An important factor in the upcoming U.S. presidential election is the vote of traditional Republicans who have enough intelligence and integrity not to re-elect Trump. As suggested in the meme here, Liz Cheney is the unofficial spokesperson for this group; …
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The Los Angeles Times reports: Gas-powered yard tools may be harder to come by starting this year. Assembly Bill 1346 requires phasing out fossil fuel-fueled leaf blowers, lawnmowers, weed trimmers, chain saws and other tools. The tools were targeted for …
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Everyone knows that burning jet fuel releases CO2 into the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect and further warming the Earth. But did you know that contrails act to make the situation even worse? And that some of our top scientific …
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The comment at left is from former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, and it’s hard to dispute. Allowing Trump to use some technicality to avoid prosecution for the 91 felonies of which he’s accused says one thing: all American citizens …
This from physicist Brian Greene. Sadly, very few young people can name (let alone look up to) a single living scientist. Ultimately, this is due to our society’s fixation on money. Rock stars and football quarterbacks enjoy vast media exposure …
Re: Trump’s post at left, economic analyst Robert Rapier writes: He already predicted in 2020: “If Biden is elected, the stock market will crash and your 401k will be zero.” Now that the stock market is at a record high, …
This from French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher François-Marie Arouet, known to us as Voltaire. If you’ve never read Candide, I hope you’ll treat yourself. The reason he’s correct here is the truth of what Plato said 2000 years prior, …
Without doubt, there are many vectors in American civilization that have all come together to create what we call “Trumpism” or the MAGA movement. One, of course, is the presence of Trump himself. Until 2015, when he came on the …
My conservative mother points out that, whenever Trump is attacked, his popularity rises. There does seem to be some truth here, though perhaps the causal element here is simply that his name stays in the news. For example, the media …
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America’s favorite poet makes a good point. But Marcus Aurelius and the other stoic philosophers would add three more on top of his: until it doesn’t. Seize the day.
