As Trump’s poll numbers continue to plummet and the odds against a second term continue to grow, the president will soon face the fact that he’ll no longer be in office as of January 20, 2021. What happens when that …
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Insurance Giants Dropping Support for Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline
From this piece in InsuranceBusinessMag.com: Subsidiaries of both Talanx and Munich Re were named on Trans Mountain’s certificate of insurance – they are among 11 companies offering $508 million of liability insurance for the 12-month period up to August 31, …
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Trump Doesn’t Care What Happens to American Troops
Shouldn’t this be enough? What else is required before the American people simply demand that he be removed?
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Solar PV and Land Use
There are lots of cool, win-win combinations of renewable energy and environmentally friendly uses of land. Here’s a short podcast on sheep and solar PV, explaining how ground-mounted solar can team up with the raising of sheep for the benefit …
A National Mask Mandate Could Save The U.S. Economy $1 Trillion, Goldman Sachs Says
So begins this article in Forbes: As mask-wearing becomes a political flashpoint—despite coronavirus cases spiking to record levels across the country—new research from Goldman Sachs suggests a national mask mandate would slow the growth rate of new coronavirus infections and …
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Americans Struggle with COVID-19 Precautions
Apparently, there are groups of Americans that have real trouble with adhering to the exhortations of our scientific community, specially to our epidemiologists and other public health experts when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s a conversation I just …
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ExxonMobil and the Future of Energy
As shown here, ExxonMobil ostensibly wants to keep me up to date on the future of energy in my state, and suggests via the photograph, without the least bit of sincerity, that it may come in the form of algal …
Lincoln Project Hits Hard
Holy cats! Those Republican Voters Against Trump mean biz, as my daughter likes to say. Here’s an ex-Navy Seal, now an ER physician, who’s infuriated that Trump is betraying U.S. troops.
Americans Struggle To Deal With the Pandemic
Here’s another one in the category: “would be funny if it weren’t so tragic.” Actually, there are many adjectives that could be used to describe the curve on the right. Certainly, stupid works very well, but so do arrogant and selfish. …
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Solar “e-Yacht” — Environmental Boating?
I would call the photo here deceptive. The manufacturer of the “Greenline 48 Fly,” as it’s called, represent their product as “environmental boating. Yet it has two diesel engines that deliver a combined 440 horsepower. In full sun, that solar …
