It seems appropriate that we would use this day, the 202nd birthday of Henry David Thoreau, to remark on the dramatic rise of protests in the United States. As reported here, the largest protests in American history are happening now, and that we should expect them to get bigger. (more…)
If there were a contest for the egregious cabinet appointment, a case could be made for a great number. Being an “energy guy,” I could talk for days about Energy Secretary Rick “science behind climate change is unsettled” Perry. (more…)
Honest Abe’s quote here is both interesting and inspiring, but is it true?
Both China and Russia are in the process of driving the United States into obscurity and irrelevance, each using its own weaponry–both clever in their own regard, and neither by threat of military force. (more…)
Here’s wonderful imagery that illustrates how inefficient our current modes of transportation are.
Antonymous vehicles get rid of the driver. What we need to phase out is the car, and the gasoline that powers it.
To Kill a Mockingbird was published on this date in 1960. As country lawyer Atticus Finch tells his daughter Scout, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy…but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
This has real meaning in today’s world, where we’re arresting church pastors whose religious convictions dictate that they should leave water in the Mexican deserts, to save the lives of families who, starving and fearing for their lives, desperately flee their homelands to find food and safety.
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…)
