We Need To Stop Suffocating the Earth in Plastic

Eliminating “crap like this” (to use their phrase) requires both consumers and producers of products in the food industry to increase their awareness of planet-killing product packaging.

Eliminating “crap like this” (to use their phrase) requires both consumers and producers of products in the food industry to increase their awareness of planet-killing product packaging.

Of course, the identical meme could have been submitted by a progressive, posing the question: How is it possible that anyone could still support Trump?
For the first time in U.S. history, we’ve arrived at a point at which Americans don’t consider the opposite side sadly misinformed, naive, impractical,or dogmatic, but positively insane.

An explosive report in Rolling Stone just revealed that multiple members of Congress were intimately involved in planning both Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss and the Jan. 6 events that turned violent. Those named include Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Ga.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas.)
Oh no! Not Louie Gohmert!
Not climate denier, antivaxxer/COVID hoaxer, Capitol stormer apologist, homophobe, gun rights absolutist, cartoon caricature of himself, Islamophobe, and one of the most embarrassingly stupid members of the House. Say it ain’t so.

May I suggest charged, tried, convicted, and incarcerated?

Evangelical Christianity has no connection with Jesus Christ whatsoever, and is more or less antithetical to His core teachings and the main beliefs that attracted His original followers: love, mercy, charity, peace, compassion for the poor and sick, and forgiveness.

In fact, in a sense, if could be the last event in history of the U.S. as we’ve come to know it.

As suggested in the headline above, the Philadelphia City Council just enacted a law that will make a material difference here.
The photo above features my parents’ country club. Trust me, there were no cops in the vicinity laying in wait to pull over white kids for failing to signal a turn.

A friend told me many decades ago that the United States is eventually going to look like Europe and Scandinavia, or it’s going to be an extremely unpleasant place to live. Sadly, it looks like we’re headed in the latter direction, because the Bernie Sanders of the world are making precious little progress.
Once you’ve turned over your law-making process to people who are paid handsomely by the top 0.1%, it’s very hard to regain any semblance of government of, by, and for the people.

Our civilization needs to marginalize those whose selfishness and willful ignorance makes them an impediment to controlling the pandemic.
Yes, they have the right to remain unvaccinated. Fortunately, we have the right to remove them from the workplace, from aircraft, from schools, and from public places like restaurants.
For those who want to raise the stakes and commit acts of violence, we have the right to throw them in jail.
There’s a workaround for even the most disgusting people on the face of the Earth.

It’s small, but it shows that the U.S. Congress has been unable to get anywhere with respect to the transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources.