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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

The meme here came from a (semiliterate) reader.  But independent of his use of the language, I can’t believe he’s right.

DeSantis is a terrible human being, but he doesn’t strike me as an idiot.  He can see what’s happened to every single person who’s ever gotten involved with Trump.

And that was before a torrent of criminal indictments rained down on this professional conman. Does it seem likely that DeSantis wants to be vice president in an administration where the president is hauled away in handcuffs and tried for treason?

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

The meme here reminds us that swastikas and other racist symbology were once uniformly despised in the United States, and that many members of the Greatest Generation gave their lives to prevent the spread of fascism in World War II.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

I received a request to “support Vivek Ramaswamy for President, help fight wokeness culture.”  Lol.  I’ll get right on that.

I long for the days when the dichotomy between the Democrats and Republicans actually made sense.  The GOP used to mean things like small government and personal accountability.  But had you asked Barry Goldwater if his party was fighting against the idea of having a compassionate awareness of the needs of other human beings, he would have laughed in your face.

What sort of monster objects to kindness and decency?  I guess that’s what we’re learning.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

This fellow makes a good point, but isn’t there a limit?  Given that were all endowed at birth with a huge brain and an enormous capacity for compassion and kindness, how is it possible that half of the United States has come to think that wokeness is a disease and that Donald Trump is the rightful president?

Many of the world’s wealthiest people are profiting from enterprises like Big Oil, knowing with full certainty that they are dooming this planet and everyone living on it to a future of extreme environmental degradation.  How is this possible?

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Here’s a reminder that life today, with all its moral and financial challenges, is actually pretty good, catapulted as it is by IT, communications, and healthcare technology.

On top of that, we may be right around the corner from expelling Trump from our lives, getting a grip on climate change and other environmental catastrophes, routing Russia out of Ukraine, etc.

 

 

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Climate Change

He could have been a man of compassion, a humanitarian, a savior to millions of starving children, the spearhead of climate change mitigation.

It’s hard to imagine a bigger moral catastrophe.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

At left is the opinion of op-ed columnist for The New York Times Charles Blow, and he’s nailed it.

There is no doubt that violence will ensue as a result, but the alternative is far worse, i.e., abandoning rule of law just because some strong man will incite riots if he faces criminal charges.

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Hydrokinetics

If you happen to live next to a year-round fast-flowing river, there’s no reason you can’t do what this guy did: buy a water wheel, connect it to a generator, and power your house.

Will this be cost-effective?  I doubt it, especially when maintenance is taken into consideration.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Quick question:  In a word or two, how would you characterize the youth of today?

Before you answer, perhaps it would be a good idea to “walk down memory lane” and see what some of our ancestors thought about this very issue.

I love this piece in Time Magazine, but trust me, it gets worse.  Quickly.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Maybe it’s time that the majority of Americans simply chill out with respect to the hateful stupidity that pervades our most backward states.  We’ve been trying to fix what’s wrong in the Deep South for 150 years.  It simply doesn’t work.

There’s a reason that most people in, for instance, Mississippi or Arkansas, live there.  If they want to ban books (see meme at left), deny science, or teach creationism as science, perhaps it’s time to say, Have It Your Way, as in the old Burger King commercial.

From Neil Young’s song: Alabama.  You have the rest of the union to help you along.  What’s going wrong? 

The answer: Nothing whatsoever. This is precisely what these people want.  So why not let them live their dream?  They’re already at the bottom in education, economic opportunity, and healthcare, and they’re close to the top in racial violence and gun deaths.  How much further can they fall?

Now, obviously, there is a line.  Don’t lynch black people.  If it comes down to bodily injury, we’ll be after you, as we explained to the assassins of Ahmaud Arbery and anyone else who was listening, when our justice system sentenced this innocent black jogger’s three murderers to life in prison, and, up until fairly recently, would have fried them in the state’s electric chair, like so many pieces of chicken.

Seriously, after almost two centuries, it’s time to learn that societal concepts like Trump, white supremacy, and cold, raw ignorance coupled with seething hate against non-Whites just may be the perfect path for some people.

Perhaps it’s plain time for the rest of us to turn our attention elsewhere.

There are problems we can solve, and others we simply can’t.

 

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