This makes one wonder what we could be doing with our time if we weren’t so consumed with stupid bulls*** like this.
Is it the job of Fox News to harass the Biden administration everywhere possible, even at the expense of embarrassing itself so horrifically? I’d be so ashamed of myself, I’d want to crawl into a hole.
We seem shocked when Congress votes to keep drug prices high and healthcare unavailable to people who can’t afford it. Why is this surprising? Does anyone think these people have any interest whatsoever in the well-being of the people they supposedly serve?
You’ll never find a subject on which there is more agreement than common sense gun laws. A full 91%, 10 out of every 11 Americans, wants to see mandatory background checks for prospective gun owners, as an important step to prevent the tragedies noted at left.
It. Simply. Won’t. Happen.
Yes, there is a genocide under way in Ukraine.
And there is a coup being attempted over here.
So, yeah, what’s taking place at a theme park sounds pretty uninteresting to people of any intelligence and compassion.
They say the Republicans are going to win big in the midterms, but one has to wonder just how people in the U.S. electorate will vote for “children,” as Kinzinger puts it.
Regardless of how poor your long-term memory may be, you must have recollections of your days in lower elementary school, say, kindergarten through third grade. Can you think of any discussions about sex or sexuality? No, because they didn’t exist.
Did you even know if your teachers were married? (more…)
If you’re trying to make sense of where the Russian invasion of Ukraine sits now, and where it’s headed, here’s part of a podcast in which public intellectual Sam Harris interviews political scientist Ian Bremmer.
Why was the defense of Ukraine so slow to begin?
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Apparently, the US House Oversight and Reform Committee is investigating the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign. Thus far, top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell have testified concerning their roles. (more…)
From this:
Since 2021, more than a dozen Republican-controlled states have passed laws or approved executive branch policies that restrict how public school teachers can talk about race, gender and sexual orientation, as in the case of the bill critics call “don’t say gay,” which Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law last week. But now, even as National Library Week arrives this week, the attempt to limit what materials are available to young people is spilling out from the classroom into the library.
Florida seems to want to fashion itself after its neighbor Alabama, where ignorance is the coin of the realm.
Large demographic shifts don’t happen overnight, but if this becomes an entrenched trend that persists (and worsens) over a period of decades, we can expect Florida to have all the cultural and economic relevance of Mississippi (see photo).
From the Washington Post:
Here’s a good reminder of how criminally corrupt Trump and his entire administration was, and how astonishing it is that tens of millions of American voters simply couldn’t care less.
When you ponder the future of transportation, can you imagine most of it taking place above the ground? These folks say that passenger cars will soon be replaced by passenger drones, each flown by someone without so much as a pilot’s license.
If that makes sense to you, the company is raising investment capital. By all means, go for it.
You may be concerned, however, that 228 million licensed auto drivers may not be able to safely navigate our skies, that they will be constantly running into one another and colliding with the 115,000 daily commercial flights. You may worry that our FAA has a 0.000000000% chance of allowing this to occur, and thus, that these people are not really entrepreneurs, but rather, criminal frauds.
In that case, you’d be well advised to keep you money in your wallet.
