The point made at left is a valid one: Cruelty for its own sake is a huge part of who we have become as Americans. Maybe this isn’t new. Maybe we’ve simply been unmasked.
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Almost Every Day Brings a New Ghastly Reminder
Scarcely a day goes by that Americans aren’t slapped in the face with some sort of horrible reminder as to how stupid we have become over such a short period of time. When you read what our Secretary of Defense …
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The Canadians Visiting the United States Are not Representative of their Population as a Whole
In an earlier post, I mentioned that the Canadians I meet on a daily basis seem to accept what’s happening in the United States with fairly cool heads. Of course, I’m meeting these Canadians here in the U.S., meaning that …
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Defending Ourselves Against Corporate Aggression
Corporate America seems to be at war against its consumer customers. Driving up profits by increasing prices, shrinkflation, and other forms of corner-cutting are everywhere in our lives. On top of everything else, we have products that simply don’t work, …
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Certain Canadians Have Huge Problems with the Reduction of the U.S. into a Police State
The Canadians I meet on a daily basis seem to accept what’s happening in the United States more philosophically than former Member of Parliament Charlie Angus. Holy cats! Check this out.
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Explaining Present-Day Iran
Just the other day I was asked to explain how countries like Iran become so backwards in terms of humanistic values. A big part of the answer is they never went through what the West experienced in the 18th Century, …
Composting Human Remains
These people claim: Human composting is now America’s fastest growing alternative to cremation and burial. This vessel holds the soil created from that process—soil that families can use to plant, scatter, or donate to restore natural landscapes. Get an instant …
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Trump: “We’re Doing Coal”
In this video, Trump explains why “we’re doing coal,” including the notion that solar and wind are “ugly as hell.” IMO, this is simply an effort to energize his base of hateful morons. Trump must understand that the combustion of …
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Hydrokinetic Power
Ocean-current hydrokinetics has drawbacks, but harm to aquatic life isn’t one of them. The real problem is the cost per KWhr of the electricity they generate. When 2GreenEnergy was launched in 2009, the world was abuzz with the developments in …
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How Badly We’ve Lost Our Way
The Founding Fathers are revered by patriotic Americans because they did everything they possibly could to avoid what is happening now, 200 years after Madison. If one had to choose a single reason for the demise of the balance of …
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