Getting Young People to the Polls
We can only hope this young man represents the viewpoints of a very large number of his peers.
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After Trump Is Gone
“Cowardice” applies to Congressional Republicans, not to voters. Trump supporters at the polls are largely people filled with ignorance and hate.
Republican congresspeople who are scared of losing their jobs in the primaries, and so pretend to stand behind the former president, truly are cowards. Most people can’t come close to imagining how spineless a human being would have to be to go along with Trump’s nonstop barrage of lies and crimes against his country, knowing full-well that they’re violating the oath they took to defend this nation and its constitution.
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Worst-Case Scenarios for Humankind
Planting a vegetable garden is a wonderful thing to do, but why the silly hyperbole?
The “barter system” dates back 6000 years; it’s by far the oldest form of economic transaction. I give you corn and you cut my hair or shoe my horse.
If human civilization devolves to a point in which only those who grow their own food can eat, we are, each one of us, supremely screwed.
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Electing a Leader Who’s Under Criminal Indictment
This is interesting, but the argument that “A leader under indictment cannot attend to the national interests” applies only marginally to Trump.
That’s because he never attended to national interests (only his own) even before he was indicted.
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RFK Jr. as a Presidential Candidate
Common Dreams writes: “The stakes are too high and the margins are potentially too close for anyone concerned about the environment to view Kennedy as a safe vote for the climate.”
It’s hard to imagine how Kennedy could garner any significant amount of votes, regardless of which party he runs under.
With his QAnon-style viewpoint on climate change, he’s a nonstarter for progressives, and especially educated ones.
He may sweep a few votes away from Trump, but even that’s a stretch.
America does not need another crackpot in its political milieu.
Religion in the Middle East: A Big Taboo
With all the media coverage of the vicious terrorist attack on Israel, it’s weird that no one seems to mention religion as the proximate cause of this atrocity.
For a moment, imagine a scenario in which none of the players in the Middle East believed they were supported by a god, and that any conceivable mistreatment of others was justified accordingly.
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Japan: First Flying Car?
No, there are several investment scams in the U.S. offered by companies who claim this to be the future of transportation.
Sounds great, doesn’t it? No pilot’s license required!
All that’s required to enter this fraudulent enterprise is a graphic artist and an audience of people too stupid to understand that our society really doesn’t want smashed up planes and bodies raining out of the sky like hail stones.
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Bridges
I’ve mentioned my fondness for A Word a Day, presented by the noted linguist Anu Garg. Not only is it good for the vocabulary, it includes a “thought for the day” which is generally quite interesting.
Here’s today’s from -Ivo Andric, novelist, Nobel laureate (9 Oct 1892-1975)
From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living, nothing in my eyes is better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
I thought this was particularly meaningful, given the range of hostilities present around the world.
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Why Jesus Hasn’t Returned
Anywhere there is a buck to be made, regardless of how morally debased one has to be in order to participate in it, there will be people stooping to it.
Some sell heroin; others traffic little kids into sexual slavery.
Does it come as a surprise that this guy profits off the fear of our nation’s most ignorant people?
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Carl Sagan Would Be Rolling Over in His Grave
Carl Sagan left us in 1996.
If this is what he thought while he was still on this planet, it’s hard to imagine the pity and contempt with which he would regard this nation in its current mentally defective condition.
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