I urge readers not to be outraged by the meme here, for two reasons: a) This guy’s in Idaho, which has joined the race to the bottom, and may already have a lead on Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and the rest. …
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Trump’s Persistence Will Only Take Him So Far
Among Trump’s “special gifts” is his tenacity. He never quits, never apologizes, never backs down. We can expect attacks like the one here straight through to the time he goes to prison, or flees the country in an effort to …
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A Healthy Economy
At left is a clever reminder that cleantech is the defining industry for the 21st Century, and that vigorous participation in it will result in enormous prosperity along with a planet that continues to support life.
Pride
I agree with the author of the meme at left, but I would broaden it. Pride means respecting each other, regardless of our sexual preferences. I understand that empathy is not exactly in vogue in the United States right now, …
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Getting It Wrong When It Comes To Understanding Humankind in the Day of Environmental Disaster
Those who follow comedian Bill Maher have noticed that a great deal of his current shtick pokes fun at progressives, and has come to support right-wing causes. The other day he did a bit that I paraphrase as such: When …
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Massive Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (“VAWT”) Coming Down
After a second catastrophic failure, Agile Wind Power is removing its giant VAWT from the Grevenbroich test site. From this: The dismantlement follows the second failure of the test turbine (see photo). The Swiss company has been developing the mammoth giromill …
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DeSantis “Attacking” Trump
The political analysts we see on TV are telling us that DeSantis is “going after” Trump, though, if that’s happening at all, it’s in the most lily-livered manner possible. A true political attack on the part of DeSantis would look …
What Would Our Dads Have Thought?
It’s a common thought among baby boomers whose fathers fought the Second World War: How would Dad have felt about this rise of the neo-Nazis in the United States? How would he regard a U.S. president who, in response to …
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Trump Has “Eviscerated” His Own Defense, But Does Anyone Care?
All this may be true. But does it matter? Does the U.S. Justice Department have the integrity and courage to indict an extremely popular person, for the precise crime that you or I would be spending decades in prison if …
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Clean Energy Will Reach Scale, and Then …
As we are all aware, there are critics of renewable energy whose arguments are that it’s expensive. The fellow photographed here is holding a 10MB hard drive from the 1960s. If IT hadn’t been taken forward and scaled, the date …
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