Author: craigshields

Well, here’s a controversial statement. Apparently, there are people who believe kids should be raised by dishonest imbeciles.

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When I was a boy, growing up in the 1960s, the United States was certainly not a nation of assholes.  We valued personal liberty, which meant the freedom to say and think and do anything we wanted, and to do …

How and When Did We Become a Country of Assholes? Read More »

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It’s easy. Run for president in a country in which a plurality of voters care less about the honesty and law than they do about punishing everyone but white straight Christian males.  

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Here are people who want $200 from you.  They say: For years, people accepted that small wind turbines did not work. Too loud. Too fragile. Too unreliable. The problem was never the wind. It was the Design. We stopped trying …

More Renewable Energy Fraud Read More »

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To the point being made at left, I’m a progressive, but I honestly couldn’t care less if white people of the American south want to wallow in incest, disease, poverty, and ignorance. On the other hand, I am concerned about …

Cynicism Incarnate Read More »

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I had a friend who co-coached my son’s all-star soccer team with me 20+ years ago who told me, when I told him that I was an environmentalist, “Oh no, Craig, we must hasten to destroy the Earth, so as …

The Coming Apocalypse Read More »

Plenty of people say that religion and science are not mutually incompatible. Some believe that life couldn’t have come from non-life. Of course, there are other, perhaps less thoughtful believers, who say that God and His son Jesus Christ are …

Religion and Science Read More »

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Here’s a short video that addresses the assault that the U.S. federal government is conducting on the health of people in red states and counties. Of course, this is another fine example of what Lyndon Johnson said: “If you can …

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At left is a question typical of a Republican moron.  Might someone say, “No, taxes don’t need to be spent on things that serve our interests?” The question, of course, is what actually does serve our interests. Believe it or …

Where Tax Money Should Go Read More »

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Unfortunately, there are tens of millions of morons who believe hateful garbage like this. The average 10-year-old can understand that we can BOTH protect our citizens while obeying the U.S. Constitution and international law when it comes to treating the …

Do We Need More Fallacious Hate Speech? Read More »

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