Question: Primatologist Jane Goodall asserts three reasons for her optimism about the ultimate disposition of our planet’s health. One is shown at left, i.e., all we need to do is stop poisoning and otherwise harming our Earth, and it will …
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Coca Cola: Master Greenwasher
From the Story of Stuff: If you’ve followed our work, you know how we feel about Coca-Cola‘s sustainability claims (if you don’t, watch our video “EXPOSED: The Truth Behind Coca-Cola’s Advertising,” which we linked in our bio.) And it’s not …
Trump’s Failing Mental Health Not an Issue in the Upcoming Election
Unfortunately, the fact that Trump is insane is not costing him the support of his base.
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Projecting the End of Fossil Fuels
The chart here predicts continued use of fossil fuels in our transportation sector for the foreseeable future. Personally, I doubt, it. And that’s not because humankind is likely to have some sort of epiphany, a kumbaya moment, re: ceasing to …
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The Unexamined Life May Be Carefree but It Comes at a Terrible Cost to the Individual and to the Nation
Here’s a guy who appears to have no trace of uncertainty in his life, no doubts to plague him. But do most people envy him for the simplicity of his thoughts–especially these thoughts? Before the Trump era, I would have …
Learning from Bad Times
This from the oft-quoted Ralph Waldo Emerson. I suppose the issue is: How bad are these so-called “bad times?” I’m as interested in learning as the next guy, but I don’t really want to find out what world fascism or …
Gutting Government Regulation
Older readers will recall that libertarian author Ayn Rand had a significant following in the 1970s, as many people perceived, often correctly, that the public sector was defined by bloat, corruption, and, at best, far greater inefficiencies than could be …
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Trump Brings Out the Worst in Many Americans
Since Trump came onto the U.S. political scene in 2015, a huge swath of the American populous has revealed that it has an unlimited appetite for his cruelty and hatred. The former president has given the worst people in our …
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Question from a Reader
A reader asks; Why do some people use the word “comfortability” when they can just use “comfort?” Do they mean different things? This is an example of something we encounter frequently: how we make nouns from adjectives and vice versa. …
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Something Wrong with the Electoral College?
It depends on what you mean by “wrong.” If you favor the democratic notion of “one vote to one person,” then, to be sure, this is wrong. The ballots of voters in small states count several times more than those …
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