When I was a schoolboy, I remember clearly the distinct impressions I formed about where some of my teachers stood politically. We had the occasional “hard-ass” who was almost definitely a conservative, some of whom might even be Trump supporters …
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More Strange News on Trump and His Supporters
As usual, Fox News and its viewers have a distinctly twisted way of looking at the world. A few comments: Why poll people on their perceptions of what groceries cost? The price of groceries in the United States either is …
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Trump and Mail-in Voting
Here, Donald Trump claims that mail-in voting automatically means fraud, and that Colorado has a particular problem in that the state has gone to 100% mail-in voting. As anyone could have foreseen, however, there are a couple of major issues: …
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The First and Second Law of Thermodynamics Say a Great Big NO Here
There are grown-up people on this planet who believe that more energy can be pulled out of a system than we put into the system. This supposed hydrogen-powered Norwegian ship at left ostensibly: 1) Starts with seawater 2) Uses electricity …
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Trump’s Only Real Ability
The words at left are 100% correct. Yet, Trump has one capability that’s rarely if ever seen: He can invent stories that have no basis in fact–and convince tens of millions of Americans that they’re true.
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The End of Trumpism?
Re: the meme at left, I would draw a different conclusion: it’s possible that the United States has lost its appetite for lies, cruelty, and stupidity. Trumpism just may be on its way out.
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Big Cities Have Lots of Voters
Thank you, Bill. Well, there are two good reasons for this: Big cities have lots of people living in them; rural areas are sparsely populated. It might be worth looking up “city” and “rural.” The people living in cities tend …
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JD Vance’s Brother Gets Demolished in Race for Cincinnati Mayor
Poor choice. Cincinnati has lots of affluent, well-educated people. Other parts of Ohio would have elected Vance’s brother as king.
Should Speaking English Be Required to Live in America?
To the reader who sent me this: no one’s offended. We know we live among racists, and being offended by a racist doesn’t help anything. Perhaps the very greatest thing about being an American is what’s etched at the base …
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A Few Words from a Climate Skeptic — And a Few of My Own
Mikki Willis writes the following, the first few sentences of a much longer piece: I’ve been studying all sides of the climate change debate for many years — starting back when it was called global warming. Why the rebrand? Because …
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