I find Carl Sagan to be one of the most admirable characters in human history, and I certainly understand what he’s saying here. But I also understand that there are people on our only home who must be stopped from …
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Trump’s Former National Security Advisor Predicts Trump Won’t Run in 2024
John Bolton has predicted Trump won’t run for president again in 2024 because he (Trump) fears being known as a loser if it doesn’t work out, and that his current posturing is being done only to keep attention on himself. …
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Some Beings Have a Native Understanding of Newtonian Mechanics, Others Don’t
I’ve been thrown off a horse twice, both after my asking him to canter. The more recent of the two happened when the animal took a few steps, but then halted abruptly and lowered his head, causing me to to …
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Climate Change and Killer Heat
This map shows areas where a wet-bulb temperature (see explanation below **) greater than 32.0°C (89.6°F) occurs for more than 10 days per year at 4.0°C global warming. Such a temperature rise could see nearly half of the world’s population …
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Cumulative Carbon Emissions
The bar chart below lists the top carbon emitting countries over the last 171 years. The relevance? There is absolutely none, as far as I can see. China and India had virtually zero industrialization until very recently. That doesn’t mean …
Establishing a Value for a College Education
When I was working on my MA in philosophy (at my father’s expense), his friends used to kid him, “Hey, Craig. What’s the job market looking like for professional philosophers?” Seriously, two points: It’s both annoying and amazing that people …
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Axios Reports: Trump Is at “War With the Rule of Law and the Constitution,” According to Liz Cheney
From this: In a fiery speech on Tuesday, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) called on the Republican Party to reject former President Trump’s lies and return to an identity rooted in “fidelity to the Constitution … [and] the rule of law.”
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Khrushchev’s Comment on America’s Communism Never Happened
A friend sent me this, but it was so preposterous, I immediately looked it up. As I soon learned, he never said this. Someone wrote: Correct, but do you think any of these people will check? Good point. I checked …
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Trump and the GOP
The cartoon here makes its point, but I doubt it’s true. On a national level, there are too many Republicans that have realized that Trump is simply a conman. Moreover, his legal woes are just starting to mount. What’s going …
Editing Biden
My mom and I talk about this frequently. Apparently, as if I didn’t know. Fox News takes clips of Biden’s speaking out of context, and it really does appear that he’s losing his faculties. Many of us have seen this …
