Ensuring that oil remains the predominant transportation fuel is vital to enabling rich people to get richer. The fact that war is the main tool to maintain this situation is also key to enormous wealth; the U.S. “defense” budget has …
Author: craigshields
This Insanity Deepens
You might have thought that the scenario at left was impossible. Here’s a racist moron lecturing the Pope on “matters of theology.”
This May Be Over Soon
The American public is losing patience with this insanity. And “the American public” is not limited to educated liberals. There are plenty of hateful morons who can see that the criminal sociopath in the White House has lost whatever clarity …
Hard Times for Plant-Based Meat
Plant-based meats, which once seemed destined to help us reduce our consumption of slaughtered cows and lower the vast ecological damage that the beef industry is inflicting on our planet, seems to have failed. Beyond Meat, which is the only …
Big Money Still Controls Planet’s Energy
When I was in college in the 1970s, I recall hearing people say, “We’ll have solar energy when the Rockefellers own the sun.” Nothing’s changed too much in half a century.
Even Trump’s Endorsement Can’t Ruin This Guy’s Chances in His Race for Office
It’s hard to imagine how certain politicians can lose in the 2026 midterms, even with “the kiss of death” (Trump’s endorsement). This guy’s district in Texas is largely the panhandle, far from the more educated and sophisticated parts of the …
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A Metaphor on the Natural Forces that Support Human Life on Earth
I met a guy yesterday who told me, “We live on this planet at the generosity of the forces of nature. These privileges can be withdrawn at any time, and without notice.” I thought that was clever.
Progressivism
Everyone living in the United States benefits from our federal, state, and local governments in many dozens of different ways, from roads, bridges, tunnels, airports, banking insurance, help for veterans, national forests, public schooling (K-12), firefighting, criminal justice, fuel pipelines, …
America’s Worst Presidents
Historians point to Andrew Jackson, with his butchering of the Native Americans, to the presidents immediately before and after the U.S. Civil War, and to Warren Harding as the previous “worst presidents in our nation’s history.” Having said that, regardless …
What it Means to Be a Conservative
The meme here is a reminder that to call oneself a “conservative” used to mean something, other than the desire to conserve America’s racist and imperialistic heritage. There have been conservatives all throughout U.S. history. For some reason, our nation’s …
Tagged with: activist Naomi Klein, America's racist and imperialistic heritage, and Story of Stuff founder Annie Leonard, climate advocate Bill McKibben, David Attenborough (naturalist), Jane Goodall (primatologist), John Muir (national parks pioneer), Rachel Carson (author of Silent Spring), Steve Irwin (wildlife educator)
