There are some extremely disturbing trends out there in the world, and the most visible of them are here in the United States.
I just had a conversation with a guy who asked me, “Isn’t the implementation of renewable energy an uphill battle in the U.S. right now?” To which I replied, “Absolutely. We seem to be operating on the principle: If there is something good and positive that can be ruined, you can count on this administration to ruin it.”
This looks great. My only challenge is “ignoring nonsense.”
The problem is that literally everyone ignores what they believe to be nonsense, whether it’s climate science or voodoo.
Most Americans think that Trump, with his constant barrage of lies and criminality is “nonsensical,” while they think the same about us “woke communists.”
What Neil deGrasse Tyson says here is good. Among other things. cremation requires energy that has to come from somewhere.
In my advance directive, I have called for the “mushroom suit,” causing my body to turn into plant food (and neutralize its toxins) in a matter of a few months.
At left is something I came across on social media, and here’s what I wrote them:
“Here’s an idea. You put $122K in escrow, to be released to me in one year, and I’ll send you $100K today.”
Haven’t heard a peep out of them.
I wonder how many American parents, even those who still support Trump, would like to see their children grow up to have the same character as the president.
My mother, who left us recently, was a life-long Republican who lived on a steady diet of Fox News and voted for Trump three times. Even she detested him as a person for his dishonesty, criminality, and lack of concern for anybody but himself.
I’d guess people who agree with this woman represent perhaps 10-15% of the U.S. population.
To the reader who sent me this:
Holy smokes, how disappointing; I didn’t know there were people stupid and mean enough to post something like this.
1) If you’re a Caucasian, your ancestors settled here and then murdered the indigenous people.
2) Illegal immigrants are not eligible for welfare.
I have to say that I’m a sucker for a good analogy, and I love what Tony Rush has done at left.
Apparently, what Cardinal Mueller said at left is factual, and, for some perverse reason, it makes me laugh.
This guy is so far out of step with the Catholic church and the changes it’s made over the last decade or so that it’s funny. The last pope, Francis, said about LGBTQ people, “Who am I to judge them?”
This guy didn’t get the memo about putting Christ back in Christianity, feeding the hungry, treating immigrants kindly, healing the sick, and so forth. He seems like the voice of Roman Catholicism from some prior period, perhaps that of the Spanish Inquisition, or Europe in the 1930s.
Also, not to judge a book by its cover, but he looks the part of the bad old days.
The danger posed by Trump’s bombing of the boats off the coast of Venezuela is that it’s blatantly lawless. It’s a clear violation of an entire array of domestic and international legislation, and just another indication that Trump believes he’s above the law.
And let’s be honest: at this point, he is above the law. Defying court orders, dropping 50+ felony charges against himself, having his name affixed to government buildings without congressional approval — it’s just standard operating procedure.
It’s both surprising and disappointing to see our country’s greatest minds, like Mark Twain and Robert Frost, make comments like this about education.
Would our children be better off illiterate? Unable to find Russia on a globe? Believing that the world is flat, or that vaccinations cause disease?
If you’re one of the world’s most gifted artists, poets, or musicians, or perhaps the most intuitive scientists like Einstein or Schrodinger, it’s possible that you may regard learning algebra or the history of the Second World War or the Louisiana Purchase as a bore.
For the rest of us, it’s a gift.
