From ABC News: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott calls diversity efforts ‘illegal,’ tells state agencies to stop. Diversity efforts in hiring “proactively encourage discrimination,” a memo said. Hiring policies that attempt to build racial diversity are looked upon highly by those …
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Diversity Efforts Will Always Be Controversial
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Are “Microlinos” the Future of Transportation?
In reference to my recent post: What EV Are, and Are Not, in Our Future, a reader notes: You need a Microlino – right? I say no… if you care not about your body. But someday, we might have little …
Amazingly Powerful and Efficient Charitable Foundation: Turimiquire
Here’s an excerpt from the thank-you letter I just received from the oft-mentioned charitable organization I support in Venezuela, call the Turimiquire Foundation. I thought readers would be interested in what these folks are accomplishing down there. An astounding 96+ …
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A Message from the Anti-Intellectuals
“When your education limits your imagination, it’s called indoctrination.” Of course, but why on Earth does education reduce one’s imagination? Having a better understanding of how the world works should enhance one’s creative capacities. This is the typical sour grapes …
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Capitalism vs. Socialism: A False Dichotomy
I saw a “reject socialism” bumper sticker on a pickup truck yesterday. And directly under the piece at left on Facebook is the meme below. This, of course, is hopeless. It’s easier to talk about political issues with a dog …
What EV Are, and Are Not, in Our Future
When I come across an animated video for a little and unattractive “car of the future,” I normally conclude: “Well of course it’s animated, because nothing even remotely close to this will ever actually be built, because it will have …
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Is DeSantis “Evil,” Or He Just Another Huckster Living Off Our Morally- and Intellectually-Challenged?
The meme here got me thinking. It’s hard to determine Ron DeSantis’ true motives. He knows that he has broad appeal with uneducated people who have no compassion whatsoever for the billions of non-white, non-Christians around the globe, and whose …
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One of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Ugly Moments”
This from a reader. Are you suggesting she has any moments that aren’t ugly? Being ugly is her brand; it’s the only thing that makes her appealing to the hateful morons in a rural part of Georgia.
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Tucker Carlson to the Rescue
I laughed out loud when I saw this. Apparently, there are people stupid enough to turn to Tucker Carlson for financial advice and insights into the economy. I happen to have an extremely wealthy friend who runs a hedge fund, …
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More on GM’s Investment in Its New V-8
Here’s a little hate mail on my recent post: General Motors Building a New V-8 Engine: At least someone in that company has the brains to build what the public wants not electric motors shoved up our butts. There is …
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