At left is an interesting thought exercise. Here’s everything I can think of, and it’s not much. When I was in elementary school in the early 1960s, it was believed that: The main types of rocks: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous, …
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The support for Alberta’s seceding from Canada is about 5%, according to a physician I know up there. I know it’s hard to believe, but Fox News is a thoroughly dishonest organization.
The closest you’re going to come to a society that suits the human spirit, aka a utopia, is social democracy. People work, but within reason; they don’t need two or more jobs to keep their heads above water. They get …
Not sure why Bono chose the word “casino” here. “Fascist dictatorship” would have worked for me.
All dictators need organizations like ICE, i.e., 22,000 armed thugs that can be deployed to make life miserable in any city that does not support the autocrat.
Lebanon, New Hampshire saw more than 1300 protestors at its “No Kings” protest last Saturday. This is remarkable, if only because a) the population of the town is only 14,000, and b) it’s located in the middle of a purple …
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As dim-witted as the MAGA people are, and as greedy and cruel as Trump’s billionaire supporters are, this presidency is coming to a close. Unless there is massive cheating in the midterms, the Republicans are going to get creamed, and …
Ever heard of piezoelectricity, the generation of electric charge in solid materials—such as quartz, ceramics, and bone—in response to applied mechanical stress? It’s real, but it is very limited in scope, and thus it has zero potential application in our …
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Prioritizing the relative importance of addressing America’s social woes is, to be sure, an inexact science. Our war vets are living on the streets, dying of preventable diseases. We may never have another free and fair election. Clean energy, which …
College students have been protesting en masse against U.S. aggression abroad and suppression of human rights domestically since the 1960s. These institutions and their students cite “free speech,” as guaranteed by the First Amendment, as the basis for this basic …
