Who wants to be on a school board? What was, until recently, a thankless position, is now an extremely awkward place to be. This is exemplified by the poor sap who had to fire the QAnon believer in the story …
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Profiles in U.S. Corruption
The answer to the question posed here is that corruption is the standard by which the U.S. Congress operates. It’s really no more complicated than that. This is part of the reason that the United States has fallen in rank …
From Yahoo News: Oklahoma Proposes Letting Gas Utility Charge A $1,400 ‘Exit Fee’ To Go Electric
Switching to electric appliances cuts climate-changing gas, eliminates dangerous indoor air pollution and saves homeowners money. However, in yet another effort to prevent the cessation of fossil fuel consumption, the state of Oklahoma is proposing to make homeowners pay a …
From CNBC: 14 GOP State Attorneys General Sue Biden Administration over Oil and Gas Leasing Moratorium
Key points from their article: • Fourteen states including Louisiana and Wyoming filed suit on Wednesday against President Joe Biden’s moratorium on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters. • Biden’s order on Jan. 27 to …
Tagged with: dial back and eventually phase out the consumption of fossil fuels, executive actions to address climate change and curb planet-warming carbon emissions, Interior Department review existing permits for fossil fuel development, President Joe Biden’s moratorium on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands and waters, the effort to save the planet from incineration is getting more difficult and more expensive with each passing year
Green Infrastructure
A companion point to be made here is that, in the absence of green infrastructure, the United States is actively contributing to the incineration of our planet. In addition, building low-carbon energy generation, electric transportation, smart grid, energy storage, and …
Saying Auf Wiedersehen To Single-Passenger Gas/Diesel Powered Vehicles
The photo comparison here shows two views of Düsseldorf, Germany, taken about 20 years apart. It depicts something that is happening all around Europe, i.e., replacement of single-passenger vehicles with mass transit, bicycling, and walking. In the not-too-distant future, all …
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Cheery Note from President Biden Actually a Missed Opportunity
Here we see Biden taking an optimistic tone about America’s future, and there is some value in that; it’s certainly better than its opposite. Here’s what I used to say as a soccer coach, where my kids weren’t performing well, …
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Tagged with: Biden optimistic, criminal conman in the White House, groundless insistence that the election was rigged, most disgusting characteristics of humanity are all brought to the surface at the same time, prospect of losing our democracy, teetering on the edge of fascism, trampling of voting rights, wealthiest nation on Earth badly damaged by Russian interference in the 2016 election
Why Are We Destroying Our Home?
We’re intelligent, but that’s not our only attribute. We’re also cruel, selfish, subject to demagoguery, neurotic, superstitious, tribal, and indifferent to the suffering of others. We know that the path we’re on is completely unsustainable, but most of us simply …
Are Trump Supporters “Wrong?”
“Wrong” isn’t the word I would use here. Trump supporters have to be some blend of racist, selfish, cruel, ignorant, and above all, credulous. How anyone could possibly believe the garbage coming out of that man’s mouth is astonishing.
Tagged with: Trump Supporters
What’s That Look on Greta Thunberg’s Face?
Greta Thunberg is normally photographed with a scowl on her face, but not when in the presence of a person like Jane Goodall, who has spent her life building an understanding of life forms and using that knowledge to make …
