About 15 years ago, this whole subject held huge promise. That’s because each year, about 280 million old tires find themselves in landfills, releasing greenhouse gas emissions and wasting enormous amounts of chemical energy. It appeared that a large opportunity …
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Photography of Violence and Hate
Whether these days of hate and oppression will persist for a “long, long time,” or whether the pendulum is about to swing back the other way remains to be seen. It’s certainly a terrible time to be an American, if …
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Antifa “Headquarters”
Recently, there have been a few posts here to the effect that Antifa is not a group, and that it has no headquarters. The author of the meme at left has a differing point of view.
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Siding with the Weak
There are so many examples of “taking the sides of the weak against the strong” in today’s world it’s hard to count them all. And, as 19th Century abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe put it, “the best people” have always been …
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We’re All Looking for Data That Makes Us Feel Good, but MAGA Wins the Prize
I wouldn’t say that the MAGA folks “live on a different planet,” even metaphorically. I’d say that they’re desperately looking for data points, regardless of how out-of-date or clearly inapplicable, that confirm their existing political philosophies. When it comes to …
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Republicans Try to Smear Peaceful Protesters as ‘Terrorists’ — But Will They be Successful?
Of course, the GOP wants the world to regard the “No Kings” protesters as “terrorists.” But how successful can this possibly be? In a few days, approximately 10 million peaceful protestors, most of them in the United States, but many …
Trump and Associates Still Bickering About the Nobel Peace Prize
From MSN: Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to Donald Trump, called on Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado to relinquish the award to the president. Following a ceasefire deal between Israel and Gaza, Stone told Real America’s Voice host …
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Antifa
The cartoon here harkens back to our earlier post about Antifa, i.e., it’s an organization in the same sense as the stoics or the stuffed animal collectors, or Dodgers fans: no headquarters, leaders, members, or dues. Certain right-wing Americans can’t …
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We Can’t Seem to Get Enough News Chatter about the Epstein Files
I have to admit that I’m confused about this much ballyhooed situation with the Epstein files. We seem to be all worked up about a certain matter: Does Donald Trump’s name appear on a certain list? News: It’s not a …
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Antifa in the News, as Always
Let’s do a quick examination of what we have here: Antifa is a belief (that fascism is a bad thing); it’s not an “organization.” It has no offices, leaders, officers, or members. In this regard, it’s rather like the sunworshippers …
