I’m not a dietician, but I’m willing to take a stab at something here. Living on fat, sugar, salt, and low-grade meat is not a recipe for good health. As disastrous as McDonald’s is for personal health, it’s even worse …
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Dismantling Our Capacity to Predict Severe Storms and Understand the Earth’s Atmosphere
Having decimated NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Trump administration is now targeting NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research. If it has anything to do with applying science to helping the American public, it’s a goner. …
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Meat–It’s What’s for Dinner, if You Don’t Care about the Animals or the Planet
We often hear meat-eaters say things like, “If beef isn’t good, why do the manufacturers of plant-based burgers try so hard to make their burgers taste like real meat?” There is no doubt that cow and pig meat tastes and …
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Trump Doubles Down on What May Have Been the Mistake that Ended His Political Career
“I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country,” Trump told reporters. When you’ve lived your entire life ripping off other people and making …
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Shouldn’t We All Be Horrified?
Great point made here. So many of the people we all live around are thrilled with Trump’s “leadership.” A friend from our neighborhood has “disappointed” us (putting it mildly), writing on social media about Trump’s rounding up and deporting immigrants, …
Vaccination Science Rejected
During the lives of us Boomers, science has completely or virtually eliminated smallpox, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and whooping cough. Looks like the folks in Florida, who reject science want to invite dread diseases back into our …
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The MAGA Movement May Be Deteriorating, But Even If That’s So, What Does It Mean?
From Newsweek: The proportion of Republicans who say they are part of the MAGA movement has dropped by seven percentage points since April. OK, these people say they are no longer part of the so-called “MAGA movement.” But what exactly …
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Trump’s Sociopathic Anger
Nice artistic effect here. An appreciable number of Americans have become tired of having a lunatic in the White House.
In the Face of a Psychotic President, Republicans Are Running out of Excuses
In his statement concerning the death of Rob Reiner and his wife, Trump revealed something to Republicans that they had been desperately trying to ignore: the president is incapable of behaving as a sane and reasonable human being. Something in …
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Making the World a Better Place — Is that Folly?
What a strange thing for someone to say, given that there are millions of people all around the globe who are clearly making the world a better place — every single day of their lives. Think of all the organizations …
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