The United States boasts the lowest inflation rate of the OECD nations, and that rate is holding steady at about 3.5%. Yet the common American is having trouble affording basic goods and services. Perhaps that’s because of record corporate profits, …
Author: craigshields
Thorium-Based Nuclear Energy
Can solar and wind scale fast enough to keep climate change in check, by decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors? That’s a controversial matter. What’s not at all controversial is that nuclear power, if it can be implemented safely and …
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Our Daughters
What the author of the meme here says is true–not only of some of us, but of damn near all of us. Of course, there are “old-time” religious institutions whose adherents build their lives around the word of the bible. …
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American Ignorance
It seems that there are Americans who don’t know that each and every country around the globe, more than 200 in total, had its own response to COVID-19, and that Dr. Fauci had nothing to do with the decisions in …
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Is the Scientific Community Corrupt?
For a moment, think of all the world’s scientists and the disciplines across which they operate (see below). Then ask yourself what percentage of these people work under coercion, censorship, fake data, manipulation, cherry-picking, and fear mongering. I know dozens …
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A Woman’s Place
As we all know, a pro football player told the graduating class at Benedictine College that women should aspire to be homemakers. This would have been newsworthy if the sponsoring body were not a small, deeply religious school in Kansas. …
Pathological Believers
This British gentleman has nailed the core problem we face in the U.S. I’m reminded of the occasional conversations I have with Fox News acolytes, where I’m compelled to ask, “And you believe that?”
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Where We’re Going as a Species
At this point in the “development” (some would say “retrogression”) of human society, it appears that the hopes expressed here by the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu are not taking root. That’s because: 1) Our species evolved to be tribal, i.e., …
Destroying American Education–The Last Nail
I don’t know who this guy is or what his area of expertise may be. It’s certainly not education. Getting rid of Algebra 2 will mean the end of all college students who major in chemistry, physics, and, of course, …
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Optimism in Action
It’s quite possible that we actually are at the onset of a “collective awakening.” Maybe we’ve seen enough. Enough hatred. Enough stupidity. Maybe we see the handwriting on the wall for women’s rights, for environmental decay. Maybe Americans don’t want …
