From the Boston Globe: The Texas lawsuit asking the US Supreme Court to invalidate Joe Biden’s victory has quickly become a conservative litmus test, as 106 members of Congress and multiple state attorneys general signed onto the case even as …
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I don’t envy guys with lots of money, big cars or trophy wives. I’d be lying, however, if I said that I don’t envy the amazing intelligence and wit of New Yorker journalist Andy Borowitz. About his meme here he …
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A reader requested comments on his query at the left. This isn’t a yes-or-no question; in other words, yes, I would think this is one of the many mechanisms that lies behind climate denialism. Here are a few others:
Remarkably, conservatives disapprove of the teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, on the basis that she’s an angry child who should be in school rather than making noise about a branch of science that she doesn’t fully understand.
I know there are people who think that extreme right-wing violence pre- and post-inauguration is a needless worry, and that the notion that this is even possible is demeaning to the garden-variety Trump supporter. I wish I could believe that. …
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In his ongoing attempt to inject as much hostility as possible into the U.S. culture, paralleling the strategy that Trump himself has found so useful, Rush Limbaugh said on his show yesterday, “I actually think that we’re trending toward secession, …
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This raises an interesting question, if I can be pardoned for dabbling in gossip for a moment here. Given a) the less-than-amorous relationship between Donald and Melania, b) his descent into lunacy, c) his removal from office, d) his exposure …
From Historic Moments: This is known as one of medicine’s most incredible moments. In 1922, at the University of Toronto, scientists went to a hospital ward with children who were comatose and dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. Imagine a room full …
An old friend sent me this piece on the Aptera, an EV “new” to the market and powered by the sun, asking for my comments. A couple of things:
Imagine the duck (goose?) here is American democracy. Here’s how close it was to the end.
