Apparently, Trump’s cabinet members are facing an icy response as they try to find employment in the private sector. What a shock. What corporation wouldn’t want a top executive with a track record of running the most corrupt and citizen-unfriendly …
Trump’s Cabinet Having Trouble Getting Jobs: Who Woulda Thunk It? Read More »
From The Economist: Brazilian businesses rarely preach greenery. Yet last July, 20 months after Jair Bolsonaro was elected president, rampant deforestation in the Amazon roused 38 CEOs to speak up. Foreign investment was falling and trade talks were stalled. This …
From this article on solar energy: A team of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) researchers has designed a ‘smart’ device to harvest daylight and relay it to underground spaces, reducing the need to draw on traditional energy sources for lighting.
From this piece by CBS News: More frequent and intense global challenges — in the form of disease outbreaks, financial crises, or the negative effects of climate change or new technologies — are likely to stress already brittle systems of …
John Boehner (R-OH), the former Speaker of the House, blames Trump and his lies about election fraud for the January 6 riot at the Capitol, writing that the former President “incited that bloody insurrection for nothing more than selfish reasons, …
There are no good arguments for the proliferation of guns in the United States (see chart below), but some are worse than others. The reader who sent me this seems to think that other countries don’t attack us because of …
The headline above is from this excellent, though terrifying piece. Here’s the next turn in the sickening experience that Trump supporters are having: being reported to Trump as “defectors” if they cease their donations. I’m not an expert on cults, …
GOP Threatens to Out Donors as “Defectors” to Trump If They Don’t Give Monthly Read More »
I find it amusing that Fox News and the other ultra-right wing “news” sources still interview Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and throw “gotcha” questions at him. There is no faster or more effective way to look like an idiot than …
Pete Buttigieg Carves Up Attacking Interviewer–Yet One More Time Read More »
This opinion piece in the New York Times suggests that the U.S. defense budget can be cut aggressively without endangering the nation. As if this is something we didn’t already know? The Department of Defense employs more than 200,000–in property …
Reduced Defense Spending Will Enable Better Healthcare, Education and Infrastructure Read More »
At left is an excellent example of “lying with statistics.” Comparing numbers from Obama when he came into office right after the 2008 crash that occurred under Bush 43, with numbers from Trump, before the market crash due to COVID-19. …
