Senior energy analyst Glen Doty remarks: This made me smile.
And a reader adds: “No felons” seemed pretty obvious. Didn’t know we had to write that one down.
Governor Walz: I like you, but:
1) While I hate quibbling over the nuances of words, I wouldn’t use the word “marred” here. Dining room tables are “marred” when someone drops a knife on them. Families are “torn apart” when they lose a little kid in a shooting.
2) As a governor of a state, I suppose you’re obligated to offer prayers, but the whole idea of appealing to a god whose plan for this family included a mass shooting sounds lame in the extreme. I would simply refuse to do it.
3) Please call for the United States to deal with this epidemic the way the rest of the world has and take weapons of war out of the hands of psychopaths.
As shown at left, not everyone in the United States government is letting Trump order him around like a slave.
Of course, JB Pritzker is the governor of a progressive state and is speaking about Chicago, a large and extremely productive city where Trump wouldn’t be welcome even if he weren’t sending in his Gestapo. Thus, Pritzker can afford to raise his voice opposition to the would-be authoritarian.
Why is this planet doing so little to mitigate climate change? Yes, partly it’s due to the fact that people alive today, especially those in the second half of their lives, will be dead before the worst effects of global warming turn this planet into a wasteland.
I would say that a larger driver is the selfish greed that is part and parcel with unrestricted market capitalism. Simply put, we prioritize money over human life.
It’s amazing what gets Americans upset.
There are 1.5 billion people who can’t get a glass of clean drinking water on a planet that is slowly baking, losing its capacity to support life. A lawless authoritarian is aggressively attacking U.S. democracy.
And we somehow get our panties in a twist about how a third-rate restaurant markets itself?
As shown at left, the United States has, in large measure, abandoned the idea that our government act in accord with the U.S. Constitution and the wishes of the men who came together to found this nation.
We’re all waiting for the congress and/or the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and halt this lawlessness, but they both seem to be nowhere in sight.
Given that the crime rate is so much higher in the red states, what’s the fascination with punishing cities that are controlled by democrats?
By exerting the absolute power that Trump believes comes along with the U.S. presidency, he has most definitely thrown most Americans into a snit.
Strangely, we preferred the representative democracy we had before.
Good question.
It depends on what country. Sure, we wouldn’t want to see this anywhere in the developed world. In the developing world, we would probably say, “It’s just one more step towards world fascism, but in some country of dubious importance.”
Of course that would be sad, but the fact that it’s happening here in the world’s most important democracy is what makes it particularly tragic on the global stage.
This reminds me of someone I met who believes the Earth is hollow, and that there is a hole at the North Pole that leads down to an underground world. When he told me that he wants to lead an expedition up there to find it, I suggested that a less expensive way forward would be talking to the hundreds of airplane pilots who fly near the North Pole every day, or downloading publicly available satellite images.
I’m convinced that most of the people in this so-called “movement” really don’t believe what they’re espousing. If you’re in California, for instance, and the sun is starting to set, just call someone on the East Coast and ask where the sun is. When you learn that is completely dark there, you will have proved that the Earth couldn’t possibly be flat.
