Yes, but that was before–75 years before–a) our educational system had failed, b) we had developed the means to mass disseminate complete, anti-scientific garbage, and c) levels of greed and selfishness had risen to a point that the world had …
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The Left Fears Blacks and Whites Coming Together. Wait. What?
Some of the crap readers send me is more ludicrous than others. Here’s a prize winner. The left fears blacks and whites coming together? It’s just another indication of how totally ignorant Americans have become. No public figure would have …
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Tagged with: KKK, neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, skinheads, White nationalist groups
Rights and Obligations
I loved this quote when I first came upon it many years ago, long before COVID-19. Now it has a much more powerful meaning that no one at the time would have considered possible, i.e., that more than 20% of …
The Costs of Addressing Climate Change
Most people understand that the longer our civilization waits to address climate change in earnest, the more expensive it’s going to be. Moreover, the costs are not growing linearly, but exponentially. However, there are several impediments: • The private sector …
Tagged with: address climate caused devastation before it's too late, addressing climate change, Big Oil owns the U.S. Congress, clean technologies like renewable energy, environmentalism in any of its forms is a political football, externalize the environmental costs, Green New Deal, more than 200000 groups whose mission is environmental responsibility, Most of the world's carbon pollution is coming from the developing world, no tax on carbon, Republican Party looks at climate change mitigation as anti-capitalist
COVID-19 Carries With It Some Happy Accidents
As we know, it’s mainly the anti-vaxxers who are dropping like flies from COVID-19. As indicted at left, there are a few other pieces of irony that work in our favor as well.
Tagged with: anti-vaxxers
Alito Says Recent Supreme Court Decisions Aren’t the Work Of ‘a Dangerous Cabal’
Funny. That’s what the spokespeople for all dangerous cabals say.
Tagged with: Supreme Court Decisions
Why America Is Struggling To Vaccinate Its People
How can something like this be explained? Well, how many people in Canada and Cambodia think their governments are trying to enslave them? The U.S. is the wealthiest country on Earth, and has all the access to vaccines it could …
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At One Point in U.S. History, Government Was Held in Esteem
This is what Republican political thinking was like in the late 1950s. Now, it would be the platform of a progressive Democrat. It suggests something that today would be subversive: that government has a responsibility to take care of its …
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Eli Electric — A New Neighborhood Electric Vehicle
These folks claim to have “re-imagined” the neighborhood EV and are looking for investors to get them into production. For those new to this industry, a NEV has a top speed of 25 MPH and is therefore intended to be …
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Dullards Can’t Get Enough of “Replacement Theory” Rants
Obviously, the racist and xenophobic rants of people like Tucker Carlson and alleged child sex trafficker Matt Gaetz are aimed at a less intelligent audience than the American people as a whole, but really, how stupid do you have to …
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