Stephen Colbert makes a good point here.
Of course, the people who were gullible enough to believe and promote the “Antifa Lie” do not watch The Late Show, and wouldn’t understand the logic here, even if they did.
From NASA: Continuing a 22-year downward trend, water levels in Lake Mead stand at their lowest since April 1937, when the reservoir was still being filled for the first time. As of July 18, 2022, Lake Mead was filled to just 27 percent of capacity.
One might think that the surge of real estate prices in the Southwest would face a limit, as the Earth’s capacity to bring water into the area continues to diminish.
An old friend left Central California 15 years ago, in favor of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Sadly, it was “out of the frying pan and into the fire,” literally, as much of the Land of Enchantment is becoming the Land of the Drought-Driven Inferno.
While climate change wreaks catastrophe onto most of Earth’s people, it offers benefits for a few, e.g., those who live more than about 45 degrees from the equator, who are already experiencing lower heating bills and longer growing seasons.
From the time I was a small boy until just the past few years, I believed exactly what Bertrand Russell said here.
Two centuries before Russell, Voltaire had pointed out, referring to religion as the basis for most of our wars, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
For a long while, it seemed that humankind was on the right track here with respect to belief in absurdities. But recently it’s become clear that, as a species, our appetite for inane ideas has taken a significant upturn. What we’re seeing all around us in U.S. politics is all the evidence that anyone could possibly want.
Regardless of short-term trends, there is no long-term evidence that supports Russell’s assertion. In ancient Greece, 2500 years ago, most people believed, for instance, that Helios drove a chariot daily from east to west across the sky and sailed around the northerly stream of Ocean each night in a huge cup.
Those who hold ridiculous, anti-scientific explanations for everyday phenomena like COVID, its cures, climate change, the Deep State, the proliferation of assault rifles increasing public safety, and the benevolent character of Donald Trump are just as numerous per capita today as they were thousands of years ago.
When Trump is finally expelled from U.S. politics, it seems likely that Liz Cheney will be able to claim that she was the driving force behind the purge of her party’s pathological lying, criminality, and pure insanity.
It’s the sad truth that today’s GOP actively demands support for Trump, but tomorrow’s almost certainly will not. The mental illness suffered by tens of millions of people cannot last indefinitely, especially when the facts are being exposed so broadly and clearly.
Unless something shifts radically from its current trajectory, Cheney seems to be an excellent choice as a presidential nominee.
If you polled 100 randomly chosen atheists and asked them to defend their (lack of) belief, it may be the “moral argument”(shown at left) that you’d hear most often.
If, in your mind, God is asking you to be a good person who uses the extraordinary intelligence He gave you and all of humankind, you’re going to have a tough time reconciling this issue.
In all honesty, I never considered myself patriotic until the coup attempt that began shortly after the 2020 election and continues today.
I always thought that patriotism was a juvenile and oversimplified approach to a complicated world, and that, more often than not, it lay behind bigotry, hatred, and a refusal to admit and deal with even our most obvious flaws as a people.
Now I really want my country back. The brush with autocracy we’re experiencing is far too close to the end of rule of law, and everything else this nation stands for.
Here’s a clever reminder that no country on the planet provides unfettered capitalism, nor pure communism.
Don’t look for this truth to come out of the GOP, which treats its voters like children who are incapable of any nuanced thinking.
We have Republicans saying, “The American people don’t want socialism,” or “The Democrats are ruled by leftist extremists.” Until recently, any high school freshman would have asked, “What are you talking about?”
Interesting perspective here.
Had Trump come along 10 years earlier, when most Americans still had the capacity to process information, he would have been met with a blend of about 10% anger and 90% ridicule.
Yet in 2016, he became the most powerful person on Earth.
As I covered in my recent post Alex Jones Goes on Trial in Huge Defamation Case, it appears that justice is on its way.
Well, we hope. This trial will be conducted in Texas, a state that is home to an uncountable number of far-right-wing nut-jobs. Let’s just find 12 jurors who can actually think.
As previously mentioned, ExxonMobil reported a net profit of $5.5 billion in Q1 this year, more than doubling its earnings from the first quarter of 2021.
The UK appears to have dealt with this fairly and effectively. They don’t have the problem we face here, i.e., their lawmaking processes aren’t owned by the fossil fuel industry.
