Love this bumper sticker. Yes, it’s an embarrassment.
Author: craigshields
Observation on Today’s America
The reader who sent the meme here nailed it. The last half century, in particular the last decade, has seen a dramatic reduction in the number of Americans who live humanitarian lives of kindness, compassion, and intelligence. A good example …
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Happiness and Environmental Sustainability
This week’s “TED Radio Hour” on National Public Radio is called “Paradise Lost–and Found,” and, as the title suggests, it’s about the things in our lives that make us happy. Below is a talk given by Ramón Méndez Galain who …
Political Humor
Congrats to the author of the cartoon, for this clever adaptation of a scene from the film Forest Gump. Most people don’t believe in the antichrist, but even progressive atheists acknowledge that Trump has done a great deal of damage …
Plato on Education
It appears that Plato would have taken a rather dim view of what we’re doing here in the United States. There is no doubt that American education is in decline, but there is a lively debate as to why that …
Does the Republican Party Really Want to Rid Itself of “Contemptible Fools?”
Is this a good idea for Republicans? Insofar as they won the 2024 by a slim 1.5%, should they jettison the MAGA base (assuming that there is a practical way to accomplish that)? Imagine a Republican party that had found …
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on Jimmy Carter
From Neil deGrasse Tyson: Born a year after Edwin Hubble discovered that our Milky Way galaxy was just one of countless other galaxies that populate the universe. Smart, kind, and gentle. Not sure if they make ’em like that anymore. RIP …
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The Future of Humanity
“Bifurcate” means to split into two branches, so “bifurcate in two directions” redundant. Of course, that is a trivial criticism. Here’s a more important one: Musk wants us to believe that migrating the human race into space, with all its …
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Are Climate Scientists Liars?
Re: the meme here, a reader offers this dare: I challenge you to go to a climate science convention, get up on stage, present this image and then give a talk on why you think it is true… and then …
A Note on the Passing of Jimmy Carter
Following the death of Jimmy Carter, we Boomers harken back to the times of his one-term presidency. We wonder how it’s possible that treason in the United States’ highest office, in this case clearly committed by Ronald Reagan to defeat …
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