Author: craigshields

I predict that the event promoted here will cease to exist in a few years, because we’re getting very close to the point where both the scientific and the business communities realize that the entire CCS enterprise is a bust. …

Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Read More »

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These are good questions, and they come with a few, tightly related answers: Ignorance, white nationalism and anti-wokeism.  Trump supporters don’t love everything he says and does, but their hatred is so intense that they happily accept their leader. Of …

Why Trump? Read More »

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Memorial Day is a bad 24-hour period for Trump, as, like Veterans Day, it reminds our country how hostile the former president has been to the American military. In turns, this reminds us that, in addition to being a pathological …

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Well, technically it is. In economics, inflation is defined as “a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy.”  It so happens that the inflation we’re  experiencing right now is due to the record profits that …

It’s Not Inflation When … Read More »

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Here’s another clever message to the effect that we’re failing miserably to take care of our only home, and that it’s our money-motivation that’s driving this catastrophe. When I was a small boy, I read that the side effects of …

Our Planet’s Future? Read More »

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Re: the meme here: confusing? How about repulsive?

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FWIW, I agree with Michael Foot, Labour Party Member of Parliament in 1980s England.  I would add that this whole matter is even simpler now, 40 years later, as the rich have gotten far richer and the poor far poorer. …

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Here’s a voter named Mark. Question: How many “Marks” are there out there? I get the feeling that there are plenty of Republicans who understand that Trump is a criminal sociopath and will refuse to vote for him, regardless of …

Good People Will Refuse to Vote for a Criminal Sociopath Read More »

I thought readers would enjoying the mug shot of a Republican lawyer arraigned on charges of election fraud. All this is reminiscent of the Nazi principle: blame your opponents for the crimes you have committed.  

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A reader and I had a brief (but interesting, I think) conversation about presidential immunity: Craig: If I had told you five years ago that the U.S. Supreme Court would be considering the assertion that every American was subject to …

Losing Our Democracy Read More »

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