One-liners

The universe is not a machine.

We have met the enemy and he is us, but we're smarter.

If it involves worksheets, it's probably not unschooling.

Convenient Truths

Global warming is a hoax.  

Homosexuality is a choice. 

Evolution is a lie.   

The holocaust never happened. 

Moon shots were staged.

Medicine is a trick. 

Bacteria don’t exist.

The sun orbits the earth. 

Gravity isn’t real. 

The earth is flat. 

Knowledge is bogus. 

Reason is arbitrary. 

“Facts” are just opinions.

Science is someone’s agenda. 

The world is dangerous. 

I need more ammo. 

Planet List

I just had a revelatory experience.  

while surfing for “extrasolar planets” 

Feeling sad for Pluto 

Demoted to a dwarf planet.

I happened to click here, 

then scrolled down.  

Try it; I’ll wait here. . . 

You feel it?  

I knew we had discovered quite a few, 

but scrolling through them 

makes the number visceral. 

And these just in our backyard

out here in the suburbs 

of the Milky Way.  

Once TESS deploys, 

and then the Webb, 

the list is going to explode!  

Our galaxy alone 

Is estimated to have 

at least 160 billion planets.  

Forget Pluto!  

I just want to see the list 

of the first million planets found 

The first 0.00000625%.  

We’d need 160,000 such lists 

to cover them all.  

So you tell me:  

Are we alone?