I thought this was a joke, right, but…..no. The fellow on the right is shown here dispensing holy water on a hydrogen bomb.
As usual, I’m loath to challenge religious beliefs, but I have to ask: Who in hell blesses weapons of mass destruction?
As shown below, however, there are excellent parodies along these lines…. (more…)
We live our lives inundated with lies from every direction, and at every level, so, in a certain sense, fraudulent crap like this shouldn’t be surprising. (more…)
The car/boat shown here isn’t a bad investment for those in one of America’s areas prone to “sunny day flooding,” a term that is being used with increasing frequency as the oceans expand via rising temperatures, and the ice sheets in places like Greenland continue to melt. According to this, “Rising sea levels and an abnormal weather system will make flooding more common in 40 parts of the U.S. this year and beyond, according to a report published Wednesday by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.”
From New Yorker Magazine’s satirist Andy Borowitz:
LONDON (The Borowitz Report)—Following the resignation of its Ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, the government of the United Kingdom has disclosed that it has been unable to find a replacement for Darroch who does not also think that Donald J. Trump is a blithering idiot. (more…)
Germany’s decision to remove all coal from its grid-mix in the next 20 years is just one more part among its bold plans to move entirely to renewables. It’s a move that is made all the more difficult by its decision to decommission its nuclear plants, but it’s a big step in its abiding commitment toward a clean energy future. (more…)
Tom Udall (D-NM — pictured) and a few other U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would take the U.S. grid-mix from its current 18% concentration of renewables up to 50% by 2035. It’s not that no one here is trying to avoid melting glaciers and lethal droughts. (more…)
Those of us with a practical concern for the transition from fossil fuels wish that R&D in energy and transportation would be focused on the obvious winners, or at least those that are possible, and away from areas that have no chance of long-term success. (more…)
According to The Writer’s Almanac, it’s the birthday of anthropologist Franz Boas, born in 1858. Boaz stressed the need to study four fields — ethnology, linguistics, physical anthropology, and archaeology — before making any generalizations about any one culture. (more…)
US Attorney for the Southern District of New York announces charges against Jeffery Epstein
From today’s Daily Stoic: The Stoics were not unacquainted with awful people. They saw tyrants. They saw cheats. They saw toxic egomaniacs and insatiable ambitions. And what was their reaction to most of these people? Aside from a general wariness and a desire not to be corrupted by them, mostly the Stoics pitied these types. (more…)
OPEC warns climate campaigners are “greatest threat to our industry going forward.”
The largest oil cartel in the world sits on top of countless trillions of dollars of crude, and understandably, they don’t want that value to fall–for any reason. (more…)
