Not sure how this is possible, but then again, I don’t have the intellectual makeup required to be a Trump supporter.
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Is It Healthy for Our Country to Allow Billionaires to Own Congress?
What we have here in the United States, in terms of money in politics, is a full-on disease. Tax cuts for billionaires, corruption and the uber-rich’s ownership of our lawmaking processes, the destruction of our educational system, institutionalized racism, the …
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Real Estate: Supply and Demand
About 40 years ago, I used to lie in bed on Sunday mornings with a cup of coffee and the “Los Angeles Times” opened to the real estate section: “Homes in Other States.” I recall voicing some level of buyer’s …
When You’re Addressing Idiots You Can Get Away with a Lot
At left we have John Fetterman talking to people so stupid they’ll believe that it would have been wrong for the British colonists to oppose King George III in the late 18th Century, or for the people of Germany and …
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Carl Sagan and the Suppression of Uncomfortable Ideas
Seminal astrophysicist Carl Sagan explains why uncomfortable ideas may be banned in religion, they must not be shunned in science. This is an important concept in American life today, as conspiracy theorists are convinced that climate change denial cannot be …
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We Came Incredibly Close to Averting the Disaster that Is Donald Trump
As suggested at left, a great deal of the hardship that has befallen the U.S. was simply bad luck. Al Gore came within a whisker of victory in 2000, a win that would have forever changed the course of our …
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Socialism and “Free Stuff”
Social democracies are nations in which the tax base provides everyone with healthcare and education, and where the richest and most powerful people are not free to ruin the environment. I run into someone from one of these countries a …
Celebrating American Ignorance
There are so many tragic aspects to life in today’s United States that it’s hard to name them all. For my money, one of the saddest elements to the American zeitgeist is its glorification of ignorance. Up until recently, if …
How and Why We Conduct Science
To the author of the meme here (if it’s an actual human being, vs. a Russian bot): to the best of my knowledge, the only actual major “scientific fraud” in world history was “Piltdown Man.” In 1912, a pseudo-anthropologist attempted …
Correlation vs. Causation
Apparently, there are people who believe that the pre-dawn crowing of roosters causes the sun to rise every morning. Perhaps these are the same people who believe that the patrons of this regional burgers/fries chain targeting the MAGA crowd in …
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