Great quote from public intellectual Garrison Keillor here. Yet keep in mind that those working to weaken public education couldn’t care less about some notion of “community.” Whether these people are Christian fundamentalists, or some other form of small-government zealot, …
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Christian Movements
News flash: If you’re a part of a “Christian movement” that demands that “the government be a part of God’s wrath,” you have deep-seated psychological issues that are unlikely to resolve by encountering some meme on social media.
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Scandinavia and Electric Vehicles
When we look at new car sales in Norway, we see that only one in 10 is powered by an internal combustion engine. Admittedly, Northern Europe has many positive geographic and demographic features: a strong supply of renewable energy resources, …
Women Voting in 2024–Abortion Is One of Many Issues
It’s hard to imagine any self-respecting woman voting for someone who is proud of the work he’s done in removing the right to an abortion. Who doesn’t love Betty White? “If men could get pregnant, abortions would be available at …
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Some Global Warming Technologies Are “Sexier” Than Others
Here’s an NPR segment on the “sexiness” of climate science, in which the concepts of geoengineering and nuclear fusion are explored. The point is that, while things like covering large land masses with solar and wind farms may be practical, …
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Why We Trust Scientists
At left is a meme supporting the mode of thinking employed by conspiracy theorists, i.e., that they, unlike the rest of us, “have the cognitive capacity to think critically for themselves.” In fact, the reason that reasonable people trust science …
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Jesus and America
The author of the meme at left makes a point we’ve covered here numerous times. There is no reason to think that God/Jesus favors, or should favor, the U.S. over the other countries on Earth. Calling this “theological heresy,” on …
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Diversity
From the year I became an entrepreneur in 1984 until I moved into another line of work (environmental sustainability) in 2009, I’m guessing that my company (initially I myself) hired, say, 300 people. My policy was always: if two candidates …
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More On the Meaning (Meaninglessness?) of Life
In a recent post, Does Life Have Meaning? I wrote about the plethora of recent social media posts on the supposed meaninglessness of our lives. In addition to the other points I made in the original post, this subject appears …
Does Life Have Meaning?
There seems to be a great number of social media posts recently on the subject of the supposed meaninglessness of our lives. Some people point to what they believe to be an absurd cycle of “eat, work, be entertained, sleep” …
