A reader notes:
Well, let’s start with an easier question: Is there a $4 billion wave energy market? The answer: No. Not now, not ever.
Why? Because the levelized cost of energy from wave energy is outrageously high, and it will never become competitive.
In terms of renewable energy, solar and wind have won, and everything else has lost. That’s true today, and with each passing month, as solar and wind continue to scale, the challenge for newcomers becomes that much more daunting.
Another clue is that the offering here features an artist’s rendering (after decades of development). Why not actual photography/video footage? Because it doesn’t exist.
Look, I love a good QAnon-style conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but even I’m not so sure about this one.
The liberal environmentalists convinced Putin to invade Ukraine and manipulated global oil production levels?
Per Borowitz: “Bankruptcy is scary the first time you do it,” Trump said. “But once you’ve done it five or six times it’s the easiest and most beautiful thing in the world.”
I won’t repeat the mild sense of dissatisfaction I have in myself that I can’t use current events to make the world laugh at Trump, and, in this case, Putin. (OK, I just did.)
a) Putin and Trump are close; they’re good for one another, and it’s conceivable that they’re giving one another advice.
b) Putin’s in deep economic Bandini.
c) Trump has successfully kept himself above water, via the liberal use of bankruptcy laws and other tools by which to stiff his creditors.
d) Trump like to use phrases like the most beautiful thing in the world to describe mundane things like pieces of chocolate cake.
Damn, that’s just so good.
Here’s Ike Eisenhower defending his 90% top tax rate on corporations, at the same time the top rate on individuals was 70%.
Nowadays we’re being told that “real Americans” need to oppose the idea of taxing the rich, as it’s a form of socialist tyranny being forced on us by the “radical left.”
Guess who hates the concept “tax the rich.”
The author of the meme here saw an opportunity to make a comparison to present-day Russia, where Putin is aggressively redrawing the borders in Eastern Europe.
How far west he goes before he’s stopped is anybody’s guess.
The fact that we have sociopaths with unlimited power sitting on nuclear weapons should be of grave concern to us all.
It’s our hope that the International Court of Justice gets the opportunity to prosecute Putin for any number of different war crimes based on what he’s already done in Ukraine. Sadly, we have a long way to go before that becomes a real possibility.
There is a point to be made here, but the idea behind the law is to encourage home ownership, based on the (reasonable) belief that home owners are better, more engaged citizens.
We do not want apathy and alienation from government–especially now, where voting rights and trust in the election process is under siege by Trump and company.
This is funny, but it’s not true; these people believe every syllable of the b.s. they’re consuming.
That’s what make all this so dangerous.
Where do we think the skyrocketing incidence of violence against Asian-Americans comes from? The Gods of Olympus?
A reader sent me something to the effect that Biden is at fault for our high gasoline prices, commenting that, from the day he took office, he’s done everything in his power to increase America’s dependence on foreign energy resources. Apparently, many people find it credible that a person like Joe Biden has a covert intention to harm the country he’s served for a full 50 years.
In any case, from what I can discern, as is the case with all large-scale political and economic phenomena, this is a complicated issue that gets oversimplified and brutally spun in the media.
It’s been clear ever since I was a boy that Republicans are insincere when they say they want small government. They want an extremely powerful government when it comes to enforcing their values on the common American, i.e., a country dominated by the ultra-rich, one that features violence, racism, sexism, and cruelty.
Such a nation is repugnant to the majority of people, and this cannot exist without strong external forces.
