Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for February 13, 2025

Too much stupid on one planet.

Another one beyond magat comprehension.

The devil fills the world with facts, to test our faith.

Complaining about alleged waste and fraud in government, Trump today expounded a new theory of magnets:

“And they have all magnetic elevators to lift up 25 planes at a time, 20 planes at a time," Trump continued. “And instead of using hydraulics, like on tractors that can handle anything from hurricanes to lightning to anything, they use magnets.”

“It’s a new theory. Magnets are going to lift the planes up and it doesn’t work. And they had billions and billions of dollars of cost overruns.”

Who’s gonna be the first to mention Bohemian Rhapsody? Not me, guv!

He should have used kittens for the test. People love kittens.

This subject always rankles me. Education has been the enemy of some political parties for decades. And it’s actively reinforced now. "Ronald Reagan’s impact on educational policies through the reduction of government funding has transformed the U.S.’s perspective on higher education from a fundamental right to a financial burden for students, contributing to the current student loan debt crisis. Amid nationwide protests during the Vietnam War, the University of California, Berkeley became a symbol of student dissent.

During Reagan’s campaign for the governorship of California in 1966, he publicly criticized the University of California system. Reagan referred to these student protesters as “brats,” “freaks” and “cowardly fascists.” In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Reagan’s education advisor, Roger A. Freeman stated, “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow [to go through higher education].” This belief has shaped higher education to become a privilege of the upper class, with tuition serving as a barrier to those from working-class backgrounds."

An interesting book is “Galileo’s Dream” by Kim Robinson. Set so far in the future that much of the science seems like magic, the book involves people from the future being able to interact with Galileo. The research into the history and life of Galileo is profound. A deep book, full of thought and perspective.

I find it depressing that this is the Vintage TDB for this week. (situation only worsened since 2015…). Are comics supposed to make you cry?

Good strip. Incisive and funny. But do you know that Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, George Washington Carver, Florence Nightingale, Gregor Mendel, etc, etc, were all devout Christians? Robert Boyle, who defined elements, compounds and mixtures and who has Boyle’s Law named after him, said that a deeper understanding of science was a higher glorification of God. Science – as well as higher education – have been consistently championed because of love of God.

BUT… THE FUTURE REFUSED TO CHANGE.

[Lavos Scream]

Is it scientific proof if only another scientist can explain it? It sounds like the mind hive of another cult. Did Schrodinger’s cat get caught in some quantum entanglement yarn, and we can’t see anything in the box?