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Prof Tim teaches sociology at CSU-Pueblo and he writes books about social change, such as...
A Formula for Eradicating Racism, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/113759974X
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 28, 2016 The Benefits of Legal Cannabis
Thanks to legal cannabis Pueblo, Colorado is undergoing an unprecedented green revolution. Legal cannabis has brought more jobs, businesses and investment to Pueblo than this community has seen since the industrial revolution. Legal cannabis is a clean, green industry that is helping Pueblo become a more vibrant, safe, healthy and wealthy community.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, March 21, 2016 Donald Trump: The Racist Messiah
Trump has been running farcical presidential campaigns since the 1980s. Trump's Achilles Heel has always been his mouth . Every time Trump opens his mouth he lives up to his reputation as an obnoxious racist buffoon . Traditionally, after the first stump speech of each political season Trump supporters have evaporated faster than popsicles in the Mojave. But not in 2016. Series: Racism and Democracy (5 Articles, 6005 views)
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, March 18, 2016 Racism 101: Debunking White Supremacy
Describing the US as a white supremacy isn't an ad hominem attack. It is simply a statement of fact. The only people in the room when the founders mapped out the contours of American democracy were greedy white guys. Is it any wonder that the only people who have enjoyed unrestricted access to American democracy throughout its history are greedy white guys?
(24 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 16, 2016 Donald Trump 2016: Making America Racist Again
White supremacists like Donald Trump take pleasure in fomenting racism. Given Trump's nauseating popularity as a 2016 presidential candidate, it is also obvious that many Americans share Trump's White supremacist hatreds.
(11 comments) SHARE Friday, January 8, 2016 Ten Reasons Why I Am Voting for Donald Trump
Ten reasons why everyone should vote for Donald Trump:
1. Donald Trump is not a p*ssy.
2. Donald Trump will kick out the Mexicans.
3. Donald Trump will ban Muslims.
4. Donald Trump will make us all rich.
5. Donald Trump will end socialist healthcare.
6. Donald Trump will put a white man back in the White House.
7. Donald Trump will trample Hillary Clinton
8. Donald Trump is a real American.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 24, 2015 Black Lives Matter Cracks the Blue Wall of Silence
For decades, people of color have protested the horrific abuses that they have experienced at the hands of sadistic cops. Middle class America paid little heed to those protests because it was difficult for Ozzie and Harriet to imagine that police could really be as barbaric as people of color made them out to be. Series: Racism and Democracy (5 Articles, 6005 views)
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 22, 2015 Do Black Lives Matter?
From its inception, the United States has been committed to the abhorrent idea that white lives matter and black lives do not. Series: Racism and Democracy (5 Articles, 6005 views)
(63 comments) SHARE Friday, November 20, 2015 What is White Privilege?
Whites often react with hostility to the suggestion that white privilege exists. If white privilege exists then, on some level, whites must admit that they owe their good fortune to past and present injustices. Series: Racism and Democracy (5 Articles, 6005 views)
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 19, 2015 Old Racists Never Die
This is a satirical response from Reverend Billy Bob Butthole, Jr. to a Washington Post article about the insufferable anti-white prejudice that white racists claim to besieged by the contemporary USA. Series: Racism and Democracy (5 Articles, 6005 views)
(44 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Being black in public: America's most punishable offense
Racism is the most sacred American value. Racism is the American obsession. America calls itself a democracy, but practices apartheid. Being black in public is a capital crime in Ferguson, Missouri and in every other US community. Series: Science and Cosmology (2 Articles, 3392 views)
(17 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 13, 2013 Stephen Hawking's God: A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion
It boggles the mind that two eminent physicists would be so unwilling to embrace the full implications of quantum uncertainty. With apologies to Einstein, quantum science has revealed the inescapable truth that determinism is naught but a stubbornly persistent illusion.
SHARE Thursday, October 10, 2013 Planet of the Persnickety Apes: Darwin and the Aesthetics of Survival
Thanks to Darwin, the most straightforward answer to any question regarding survival vs. extinction is simply: advantageous evolutionary adaptation. Humans are discontented aesthetes because--at least, so far--it has been evolutionarily advantageous for humans to be agents of change.
(15 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Grumpy Old White Guys United: Decoding the Attacks on Barack Obama and Angela Giron
Of course, even though hateful cowards like Ted Nugent and Rush Limbaugh deny the charge, their antipathy for Barack Obama derives from the President's ethnicity. Back in the good old days, majority rule meant that good old boys were guaran-damn-teed to come out on top every time. How's that for an illusion of democracy? Series: Science and Cosmology (2 Articles, 3392 views)
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 23, 2013 Ideas Having Sex: Lamarckian Evolution Triumphant
Matt Ridley describes the extraordinary, Lamarckian capacity that humans have developed to innovate via social and intellectual collaboration as "ideas...having sex"
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, July 1, 2013 Paula Deen and Pop Culture Racism
As the Paula Deen case illustrates, racist vernacular among pop stars can stray too far across the line of good taste and decency. I think it is incumbent on responsible adults to impress upon our kids that using racially denigrating language--no matter which pop culture hero the user may be emulating--is hurtful, damaging and wrong.
(59 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 25, 2013 Einstein's God is Irrelevant
Einstein's oft-repeated, and dogged insistence that "God does not play dice" is scientifically wrong-headed for a number of reasons.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Fate or Folly: The Mind of God and Other Known Unknowns
In spite of its scientific veneer, fate is a patently unscientific superstition. Determinists admit that in order to predict future events with 100% certainty, an observer would need to be endowed with some form of superhuman omniscience.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Nature's Taskmaster
Where humans were once the relatively helpless pawns of almighty nature, super-adaptable agents have transformed their former master into their servant. Nature now answers to the beck and call of its human masters.