Here’s a cowboy/farmer telling us that fossil fuel consumption doesn’t cause climate change, suggesting that we should “study the weather cycles.”
As far as I’m aware, this type of ignorance is unique to the United States. I’m sure there are crackpots running farms all around the world, but I find it hard to believe that they make videos of themselves calling climate scientists “stupid.”
The graphic here is playing itself out all over the nation. Elsewhere around the United States, we have hot-spots in Trump-loving Florida and Texas, as well as the rest of the Deep South.
Trumpism is killing many hundreds of people per day.
When my son was perhaps 10, he was fascinated with The Darwin Awards, i.e., prizes given to people whose stupidity resulted in their own deaths, and thus removed that much “idiot-charged” DNA from the overall gene pool. This was the time just before everyone had constant Internet access, and so every few months he would ask me, “Dad, Dad…when do the new Darwin Awards come out?”
The problem here, of course, is that these people are not simply killing themselves in isolation; they are making everyone’s lives more dangerous and unpleasant, not to mention the innocent people who die in agony.
Christians are taking a great deal of abuse nowadays, largely because of the hypocrisy of the evangelicals. It ‘s good to know that the life of Christ has inspired some truly excellent behavior on many people’s part.
Having said this, there is something of an implication that non-Christians aren’t capable of charitable acts, which, of course, is untrue.
According to this article, an international survey reveals ‘shocking’ rise of eco-anxiety and hopelessness. 
From Garrison Keillor’s weekly essay: “A walk in the park on a historic day”
The young are passionate about the environment and climate change. There are millions of people who cannot imagine modifying their sumptuous lifestyle in the interest of conservation in behalf of future generations and the habitability of the earth — they would rather die than do that and as soon as they do die, the world will take a step forward. (more…)
It’s hard to believe that Republican politicians are still saying this, and that the people who vote for them are still stupid enough to believe them.
“The Democrats are coming for your guns” has a shelf-life with no expiration date.
Here’s Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference at the Pentagon on Sept. 1, announcing that all 485,000 active duty soldiers in the U.S. Army must be vaccinated by Dec. 15.
One assumes that this puts more pressure on the anti-vaxxers, most of whom think of themselves as patriots. Is the entire U.S. military part of some conspiracy to destroy America? Does that really sound plausible, even to a total moron?
I’d like to understand the process by which Larry Elder became the top Republican candidate to replace California’s governor Gavin Newsom if, in the unlikely event he is recalled. I understand that he curried favor with a number of wealthy donors, but none of this makes sense.
Let’s start with the fact that this is California, not Alabama. Biden beat Trump in 2020 by a margin just under 2:1. That’s because most folks from these parts have progressive values. (more…)
From this article on a new report from The World Bank, an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
Underscoring the necessity of immediate and sweeping action to take on the climate emergency, a World Bank report revealed Monday that 216 million people across six global regions could be forced to move within their countries by midcentury. (more…)
It’s possible to have a deep and abiding religious faith and not believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God.
Having said that, I would bet that this woman, Katha Pollitt an American poet, essayist and critic, is an atheist, based on the way she expresses herself here.
