Something to Know - 10 April

1.  Nicholas Kristof's title to this article is catchy.   Kristof is lauding the GeeOpie for getting things right, and he commends them.  However, the truth comes out in the end as the detail strike back:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/opinion/kristof-where-the-gop-gets-it-right.html?emc=eta1

2.  This article is guaranteed to blow your socks off.  There is legislation pending, and may be passed today in the state of Kansas, that blacks out the showing of a Cosmos by Neil de Grass Tyson.   Yes, this a Kansas:

http://nationalreport.net/kansas-black-cosmos-show-controversies/

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Juan

 
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.
--Christopher Hitchens