If you happen to live next to a year-round fast-flowing river, there’s no reason you can’t do what this guy did: buy a water wheel, connect it to a generator, and power your house. Will this be cost-effective? I doubt …
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Understanding Our Children, and the Following Generation
Quick question: In a word or two, how would you characterize the youth of today? Before you answer, perhaps it would be a good idea to “walk down memory lane” and see what some of our ancestors thought about this …
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What To Do About the Southern States
Maybe it’s time that the majority of Americans simply chill out with respect to the hateful stupidity that pervades our most backward states. We’ve been trying to fix what’s wrong in the Deep South for 150 years. It simply doesn’t …
What Ron DeSantis Does and Does Not Believe
Here’s a piece in New Republic entitled Ron DeSantis Wants to Make It a Felony to Have an Undocumented Person in Your Home or Car. The truth is this: No he doesn’t. DeSantis knows that introducing a hateful and clearly …
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How Concerned Should We Be about Denial of Science?
It’s easy to see where Harrison Ford is coming from here. Personally, I’m not too concerned about the denial of science in its most visible forms, e.g., QAnon and the flat Earthers. Even the COVID and climate deniers don’t scare …
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Fleecing Morons Is a Story Old as Time, But Shouldn’t There Be a Limit?
Taking money from stupid people is a business model that dates back at least thousands of years. As Aesop put it, “A fool and his money are soon parted.” Suppose you’re selling used cars. Anyone with an IQ over 80 …
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More on the Importance of Our Rights
I wrote a post yesterday on the meme here whose point is that government and other people owe us nothing. A point I failed to make at the time is that Americans who hold this belief know nothing about civics. …
Will Trump Go Out with a Bang or a Whimper?
Here’s a matter on which we’ve speculated a great deal in the past two years. Trump’s niece is going for whimper, i.e., there will no explosion (like Trump convicted of treason). Frankly, I hope she’s wrong.
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If You Love Your Children, Take Care of the Environment
Isn’t it amazing that people have to be told this? Worse, explaining this basic idea to many people doesn’t work; we live among folks who are unwilling to make any sacrifice whatsoever when it comes to the quality of life …
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How America Lost Its Mind
How did U.S. politics become so insane? What exactly happened here? I suspect it was a combination of things: • The media discovered that it could transition news from a public service into an extremely lucrative industry, if it could …
Tagged with: criminal conman came along and capitalized of all this ignorance and frustration, Donald Trump is their only source of truth, education level of the common American sank to a point that many people lost the ability to think critically and examine what they were being told, Information and communications technology ushered in a tsunami of wealth to our country, news media created entire cable channels dedicated to fanning the flames of white middle-class anger without regard for telling the truth, tens of millions of extremely hostile and heavily armed people believing that the 2020 presidential election was rigged, transition news from a public service into an extremely lucrative industry
