It comes as no surprise that many Americans still think the pandemic is a hoax, or at least the numbers are deliberately and grossly inflated so as to scare us and ruin our economy. A bilingual friend sent me a …
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Fox to Trump: “Ignore Alarmist COVID Drivel”
Until the coronavirus, few Americans thought too much about pandemic management. In the last few months, however, we’ve come to understand at least a few basic concepts, perhaps the most central of which is this: You will never know if …
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The Spectre of Socialism
We often hear otherwise intelligent people say, “Trump is the only thing standing between us and socialism.” What a strange remark that is. What would a Biden presidency be like? He’s a centrist Democrat like Obama, and there will be …
Tagged with: better educated young people, better health outcomes, better protection of personal liberties, degradation of water and air standards, educated people are harder to lie to and suppress, improved image of America on the world stage, improvement in environmental quality, more voter participation, runaway greenhouse gas emissions, stronger democracy
“Coronafest 2020”
Today’s Americans find themselves in a strange moral position. Obviously, it’s not right to hope that 50,000 Trump supporters in Oklahoma who don’t believe in epidemiology will infect each other and wind up thinning the herd considerably. Having said that, it …
How The Rest of the World Sees the United States
I found this just now, and I thought I’d publish it in an effort to describe how ridiculous the U.S. appears on the world stage. It’s possible that the garden-variety Trump supporters from the so-called “fly-over states” don’t travel abroad …
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Unsafe Consumer Products?
We’ve often discussed Americans’ peculiar rejection of science, whether it takes the form of climate change denial, fear of vaccinations and GMOs, dismissal of the COVID-19 response, or the welcoming of environmental deregulation. In many cases, this is the result …
We Are All Connected
What Pope Francis points out here is almost definitely true; he’s spot-on as usual. Like so many other challenges our civilization faces, overcoming the pandemic will not be possible if we continue to ignore the needs of the least fortunate …
U.S. Supreme Court: Pipeline Can Cross Appalachian Trail
Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natural gas pipeline to cross under the popular Appalachian Trail in rural Virginia. Bernie Sanders notes: The Supreme …
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Trump’s Health
I like this. Not only is this right from a humanitarian perspective, but who wants to see Trump removed for health reasons? He needs to be removed (and imprisoned) because he’s a sociopathic criminal; that’s the only way to fully …
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Election Day Is Our Opportunity to Make Orwell Fiction Again
If I didn’t live on a small cul de sac where no one would see it, I’d be sporting this little beauty out on my front yard. Some people knew that we were going full Orwellian before Trump was sworn …
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