It’s so sad to lose a formerly intellectually coherent parent to Fox News. How many millions of Americans have experienced this precise tragedy?
Yet Fox is a far more benign form of “news” disinformation than Newsmax and OAN.
A uniquely American catastrophe.
Hillsdale College, a supposed institution of learning, asks if the electoral college helps or hinders our voting process.
Its only effect is that it’s great in terms of shifting the impact of votes from populous states like New York and California to those like Wyoming and the Dakotas.
Voters in these latter states are ~4 times more influential than the former in determining the outcome of our presidential elections.
If you’re an ultra-right-winger and you don’t believe in “one person one vote,” this is a great instrument in bringing your wishes to fruition.
When I was a young boy, I made an assertion that I thought meant something of importance, only to have a friend respond, “Craig, you have a firm grasp on the obvious.” I still remember how it cut like a knife.
Recently, court filings have revealed to even the dullest minds that actors and executives at Fox News are professional liars. Perhaps at least a few of their viewers are embarrassed, as I was at the time.
Maybe, or maybe not.
I frequently wonder about the right to “bear arms” as heralded in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What was the intention of the Founding Fathers when they chose those two words? Would they have supported citizens’ right to own rocket-propelled grenades or nuclear weapons?
If they had known that had known that, 240 years later, the moron here wearing a red baseball cap would be wielding a flame thrower, what do you think they might have said?
What’s the problem with treating everyone around you well, regardless of the circumstances?
We’ve all heard someone say, “I wouldn’t wish that (some sort of pain) on my worst enemy.”
I don’t have a worst enemy; in fact, I don’t have any enemies at all. It’s not that I’ve never been mistreated, but who lives a better life by cultivating enemies and keeping their slights against us in our minds?
I hope that the sociopathic criminals in our world meet justice, but I think it’s gauche to hope that even a Donald Trump suffers a punishment any worse than what our justice system prescribes.
But take the advice of people far wiser than I could ever hope to be. You can’t control what other people do, but you can control how you react.
News Flash: Libs aren’t seething, though many feel sorry for these idiots.
Another point to be made is that shirts like these were far more popular two years ago, before thousands of morons stormed the Capitol and many hundreds were arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to prison.
It’s not news that the United States’ political scene is deeply divided, to such a degree that, regardless of what Democrats want, Republicans will work hard to make sure it doesn’t happen.
In many cases, this has the potential to make sense. If, for instance, the Biden administration wants to spend taxpayer money on programs to help the common American, feed hungry children abroad, or mitigate climate change, we can rightfully expect the GOP to protest that a big government creates more problems than it solves–in fact, as Ronald Reagan said, government is the problem.
But Russia and Ukraine? Republicans support an authoritarian state that invades a neighboring democracy and murders innocent civilians?
I sometimes hear the Fox News talking points parroted by my mom, who never misses Tucker Carlson. She’ll ask, for instance, “What do I have in common with the Ukrainian people?”
Well, how about this? You and they live in countries in which citizens elect their leaders, we’re both willing to fight against foreign aggression, and we will protect our families and neighbors against wanton arrest, imprisonment, torture, and execution. That seems pretty noncontroversial to me.
If I were advising the Republicans, I’d tell them to sit this one out, and stick with promoting AR-15s, and banning books and abortion.
The hat here is intended for the MAGA crowd, though I dare say that most Americans of all political stripes miss the “country they grew up in.”
I happen to be a progressive, but I miss the America that accepted science and rejected lies and overt racism.
I miss the America that existed while corporate greed was held in check, at least partially, by limitations on political donations.
Above all, I long for the days when a sociopath like Donald Trump would have been laughed off the political debate stage. This was an America that featured some level of intelligence and honesty, and at this point it appears to be gone forever.
Here’s a fabulous article on hydrogen, which includes a graphic that lays out the many ways in which H2 is derived from natural and man-made processes.
Spoiler: Nothing here varies from my findings on the subject, i.e., that hydrogen, though not a carbon-rich fossil fuel, is expensive, hard to store and distribute, and environmentally challenging, and will therefore not be a major factor in our energy future, absent a few scenarios in which batteries are extremely poorly suited: cargo ships, Class 8 trucks, and aircraft. Even these will eventually give way.
From 
