Reaction to Bad Grammar
I know this feeling well.
I often physically flinch when I scroll through my Facebook feed.
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U.S. Energy Subsidies
As shown here, nuclear energy receives very little government assistance, which, considering the importance of decarbonizing our grid, is a horrible mistake.
Climate Change and the Urgency to Transform Food Systems
As discussed in this article from Science Magazine, our food systems and climate change have profound effects on each other.
In particular, climate-driven desertification and droughts are destroying our arable land, and our abominable misuse of land and the systems by which we grow our food is fueling global warming.
I hope you’ll check out the suggestions that a few of our top scientists are making in this critically important arena.
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The Consequence of the Rich Getting Richer
The illustration here depicts a great many important changes that have taken place in America since 1960, among them our religious observances, formality of dress, and use of technology.
The author of the meme makes an even more important point, though: the rich have finally succeeded in exerting sufficient power on our country’s law-making processes so as to keep their tax rates extremely low, while putting extreme economic pressure on everyone else.
Disingenuous Remark on Electric Transportation
A reader sent me this, noting: Hey let me get off next exit, & charge my batteries for 4 hours, by then we will have another 6 inches of snow.
Indeed, it would be a very poor decision to push your EV’s range and take a chance on running out of charge in these conditions. Thus, if you want to drive nonstop from Buffalo, NY to Green Bay, WI in the middle of a snowy February, an EV isn’t a good choice.
As I’m sure you know, this scenario is not the case for 99.9% of driving in America.
Journalism Should Be Honest
At left is the topic of conversation that I have constantly with my mom, whether we’re talking about climate change, the Big Lie, the handling of COVID, or any of a dozen other “controversial” subjects.
She sees televised interviews with people (on Fox News) who say that climate change is a hoax, that the election was stolen, and that Dr. Fauci is a criminal. I reply: You are aware, I’m sure, that if you look hard enough, you can find someone who will tell you that the Earth is flat. The existence of people like this has no bearing on the shape of our planet.
This, FWIW, is how we wound up with Trump in the first place: the news media was making so much advertising money from sponsors of their shows presenting Trump as a colorful, viable character, that they refused to do what was right, i.e., explain that he is a vulgar career criminal and a pathological liar.
The president of CBS said, during the presidential campaign leading up to the 2016 election, “Oh, I understand that he (Trump) is terrible for the country; there is no doubt about that. But I can tell you that he is wonderful for CBS News.”
Liars, and Poor Ones at That
From Fred Wellman, West Point and Harvard graduate, Army aviator and public affairs officer for 22 years:
LIES EXPOSED: The FBI didn’t ask them to “put a better lock” on the closet. They literally had video of people going in and out of a room with our most classified secrets laying around. They said to “secure” the room. This affidavit is damning. They’ve been lying the whole time.
These people’s lies are so numerous and blatant that they can’t keep them straight.
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Labor Laws Weren’t Simply Wished Into Being
Shown here: Oyster shuckers from South Carolina in 1912. Josie (6 years old), Bertha (6 years old) and Sophie (10 years old) would start work at 4 AM at the Maggioni Canning Co.
Here’s a question: How do you think child labor laws came into being? (more…)
Cause and Effect
It turns out that many perps in our routine mass shootings are on antidepressants or other psychiatric drugs.
There are people who believe that these drugs take sane people and turn them into mass murderers.
It seems more probable that many shooters were previously diagnosed with mental illnesses and put on drugs.
To think otherwise is the equivalent of believing that the visitors’ center was there before the crater.
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Mourning the Loss of Kurt Gottfried, Co-founder of the Union of Concerned Scientists
From this:
Kurt Gottfried, physicist, professor emeritus at Cornell University, advocate for peace, and co-founder of the Union of Concerned Scientists, has passed away at age 93. Throughout his career, Kurt Gottfried encouraged fellow scientists to become involved, to speak out on issues, and to hold their leaders accountable on topics ranging from nuclear arms control to human rights and scientific integrity. He was an iconic and inspirational example of an engaged scientist, and will be sorely missed by his colleagues and friends. (more…)
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