About 20 years ago, a friend asked me if I was aware that cars could run on air. I asked, delicately, what she meant, and she explained that cars can run on compressed air. “Ah,” I replied. “Of course they …
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Better Ideas in Education
I live across the street from the K-8 school my kids attended 20 years ago. The quality was superior then and it’s still going strong today. Its students look robust and eager to learn. A) Do you think this meme …
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How Fools Process Their Garbage
Wow! This device shown at left, the “Lomi,” is even more asinine than its competitors. It’s ridiculous, but at least these folks are honest enough to admit that the user is consuming huge amounts of electricity at great expense to …
Invest in Oil?
Why in hell would any decent person want to play an active part in ruining the planet? When my father passed in 2010, he left me a considerable chunk of stock in Exxon Mobil. I sold covered calls on it …
America’s Next President?
Newsom? So it appears — that is, if we still have a functioning democracy here in 2028. Of course, the Republicans are going to be screaming that California is a socialist state and that everyone’s leaving to move to Texas …
“Is It Just Me, or Did People Seem Happier Back Then?”
Well, the 1970s was a time before: • Corporate greed really took root and got a financial stranglehold on both employees and consumers. • Our educational system failed, resulting in people stupid and mean enough to vote for Donald Trump. …
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Pete Hegseth to the Rescue?
The very best thing to be said about what Pete Hegseth is doing is that’s he solving a problem that doesn’t exist, while appealing to gullible MAGA idiots. Who in the hell is stupid enough to believe that the fitness …
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Canadians, Republicans, and Weapons of War
Canadians have conservatives. I’m not sure what they believe in, but this is for certain: none of them thinks that an unscreened and potential criminal psychopath has an absolute right to buy and use a weapon of war so powerful …
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Did Bill Gates Make Hundreds of Billions of Dollars by “Building Cash Flow” and “Following Proven Principles?”
Does anyone believe that Bill Gates actually said this? He co-founded a company that partnered with IBM to provide the earliest, core software for the personal computer that exploded into the most important industry in human history. There was no …
Sedition by the Military?
To the reader who sent me this: Do you think those adjudicating this matter are going to be so stupid they think “reminding soldiers that have the right and duty to disobey illegal orders” and “sedition by the military” are …
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