Tom Toles for April 12, 2011

The voters are not that smart. They’ll be like,”What committee?”

^Especially since they didn’t know they were the patient! The problem with our educational system is that people are no longer taught how to think - only what; which is reinforced by politicians and the media.

People have never been taught how to think… Thinking is an historically reviled practice

What to think is not only reinforced by politicians and the media but by religious leaders too!

Don’t worry. We’ll start on something small and inconsequential, like your gonads, before moving up to the larger organs.

The Mighty, Mighty Oh! thinks the voters will never miss either one of theirs–he doesn’t miss his.

The word “cuts” should have been enough.

Or do you really think they would cut the military budget or close tax loop holes?

What educational system? The repubs want to do away with all of it and keep us stupid.

“Utilizing his superb negotiating skills, Obama will begin with some preemptive concessions. Then, once the Rethugnicans are off guard, he’ll give them everything they demand and then some.”

The surgery that the Teapublicans want to perform is, indeed, on the citizenry: Cut any help to the disadvantaged in order to feed the advantaged. The Tea-Bags would place us a step closer to Swift’s “Modest Proposal”. Of course, their grandchildren would be some of the earliest victims.

“People have never been taught how to think… Thinking is an historically reviled practice.”

So I’m not the only one who’s noticed.

They didn’t offer a course on Critical Thinking at your college? They did at mine and I took it and I understand why the GOP wants to dismantle the educational system.