At left is a post from “Real Texas Conservatives.” When I first came across it, I wasn’t going to dignify it with a response. But then it occurred to me to remind readers that, over the last 30 years, 78% …
Author: craigshields
They All Loved Trump, Until . . .
Two corrections here: 1) Until he entered politics, Trump was essentially unknown outside of New York City, where he was reviled as a business cheat and a fraud. Finding a few photos of people smiling around him doesn’t prove otherwise. …
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Trump Is on His Way Out
From the reports we see all around us, it appears that even the most hateful and ignorant people in the United States are finally losing their appetite for Donald Trump. Some of these folks base their growing distaste for the …
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Wait. You Mean Venezuela’s Oil Isn’t Ours?
We need “experts” to tell us that we have no right to steal oil from another country?
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From 20th Century Super-Engineer Buckminster Fuller
At left we have a good example of sanity. What we have in the real world is lunacy. It’s true that selfishness is unnecessary. But it’s one of few things that human beings living in capitalist societies do well.
From the Late Carl Sagan
This translates as: There are no gods. There are no devils. There is no heaven. There is no hell. Only the marvelous universe that surrounds us.
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McDonald’s? Maybe Not.
I’m not a dietician, but I’m willing to take a stab at something here. Living on fat, sugar, salt, and low-grade meat is not a recipe for good health. As disastrous as McDonald’s is for personal health, it’s even worse …
Dismantling Our Capacity to Predict Severe Storms and Understand the Earth’s Atmosphere
Having decimated NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Trump administration is now targeting NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research. If it has anything to do with applying science to helping the American public, it’s a goner. …
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Meat–It’s What’s for Dinner, if You Don’t Care about the Animals or the Planet
We often hear meat-eaters say things like, “If beef isn’t good, why do the manufacturers of plant-based burgers try so hard to make their burgers taste like real meat?” There is no doubt that cow and pig meat tastes and …
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Trump Doubles Down on What May Have Been the Mistake that Ended His Political Career
“I was not a fan of Rob Reiner at all, in any way, shape or form. I thought he was very bad for our country,” Trump told reporters. When you’ve lived your entire life ripping off other people and making …
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