Author: craigshields

Living in the United States today, we’re surrounded by stupidity, but it comes in levels.  At the very top of the heap is the notion that a prosecutor could get a conviction on the charge of threatening a POTUS with …

Prosecuting James Comey for “8647” Read More »

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“Serving your fellow man?”  Seriously? I was ready for something like “getting rich by paying congresspeople to write laws that favor your endeavors.”  I would have accepted that.

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God will help you get out of debt…..but only if you send us your money (which you’re currently using to stave off starvation).

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Now, those of us who believe in the precise same tenets that Kennedy spoke of 65 years ago are regarded as woke sissy communists. That’s how far we’ve fallen.  

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Apparently, there are people who believe that wealthy investors actually give a s*** about human suffering.  

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If the United States is to become less radicalized, it has to begin somewhere. Hmmm.  Where to start?

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What was our locker number at the HVCC swimming pool? 412 Who was the portly kid in your class at PC who once did a weekend sleep-over at someone’s house and beamed the next Monday: “And we had steak for …

Answers for Geoff Read More »

Every ad I see for these people contains at least one–often several–glaring inaccuracies. Do you really believe that utility-scale wind turbines are: a) Fixed in position, and don’t adjust for wind direction?  Just look it up; it only takes a …

More Crap on Small Wind Read More »

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As shown in the graphic here, most of the energy consumed in ICE (internal combustion engines) is lost as waste heat. Compare this to the efficiency of charging batteries through electric motors, which is approximately 90%. This is why we …

Why EVs Are So Efficient Read More »

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A couple of months ago, I happened to ask a friend who had emigrated from Sweden if she was religious. “No!” she exclaimed.  “Almost no one in Sweden is religious.” As we see at left, there seems to be a …

Countries Without God Read More »

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