Here’s an article that says that, among young voters, Trump leads Biden in a hypothetical election between the two. I’m suspicious. Yes, I know that our educational system is failing, and that young people are less altruistic than they were …
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Trump Must Survive
Re: the meme here, Donna Schlesak writes: I’ve never wished anyone dead and I’m opposed to the death penalty, but I can’t say I’d be sorry. Imagine if Hitler died years before he did. So many millions wouldn’t have lost …
Lock Him Up?
Fistfights at sporting events erupt spontaneously–even in the absence of provocative statements like the one this fellow is making. Now, this is a baseball game, so perhaps a brawl is a bit less likely here than had it been football …
CO2 –> Fuels
These people’s message to potential investors: “There is no reason to drill when you can capture CO2 directly from the air.” The concentration of CO2 in the Earth’s atmosphere is ~400 ppm, or ~0.04%. This is either a scam or …
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Ron DeSantis: Our Country Is in Trouble
I don’t think anyone of any political philosophy disputes that the United States is in trouble. When Donald Trump, facing 91 felony charges from four separate indictments, is the runaway leader in one of two parties, that qualifies as trouble …
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Monica Crowley Is Hawking “Alternative Facts”
Here we have the words of Monica Crowley, political commentator, lobbyist, and Fox News contributor. It seems, however, that she faces a few problems with her remarks here: The whole world watched the insurrection on live television. The U.S. House …
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Celebrating Noam Chomsky
MIT linguistics professor emeritus Noam Chomsky belongs in the same class as Bertrand Russell: a small group of extremely intelligent people whose contribution to society is a blend of a penetrating understanding of the world, married with a profoundly humanistic …
Qatar’s Spinning Resort and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
Really? Where does the energy come from to spin the resort? Someone thinks they’ll get more energy out than they put in? I’m reminded of a business plan for generating electricity using hydrokinetics I reviewed long ago, whose author told …
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Stupid Lasts Forever
Ancient Athenian comic playwright Aristophanes made a good point here, and it would be easy to ascribe this as an explanation of the support of Donald Trump. Giving the matter a little thought, however, we see that Americans’ IQs haven’t …
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The Union of Concerned Scientists on Hydrogen
The Union of Concerned Scientists writes: Will hydrogen be a climate solution? Not if fossil fuel interests get their way. With billions of taxpayer dollars set to flow, the Biden administration must set rigorous hydrogen standards to defend against a …
