I’m not sure the world today is qualitatively different than it was when I was a child in the early 1960s, at least in any way that would make me a different parent than my parents were for me. The …
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How Different Is Parenting Today?
Tagged with: Can you imagine how far Donald Trump would have gotten in a presidential race as recently as 10 years ago?, make sure to leave this world a better place than it was when you came into it, the world today features more convenience and better health, the world today is far more ignorant and immoral
It’s Up To Each of Us
From this: Robert Swan (1956) is a British historian, explorer and activist, best known for being the first person to walk to both Poles. In 1986 he arrived to the South Pole and three years later, in 1989, he set …
Why the GOP Is Losing Ground
There are several separate dynamics that are exerting pressure on the Republican Party in the United States right now, one of which is represented by the fellow shown here: the party has pushed itself so far to the right that …
Sedition
It looks like a significant number of these hateful morons are going down for sedition, and perhaps murder. Although there was at least one phone call between the insurrectionists and the White House the day before the riot, the current …
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Targeted With Probably the Most Vicious Corporate Counterattack in American History
If you believe in voting with your wallet and your conscience, you’ll want to stay as far as possible from any Chevron gasoline station. None of the Big Oil companies is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Exxon Mobil’s a …
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Trump in 2024?
If this guy thinks Trump is unlikely to run for president in 2024 at this point, wait till he takes into consideration the effects of the extremely likely events that will occur between now and then: • Vigorous prosecution of …
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The “SkyBrator”
Shown here is a bladeless wind turbine that generates electricity from the vibrations the wind sets off in it. The company says it has plans to create a 140 meter turbine with a power capacity of 1 megawatt. Let’s do …
We Really Don’t Care
Here are a few words from philosopher, logician, and humanitarian Bertrand Russell. Sadly, American culture has never reflected this point of view, and is aggressively moving even further in the other direction. The nation was founded on a spirit of …
Tagged with: exploitation of the environment
Biden’s Bad News for Incendiary Talk Radio Hosts
Yes, it could be said that Joe Biden has an unimposing style. But hey, if you’re trying to rile up an audience full of right-wing extremists, I would think there are plenty of places to go: government hand-outs, tax hikes …
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Ending Fossil Fuel Subsidies?
A great deal of the environmental damage that was done during the Trump administration is either already repaired or is in the process of becoming so. Many of these issues took a mere stroke of the pen (or click of …
