Yes, We’re Divided, and Yes, We’re Likely To Stay That Way
I’d love to believe what former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt says here about the future, but I actually don’t. About 40% of American voters think that the present-day Republican platform is just fine. Where is the mechanism by which this changes?
Newton’s first law states that every object will remain at rest or in uniform motion in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. Where’s this external force?
It’s certainly not coming from the left. I may be informing readers on various aspects of science and technology, but I don’t delude myself into thinking that I’m changing anyone’s political philosophy.
From this week’s newsletter from the American Energy Society:
As we get closer to the holiday season we start to think about our traditions. One we have in the Shields family is to buy a live Christmas tree and plant it after the first of the new year; every home we’ve owned through the years has at least one such addition.
For the second consecutive year Coca Cola won the award for the most polluting brand in a 
There are people who believe that America is on the right path, i.e., becoming great again–but here’s a meme that raises the question: Who are they? What do they believe in?
I wish I had been on this train to tell this this guy how much I approve of his hat.
We speak so much about divisiveness in U.S. politics that we often overlook how, I believe literally, everything else in our lives is going to extremes at the very same time.
Those wondering how climate change denial became an integral part of the Republican party should check out the video below. There really has been a dramatic shift here; three decades ago, there were several bipartisan bills on the U.S. Senate floor that would have addressed climate change, potentially preventing us from getting where we are now. Now, such efforts would be unheard of. 
Oh, I think he’s correct here. It’s strange; occasionally he says something that’s true.
Here’s an article that claims: 
