When it was originally founded, the NRA’s purpose was to promote gun safety, not to foster the selling of weapons of war to individuals who may suffer from mental illness or have a history of violence. It’s true that our …
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The National Rifle Association and Gun Safety
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A Cost of Doing Business
In a recent post, Mourning Lots of Unvaccinated Texans, I wrote about the people who died from COVID-19 because they refused vaccinations: maybe taking (one’s) medical advice from Fox News wasn’t such a great idea after all. But we live …
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Mourning the Deaths of Unvaccinated Texans
My hope is that this Cadillac Escalade (16 combined MPG) driver in Texas a) will stay close to home, thus protecting the rest of us from his ignorance, and b) that he’ll eventually have an experience that wipes that arrogant, …
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Life Has Many Meanings
I like this, though I would submit that there are many different activities that can bring meaning to our lives. Chief among these is leaving this world a better place than it was when we found it. When my wife …
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The Ideas of Our Times
What Voltaire wrote here seems completely true. Moreover, “our times” are marked by existential threats: environmental collapse in general and climate change in particular, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the trend towards world fascism, as the United States teeters …
Will Banning the Phrase “Climate Change” Make It Stop?
From National Public Radio: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week signed legislation that erases most references to climate change (and global warming) from state law. Florida remains the third most populous state in the union, behind California and Texas, but …
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Carbon Capture and Sequestration
To clarify: The image at the top is largely correct. As long as trees are alive, normally at least many decades, they absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and store it as hydrocarbons that, upon their death, are rereleased as they …
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Trump Supporters Vote
One thing you can say for Trump supporters: they vote. And there is no conceivable evidence that could change their minds as to who will make the best leader of our country.
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American Oil
A reader sent me the meme here, and asked, “Why don’t pictures like this ever trend?” There are two good answers: 1) Every scientifically literate person understands that the consumption of fossil fuels is making this planet increasingly uninhabitable, and …
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Removing Clarence Thomas
If we can exit 2024 with a Democrat-controlled congress and White House, there is a chance we can remove this criminal from the Supreme Court.
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