I just had the pleasure to meet a young couple from Norway. A couple of interesting elements from our discussion: 1) They live on the southern part of the country, and I told them about the fellow I met recently …
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Ka-Boom Go American Institutions
It seems that we Americans are watching our president working hard to destroy as many of our most beloved and important institutions as possible. Sure, most of these targets are in the realm of public health and safety, education, and …
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Trump Supporters Just May Figure This Out
Thanks to the reader who sent me this, as it provides hope. It’s possible that significant numbers of Trump supporters will come to realize that they’ve been conned, and that virtually nothing in this country is better under this administration …
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What We “Believe”
The point this fellow is making is the reason that it’s incorrect to say that one “believes” in anthropogenic global warming (AGW, aka climate change). We either understand science or we don’t. We have beliefs in things that are based on …
Examining the Results of Gutting the Federal Government
The modern-day insanity in U.S. politics and the ways it’s covered in the media has allowed many Americans to realize something important: there will always be a way to spin current events in favorite of the Fox News “Trumpists” as …
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Loss of Democracy Is Serious Business
Carl Sagan said something similar to Orwell’s observation at left: “Once a democracy is lost, it’s almost impossible to recover.”
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An International Tragedy
A key tactic employed by the Donald Trump / Elon Musk duo is to inflict so much damage to our nation and the rest of the world that individual citizens like you and me are paralyzed by the sheer velocity …
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Preparing Ourselves for the Loss of the National Weather Service at the Hands of President Musk
One might think that alerting American citizens to impending life-threatening weather catastrophes would be something that would survive the “great purge” of the current administration. As shown at left, the ROI numbers are very strong, but, sorry, no. The U.S. …
Positive Thinking
The meme here is from a group called the “Power of Positivity.” As for me, I like to see a mechanism that suggests that “everything will work out in the end.” Coincidentally, an old friend wrote me earlier today about …
How Our Schools Are Preparing Our Children for Life
The cartoon here makes an important point, albeit in a kind of tongue-in-cheek manner. Conservatives tend to have seizures when schools present materials to the effect that our society isn’t perfect in terms of things like social justice and environmental …
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