How can you be upset at the cretins in the House of Representatives, the GOP and the Tea Party, and all those mislead voters who supported these government zombies when there is clear evidence that this country is more concerned with greed, myth, and lying than it is with truth, critical thinking, and human values?

I have noticed that more and more technology is being used in the schools: Smart Boards, Tablet Computers, remote learning, internet access, digitized libraries, etc. Now I might be a technology geek myself but are we using technology to replace thinking?

I was schooled before the advent of pocket calculators and am adept at long division and cursive writing. When I was working in Newark I sat next to two students at a small café enjoying my sausage and eggs; one student had a Bowmar Brain and the excitement was epic. But a few years later I heard the sighs of students all over the state when they sat down to their math finals and were told to put their calculators away. Pobrecitos.

Here is more evidence to the dumbing down of America taken from Think Progress by way of Nation of Change.

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