Author: craigshields

Each year we learn more about the horrific effects that human activity is having on the natural world: over-fishing, encroaching on habitats, etc. Of course, there are examples of the reverse, i.e., the natural world encroaching’s on us.  Here’s a …

Humankind Needs To Share the Planet with Nature–And Vice Versa Read More »

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It’s intuitively obvious that kids who spend huge amounts of time on social media become physically unfit, introverted and anti-social, and develop tendencies towards bullying.  This isn’t empirically proven, at least to the best of my knowledge, but it’s hard …

Kids, Screen-Time, and Sustainability Read More »

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They say, “The future always looks like the past, until it looks like something else altogether.” Given that, perhaps there is hope for this planet. But if the indefinite future looks like what we have right now, and this civilization …

Coal Keeps the Lights On? Read More »

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A mentally ill reader sent me this. It’s true that people of reason and compassion find this hard to look at.  Scarcely a day goes by without a major shooting somewhere in the U.S. Sometimes we lose random grocery store …

Owning the Libs Read More »

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When will this cease? That’s not a rhetorical question. At what point will Trump knock off the stolen election narrative, and simply go away (hopefully to prison)? I predict that at a certain point, Trump will be completely discredited, and …

Trump To Be Discredited Read More »

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At left we see an interesting thought.  We all have images of packs of wild animals and their leaders.  We remember Mufasa from Disney’s “The Lion King.”  Wise, brave, selfless, and honest. Of course, we  have no way of verifying …

How We Choose Our Leaders Read More »

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I’m fairly certain corporate CEOs would not take on the entirety of the Republican Party on some minor political issue. Overt voter suppression, however, isn’t minor; it’s an obscenity to American democracy, and every self-respecting U.S. citizen–at any level in …

NBC News: “McConnell warns corporate America to ‘stay out of politics’ — but says donations are OK” Read More »

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Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy: Is the White House concerned that Major League Baseball is moving their All-Star Game to Colorado, where voting regulations are very similar to Georgia(‘s)?  White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki:

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I cannot verify that Confucius actually said this, but who cares?  It’s wonderfully descriptive of the United States today. We live in a society in which almost everything of consequence happens because rich people profit from it.  Perhaps this is …

Confucius Could Have Been Referring to 21st Century American Society Read More »

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Handling communications for the White House at this point is tricky, because, in an effort to be fair, the ultra-right-wing media, e.g., Fox, OANN, and Newsmax need to be invited to the table.  But at the same time, they live …

White House Communications in an Era of Alternative News Universes Read More »

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