Good news (I suppose) a new entrant into e-boating: Torqueedo.
Bad news: a 3 HP motor with a 915 Wh battery will get the user 24 minutes of use.
Worse: Most bass fishing boats have motors 30 – 40 times more powerful. Customers will be extremely dissatisfied.
It’s amazing how powerful cartoons can be in illustrating simple points.
“Pro-Life in America” by someone named “de ADDER” hits hard.
Love the “Abortion” sign with the coat-hanger in the middle of the piece.
“Use your talents to drive us towards a renewable future,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said in a commencement address to Seton Hall University graduates.
There are many encouraging social phenomena which are pushing in the direction of a sustainable future. Among them, public sentiment about the importance of climate change mitigation is growing rapidly, as shown by the steep adoption curve of electric vehicles.
Young people are those with both the most at stake, and those whose lifelong contributions make the greatest difference. Folks who are just now entering the work force have decisions to make that will have a profound effect on global warming and the long-term environmental damage that it ultimately wreaks.
That’s why it’s so nice to see the U.N. Secretary-General reminding a youthful audience that they have the capacity to choose not to be a part of the problem, as far as their life’s work is concerned.
If they do nothing else, they can keep their money and their time away from the forces that are knowingly destroying the planet for profit.
In a post earlier today, Gunning Down Our Children, I wrote: Change will come only when our congresspeople start to lose more votes from people who demand common sense gun laws than they receive from the gun nuts and the NRA. (more…)
The U.S. Constitution is hailed as one of the top 10 achievements in the history of humankind. Yet IMO, it has weaknesses, and the most profound came as a result of how the country was founded, i.e., as a rebellion against a strong federal government. (more…)
At left we have an interesting thought, albeit horribly sad. We really do seem to have normalized the mass murder of our children as a more-than-acceptable price to pay for allowing homicidal maniacs from carrying AR-15s into our schools. The same people who did nothing about Sandy Hook are still doing nothing.
Change will come only when our congresspeople start to lose more votes from people who demand common sense gun laws that they receive from the gun nuts and the NRA.
Some say the balance here is shifting; let’s hope they’re right.
I highly recommend former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner’s “Justice Matters” daily video series. Today’s installment appears below. (more…)
In response to this post, which contains the data point that the U.S. has suffered 200+ mass shootings in the first 144 days of 2020, a gun nut reader responds:
We need to recognize that anything, regardless of how evil, can exist if there is enough money associated with it. Consider for a moment dealers in child slavery, distributors of heroin, those expanding the fossil fuel industry, and the manufacturers of assault rifles to be sold to unscreened, potential mass murderers of our school kids.
At the top of each of these organizations are people who know they are reviled by civil society, but they simply couldn’t give a s***, because there is so much money involved.
Those AR-15s really are the weapon of choice, aren’t they?
From this:
Soon after (Texas governor Gregg) Abbott announced the death of the children and a teacher at Robb Elementary School in the town of Uvalde, Texas, about 130 km west of San Antonio, a 2015 tweet resurfaced where he called upon Texans to buy more guns. “I’m EMBARRASSED: Texas is #2 in the nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let’s pick up the pace, Texans.” (more…)
