Apparently, Pepperdine University’s business school, Graziadio, has named its 2020 Most Fundable Company® winner, Flower Turbines, calling it “an innovative wind turbine that has revolutionized the industry.”
I use the word “apparently” because concepts in small wind like this, of which there have been many dozens, have failed uniformly, every single one.
There are good reasons for this, but they fall into three categories: (more…)
With her rhetorical question here, American author, spiritual leader, political activist, and primetime talk show host Marianne Williamson makes an excellent point.
Why do bad things happen to good people? Is there any justice?
In his famous lecture “Why I am not a Christian,” Bertrand Russell said:
They say that the existence of God is required in order to bring justice into the world. In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying; but if you are going to have justice in the universe as a whole you have to suppose a future life to redress the balance of life here on earth. So they say that there must be a God, and there must be Heaven and Hell in order that in the long run there may be justice.
That is a very curious argument. If you looked at the matter from a scientific point of view, you would say, “After all, I only know this world. I do not know about the rest of the universe, but so far as one can argue at all on probabilities one would say that probably this world is a fair sample, and if there is injustice here the odds are that there is injustice elsewhere also.” Supposing you got a crate of oranges that you opened, and you found all the top layer of oranges bad, you would not argue, “The underneath ones must be good, so as to redress the balance.” You would say, “Probably the whole lot is a bad consignment”; and that is really what a scientific person would argue about the universe.
One of the greatest minds the world has ever known.
In any case, having said all this, sometimes we simply get lucky, and good things happen to good people–and vice versa. See below.
A reader notes: One of the reasons I drive right past Home Depot and straight to Lowe’s is because while the co-founder of Home Depot funnels millions into Trump, Lowe’s is over here run by a black man who funnels millions into the community and minority-owned businesses! Marvin Ellison is not only the President and CEO of Lowe’s, but he has also been known to strap on a red vest and join the troops on the store floor serving customers. That’s leadership!
Exactly. I haven’t been in a Home Depot since I became aware of this. And even before Trump, it was some other horrific force for evil.
Thanks for sharing.
It is true that Trump has failed in his coup attempt to overturn the election results. But why would anyone think this is the end?
Trump owns the Republican party. Unless he is disgraced, e.g., indicted and convicted on one or more felonies, he will continue to dominate GOP politics. (more…)
Ben Stein may be right about Hitler and the others, but he’s certainly incorrect that a government’s offering valuable services “invariably leads to bad things.”
Here’s a list of countries that offer its citizens free healthcare and education through college:
The entirety of Western Europe and Scandinavia, and most of South America. Then you have Turkey, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
This is the reason that we should be confident that Trump will be indicted on at least one felony count. If we don’t, we’re telling all future presidents that there is no crime they can commit for which they’ll be held accountable.
Note that the criminal prosecution of the Trump Organization is heating up. More indictments are expected shortly on more members of Trump’s executive team, which will intensify the pressure on them to flip, and to testify against the big guy.
This is certainly the least sexy of all the charges that may be brought against the former president, but if the one with the highest probability of success, what the heck.
At or near the top of this “sexiness” scale is Trump’s attempted coup in a desperate effort to stay in power. The plans to, without evidence of fraud, nullify the election results in seven states should be good enough for a very long sentence.
There was a period of time recently in which one out of every seven new COVID-19 infections was coming out of Florida, a state whose governor, Ron DeSantis, vehemently opposes mask mandates and compulsory vaccinations. OK, but DeSantis graduated from Harvard University; is it possible he doesn’t understand the efficacy of these tools in the battle against the disease? (more…)
Is this woman a real-live Australian? Apparently so, but does it matter?
What she’s saying is completely true.
All progressives want is the type of governance that is found in Europe and Scandinavia.
Here’s the latest in a series I call “Analogies from Hell.”
Apparently, until 53 years ago, a nine-year-old kid or a recently released murderer could buy a gun by mail, and Congress finally decided that this might not be a good idea. It’s possible they were mainly Democrats, but it’s hard to believe there wasn’t bipartisan support for the new law. Keep in mind the political zeitgeist in 1968; this was long before Republicans lost their minds.
Precisely what this has to do with voting remains to be seen. As shown below, all 50 states allow voting by mail (though seven require an excuse). As we’ve seen consistently through this torturous process called the Big Lie, there is very little voter fraud.
