Author: craigshields

Unfortunately, there are tens of millions of morons who believe hateful garbage like this. The average 10-year-old can understand that we can BOTH protect our citizens while obeying the U.S. Constitution and international law when it comes to treating the …

Do We Need More Fallacious Hate Speech? Read More »

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I would say that the regulations on energy (and transportation) companies should be sufficient to put pressure on them to phase out fossil fuels and decarbonize in favor of renewables and nuclear.    

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As I’m sure the idiot/liar who wrote this meme knows, California’s economy is by far the largest in the country, and, if it were a country unto itself, it would be the 4th largest in the world. We have quality …

Making Judgements about California Read More »

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In 2001, I remembered being deeply disappointed that G.W. Bush had become our 43rd U.S president, on the basis that he was clearly unintelligent, and that the Republicans were already climate deniers. That said, Bush was not criminally insane, and …

Remembering G.W. Bush Read More »

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I can’t understand how a young history/poli-sci major who has become a social media “influencer” has superior credibility to tens of thousands of climate scientists, many of whom I know personally, who have been studying this subject since the 1970s. …

Understanding (or Failing to) Climate Denialism Read More »

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One might think that being surrounded by experts would be eutopia, but it’s not everything it’s cracked up to be. At left is an expression of what life in the United States has become over the last decade, which differs …

In the U.S., We Live Among Experts Read More »

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At first, I thought the meme at left was a joke, but upon further reflection, I realized that it was not.    

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As we see all around us, the Trump administration is doing everything it can to minimize the percentage of voters with college degrees, for the obvious reason that educated people do not believe the utter crap coming out of the …

Spreading Propaganda against College Education Read More »

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The answer to the question at left fully would take me several days.  But for the sake of brevity, let’s focus on the environment. To facilitate North America’s coming together to clean up its electricity grid, President Obama announced the …

What Obama Did Better than Trump, But Let’s Talk about Environmental Progress Read More »

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The U.S. has done fairly well for itself over the past 250 years with no official language. Switzerland has four official languages, and its GDP per capita is far greater than that of the United States. Only hateful morons believe …

JD Vance and His Enormous Appeal to America’s Idiots Read More »

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