Covid-19 Is Right-wing.

When the coronavirus has a soft spot for right-wing governments, whose leaders are often morally bankrupt and managerially inept, as their fake leaderships currently account for over half the world’s infections and nearly half the deaths.

Think of the US, Brazil, India, and Russia. The failure of these nations’ rogue leaders to contain the coronavirus pandemic arguably shows that “Covid-19 is right-wing.”

by MathPlus March 26, 2021

I Got My Covaxin Jab

The mantra printed on the badge or T-shirt worn by diehard BJP or Modi supporters, who proudly want to tell the world that they have 100% trust in India’s half-trialed vaccine, which is shunned by developed countries, but reluctantly used by a few developing nations that could not afford or get hold of other vaccines, whose citizens see themselves as guinea pigs.

“I Got My Covaxin Jab” is like the Indian equivalent of “I Got My Sinovac Shot,” with both Indian and Chinese vaccines yet to receive any WHO-approval.

by MathPlus March 25, 2021

Pi Brexit

When math teachers in a school or state can’t see eye to eye on the degree of accuracy the number π should be given in a math question—for example, should the students be asked to take π to be 22/7 or 3.14?

In the aftermath of the “Pi Brexit” war, a red state in the US has recorded at least a dozen resignations from hardcore evangelical math teachers, who refuse to bulge unless the schools agree to use the biblical value of three for π.

by MathPlus October 16, 2021

Bar Model Method

A problem-solving visualization heuristic that is the heart of the Singapore math curriculum, whose copyright is being contested by both China and Russia (or even Japan), because they claimed that the “look-see” methodology used to solve challenging word problems in elementary grades originated from them.

In the aftermath of the Singapore’s claim that they and the Canadian songwriter Hugh Harrison own the copyright to the “Count on Me, Singapore” song rather than the Indian composer Joseph Mendoza, China and Russia now want Singapore to compensate them for “plagiarizing” the bar model method for over three decades—unprovenly, it’s their tit-for-tat message to high-GDP Singapore for not approving their home-made, half-baked vaccines.

by MathPlus March 20, 2021

Comfortably Uncomfortable

When you decide not to let unpredictability or uncertainty affect you and your future—you have come to terms that you have got to live with chaos, no matter how disruptive it can be in putting up a brake to your life’s goals.

Instead of blaming events or things that he’s no control over, John has learned to be comfortably uncomfortable in coping with life’s challenges—he doesn’t let bad breaks or misfortunes affect his attitude towards life; instead, he’s grateful that he can rely on God’s wisdom to overcome whatever obstacle comes his way.

by MathPlus July 20, 2018

Who Will Miss Trump?

Almost everybody who would be forced to look elsewhere come 1/20/2021 for new or rich sources of misinformation and dishonesty after the rejected, ejected, and dejected White Supremacist in Chief leaves office, whose idiocies and idiosyncrasies have atrophied or numbed the right part of the brain for hundreds of thousands of comedians, reporters, and even math educators since 11/9/2016.

“Who Will Miss Trump?” sounds like the political equivalent of “Who Took My Calculator?” or “Who Moved My Cheese?”

by MathPlus January 18, 2021

McConnell

A label for a political hypocrite who votes to acquit a bad or evil person, then condemns them for their unethical, criminal, or treasonous act—named after US Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who acquitted Donald J. Trump of treason, before holding the Inciter-in-Chief responsible for his white supremacist and terrorist supporters’ deadly attack on the Capitol.

In the second impeachment trial of the Commander in Cheat, the Senate’s 57-43 vote shows that there are at least 43 morally bankrupt McConnells who are too petrified to vote against their Divider-in-Chief.

by MathPlus February 14, 2021