There is no doubt that the United States needs a much stronger educational system, though, as a practical matter, what we need even more is a voter base that refuses to elect the most ignorant people imaginable.
Author: craigshields
Better Education? Sure, But There Is a Limit as to What It Can Accomplish
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Investing in Climate Change Mitigation
As much as I favor environmental sustainability, there is nothing in the meme here that I agree with. Investors must treat the crisis as an economy-wide threat? No. Investors have money, and they can use it however and wherever they …
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Is Solar PV Replacing Farmland?
It pains me to think that I live among Americans who are this stupid. This country has 880 million acres of farmland, and 34,000 acres of solar PV. That’s a ratio of 26K:1. In addition, farmland doesn’t need to be …
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Trump Is a Class Act
The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz notes: If this comment doesn’t cinch the Peace Prize for him the Nobels are rigged.
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A Thug in the White House
In this day of utter confusion and the mincing of words, it’s good that we have a person in the U.S. Congress like Jasmine Crockett. The harsh reality is that it was a terrible idea to elect a criminal thug …
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Today’s World Leaders
Points to be made here include: 1) None of these five men is an imbecile. 2) This is a place and time in which our world leaders are more demented and less interested in the welfare of others than at …
Energy Efficiency
If you can recognize the photo here, you’re at least 65 years old, probably 70+. It’s a small generator that converted some of the kinetic energy from your moving bicycle’s tires into the electrical energy required to power your headlight. …
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Among Humankind’s Great Frailties Is the Herd Instinct
What makes the evil presence of Donald Trump so horrific in our lives is his amazing capacity to harness the “herd instinct” that Bertrand Russell identified. All this is aimed at one thing: augmenting Trump’s wealth and power. Sickening.
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Powerful Critique of Capitalism
Re: the reader’s comment here on The Grapes of Wrath, there is no doubt that the book challenges the basic tenets of capitalism, and it does so in what is perhaps the most forceful piece ever written in the English …
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Trump Supporters Believe in “Nothing?”
The claim here, i.e., that the MAGA folks “believe in nothing” is incorrect, if only because of the trust they place in the infallibility of Donald Trump. It makes no difference how ludicrous what he says, these people are steadfast …
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