Just getting back from Hawaii, visiting my aging mom. She asked me to run her by Home Depot to pick up a few succulents and some potting soil, which I didn’t mind doing even though I personally don’t spend a …
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Provocative, But Unanswerable Question: What will California look like if a massive glacier melts? Here’s your answer.
What will California look like when a massive glacier melts? Well, it depends on which one, doesn’t it? In truth, the melting of each of our glaciers is a dynamic affair, one we’re learning more about each year. Nothing about …
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Prosecuting Trump
Here’s just one more voice from history calling forward in time, instructing us how to deal with the attempt to overthrow the United States government.
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Addressing Climate Change
Here’s an interesting perspective from author, political activist, and social justice advocate Naomi Klein. Yes, this is a “civilizational wake-up call,” but we seem to be continually hitting the snooze button on the alarm. I’m reminded of the cartoon featuring …
Prosecuting Trump Is Problematic, Refusing To Is Unthinkable
A reader sent me this, remarking: He’s still here, on duty, guarding the country. As we’ve all learned over the past six or seven years, we live among tens of millions of amazingly stupid people. And for this reason, the …
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Bringing It All Together
We’ve all read novels in which various plots threads with no apparent relationship to one another come together at the conclusion to form a unified and consistent package with no loose ends. One hopes that investigation in the January 6th …
Tagged with: Andy Biggs, fake electors, investigation in the January 6th insurrection and the larger coup attempt is an example of this, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, Proud Boys, Roger Stone, sending Trump away on charges of treason, State of Georgia's investigation in election tampering, Steve Bannon (finally going to prison), Trump incited a march on the Capitol by people he knew to be armed, Trump's "stop-the-steal" organizers
Nothing Happened Today
Here’s a gag that could apply at any point in our modern history, but it’s particularly timely now, given our concerns about Merrick Garland and the invisible set of procedures that are supposedly taking place within the walls of the …
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The Paradox of Chistianity
From his Wikipedia page: Richard Rohr is an American Franciscan priest and writer on spirituality based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He was ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. In 2011 PBS called him “one of …
Where Law Ends, Tyranny Begins – John Locke
John Locke was one of the most influential thinkers of the European Enlightenment, whose works became central to the U.S. Constitution. What he says here is worth noting, given the close brush we just had with the demotion of law …
Small, Hybrid Aircraft
A reader asked me to comment on this article featuring the promise of a “hybrid triplane” design that could be put into place by 2030, offering very low-cost intercity travel– “airfares cheaper than rail.” The plane (see artist’s rendering) has …
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