In my post Understanding EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, I pointed out that, unlike his predecessor, Gina McCarthy, Pruitt is extremely secretive in his activities. I went on to use Occam’s Razor to explain this phenomenon: Pruitt’s job is to provide favorable …
Americans Actually DO Care About the Environment, Revile EPA Administrator Pruitt Read More »
Never has a debate been more widespread and divisive than that of climate change. Not a day goes by that there isn’t something on the news related to it in some way or other.
The last post that was written here on John Paul Stevens was published on the occasion of his retirement from the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010; I certainly didn’t anticipate another–until this stunner.
Here’s a fairly detailed article describing how Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is attacking journalists and stifling the media’s attempts to report on the core actions that the EPA is taking to roll back regulations put …
The March for Life and the debate over gun control is part of a much larger phenomenon that defines the zeitgeist of this phase in American history, which could be summed up as, “We Call BS.” People of conscience, young …
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Here’s something a reader sent me, a variation on the theme of capturing and reusing the energy dissipated from the activities of the human body. In this case, it’s a door whose hinge contains a generator. Hey, no one says …
It’s quite possible that the “March for Our Lives” protests of March 24th, 2018 will be remembered as a watershed even in world history, as marches were held in more than 800 cities in the U.S., as well on every continent …
Canadian MPs, Motivated By Climate Crisis, Arrested At Pipeline Blockade Read More »
Ever since the smoke cleared after the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court decision “Citizens United,” which enabled corporations to control our elections via unlimited spending, there has been a discussion of ever-increasing intensity as to how we can reverse this horrible …
The New York Times writes: Trump’s decision to oust H.R. McMaster and replace him with John Bolton signals the President is looking for advisers to be more supportive of his instincts. That’s the very most charitable interpretation that could possibly be …
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Pipelines that leak some toxic effluent into our waterways are such frequent occurrences that they barely make the news. In that respect, they’re rather like car accidents, cancer diagnoses, house fires or mass shootings: they’re tragic, but so common we …
