From NASA: Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time. As of July 18, 2022, Lake Mead was filled to …
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Will Religion Fade As Our Civilization Adopts Science?
From the time I was a small boy until just the past few years, I believed exactly what Bertrand Russell said here. Two centuries before Russell, Voltaire had pointed out, referring to religion as the basis for most of our …
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Liz Cheney’s White Hot Future
When Trump is finally expelled from U.S. politics, it seems likely that Liz Cheney will be able to claim that she was the driving force behind the purge of her party’s pathological lying, criminality, and pure insanity. It’s the sad …
The Atheist Mind
If you polled 100 randomly chosen atheists and asked them to defend their (lack of) belief, it may be the “moral argument”(shown at left) that you’d hear most often. If, in your mind, God is asking you to be a …
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Patriotism and Nationalism
In all honesty, I never considered myself patriotic until the coup attempt that began shortly after the 2020 election and continues today. I always thought that patriotism was a juvenile and oversimplified approach to a complicated world, and that, more …
Pure Capitalism Exists Nowhere
Here’s a clever reminder that no country on the planet provides unfettered capitalism, nor pure communism. Don’t look for this truth to come out of the GOP, which treats its voters like children who are incapable of any nuanced thinking. …
Liars Aren’t the Problem
Interesting perspective here. Had Trump come along 10 years earlier, when most Americans still had the capacity to process information, he would have been met with a blend of about 10% anger and 90% ridicule. Yet in 2016, he became …
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In the Alex Jones/Sandy Hook Elementary Trial, Justice Will Need to Come from Texas
As I covered in my recent post Alex Jones Goes on Trial in Huge Defamation Case, it appears that justice is on its way. Well, we hope. This trial will be conducted in Texas, a state that is home to …
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Windfall Tax on Big Oil
As previously mentioned, ExxonMobil reported a net profit of $5.5 billion in Q1 this year, more than doubling its earnings from the first quarter of 2021. The UK appears to have dealt with this fairly and effectively. They don’t have …
Alex Jones Goes on Trial in Huge Defamation Case
From this: Jury selection is set for today in a trial that will finally determine how much Alex Jones must pay Sandy Hook Elementary School parents for falsely telling his audience that the school shooting was a hoax. Unfortunately, at …
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