Walking the Line Between a Bad Idea and a Scam
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.
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?
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.
The ultra-conservative politics of Texas are playing well in mainstream America.
Here’s one of many hundreds of uses of energy that would otherwise be wasted.
Wanna see one of the top people in the ultra-far-right, Gen. Michael Flynn, ask his viewers for money to “save America?”
Obviously, the January 6th insurrection will remain an important incident in history as long as humankind maintains an organized society.
We’ve all seen cartoons that describe our wishes as to how we’d like to see American democracy upheld.
