Those outside the U.S. may not get the joke here. It’s a reference to the senate race in Pennsylvania, it which the state’s current lieutenant governor, a perfectly decent human being, may lose to a conman who has made a fortune selling phony cures on television.
To add some science to the discussion, it’s incorrect to say that a dandelion is not a “weed,” which is defined as an “unwanted plant.” Anywhere they’re unwanted, they’re weeds.
Now, perhaps we should rethink what plants we want around us.
From the popular Christian pastor John Pavlovitz:
I was brought up believing that hell was real, though later in life I’d grown skeptical. It seemed like an idea incompatible with a loving God and with the very idea of Grace.
I’m not sure that hell exists, but today I admit to being strangely hopeful. (more…)
What has three wheels, one seat, runs on electricity, and costs $18,500?
A “Solo” (shown here).
How well will this do in the market?
It depends on people’s appetite for owning more than one car, with the commensurate costs of insurance, registration, maintenance, parking, etc.
Unless you’re the type of driver who never carries passengers (are there any?), this probably won’t work for you.
Here’s a combination of self-deprecating humility and raw truth.
In particular, these folks are surrounded by cowards. What other description applies to people who know goddamn well that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, but don’t have the guts to say that openly? Their spinelessness has America on the brink of civil war.
Right.
Republicans are absolutely fine on terrorism committed by white people.
School shootings? An insurrection? No big deal.
We’ve all seen clever memes that attempt to explain Fox News in a few simple words.
Perhaps my favorite: “Fox News–Making People Mean and Stupid Since 1996.”
Blair Imani is a: “writer, mental health advocate, and historian living at the intersections of Black, Queer, and Muslim identity.”
The point she makes here is spot-on. There are no crises that are going to affect the filthy rich. Foul air and water, fierce heat waves, catastrophic storms, world hunger, and tyrannical governments are disasters that affect others.
Of course, it’s still possible that humankind can achieve a sustainable civilization before it’s too late, but that will require moneyed interests to participate in finding solutions to our physical and political woes.
At left we see a fairly recent (last couple of decades) discovery in astrophysics.
We’ve have known a great deal about the nature of matter for 150 years, but we had exactly zero idea where it all came from.
The graphic below explains a lot about our world, and the brutal Saudi empire in particular.
It gives one a sense for what the geopolitical globe will look like once we have removed oil as our source of energy in the transportation sector.
