December is a good time of year to remind ourselves that our consumerism as a society is a choice; it’s not a requirement. On a related note, when we support the thrift-store economy, we’re reducing the amount of resources that …
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Number of Fossil Fuel Lobbyists at Climate Meeting “Beyond Justification”
Re: the meme here, a reader notes: This climate meeting was all about fossil fuel strategies and alliances to wipe out renewable energy. There is no doubt that this was the focus on the part of Big Oil. Looked at …
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Santa’s Mistake
This cartoon by “Stines” reminds us that, when they grow up, naughty kids turn into bad adults who have no compunction about destroying the planet’s capacity to support life, if that’s what’s required to make them rich.
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Fighting Wokeism Seems a Bit Silly
Though we Americans tend to learn very little about the political issues that motivate voters in other countries, things elsewhere around the globe seem to make better sense than they do here. I would be shocked to know that the …
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Yes, Biden Is Old
Good job by Jimmy Kimmel here (or, more properly, one of his writers).
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Peace on Earth
Thucydides’ statement here implies that war has been a permanent, 365-day-a-year feature of Western society for at least the last 2500 years. Occasionally we run into small groups of people who are trying to change that, like the organizers of …
Presidential Embarrassment
I’m willing to bet that he’ll find incarceration even more embarrassing.
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Getting on Board with Ted Cruz
When we come across political advertising like this, we realize to our horror that many Americans are incapable of any more refined level of thinking than this, and that their votes counts just as much as yours and mine.
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Trump Couldn’t Possibly Be Reelected–Here’s Another Reason
In a recent post, I laid out the principal reason that Trump could not possibly be reelected, i.e., by next November, the entire world will have seen crushing evidence that proves that the former president committed a vast array of …
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Trump Tells It Like It Is
The next presidential election is still almost a year from now, so we’ll have to wait a considerable length of time to see what happens. This is good news for the media, though it’s no minor disease for the mental …
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