Hegel said, “The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” The meme here may constitute an exception. Burning and banning books has never been a practice of the heroes in any contest.
Author: craigshields
“Smart” Water
Recently I heard someone say, “If you’re drinking Smart Water, it’s not working.” Clever, and accurate at the same time. We don’t need bottled water of any type. Drinking water from reusable containers will help keep plastic waste out of …
Tagged with: plastic waste
Roofing Solution Lowers Carbon Footprint
The “before and after” here illustrates a superior solution to ripping off and replacing old and leaky roofs of commercial buildings. It’s a white, silicone solution that is painted across the roof, reflecting more of the sun’s incoming radiation back …
Sadly, Toyota Rejects Electric Transportation
As a whole, the transportation sector is transitioning to electric, and as fossil fuels disappear from the grid-mix, this will result in a massive decarbonization, enabling our planet to mitigate climate change to a large degree. One might hope that …
Good News from Barclays
Barclays committing to no longer investing in fossil fuel projects and that more than 96% of all new electric capacity in the U.S. will be renewable in 2024. I have personal connections at my bank that I don’t want to offend, and …
Tagged with: high ethical standards vis-a-vis the environment.
The Southern Border as a Campaign Issue
Will Republicans’ decision to kill a funding bill that would have strengthened the U.S. southern border ultimately work in their favor, or will it come back to bite them? From here, it seems like an openly traitorous thing to do. …
Tagged with: Trump border security
Does Social Media Change Anything?
The creator of the meme here believes that memes themselves have the power to affect change. Of course, blog sites like this may largely be “preaching to the choir” when it comes to politics, but I like to credit many …
Tagged with: open mindedness
Presidential Immunity and Our Right-Wing Supreme Court
The idea that Trump may escape justice via a U.S. Supreme Court decision to the effect that he is immune from criminal prosecution is on all Americans’ minds. Absolutely terrifying.
Trump Buddy Ken Cheseboro Is Going Down Hard
Of the 19 co-defendants in the Fulton County criminal prosecution into Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, it seems that no-one faces greater short-term pressure to stay out of prison than Ken Cheseboro. An indicted co-conspirator who has …
Religion, Science, and the Future of the Two
At left is what Bertrand Russell said perhaps a century ago. My take on this may be slightly different, in that I call religion our prescientific understanding of the universe. Human beings with our newly formed big brains were called …
