The problem is that karma doesn’t work like this, unless we are somehow reincarnated. Otherwise, Donald Trump wouldn’t have seen his high school graduation.
Author: craigshields
Marketing Creates Demand, Not Resentment
Here’s an ad for a book for children, say 4-to-7-year-olds, called “Computer Engineering for Babies.” As a marketing guy, I have to mention that the name “for babies” is a terrible idea. What child wants to be demeaned? What parent …
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We Can Agree…..Oh, Wait, No We Can’t
In his book on operant conditioning, Walden Two, B. F. Skinner writes (and I paraphrase), “We can agree that love is better than hate, that peace is better than war, and that productive energy is better than neurotic sloth.” Now, …
Brief Calculations on Small Wind
I just got off the phone with a gentleman who is representing a solution in small vertical axis wind turbines (HAWTs). He claims that they produce 310 watts per square foot. Using this handy wind calculator, we find that this …
A Conversation About Trump and Dishonesty
When I wrote this about the meme here, “Yes. Bring back the conman,” a reader asks: Have YOU ever conned someone or misrepresented your intentions? Yes, but there are important differences. E.g., my entire life is not built around dishonesty, …
January 6th Committee Moves Ahead
All this grabs the attention, but will anything come of it? A reader sent me a roster of each of the 46 U.S. presidents and said, “Here’s a list of the presidents who were not criminally charged, let alone convicted …
Why West Virginia Really Doesn’t Care
What Nobel laureate Robert Reich suggests here makes sense. But sadly, rationality plays a very limited role in the minds of West Virginia voters. Yes, too many of them are ill and poor, and they travel around on infrastructure that …
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Global Warming and Geoengineering
Here’s a Jeopardy-style answer/question for you. In the category Geoengineering: It’s the percentage of the incoming solar radiation that we must reflect back into space in order to stop global warming dead in its tracks. Correct response: What is 1%? …
Banning Insurrectionists from the Ballot Not in the Cards
Most of America agrees that Madison Cawthorn is a human disaster, but this article of the 14th Amendment cannot apply to someone merely accused of having participated in an insurrection. In fact, that would violate the 5th Amendment’s presumption of …
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