A reader asked me about the supposed breakthrough in making PV solar panels transparent, so they can replace windows in office buildings. I don’t believe this. PV works by absorbing photons and using them to knock loose electrons from a …
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What are These Federal Troops Actually Doing in Our Cities?
There may be some MAGA rhetoric on some subject that is somewhat plausible (though I can’t think of any offhand). As I posted earlier, however, anyone who believes this particular line of crap from the White House is a total …
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Meanwhile, in Chicago, a Bit of Neil Diamond
We all know this one: The girls with the megaphones: “Sweet Caroline!” Crowd: “Bom, bom, bom!” Girls: “Good time never seemed so good.” Not bad for a war-ravaged city whose people have taken up arms and are violently attacking federal …
New Approach to Wind Energy?
Wind energy is based on removing some of the kinetic energy from a certain volume of moving wind and converting it to electricity. Think of the volume of wind that passes through the area bound by the circular movement of …
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No DEI in the Trump Administration — and That Has a Humorous Side
Yes, that is funny. They were chosen specifically because they were incompetent; their only qualification is their willingness to do whatever Trump asks of them. Phew. At least they’re not competent, honest people who are black, female, or gay; what …
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Who Are Today’s Liberals?
Regardless of whether we’re crybabies or so many Che Gueveras, they don’t like us too much, and they don’t see any need to be consistent in how they think of us.
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U.S. Governors Resist Being Dragged “Closer to Authoritarianism”
As many of us are aware, the federal government, especially the president and Attorney General Pam Bondi, are on a high-force campaign to move federal troops into states run by Democrats, despite the express refusal of state leaders to accept …
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We Come Into This World with a Lot of Arbitrary Attributes
The point made here is a good one. And it’s more or less true, depending on where you’re born. Americans are lucky in that we, while we are given a name and taught English, have a great number of options …
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What’s Up with Qatar?
Outside of the fact that it’s corrupt, no one except Trump knows the precise nature of America’s relationship with Qatar. And as the Qataris become the first and only sovereign nation with a military base on U.S. soil, we have …
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The Validity of the Evangelicals
Richard Rohr sounds like a good, intelligent guy to me. But of his statement at left: bullcrap. The evangelicals have been noted for their hypocrisy long before Trump was born, and will be taking absurd positions on political life as …
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