Technologically, the world has the capacity to end most of human suffering, and create a sustainable society in which we all live productive, healthy, and happy lives. Politically, we’re as far away from that potential as we are from Andromeda.
Author: craigshields
Carl Sagan Didn’t Suffer Fools Gladly
Carl Sagan died in 1996. Maybe it’s good that he couldn’t see what the United States looks like now. We don’t dabble in stupidity. We bathe in it. We elect it president. We have a cult of 74 million voters …
Tagged with: Carl Sagan
America First Trumpism Takes To the Road
Yeah! Go get ’em! Take it on the goddamn road! America needs REAL Republicans. None of these pansies with traditional conservative values like small government, personal accountability, free markets and little regulation. I want Capitol stormers. Anti-maskers. Open carriers of …
CleanTech: Nothing Succeeds Like Success
This fellow asks a very good question. When indeed? First, let’s realize that America is the only nation that has trouble assimilating this idea. We are also a culture that worships money, and in this case, that may turn out …
Former Treasury Secretary: Administration’s Proposals “Extremely Important”
Janet Yellen says the administration’s proposals “are extremely important and necessary to invest in our economy so that we can be competitive.” It’s so refreshing to see this happening. The entire rest of the world understands that building out infrastructure …
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Saying Goodbye To Trickle Down Economics
From The Guardian: Cut taxes on the rich. Unleash a wave of entrepreneurship. Growth will pick up and more jobs will be created. Everybody benefits. That, in essence, is trickle down – a theory of economics that Joe Biden wants to …
Tagged with: cut taxes on the rich, highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression occurred under Reagan and Bush, Human rights, infrastructure/job growth, Joe Biden, restoring the respect afforded to the United States from by rest of the world that had all but completely evaporated over the last four years, The Guardian, trickle down economics doesn't work
Respecting the Rights of LGBTQ People
This spoke to me. There is a great deal of hand-wringing about the acceptance of LGBTQs into our society, but it seems like such a stupid and mean-spirited enterprise. What Rudner writes at the bottom captures the real reason some …
Tagged with: discrimination and hate
Fox News and the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Both Canada and the UK have banned Fox News. Obviously, this is a far trickier subject in the United States, given our First Amendment rights to free speech. Yet, there are several kinds of speech that the U.S. Supreme Court …
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Tagged with: first amendment
What’s Destroying the Arctic Sea Ice?
Here’s a piece on “heat bombs” that researchers believe are a chief cause of the vast Arctic ice-melt taking place before us. Until now, it was known that all sea ice is on a path to disappear in the Arctic …
No Room in the GOP for Anti-Trump Republicans, At Least Right Now
This is true right now, in the spring of 2021. Whether it will be true when the mid-terms roll around in 2022 or the 2024 presidential election is anyone’s guess. Consider:
Tagged with: controlling the pandemic, Dominion Voting Systems, jobs and the economy, the "stolen election" narrative, the infrastructure bill, Trump committed election tampering, Trump committed extortion, Trump committed fraud, Trump committed tax evasion, Trump incited insurrection, Trump's spectacular array of legal woes
