The reader who sent me the meme at left notes: “Abortion is child sacrifice. Children are blessings, and we must never believe the age‑old lie that their death will somehow secure a better future.” In the United States, a 9-month …
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The President of Law and Order
The irony, of course, is that he’s a sociopathic criminal. His supporters are truly pathetic human beings.
Ignorance and Vice
Here’s a thought from founding father and political philosopher Samuel Adams. Anyone who can’t see where this country is being led is blind as a bat.
Kindness to Animals
I like to eat no higher on the food chain than seafood. Even fish suffer when they’re killed by deprivation of the dissolved oxygen content in water. That’s why my boyhood bass fisherman friend and I used to shoot the …
Mel Gibson as Governor of California?
As every literate person on Earth understands, California is largely (though not exclusively) composed of well-educated and fairly affluent progressives. We value raw sewage more highly that we do the handful of celebrity Trump supporters of whom Mel Gibson is …
How Healthy Are Greenland’s Glaciers?
At a dinner party a few years ago, I had the good fortune to be seated next to a guy from JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who was leading a team of scientists who were studying the interior of glaciers. Since …
How Is U.S. Insanity Affecting Tourism?
It’s probably a bit too soon to have useable statistics on this subject, but it’s certainly not too early to apply some common sense. There are two factors at play here: 1) America is broadly regarded as a rogue country. …
The Real World Actually DOES Need Changing
What black conservative/libertarian Thomas Sowell offers here is one theory. Another is even simpler. In this country, people of color face the results of centuries of oppression. Our educational system, funded as it is by property taxes, greatly favors the …
What Trump Is Doing: Terrorizing
Stalin’s show trials, notably from 1936 to 1938, were highly staged propaganda spectacles designed to terrify the Soviet population into submission by fabricating conspiracies and forcing confessions through torture. The primary aim was to create a climate of fear, ensuring …
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Wind Energy Kites
As previously discussed, one of the most important features of the renewable energy industry is that it has winnowed out certain technologies while focusing on others. “The winners have won and the losers have lost,” as I like to say. …
