“This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic”–a refrain that we hear a great deal. Some people are laughing anyway, tragedy or no. Take the guy who created the meme here as an example. And he’s right: that really …
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Up Against the Wall
Re: the meme here, a friend writes, “An opinion not-so-humbly offered up 70-odd years ago by a guy who spoke with some authority on this matter.” Patton had never seen stupid like it exists in 2019’s America.
Mitt Romney: “The President’s Character Falls Short.”
I had to laugh when I saw this thing on Mitt Romney the other day: “The president shapes the public character of the nation. Trump’s character falls short.”
Looking Into 2019: The Health of the U.S. Democracy
To be sure, there are dozens of different metrics we can use to gauge the well-being of the American democracy. Is there transparency in government? Honesty and integrity? Compassion for the people whose lives it affects? Does big money seem …
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Electric Transportation 2019 Predictions : Yet Another Record?
My colleague Jon LeSage, who writes the Green Auto Digest, provides the world an extremely valuable service–at absolutely no cost. It’s essentially everything you need to know about the progress that electric transportation and other alt-fueled vehicles are making, including …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: EPA on Obama-Era Mercury Emissions from Coal Plants
Question: What are the three most dangerous effects to human health that derive from ingesting/inhaling the mercury that gets into the food supply and atmosphere from coal plant emissions?
Fighting To Protect Planet Earth
Here’s an article in which legendary environmentalist Bill McKibben likens the war on climate change to a world war in the military sense, and discusses the parallels between fighting Hitler and preventing climate catastrophe. The imperative to win WW2 was …
Minimizing the Damage That Is Donald Trump
There will come a time at which I’m no longer on this planet and this whole insanity that is the present-day United States is put back in order. (Actually, the former is a certainty, while the latter is speculation.) In …
A New Year’s Suggestion
Hard to add much to this meme. (Larger version below.) Let’s make 2019 the year in world history in which humankind started thinking of itself as a community, and began acting accordingly.
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