Sunday Night Video – Bill Maher on Mitt Romney’s Marital Status

What’s startling about Birtherism is how accepted and acceptable it is in the conservative movement. Sometimes the only way to fight the extreme is to mirror it, and ask what it would look like if Mitt Romney were treated with the same sort of bigoted rumors circulated against Barack Obama.

MAHER: Mitt Romney comes from a Mormon background. I don’t know how many wives he has. I’m not saying I believe in that. I’m just saying that he was born on a Mormon compound. I’m not a Wifer, but for some reason he’s never shown his original marriage certificate.

Thomas Frank on The Price of Admission to College Education

Thomas Frank has an article in the June 2012 Harper’s that’s worth reading, called “Easy Chair: The Price of Admission.”  Frank takes a look at the evolution of education, as it increasingly becomes a profit-making scheme designed for pay-to-play Capitalism, rather than a place where one can explore what it is to be human and grapple with various forms of knowledge before entering into the workforce.

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