South Korea (pop. 51.2 million) and the U.S. (pop. 328 million) had their first confirmed cases on the same day. Five months later: S. Korea: 13,338 Cases 288 Deaths
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Handling the Pandemic with Negligent Homicide
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COVID-19 Has a Lighter Side
Sure, COVID-19 is scary as hell, both the disease itself and Americans’ truly pathetic response to it. But all along the way, there are funny little exchanges, like the one here. Normally, badass people do not refer to themselves as …
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Significant Victory for the Energy Storage Industry
Energy storage has the ironic virtue of helping out so many consumers of electrical power that it makes it hard to figure out how to integrate it into the market. It helps: • generation, by replacing expensive peaker plants,
Trump in Cartoons from Around the Globe
Here’s a brief presentation of the world’s great cartoonists and their interpretation of Donald Trump. In a survey of people in 37 countries around the globe, approximately 75% say they have “little to no” confidence in Trump’s ability to handle …
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Expelling Foreign Students: Can We Get Any Dumber?
The Trump administration’s decision to rescind student visas from those whose courses are going to be held entirely online have most Americans shaking their heads, in shame and bewilderment Part of this is simple decency. “We are being looked at …
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Boycotting Goya Foods
From: Goya Foods’ Wikipedia page: On July 9, 2020, following a White House roundtable with Hispanic business and political leaders from across the nation, Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue said the country was “blessed” to have Donald Trump as president. In response, Twitter users including Democratic U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and …
Pandemic Politics
This meme, featuring the governor of Florida, is really clever, IMO. Why the push to open schools? Create the illusion that everything’s fine, and American life has returned to the way it was before our president deliberately failed to act …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Climate Change
Question: The building shown here is (was) in Siberia, but it’s falling down. Why? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: It’s also the cause of a 20K gallon oil spill in the same region.
Embarrassed by Trump?
Quick conversation on this meme: Craig: Most of the remaining 37% have no clue how trashed the reputation of the U.S. has been in the last 3.5 years. Reader: To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure that I have a …
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Power of U.S. Passport Falls, Now Tied with Mexico’s
The power of the U.S. passport, i.e., the number of countries to which American travelers can visit without visas, has dropped in recent years, due to friction created by the Trump administration’s abusive foreign policies, and now, of course, by …
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