We really do have a weird phenomenon at work here in the United States. America has entire “news” channels that operate solely to deliver misinformation to people who are desperate to confirm certain of their beliefs as true.
Author: craigshields
The Dilemma of Having Children in Today’s World
When my wife and I brought kids into this world in the 1990s, it seemed a reasonable thing to do. But that was before: • The United States was on its way to becoming just one more authoritarian nation. • …
The Future Isn’t Always an Extrapolation of the Past
If the future looks like the past, it’s very clear that our legacy for generations to come will feature overwhelming amounts of authoritarianism, greed, ignorance, racism, environmental collapse, perhaps along with nuclear conflagration. Fortunately, as some brilliant mind put forward, …
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Is the U.S. President Above the Law?
To be fair, the SCOTUS didn’t rule that the president is “above the law”; they ruled that the president can’t be prosecuted for something he did as an “official act.” FWIW, this seems at least somewhat reasonable. Should Truman have …
Education Is Inversely Related to Criminality
Part of the beauty of the societies of Scandinavia and most of the rest of the developed world is their understanding of the fact that a well educated populace tends to commit very few crimes. Sweden, for example, is closing …
True, Solar and Wind Are Intermittent Resources
Many of us can remember the early days of renewable energy, and our concern that resources like solar and wind were intermittent. Could such energy sources offer value even though they are not “baseload?” Well, thirty years later grid operators …
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When It’s Not Lies, It’s Misrepresentation
As the physician points out at left, changing the ingredients in Coca Cola may not be the boon for Americans’ health it’s represented to be.
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Photoshopped?
Anyone who thinks that an ExxonMobil franchisee actually posted this sign is a fool. Big Oil’s only hope for extending its corrupt stream of wealth is via Trump’s policies, and his deceit, e.g., “Gas is under $2 / gallon.”
Our Capitalist Civilization Does Indeed Have a Real Direction
I’m what’s called a democratic socialist, or social democrat — two synonymous phrases. This means, in essence, that I hope the United States can join the rest of the developed world in extending certain benefits, like healthcare and education, to …
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Why Is Extraterrestrial Intelligence So Hard To Find?
There are lots of theories, some more plausible that others, that attempt to explain why humankind has failed to make contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. I’ve heard something similar to the cartoon here: that when ETs fly past Earth they lock …
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