Why Can’t We Remove Human Swine from Congress?
We all need to admit that there are extremely intelligent people at both ends of the political spectrum. George Will, archconservative is about as far to the right as a person can be. American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, and “father of modern linguistics” Noam Chomsky is very close to the opposite end.
But I’d like to know who, somewhere–anywhere–in the middle thinks that the swine shown here heckling the U.S. president’s State of the Union address belong on the floors of the U.S. Congress.
Now everything’s a little upside down
The anti-Trump group 
I had a talk with a Republican the other day who told me that Biden, worse than buying oil from the Russians, destroyed America’s domestic oil production on his first day in office. It took me a few moments to figure out what she meant…then it came to me: the Keystone XL pipeline. 
Of course, it’s far too early in the Russian invasion of Ukraine to know where this whole thing is going to land, but it’s interesting to note that the International Criminal Court has already set its sights on war criminal Vladimir Putin.
My 95-year-old mother and I speak on the phone frequently, and most of these conversations, when we’ve exhausted family matters, turn to politics.
Re: the photos here, a (sarcastic) reader asks: If we all lived in mud huts for 103 years would it put the ice back?
Here’s a reader with a distinctly negative reaction of climate activists. She writes:
There are people who think this way, but not enough.
From senior energy analyst and social observer Glenn Doty:
