As previously reported, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, is facing a recall election which may result in Larry Elder coming to power. His platform is presented at left. Yes, things are not going well in the United States at this point. …
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The Food Industry Is Not Our Friend
Based on the hair styles and bathing suits, I’m guessing this shot (larger version below) was taken in the mid-1960s. What do you notice about it? What I find most striking is that there is not a single obese person …
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What Unifies Americans, and What Doesn’t
There are several good answers to this excellent question. The first and obvious is that an attack by an exterior group to one’s own naturally pulls the assaulted group together, despite any internal differences that may exist. A more nuanced, …
Florida’s Attempts To Shred Constitution Blocked
Here’s good new at the left. IMO, his voter suppression laws that flout the 14th and 15th Amendments are even more egregious; looking forward to a decision. Important precedents say that states can do whatever they want as long as …
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What Trump Thinks of American Heroes
I wrote an earlier post on the meme at left, but here’s something else that needs to be said. Take every one of the heroes named here, the paramedics, the fire-fighters, and the police, many of whom lost their lives …
Anti-Vaxxers Don’t Think Like Normal People
I have bad news for Joe Biden, and for all Americans wishing to put the pandemic behind us: anti-vaxxers don’t function on empirical evidence.
The Tragedy of Texas
I thought the meme here was clever. Between COVID-19 incompetence, voter suppression, and the abortion ban, Texas is a complete disgrace to the union. It would be interesting to know what is motivating governor Greg Abbott to make his state …
What Do We Mean When We Say “Never Forget 9/11?”
The main point of this “never forgot” meme is a tribute to the bravery of those who took extraordinary risk and made huge sacrifices to minimize the damage and suffering on 9/11. That’s a good thing. This lies in contrast …
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Achieving Sustainability Depends on the Way We See the World
What a fabulous thought here. It’s a shame that the bulk of Western Civilization is 180 degrees opposed to this worldview. And as long as that’s the case, our capacity to reach a sustainable way of life will remain elusive.
The U.S. Attempt To Control the Pandemic is Foundering, But Why?
Here are some COVID-19 numbers, daily new cases per 100,000 people, as of yesterday, in the U.S. and three others countries I chose at random: France 16 Germany 13 Argentina 9 U.S. 49 What’s going so wrong here? We don’t …
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