Americans lament that the good ol’ days of bipartisanship in Congress are a thing of the past. As exemplified by the process by which the members of the committee to investigate the January 6th insurrection are selected, “ain’t that the …
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Hemp and Environmental Sustainability
Hemp is one of the fastest growing plants on Earth, a fact that virtually explodes into life in the photo here. It can be refined into a variety of items, including paper, rope, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, paint, insulation, biofuel, food, …
The Frequency of Climate-Related Catastrophes
This is what a city in China looks like after receiving eight months of rain in five days, viewed through a few hundred feet of air pollution. A catastrophe, to be sure. The real problem, however, is that disasters like …
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Prosecuting the Insurrectionists
Here’s an update on the prosecution of the January 6th insurrectionists. Predictably, it centers around plea bargains from mid-tier members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, clearly focused on nailing the top of the food chain in these traitorous …
My Three Degrees of Separation from Trump
A few years ago, I asked a wealthy friend if he had any good investment ideas. He told me that the private equity firm Colony Capital had tripled his money in a fairly short period of time. I looked into …
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Quantum Mechanics Will Shake You Up
Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the photoelectric effect in 1924, the principle on which solar PV is based. Yet it was really Max Planck who set the stage for this two full decades …
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Fox News Appealing To Sanity and Responsibility?
Sure, Hannity was forced to say this, and yes, there would be a great number of people still alive today had he and the others made this statement in March of 2020. But wait a ding dong minute. If Fox …
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Can Jeff Bezos Afford To Pay His Employees a Living Wage?
This fellow’s proposition is tough to refute. So much cruelty, or, at best, indifference to the suffering of the people who support you. Just nauseating.
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You’re Here at a Critical Moment
It’s never a bad time to be reminded that we all share a responsibility to one another, insofar as we have been given this fabulous opportunity to keep our planet safe from environmental destruction.
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Response To Conservative Beliefs
My politically conservative mother asked me to read this article by historian and author Victor Hanson, which I did. I have to say that I wasn’t too impressed; it’s just the normal conservative litany of observations that we hear on …
