Color us not at all surprised.

Finally, the Czar is not the only voice out there condemning the Obama administration as unfriendly toward science. Remember all the real and imagined missteps the Bush administration took with science? And how President Obama was going to change all that? Gosh, the scientific community began to cheer about reversing all the sins of the last eight years, and we would finally bask in a glowing age of light and reason!

Almost immediately, your Czar began to post a long-running series of posts demonstrating that the new administration has been anything but kind to science and scientists. Anyway, the LA Times has decided to come way too late to the dance, listing some of the many ways the Obama administration hypocritically uses politics to make pseudo-scientific decisions.

Look, for as much trashing as conservatives receive from liberals about their scientific knowledge—claiming that most conservatives believe the earth is 5,000 years old, that evolution is impossible, that the earth is flat (without producing any studies or citations or statistics, ironically)—the fact is that liberals generally have a pretty bad grasp of science.

And why not? When your group tends to accept moonbattery such as new age spiritualism, crystal healing, 9/11 conspiracies, and social relativism, you’re already pretty far off the logic train. Conservatives, who tend to invest in technology, finance, and construction, tend to have a vastly better grasp of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. They (a) do not realize it or (b) do not believe it because the liberals keep insisting that conservatives are slackjaws who disregard anything that ain’t in yonder Bible.

But there is exceeding liberal hypocrisy about intelligence. One: liberals are not nearly as smart as they imagine, although you do get some reassurance living in an echo chamber. And two, the Left has always sprinkled math and science into their rants to “prove” their point of view scientifically. At least to themselves: reputable scientists will warn you of the danger in trying to prove something you already believe—you always succeed. In order to paint a better picture of yourself, you need to belittle others, right? Well, if the Left wants to look intellectually superior, all it needs to do is mock the Right.

Except, as with many other Liberal myths, the lie doesn’t seem to work as well as it used to.

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.