Bill McKibben’s post here is a reminder of the many virtuous cycles that derive from phasing out fossil fuels.
It’s just another example that goes along with job growth, reductions in healthcare costs, and the innumerable savings in environmental clean-up.
There is a lot to love about the United States, which is why when people in developing parts of the world are asked where they’d like to live, they name the U.S. far more frequently than any other nation on Earth.
Where we get it wrong, however, is corporatocracy. American capitalism exists to extract wealth from the common person and hand it over to moneyed interests. (more…)
The indictments for seditious conspiracy against 11 of the white supremacist “Oath Keepers” is good news for the American justice system, but it raises the stakes, heightening the imperative to go after those who attempted the coup from within the highest ranks of the executive and legislative branches. (more…)
Young minds are impressionable, and, of course, they’re less capable of understanding nuance than those of adults.
That’s the beauty of this free offer, a set of materials that teaches our kids that the United States, the only developed country on Earth that doesn’t offer its citizens universal healthcare, is headed in the way of the USSR under Stalin, Cuba under Castro, or Venezuela under Maduro–unless this catastrophe can be prevented by Donald Trump, working in concert with the Christian extremists.
Get ’em when they’re young–certainly before they are able to think for themselves.
As previously noted, a number of Republicans signed fake election “certifications” alleging they were GOP electors appointed for Trump’s nonexistent win across various key states. (more…)
I chuckled the other day when I saw that someone had referred to me as an “eco-Nazi.” Of course, there’s nothing funny about this at all; there is a reason our planet’s on fire, and a large part of it is ass****s like him.
Life on planet Earth on 2022 isn’t tough enough; now we have people playing on the other team.
Here’s a wonderful movement, “The Third Act,” whose message is that elderly people, despite cues from society that they no longer matter, are actually needed more than ever if our civilization is to get on a sustainable path.
Earlier in their lives, many of today’s senior citizens forced enormously positive social changes: civil rights, gay rights, women’s rights, and the end of the war in Vietnam. 60 years later, the opportunity to make a change carries perhaps an even greater imperative.
Investment strategist and energy analyst Robert Rapier writes this about what conservative journalist Brit Hume tweeted at left: “Rarely do tweets age so poorly, so quickly. Brit Hume tweeted this early this morning. Three hours later, the DOJ charged 11 people with seditious conspiracy over the riot.”
It’s strange how we like to quibble with words when it comes to January 6th. Was it an example of domestic terrorism? An insurrection?
Well, call it what you will. More than 1000 people broke into the U.S. Capitol, beating people up, with the intention of overturning the 2020 presidential election. Five people died.
I don’t think we need another word for all this, but if you do, please be my guest.
I know how this guy Joshua feels.
So does my wife. She used to live for news feeds on her phone that may have brought her a thrilling piece of “breaking news” about the implosion of Trump or some such. Now, after so much disappointment, she just says, “Craig, I have given up hoping. Just let know if something good happens.”
Again, I get it.
From Steve Colbert: Rolls-Royce set an all-time sales record in 2021. The company’s CEO said, “Quite a lot of people witnessed people in their community dying from Covid, that makes them think life can be short, and you’d better live now.” It’s all summed up in their slogan (seen at left).
So true. There are people who want to communicate to the world, “I’m rich and I have exactly zero compassion for those around me.”
I keep saying that soon, it won’t be cool to live so as to hog resources that could be used to alleviate suffering in others. So far I’ve been completely incorrect.
