It’s possible that the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan is even more popular now than he was when he was alive. Eminently quotable, Dr. Sagan is best known for his philosophical observances of humankind, irrational ways we think and act, and …
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“News” Source Reports Trump Landslide Victory
Someone sent me this screen shot from OAN, the ultra-right wing “news” source that makes Fox News seem sane and fair in comparison. Wow! California went Trump. Who would have thought it possible? LOL In reality, Biden won, 11 million …
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GOP Congressman Says He Wants ’18 More Months of Chaos’ to Stall Democrats So Republicans Can Retake Congress in 2022
I wrote a post on this subject recently, but I want to re-express what a vile bastard Chip Roy is, and, by extension, how repugnant the entire Republican party is. We now know, as if we didn’t before: The GOP’s …
Tagged with: treason
Resentment Grows As To How Billionaires Are Spending Their Money
The possibility that someone, through a grand act of philanthropy, could completely obliterate a terrible condition on this planet only recently arose, simply because of the exponential growth in the net worth of the world’s richest people. Jeff Besoz, the …
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Toyota: What a Bitter Disappointment
I was just about to write a post to express my revulsion with Toyota for two things: a) its support of the “Sedition Caucus,” the members of the House of Representatives who, after the January 6th riots were brought to …
The Demagogue
I wish I knew who wrote the words we see here, but I guess it doesn’t really matter. This is what the United States experienced from 2016 – 2020, and, to an extent, continues to suffer under. Most of us …
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Education Is the Vaccine
Indeed. As Robespierre put it, “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.” But how to get there from here? In the United States, we have essentially a two-party system, …
Oregon: 100% Clean Power By 2040
From SolarPowerWorld: A bill committing electricity providers to deliver 100% clean power to Oregon customers by 2040 passed both the House and Senate of the Oregon State Legislative Assembly on Saturday. If the policy is signed into law by Gov. …
Tagged with: advanced nuclear, development of grid-scale energy storage, Exxon is aggressively and effectively stalling the transition to clean energy, fossil fuel industry industry is clearly not giving up in the attempts to bake and poison our planet for profit, price of renewables, “We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.”
GOP U.S. Rep Says His Party Wants “18 More Months of Chaos and the Inability To Get Stuff Done”
From this: Newly leaked video footage of a recent event hosted by the right-wing group Patriot Voices shows Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas openly admitting that his party wants “18 more months of chaos and the inability to get …
Home Composter
Here’s one of those kitchen appliances that turns table scraps into compost. Anyone who thinks there is a net environmental benefit to plugging in a heating element and running it for 4 – 20 hours is a moron. Here are …
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