From this: Appearing on Jan Markell’s Understanding the Times radio show this Sunday, Michele Bachmann went down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole regarding the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, saying it was actually carried out by progressives …
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Hairspray, that’s what. The amount of propellant that came out of the 15-or-so hairspray cans that went into prepping for this ridiculous picture probably widened the hole in the Earth’s ozone layer.
Apparently Greta Thunberg is a controversial figure, though it’s hard to understand why. She’s insisting that the people running the world, i.e., the generation ahead of her, take better care of the Earth. Somehow, that seems just fine to me. …
The Story of Stuff makes a good point here. In truth, both the manufacturers and the consumers play important roles in reducing plastic waste, and the consumer’s role is not limited to recycling. It also includes shopping with waste in …
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An old friend, now a law professor at Georgetown, writes about this: Today is the showdown between ExxonMobil and rebel shareholders trying to convince the company to confront climate change and install four new independent directors. The vote will come …
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A surprise to no one, Trump is decrying the actions that the Justice Department is taking against him as an extension of the original witch hunt. He can be counted on to say precisely this whenever he’s attacked legally, at …
A friend sent me this, “a powerful image of what Memorial Day is all about.” It is indeed powerful. The United States is the most bellicose nation in the history of humankind. We’re a land whose core negotiating strategy is …
At this point, it appears that Senate Republicans will be effective in blocking the creation of an independent commission to investigate what culminated in the January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Perhaps even more important than the event itself …
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What Galbraith said here was true until recently. The election of Trump started an epoch in which the modern conservative is so involved in hate, cruelty, deceit, science denial, and conspiracy theories that it no longer is in search of …
Think of the type of world we would have if the Dalai Lama’s words here informed the way we live our lives. All the dogma, war, white supremacy, cruelty, superstition, and ignorance–all of it replaced by a single commodity. Kindness.
