At this point, about two-thirds of Republicans believe that Biden’s victory was illegitimate. This tragedy is driven by the lies of the former president, that are echoed by a few voices, small in number but deafening in volume, like that …
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Freedom and Communism
Here’s a meme a reader sent me that shows a near-complete misunderstanding of world politics. First, there are no countries on Earth that even remotely resemble communism, i.e., Karl Marx’s concept of a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of …
Global Warming–Taking Real Action
It’s good to see that the news media has amped up its coverage of climate change, and that all but the QAnon-style lunatic fringe understands that human activity is the cause of the problem. That should mean that our civilization …
Fox News Drops Trump–Now It’s Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire
If this article in the Tampa Bay Times is to be believed, Fox News is in the process of replacing Trump as its golden boy for the 2024 presidential election. The replacement? How about a relatively sane conservative, along the …
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Are Global Temperatures Really Rising?
As global temperature readings keep coming in, it’s useful, on occasion, to use a bit of math to determine the probability that what we are calling climate change is actually happening at random. In statistics, we call this the “null …
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This Is How the United States Is Unique in the Developed World
At left we see one of the great numbers of ways in which Norway (and countries like it) does things better than we do in the United States. In every single one of these differences there is a common thread: …
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Sadly Hilarious
Sometimes sad events in our lives have a strange way of providing humor. Take the American Medical Association’s revocation of Rand Paul’s license to practice medicine. That doesn’t sound funny at first glance, does it? Here’s an extremely influential person …
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Stock Market Valuation Independent of Human Misery
My wife and I were just discussing the bullish nature of today’s stock market, during which I explained that the terrifying new report from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) has no bearing on the price of equities. That’s …
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Some Trump Supporters Look Stupid
An old teacher of mine writes, “This guy thinks a mask makes him look stupid.” Now that’s funny. The Republican party has split into three parts: a) wealthy conservatives who would rather die than be seen in an outfit like …
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Winning the Climate Change Battle
Since the release of the terrifying new IPCC report a few days ago, lots of people have been talking about the prognosis for humankind on this planet, wondering what if anything can be done to avert catastrophe. As suggested in …
