Here are the highlights of a presentation Chevron’s CEO gave recently. There was a day not too long ago when such a speech would have contained numerous promises regarding biofuels, environmental sustainability, and so on. None of that now. In …
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In the United States, Times Have Changed
American presidents used to befriend our allies. That was before the guy we elected someone with questionable allegiance to our nation.
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How Concerned Should We Be by Unlicensed Truck Drivers?
Truck drivers are scrutinized far more closely by the 1.2 million fulltime state and local law enforcement personnel and DMV weigh stations than drivers of passenger cars. Given that, what’s the average lifespan of an unlicensed truck driver, before he’s …
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The Catholic Church Is Making Progress, But It’s Not Instantaneous
The last two popes have brought a wonderful array of humanitarian values to Catholicism, but as shown at left, some church officials are not completely on board. Here’s a question, even if you accept the dubious claim that the LGBTQ …
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Stephen Miller Vs. the U.S. Constitution
The only problem that Miller may face here is that the U.S. Constitution expressly says that the census must count every living human being, regardless of their status as citizens. Are you saying that the Founding Fathers intended that one …
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“Quiet. Quiet, Piggie”
Trump seems to want to drive every decent human being away from him. Maybe he actually is losing his mind.
Autonomous Farming Vehicles
Here’s a short video on a concept I found interesting. Is there a future for autonomous farming vehicles? Obviously. In the earliest days of human civilization, the power that we put into farming came from our own bodies and the chemical …
Trump: So Petty and Cruel
There has to be a limit to our country’s appetite for Trump’s small, narrow-minded, and mean-spirited nature.
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“Universal and Supreme Happiness”
At left we see what the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz thought about the ideal society. On this planet, we have three principal types of government: Authoritarian dictatorships and oligarchies, e.g., most of Asia and Africa. Under Putin, …
Why Not Sustainability?
To the reader who sent me the meme here: It depends on whom you mean by “we.” Most of us would love to have the “sustainable version of human activity” you mention. But there is a small group of extremely …
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