What Kennedy said here was wonderful, yet how far from today’s political discourse it is.
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Creating a Wealthy Society Requires an Understanding of Economics and History
The meme here from a reader. These really are five excellent sentences–for people who have no understanding of how the developed world became developed, and how the United States became the world’s super-power following the close of the Second World …
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Blending Thanksgiving with U.S. Politics
Another clever reference to the ultimate disposition of Donald Trump. As readers know, I’m with Snoopy on this one.
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Joe Biden and Gas Prices
A couple of points to be made in response to the meme: The major component of gas prices is the cost of crude on the world commodity markets, and U.S. presidents have a negligible effect on that. The people who …
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Did Fauci Set Up His Criminal Enterprise in the 1970s?
Yes, the right-wing narrative on Anthony Fauci does seem a bit odd, but these folks are not backing down. Fox News points out that Fauci has made a great deal of money over the years he’s been an advisor on …
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Profiting from Catastrophe
The cartoon here reminds me of a similar one, in which a senior corporate executive is looking out a conference room window and sees flames everywhere. He tells the others at the meeting, “We have to monetize this. And soon.”
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From the Los Angeles Times: U.S. Revises ‘Plant Hardiness’ Map for Gardeners to Keep Pace with Climate Change
The article begins: Southern staples like magnolia trees and camellias may now be able to grow without frost damage in once-frigid Boston. Here’s another reminder of the fact that not all the effects of global warming are harmful, and longer …
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Wind Harvest
If you’ve ever wondered how the physicists who have been studying how to extract the most energy out of the wind for the last three hundred years, whose work has been greatly accelerated in the last few decades, these people …
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Whenever We See an Artist’s Rendering, Rather than a Photograph of a Working Prototype, We Need to Wonder
This artist’s rendering at left suggests a device that its proponents say will, one day, capture CO2 from the Earth’s atmosphere, and mitigate the growing threat of climate change. But let’s think about this for a moment. The concentration of …
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Newly Elected Argentine President Will Push Right-Wing Agenda
I’m sorry to report that “the Donald Trump of Argentina” Javier Milei has won his country’s presidential election. Milei has all the earmarks of the world’s rising numbers of extreme right-wing leaders. He believes that climate change is a hoax …
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