Tuesday, June 28, 2011  Political Bunk 101  I took a political
science class at school one time and received a grade of 17/100
in the class. I think some of the things I wrote about in the
essay questions weren't that bad and I probably deserved at
least a 30% grade if not a passing grade. The only question I
remember getting right on the exam was the one that wasn't a
flexible answer, the question was "what do the acronyms WMD and
MAD stand for" (answer: Weapons of Mass Destruction and Mutually
Assured Destruction). Every other question I got a smooth zero
(0) on. Words...on a line. Ok. There's a "Left" and a "Right"
side...ok I see....I think?  The main point of contention that I
had with the teacher was that Communism was not the opposite of
Fascism. People seem to think in "political science" that these
are polarized opposites but they are not. Here, let us count
some of the ways that they are "different":  -In a communist
society the government comes before the people while in a
fascist society the gover