This clever graffiti artist provided me with another opportunity to remind readers about the progress being made in plant-based meat.
Beyond Meat claims that its burger has a “meatier taste” than ever before, and ya know what? They’re right. It’s almost impossible to distinguish these patties from beef.
It’s a triple victory: better for you, better for the environment, and better for the cow (or chicken).
Environmental activists rally for accountability
The marketing and PR tactics of Big Oil have changed over the past few years, at least according to the author of the article linked above.
For one, no more climate denial. The world is now living with the effects of climate change, and the average citizen is well aware that the warming of the Earth’s atmosphere is producing droughts, wildfires, and more powerful hurricanes than ever before. The fossil fuel industry’s ad agencies know that pretending that “the science isn’t settled” will only further infuriate the public. (more…)
As suggested below, Plug-In America co-founder and 2GreenEnergy supporter Paul Scott is pretty cheesed off at Toyota, and for good reason. Yes, their Prius get ~50 MPG, but most of the vehicles in their fleet are gas guzzlers. They sell roughly twice as many Tundras (pickup trucks, shown at left, that get MPG: 13 city / 17 highway) than they do Priuses.
Worse, as indicated here, they are actively blocking efforts electrify transportation, and aligning themselves with the Big Oil-loving Republican Party. (more…)
Very few public intellectuals have any patience for Trump and the Republicans in government who still support him.
As shown here, novelist Stephen King can be counted on for clever ways of making his point.
Where King and I differ is this: I see no evidence that DeSantis or any of the others is stupid. He’s making a politically motivated calculation, betting that the majority of voters are dumb enough to believe that masks and vaccinations represent a net negative to the health of the individual and to society as a whole.
There is no doubt that the anti-vaxxer movement and the whole extreme right wing is picking up steam; look what just happened in Texas.
We’ll just have to see how far this gets, i.e., what the statistics tell us about COVID-related deaths and the state’s GDP. What happens to a tourism-driven state like Florida when huge swaths of the U.S. population are either a) terrified to go there, or b) so angry that they will not go there. Here’s a state of 21.4 million people that is getting wiped out by a disease that is flourishing precisely because of malfeasance on its governor’s part.
The premise of the movie “The Sixth Sense” is that a young boy has the unique, though terrifying ability to see dead people. No one around him, including the psychologist he’s seeing, believes him, though the audience can sometimes see the world through the kid’s eyes, as in the scene shown here. (more…)
Here, Dr. Coleman offers a solid observation. My response to her:
Apparently you’re expecting the anti-science community to make sense and approach life rationally.
That’s where you made your first mistake.
California’s state constitution allows for something called a “recall election,” i.e., an opportunity for voters to unseat a governor and replace him with someone else. Unlike impeachment, no charges are brought, nor does any specific reason need to be given, and the process of setting a vote to recall in motion requires only the collection of 12% of the number of signatures that represented the total ballots cast in the last election (2018). (more…)
Borowitz continues: “Just spitballing here, but what if we mandated that every visitor got bitten by a dog or poked with a stick?” he said.
Here’s something that’s played itself out hundreds of times over Trump’s presidency.
It’s impossible to know why people make a big deal about this, because, even today, he has the support of tens of millions of people who simply couldn’t care less.
The people closest to Donald Trump are univocal in their statements that the 45th president is an unprincipled, pathologically lying, conman. Yet tens of millions of Americans know better. They are convinced that Trump is an honest servant to the nation and its people, and that he was hounded out of office by the liberal elitists, the Deep State, and a conspiracy of many hundreds of election officials.
This clearly is an issue that will never be resolved. Even if Trump is charged with and convicted of any of half a dozen felonies, his core base will simply write this off as just another level of unfairness directed at the man they perceive to be the best friend the United States has ever had.
