A reader notes: George Carlin does a bit about how we are told we are ruining our planet. It’s on Youtube if you can find it, I think it’s hysterical along with making a lot of sense. Yes. See below. …
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Flags and Their Meaning
From “A Word a Day” A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. -Arundhati Roy, writer and activist (b. 24 Nov …
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Misplaced Concerns
Here’s another good one that gets at our monumental disregard for the long-term environmental destruction that accompanies climate change.
Preventing Future Tragedies
Understandably, politicians don’t want to be forced into difficult positions, like having to pass common sense gun laws, simply because Americans are being mowed down with assault rifles at an ever-increasing rate. Yet, we need to make sure we bring …
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Climate Deniers and the “Straw Man” Fallacy
From Wikipedia: A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false …
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Do We Have More in Common with Homeless People than Billionaires?
No. True, my net worth is closer to zero than a billion dollars, but, like virtually all 2GreenEnergy enthusiasts, I live a comfortable life of good nutrition, healthcare, access to information, and safety from the elements. Perhaps the author’s point …
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Understanding Americans’ Financial Distress
Maybe you’re wondering why “no one wants to work anymore,” or how it’s possible that 60% of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck. I hope this helps.
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What About Hunter Biden’s Laptop?
The circus that is the United States is built partially on the fact that half the country really has no interest in getting to the truth about January 6th. They don’t have a huge problem with the prosecution of the …
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Can We Cooperate?
A friend asked me the other day what I thought would be required to bring humankind together in a concerted effort to deal with the impending climate catastrophe. It’s a big question. One has to think that such an event …
Secret Societies
One of the reasons that atheists don’t believe in God is that they don’t think His existence adds anything in terms of our understanding of the world around us. From Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian, “If everything …
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