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Every time I encounter an EV driver in a relaxed setting, suppose I spot someone walking to or from his vehicle in a parking lot, I ask, “Say, how do you like your car?” I have at least a few hundred of these one-question surveys under my belt at this point.
So far, I have three who were luke-warm, one of whom was an Avis renter who was having trouble learning the new instrument interface.
All the rest were glowing. The most common response: “It’s by far the best car I’ve ever owned.”
What to make of the meme here? To me, it’s like anything else in the world of disinformation: it’s either:
Completely fabricated by some entity with a vested interest. Hmmm. Is there an industry that stands to lose big if electric transportation gains market-share?
or
Cherry-picked. Turn on Fox “News” right now, and watch the few short minutes as required to see a person with an MD or a PhD degree tell you vaccines don’t work or that climate change is a hoax. These people do exist, but in far fewer than one in one hundred cases. But if your job is to find one, you’ll succeed eventually. At the expense of your integrity, of course.
At left is just one more example of the absurd nature of the U.S. political scene as we move through the 2024 election season.
I have learned from my mother that Fox News is “reporting” that all U.S. politics is rigged in favor of the Democrats. That is, the indictment mentioned here has nothing to do with justice or fairness but is simply a partisan attack from the radical left that controls our government.
We have an insatiable appetite for pure BS.
Fortunately for the state of North Carolina, most of its residents share the political sensibilities of the more productive and civilized states. The author of the meme probably doesn’t know that California, if it were a country, would be the 5th largest economy on Earth. That’s something to be emulated and respected, not ridiculed.
Most of the population of North Carolina is within an easy drive to Raleigh or Charlotte, which are rife with great universities, top-tier financial service companies, and centers of technological development. And its Atlantic coast, with its Outer Banks, is a true wonder.
Now, if you want to find hillbillys, it’s not impossible. Just head west. You’ll notice quickly that the towns start to look like the one pictured at right. 
Poor education, little affluence, horrible healthcare, but plenty of political rancor and Fox News viewership.
Lauren Boebert is a darling among the Christian right in rural Colorado. And with this resumé, why shouldn’t she be?
Now is a great time in history to stretch our understanding of right and wrong. After all, we live in a period in which the vast majority of Republicans are desperate to see former president Trump re-elected, awaiting trial, as he is, for criminal trials concerning the 88 felony charges he faces.
Nothing makes any sense from an ethical perspective; we’re simply going to have get accustomed to that.
It’s true that the physicists of the later 19th Century believed that they had discovered all the major, basic principles that govern the universe. Then, of course, came Einstein, followed by the quantum physicists and all the theoretical stuff that has come along since.
Science remains thirsty for new discoveries, and we should not expect anyone of any stature in this arena to tell us that they have physics entirely “in the can.”
Apparently, Trump’s legal team has run out of ammunition in one of the former president’s election interference cases, though what they’re asserting here is correct.
Unfortunately for them, there is something wrong with committing crimes, felonies, to be more specific. One would think that this would be obvious, but evidently not.
Great quote from public intellectual Garrison Keillor here.
Yet keep in mind that those working to weaken public education couldn’t care less about some notion of “community.” Whether these people are Christian fundamentalists, or some other form of small-government zealot, they have no real interest in anything that resembles inclusion or “oneness.”
In fact, they want to see the opposite: a hatred, or at least resentment of immigrants, the poor, the Spanish-speaking, Muslims, gays, etc.
News flash: If you’re a part of a “Christian movement” that demands that “the government be a part of God’s wrath,” you have deep-seated psychological issues that are unlikely to resolve by encountering some meme on social media.
When we look at new car sales in Norway, we see that only one in 10 is powered by an internal combustion engine.
Admittedly, Northern Europe has many positive geographic and demographic features: a strong supply of renewable energy resources, high gas prices, short driving distances, and, most importantly, a citizenry that honestly cares about sustainability, i.e., one that has a sincere interest in leaving behind a planet that fully supports life as we’ve come to know it.
By way of comparison, sales of new EVs in the U.S. run at about 6.5%.
It’s hard to imagine any self-respecting woman voting for someone who is proud of the work he’s done in removing the right to an abortion.
Who doesn’t love Betty White? “If men could get pregnant, abortions would be available at Jiffy Lube.”
