I thought this was a joke, right, but…..no. The fellow on the right is shown here dispensing holy water on a hydrogen bomb. As usual, I’m loath to challenge religious beliefs, but I have to ask: Who in hell blesses …
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Our Post-Truth World
We live our lives inundated with lies from every direction, and at every level, so, in a certain sense, fraudulent crap like this shouldn’t be surprising.
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Sunny Day Flooding Creates Market for New Vehicles
The car/boat shown here isn’t a bad investment for those in one of America’s areas prone to “sunny day flooding,” a term that is being used with increasing frequency as the oceans expand via rising temperatures, and the ice sheets in places …
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Satire: U.K. Unable to Find Replacement Ambassador Who Does Not Think Trump Is an Idiot
From New Yorker Magazine’s satirist Andy Borowitz: LONDON (The Borowitz Report)—Following the resignation of its Ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, the government of the United Kingdom has disclosed that it has been unable to find a replacement for …
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Germany’s Aggressive Commitment to Clean Energy
Germany’s decision to remove all coal from its grid-mix in the next 20 years is just one more part among its bold plans to move entirely to renewables. It’s a move that is made all the more difficult by its …
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Legislation To Clean Up the U.S. Grid-Mix
Tom Udall (D-NM — pictured) and a few other U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would take the U.S. grid-mix from its current 18% concentration of renewables up to 50% by 2035. It’s not that no one here is trying …
Renewable Energy Needs To Go with its Strengths
Those of us with a practical concern for the transition from fossil fuels wish that R&D in energy and transportation would be focused on the obvious winners, or at least those that are possible, and away from areas that have …
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Ethical Relativity
According to The Writer’s Almanac, it’s the birthday of anthropologist Franz Boas, born in 1858. Boaz stressed the need to study four fields — ethnology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and archaeology — before making any generalizations about any one culture.
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We Need To Ask Horrible People: “Do You Think This Is Going To End Well?”
From today’s Daily Stoic: The Stoics were not unacquainted with awful people. They saw tyrants. They saw cheats. They saw toxic egomaniacs and insatiable ambitions. And what was their reaction to most of these people? Aside from a general wariness and …
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OPEC Fears Climate Campaigners
OPEC warns climate campaigners are “greatest threat to our industry going forward.” The largest oil cartel in the world sits on top of countless trillions of dollars of crude, and understandably, they don’t want that value to fall–for any reason.
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