Here’s a voice that speaks to so many of us.
“How wrong can this go?” our friends asked us. “How much power does a U.S. president really have to change the nation’s social fabric and destroy the core structure of the U.S. government?”
Well, I suppose we found out.
We never had a government that worked for all the people, but returning us to a point where we were, going into 2016, is going to take a generation.
The mission of the William Penn Charter School, founded in 1689, is to provide a high-quality K-12 education on a platform of Quaker principles: Belief in seeking peace with oneself and others, in accepting and respecting each individual’s uniqueness, in the spirituality of life, and in the value of simplicity. (more…)
I’ve nothing to say on top of what decent people all over the world have commented on this hateful decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.
How much value would it add to your life if you could use your phone to access the precise weather conditions at your home at any given time?
Here’s a device that will set you back $329 that you can install on your roof that will send you, in real-time, the exact temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, UV index, lightning activity, wind velocity, and rain onset, intensity, duration and accumulation — at whatever place you choose to install it.
Make sense? That’s up to you. Personally, having these data points at my fingertips free of charge for my zip code is more than good enough for me.
Here’s where this migrates from a questionable idea to a scam: It will help you predict your local weather. No it won’t.
This is one of the casualties of a declining educational system: we’ve lost our capacity to understand basic science, and we’re sending $329 to people who fully realize just how ignorant we’ve become.
News flash: It’s already illegal for judges not to recuse themselves from cases in which they have self-interest.
More to the point, it’s already illegal for judges (or anyone else) to conspire to overthrow the United States government.
I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me that we need more laws to regulate this behavior like we need to enumerate all the weapons that are illegal for use in murder: rope, lead pipe, candlestick, revolver, dagger, wrench, etc.
I know Trump pardoned him, but let’s hope it’s not too late for the DoJ to take this criminal down hard.
A reader poses the question: Should we feel sorry for these Trump supporters, i.e., morons who donated their hard-earned and much-need money to this traitorous grifter?
The most obvious answer is no, but keep in mind that these people, in general, were deprived of a decent education, and were raised by parents who lacked any basic compassion for the human race.
I’m amused when I see people remark that the United States is a leftist nation. Yes, we have a few anti-capitalist intellectuals, of whom Naomi Klein is probably the most visible (perhaps Noam Chomsky), but imagine how far we are from someone of this way of thinking getting anywhere near government policy-making at any level.
What American progressives want, in general, is simply regulated capitalism to prevent billionaires from destroying the environment and making serfs out of the middle class. Give us a country whose government resembles those in most of Europe.
We’re failing miserably, but that doesn’t mean we’re not trying.
The ultra-conservative politics of Texas are playing well in mainstream America.
The bans on abortion and “controversial” books, the mania for assault rifles, and now, their rallying around the Big Lie and impeding a just resolution to the insurrection has these people threatening to secede from the union.
If it weren’t for the profound logistical consequences, and the fact that everyone loves Austin, most Americans would say, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass. Please feel free to take the Deep South with you.”
We’d be thrilled to cut ourselves loose from this moral hellhole.
Here’s one of many hundreds of uses of energy that would otherwise be wasted.
Does the cost of installation and maintenance make all this worthwhile?
I have no clue.
