Contrast how China makes use of its Great Hall of the People with how the US proposes to make use of its own legislative hall if Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland's bill is passed. (Be sure to click on Westmoreland below to see Colbert's brief interview--it's funny and yet depressing.)
Yes, The Ten Commandments are turning America into laughingstock. (Have you seen this legislative gem?) From the NY Times article:
Imagine, several string theorists in the audience mused, if a physics conference in the United States started in the House of Representatives.
China, meanwhile, surges ahead on the strength of science, overtaking us in graduate education and research spending. Heeding the sobering advice of Stephen Hawking to save our species, China this week has even announced plans toward building a lunar space colony.
Our rivalry with China could be the plot of a chapter from Gardner Dozois' acclaimed SciFi collection Galileo's Children.
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