At left is Eric Swalwell’s idea for preventing another Donald Trump. While I grant that something needs to be done to combat Trump and any future sociopath in the White House, I’m not sure we need an extra contrivance, when …
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Building Infrastructure Efficiently
Think of the efficiency associated with driving trucks around and picking up old toilets and sinks that last in homes for many decades, taking them to a facility where they are ground into small porcelain chips, ultimately shipping the chips …
Biodegradable Plastic
Building biodegradable plastic is tricky, because a plastic container can’t fall apart until it’s no longer needed to contain its contents. E,g., you don’t want a plastic milk bottle to last 500 years, but it needs to last at least …
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The Politics of Older People
This is funny, but there is a certain sadness to it as well, i.e., that old people tend to be Trump supporters. It would be interesting to know why this is. Perhaps it has to do with having grown up …
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Anti-Vaxxers Are Now Denying Vaccinations to Their Pets
Until recently, Americans uniformly accepted the science behind vaccinating their dogs and cats against diseases like rabies that could potentially kill not only the pets themselves, but any of the people they bit or scratched. That was before the Trump …
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How to Regard the Trump Presidency
To the reader who sent me this: Really. Our president is a criminal sociopath who had his people storm the Capitol and came within an eyelash of overthrowing the U.S. government in 2021. He was charged with 91 felony counts …
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Learning from Schopenhauer
19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer certainly never won the “Mr. Popularity” prize for his dismal perspectives on human life. He’s probably best known for his views that intelligent people can never be happy, and that, in fact, the smarter …
Switzerland and the U.S. — Some Profound Differences
America, with its childish response to immigrants, as shown at left, stands in stark contrast to Switzerland, one of the most sophisticated and highly developed countries on Earth. Switzerland features: Fabulous education, incredible, urbane culture, and a standard of living …
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What Went Wrong Here in the United States?
To answer the question posed at left: America at one time had moral standards, but we’ve abandoned them. Now, it’s about the essential principles of MAGA: white nationalism, the rejection of science, and the repudiation of “wokeism.” It’s a disgusting …
Banning “Critical Race Theory”
Schoolchildren all around most of the country, and all over the world, are taught (roughly) the truth about U.S. history. Alabama is one of few outliers. There, children are taught that blacks and whites have, and have always had, equal …
