With all the polling technology that political organizations have at their disposal today, one might think it would be easy to nail down precisely which groups and subgroups support U.S. President Donald Trump, and that everything pertaining to this subject …
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Military Support for Trump
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It’s a Crisis!
We live in a time of environmental collapse, in a world at the brink of nuclear war, where 1.5 billion of us can’t get a glass of clean water to drink, and the U.S. Constitution is being ripped into shreds. …
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Trump Has New Explanation for Whacking Soleimani
Reader “Ann” offers this meme at left and comments: He has already changed his story even since this one was written….now he say he was coerced and pressured into it. Exactly Ann, and I wager you haven’t heard the last …
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Foodscaping
Paradigms die hard. Deep-green lawns of lush thick grass have been with us for centuries, and it’s easy to see why they continue to hold appeal. One doesn’t throw the Frisbee with the kids or practice chipping while dodging tomato …
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Tres Escenarios Energético Que Veremos en los Próximos 20 Años, Or (Roughly) Three Energy Scenarios We’ll See in the Next 20 Years
At left: “The need to replace fossil fuels.” I’m sure I’ve mentioned that I’m trying to learn Spanish, an endeavor that has been much more difficult than I expected it to be, perhaps because I took it on fairly late …
Examining Climate Change Denial
As shown here, when it comes to climate change denial, the leading three counties are the U.S., the U.K., and Australia (in that order). We might have guessed that it’s a coincidence that each of the three is English-speaking, until …
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Quaker Education and the Dalai Lama
Though the quality of the education offered at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia is probably the main reason parents work hard to send their kids there, the overlay of Quakerism and everything it stands for is important as …
We Used To Be Able To Think
As suggested here, watching the decline of the American education system and the consequent damage it’s doing on our ability to think can be a painful process.
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Can “We” Afford Another War?
A reader sent me this (at left), and I thought I’d answer his question, i.e., “How can we afford another war?” The answer lies in what is meant by the word “we.” If you believe that “we the people,” i.e., …
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Vote! Oh, Sorry, Did I Say Something Wrong?
This cartoon makes an interesting point. One would think that encouraging Americans to vote would be a message that everyone can get behind. Doesn’t democracy thrive when its people participate in it? Isn’t that a good thing?
