A reader commented on the photo here as follows: I wish he (Trump) could die. I don’t. Sure, he richly deserves punishment, but I care far more about the fate of this country than I do about the justice that …
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In-N-Out Attracts Employees with Bizarre Tactic: Paying Decently
When my kids were little, they used to adore In-N-Out. Glad to see these folks are refusing to play the “starvation wages” game, one that blends human suffering with the injustice of supplemental nutrition paid for by the taxpayer.
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Faces Criminal Investigation, Possible Impeachment Over COVID Response
From the PBS News Hour: Brazil formalized a criminal investigation last week into President Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the pandemic. It could lead to his impeachment. The country just passed 400,000 total fatalities so far, with no significant slowdown in …
More on Former Trump Campaign Attorney Sidney Powell
Yesterday I mentioned this piece in Bloomberg that begins: Dominion Voting Systems Inc. blasted former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell for telling a judge that her claims about a vast election-fraud conspiracy were merely opinions in order to dodge the company’s …
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Trump’s Former Campaign Attorney’s New Defense for Spreading the “Big Lie”
From this piece in Bloomberg: Dominion Voting Systems Inc. blasted former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell for telling a judge that her claims about a vast election-fraud conspiracy were merely opinions in order to dodge the company’s $1.3 billion defamation suit.
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Global Warming and Increasing Levels of Precipitation
From Yale Climate Connections: The Southwest is the only region experiencing a decrease in heavy precipitation events. But even there, the intensity of rainfall during the region’s monsoon season has increased since the 1960s, according to a study in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical …
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The President of the United States Called for Patriots To Storm the Capitol–Doesn’t That Mean Something?
As previously discussed, I find this argument at least partially valid. Most, if not all of these hateful morons honestly believed that the President of the United States asked them to “go down to the Capitol and fight like hell …
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Writing and Humanitarianism
Carl Sagan was best known in his time as a charismatic astronomer, but will probably be remembered as a deeply committed humanitarian. What he said here about writing is just amazing. Travel writer Pico Iyer added, “Writing is, in the …
The Republican Party v. Liz Cheney
At left we read what Liz Cheney is going through, on behalf of the United States of America. She’s the daughter of Dick Cheney, the man who was the chief architect of the Iraq War. By spreading the lie that …
Humankind and the Environment
This size comparison between the Titanic and a modern day cruise ship may serve as a reminder that human impact on this planet is far larger than it’s ever been before, and the rate of growth continues to increase as …
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