A reader, Tom, submitted the graph below as evidence that climate change is a hoax. Tom: If I were you I would ask why these data are so far out of alignment with everything we see in credible and reliable …
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Explaining Trumpism to Future Generations
There is only one explanation: The United States had become a land of “haves and have-nots,” the latter group consisting largely of white working-class individuals, angry at their failure to succeed financially, woefully undereducated, and as full of hate as …
Biden and Inflation
I like this, but I wouldn’t call blaming Biden for inflation “lazy thinking.” It’s propaganda, carefully disseminated to uneducated people who are already conditioned to love Trump, many of whom have “Let’s Go Brandon” bumper stickers on their trucks.
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The Lie
A good measure of the speed at which this country has descended is its seemingly limitless hunger for lies. Voter fraud, the climate hoax, the ineffectiveness of masks and vaccinations, it’s all the same. Truth has ceased to matter, and, …
Unbridled Capitalism Has Moved from Indifference to Aggression
The cartoon stands as a reminder that, in the course of my years on this planet, I’ve watched unbridled capitalism morph from: “Let us ignore the needs of others” to “Let us actively harm the well-being of others.”
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We Really Didn’t Need This
We live in a time where the most powerful country on Earth is teetering on the edge of losing its democracy, and the richest person on the planet is pushing it off the cliff with all his might.
On the Abrahamic Religions
Of the main monotheistic (Abrahamic) religions, Judaism is, IMO, the most benign, for the reason presented at left. It’s certainly the least convoluted; there is no Holy Trinity, for instance. It also requires the least acceptance of bizarre, and in …
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Feedback Loops and Climate Change
Like so many other phenomena that govern the warming of our planet, the CO2 released into the atmosphere from arctic wildfires dried out the peat on the forest floor, increasing the probability and severity of future fires. Great article from …
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Treason TV
I’d like to believe that this is the way “news” outlets like Fox, OAN, and Newsmax will someday come to be regarded, but I doubt it. Fox is constantly walking back its claims about the insurrection. For a while, it …
Never Fear, Merrick Is Here
Well, he has a 100% conviction rate in the cases he actually brings.
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