"CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President's authority," the corporation wrote in a statement issued Friday morning. "Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government."The CPB noted that the statute Congress passed to create it "expressly forbade 'any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors."Congress said that such funds "may be used at the discretion of the recipient" for producing or acquiring programs to put on the air.
I finally watched the video of Mad DOGE playing with the chainsaw and it appears that it was not running... There was no engine sound and no smoke coming out... His latest freak out is to attack Sesame Street... Because if you teach children to read it's very likely they will not become MAGA morons...
Will Fox News STOP Lying? What Else Could They Possibly Do? Their Entire Business Model is Based on LIES... If they start telling the Truth... They Face Competition From...
CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, BBC, C-SPAN, VOA, NPR, Democracy Now and Hundreds of Actual News Websites!
With the "All Lies all the Time" Theme the Only Competition Fox Has is OANN, TASS, RN, Pravda and Truth Social...
The New Classics: Books that Everyone Ought to Read. If People are Talking in a Crowd, You'll Understand the Cultural References...
1984
Brave New World.
The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate
Alice in Wonderland
Thru the Looking Glass
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Whole Earth Catalog
Steal this Book
Revolution for the Hell of It
I, Robot
Foundation
Caves of Steel
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
The Man in the High Castle
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Harry Potter
Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
Remember, Be Here Now
Still Here
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
20,000 Leagues under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
Stranger in a Strange Land
Slaughterhouse Five
Cat's Cradle
The Four Agreements
Don Juan, a Yaqui Way of Knowledge
The Great GadsbyThe Armies of the Night
Trout Fishing in America
Island
The Psychedelic Experience
Fahrenheit 451
The Doors of Perception
Ender's Game
The Cult of Cthulhu
Dune
Chariots of the Gods?
Autobiography of a Yogi
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
All Quiet on the Western Front
Catch 22
Everything By Edgar Allen Poe... Steven King...
and...
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds...
Just for FUN... Write Your Own List and Post it on Your Own Blog... or FaceBorg... It's a worthy Exercise in Self Introspection!
If there are any Classics I Forgot, Email Me at gregvan(at)yahoo(dot)Com
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MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR https://thehumanist.com/
Sunday is the National Day of Reason. Too bad we live in an Age of Nonsense.
Trump is pushing forward with a Commission on Anti-Christian Bias despite most Americans, including many Christians, believing that it’s a waste of time and Christians aren’t oppressed.
The federal government is shutting down research, and national parks, and the office that answers the phone when people have questions about their student loans.
The Supreme Court is seriously considering allowing your tax dollars to be used to teach other people’s kids a religion you don’t believe in.
The White House is even implying it wants to use the US military to prevent crime.
But we’re not taking it lying down. We’re fighting back with legislation. We’re funding local humanist groups from Colorado to Mississippi providing mutual aid for their community.
And we’re also calling the lack of reason out for what it is - because as Jefferson said, “ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”
We helped Reps. Jared Huffman and Jamie Raskin introduce a proclamation recognizing the National Day of Reason in the face of unmitigated absurdity - and we hope you’ll call on your Member of Congress to sign on here.
Proclamations and events, like the Reason Reception we co-hosted on Capitol Hill earlier this week, seem like small things. But when more and more members of Congress are willing to publicly affiliate themselves with secularism and open advocacy for church-state separation - that’s how we build power. The bigger, louder, and better organized we are, the harder it is for the religious right to steamroll us.
That’s why we’re excited that Rep. Judy Chu has joined the Congressional Freethought Caucus this week - meaning the caucus we helped found is growing faster than ever in its history.
And it’s a good time for our movement to be growing - because we have a big fight ahead.
The Supreme Court’s decision in its St. Isidore case could be monumental - a generational blow to church-state separation and the right of all students to receive a free and equal public education regardless of their religion.
It could open the door for religious law and instruction to infect every area of government.
We don’t want our tax dollars to be used for religious schools that openly admit they may not accept people like us as teachers.
In general, we don’t want to create a world where education and other public services are run by private interests that aren’t accountable to voters, where different kinds of people get different kinds of service. Ninety-two years ago, we declared “humanists demand a shared life in a shared world” - and we meant it.
Public services should work for all of us. They shouldn’t be privatized. They shouldn’t be subdivided with special carve-outs for people of particular faiths. They should be equally open and accessible to all people.
That’s why humanism matters. It’s not just about demanding the separation of church and state. It’s about demanding a world where everyone matters and counts - without exception. Where everyone’s dignity and humanity is taken care of - no matter who you are or what you believe. And it’s about reason - acting in line with common sense, not nonsense.
In an age of absurdity, reason’s an act of rebellion. But what else is new? Humanists have always been rebels. This moment doesn’t require us to be different people - just a little louder, a little braver.
We can all be a beacon of reason in an age of nonsense.
For humanity,
Fish Stark
Executive Director
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