News flash to the driver of the SUV shown here: The last 45 years, with its huge tax breaks for corporations and the uber-rich, has presented the most enormous redistribution of wealth in U.S. history.
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Some Women Vote for Trump, But the Reason Eludes Us
Trump is clearly on the ropes, battered as he is by so many important demographics within the overall electorate. Women rank high among them, but they are joined by all manner of men who are educated, honest, sane, and compassionate. …
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SEC Approved Weakened Climate Rule
According to the Wall Street Journal, after two years of fierce lobbying against the SEC, the regulator has approved a rule that forces listed companies to report their greenhouse gas emissions, and reveal the risks their operations face from climate …
Bertrand Russell on Religion and Science
There was a time in the recent past at which what Bertrand Russell predicted made perfect sense, and was, it seemed, in the process of coming to fruition. At this point, however, it appears that humankind has hit a hard …
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COVID Vaccinations
The chalk drawing photographed here is simply incorrect. You can’t tell me that when an anti-vaxxer is hospitalized, on a ventilator, dying an agonizing death, gasping for oxygen and slowly drowning in his own blood and pus, that a nagging …
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How All This Stuff Got Here
This is very beautiful, but let’s not forget that it can be taken several steps backwards. All the material in the recycled butterflies, wolf fur, etc. that is now your body came from the explosion of now-dead stars billions of …
Interviewing Trump’s Fall Guys
Over a period of several decades, I wrote many hundreds of market research surveys, supervised their execution on a statistically valid sample space, then tabulated and presented the results to my clients. At this point, I would love to get …
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Mark Cuban Endorses Biden
Good for Mark Cuban. When it comes to Trump, you either see him for what he is, or you don’t. Most people of intelligence and compassion are in the former camp, and fortunately, that will be more than enough votes …
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The Plan to Destroy the American Economy
Most commenters on this meme here report that “it’s already in full swing.” One might think that the appeal of this conspiracy theory would be limited to the completely uneducated, but that’s not true; an old college friend liked this …
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Each Generation Is Terrified by the Norms by which Their Children Live
As suggested here, children have been disappointing their parents, and scaring the living hell out of the pundits of their times, for more than 2000 years. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that parents today have no reason not to be terrified …
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