We CAN Get Rid of Chemical Pesticides, But Here’s Why We WON’T
Here’s a very short video that reveals why it’s so difficult to remove chemical pesticides from our production of vegetables. It offers a glimpse into how the potatoes are selected to become the French fries that McDonald’s offers its customers.
There may be, somewhere in our culture, an example of huge corporate profitmaking that doesn’t rely on either a) the natural ignorance of the consumer, or b) deliberate deception on the part of the purveyor, but I can’t think of a single one.
The concept that rule of law sits at the core of all civilized societies has been around a long time–at least 2100 years.
I’m not familiar with Noel Casler, but he’s both funny and insightful.
I have a conversation with one friend or another on this subject about once per month. The question: how terrible do things have to become before “bread and circuses” no longer maintain the order of capitalism over some other system of social order?
I would edit the text in the meme at left and replace “….to die for your Second Amendment right” with “to die for what is clearly a misinterpretation of the Second Amendment .” What Warren Burger said on this subject is more than worth keeping in mind, IMO.
This excellent rebuttal was made by a Canadian, but it could just as easily been a Japanese, or a citizen of almost any other country on Earth than the U.S.
What these congressional Republicans are attempting to do, of course, is to communicate to the National Rifle Association and the most extreme right-wing voters that they are not wishy-washy on the Second Amendment, and that they couldn’t care less how many little kids’ bodies are riddled with bullets.
I saw the announcement at left on a social media group called “Grammar Police,” where people come to ask questions about the proper use of English, and to lampoon folks who may have gotten something wrong.
I thought I’d make a few comments on the foolish garbage presented at left.
As suggested in the cartoon here, humankind is currently losing the battle to keep the Earth a healthy place to live. This is largely driven by the United States, the world’s largest economy, and our refusal to reduce carbon emissions.
