The Morning Plow

There should be no irony in science...but since humans are involved, I guess it is inevitable. The irony is that science has become the opposite of what many of its practitioners claim. In weird twist of fate, science, and much of the intellectual class, has become the Catholic Church during the Scientific Revolution. Corrupted by ideology, politics, and power, along with a heavy dose of self importance, science has betrayed its own foundation, rejecting the pursuit of objective truth in favor of self serving narrative. The early Christian church was, in many ways, what it was intended to be. A group of people dedicated to the teachings of Christ and committed to living out those ideals. They were mostly autonomous and had very little concern for power or politics, except for dealing with the constant threat of persecution. That all changed when Constantine embraced Christianity and paved the way for it to become the official religion of the Roman Empire. In a few hundred years, the Ch...

There has been a proliferation of handwringing and dire warnings regarding the fate of the American democracy from the Left's media-political-industrial complex. The fear is borne from the residual effects of Trumps presidency, his claims of election fraud, and the January 6th fiasco.  Much of hyperbole is in regards to various election laws which have either been passed or are being considered in states across the country. The Left is claiming that Republican law makers are trying to suppress the votes of minorities and allow for partisan control of election boards.  The claims that the American democracy is on the verge of total collapse at the hands of fascists trying to eliminate voting rights and free elections is more political rhetoric and posturing than it is fact.  I mean not being able to hand out water to voters in line is not really an existential threat...but what do I know?  But is America's democracy in really such peril? Yes...but not because of the r...