The question posed at left by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is a good one: Can we summon the ingenuity and courage required to save us from environmental collapse? FWIW, lots of smart people say no. Kurt Vonnegut, for example, predicted …
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Blaming Everyone but Trump
If you think there is a way to deal with people like Julie using reason and logic, you’re out of your mind.
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How the United States Is Regarded Overseas
Those who might believe the myth that the United States has become more respected internationally now that Donald Trump has regained the White House may want to take a look at this mural, recently completed on a building in the …
Oh, Canada!
I was chatting with some Swedes the other day who told me that they have an ongoing rivalry with the Danes. When I expressed surprise, one asked me, “Don’t Americans feel competitive with Canada?” I responded that I couldn’t speak …
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Confucius Says ….
Now, if your plan is to rape and pillage American society to satisfy your greed, do exactly none of this. Destroy everything in the government you can get your hands on, so as to create tax breaks for the billionaires. …
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Why Boycott Hobby Lobby?
There is lot one could say about how revolting Hobby Lobby is, but a good place to start is that the Founding Fathers were adamant that the United States was not based on any religion. In the words of John …
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Where Have the Flags Gone? — An Interesting Question
I happen to know the author of the piece at left from my business days. Here are two related answers to his question: 1) The American flag has taken on a new meaning since the formation of the MAGA bunch, …
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Science Continually Learns More
The words at left are a sickening reminder that there are still many millions of American idiots who believe that Dr. Anthony Fauci and the rest of the U.S. medical establishment lied to them about COVID-19. After 50 years of …
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They Do it Differently in Denmark: What This Means
Some nations care about their future, and others simply don’t. That’s the only message that can possibly be taken away from what Denmark does to educate its young people. Here in the United States, we have rich people getting richer, and …
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Our Nation’s Founders Would Be Quite Unhappy
This photoshop of Mount Rushmore depicts some of our nation’s fathers in a kind of embarrassed disbelief as to what’s happened to our country. Of course there’s no way to know exactly how they would react to this criminal insanity, …
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