Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 21, 2011

Alternate science? No such thing…science is science.

The “other side of facts”? Gee, what a spin….facts don’t have another side. A fact is a fact.

Frightened bureaucrats always react with such ethical spine.

Alternate Science is just like Alternative Music: less well funded than its main stream cousin and sporting a mohawk & piercings.

maybe if our young skulls full of mush were not getting evolution pounded into their craniums, and could concentrate on how systems actually operate and can be used for our benefit, and quit trying to justify a philosophy that is far from science, as evolution as regarding origins of life is neither testable or falsifiable, maybe our students would fare better in the workplace and in college environments

Say it ain’t so.

Danae will soon have her own show on Fox too….

Now if we could only find an alternative to those politically corrected revisions some consider history.

Media is a plural, the singular of which is medium.

1 = medium, 2+ = media. This is the correct grammar, not in common usage, unfortunately

It’s going to be a Long school year.

Danae’s cocky pose is one of a short lived victory.

The kids can do their alternate science homework off her Wiki page…

Remember the storyline where Danae sees some sign extolling gratitude (or was she watching a broadcast?) and she starts saying “You’re welcome!” to the entire world? Same song, different verse..Danae twists concepts to mean what she wants them to mean, and the center of all meaning to Danae is Danae. “Gratitude” registered in her brain as celebration of others’ veneration of Danae..Where did she get the meaning of “religion” wrong? Simple: actual religions attempt to explain stuff. There is no metaphysics to Danaeism. Its rules can be broken down into three: a) obey Danae, b) venerate Danae, c) have fun unless your fun is getting in Danae’s way..A subset of a), illustrated by the post-WWII dinosaurs myth, is profession of arbitrary doctrine that Danae doesn’t believe herself but invented just for the purpose of bullying people. That’s something else you don’t find in actual religions.

Didn’t Danae say that facts are against her so-called religion?

For the record, Texas does NOT teach alternate science… regardless of what Perry says.

Art Bell? That’s good! I really want to know and meet some of that “they” group sometime. You know, the ones that Bell and some others always talk about. “They” are watching and controlling everything we do. “They” are really smart. But who are “they”? Nobody seems to know.

Same as alternate life styles, it is so PC!

Where is her pirate costume?

http://www.venganza.org/about/open-letter/

I thought principals were supposed to help their teachers.

All too real, and if it follows reality its going to get worse.

I know just which “member” of the “media” would give Danae unlimited air-time! The chief pinhead would have his producer stalking the principal for an ambush interview which would then be fairly unbalanced in the spin cycle of the no fact zone..

So Wiley had it correct… There wasn’t enough room between P3 and 4 and the ‘e’ got cut off somehow.

This is the result of Political Correctness.

Yee-haw! Rick Perry for president and Danae for v-p!Seriously, this week’s strips are funny for only a few seconds, and then reality creeps in, and you remember that there are a lot of people trying to do that very thing; sort of a home-grown Christian Taliban who have the guns but aren’t shooting (yet).

Welcome to Washngton DC in the 21st century

I wonder if Wiley is doing a clever play on the subtle but important distinction between “alternative” and “alternate”? Just a thought…..And here’s another: let her have her platform, and show everyone, in exhaustive detail, just what a pompous, self-deluded little nit she is. It could be an excellent teachable moment for the class: the Socratic approach to discovering the truth. (Not that any real-world public school teacher could do that, of course. They have a curriculum to maintain, tests to teach to, and governmental benchmarks of educational attainment to achieve.)

NightShade09. A female senator comes to mind.

Religion is a belief based on faith. Science is a belief based on fact.

I remember 4th grade when the principal had a paddle on the wall, which he was allowed to use on those rare occasions when the “promise” wasn’t enough. It was also a time when teachers were educators and not politicians pawns, threatened and “punished” alternately from all sides if “little Billy” didn’t learn, because he and his parents were idiots. Danae on the other hand is quite intelligent, manipulative, and “ethically challenged”. She expects to get her way, and with the “media” on her side, just may.

What? A principal who has gone crazy? So what is new in education…..

This is one out of a myriad of reasons that I’m glad to be retiring this year…

Danae and Agnes need to get together!

Danae is all me, me,me. As is Agnes. Both approach from opposite ends of the spectrum. .

As for medium, media or mediae……… Marshal Macluhan stated ‘the medium is the message’.

I’m waiting for Danae to discover alternate mathematics, but I would bet that she won’t like Non-Standard Arithmetic. It has even more rules than regular arithmetic. Regular readers may remember that Danae once rejected gravity as blasphemy, and went floating through the air.

Science is not just one point of view! On any given topic, there may be several different ideas that scientists have. E.g. global warming: many scientists say yes, many say no, and each side has lots of facts to back them up.

When someone comes up with an explanation of something, that explanation (hypothesis) is accepted so long as it fits all the known facts. If someone comes up with another hypothesis that fits better, the first one is dropped in favour of the second.

For example, the hypothesis that the sun moves round the earth and not the other way around. There do exist mathematical calculations that support this. However, the calculations are so complicated that scientists prefer to look at it with the earth going round the sun.

“The plural of media is mediae.”

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Actually, the singular is medium (as in “The medium is the message”, which is false, but a reasonable example)

alternate science where people think that the flintstones was a documentary.

no…media is the plural word of medium.

It’s getting too real, including the principal politician.

You betcha — under President Perry, we’ll all become deniers (or is it Danaers?).

The plural of horses is horseses?