both reason and creativity as your tools.”
This caused considerable snickering among our Christian commentariat at these strange and obviously false gods.
I think it is time to show again a cartoon that I suspect is going to get a lot of use.
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