Teach Peace
Graphic design can be tricky business, as it’s sometimes hard to get out of your own head and see how other people perceive your work. Example at left.
The piece below really works for me, and, of course, I love the theme.
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Trump’s Election Tampering
Those of us hoping to see Trump in prison may be closer to that dream than we thought. Check out this piece from history professor Heather Cox Richardson, updating us on Trump’s efforts to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. Incredible.
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What Americans Believe
Many Americans live with an entire array of misbeliefs, including: a) that the U.S. is the best country in the world, and b) that attempts to make it better are unpatriotic.
Improvements are slow in the making, however. Over the last 40 years, the millionaires have become billionaires, and the middle class has become the working poor. That’s an intractable situation for the simple reason that the billionaires own Congress and they don’t want to give their money back.
This chasm between rich and poor isn’t conducive to happy living. Most of the countries shown at the left are social democracies, with a far more fair and egalitarian approach to government.
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First Time Ever Recorded, Rain at the Summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet
From Gizmodo:
Last week, the Greenland ice sheet underwent a major melting event—its second in two weeks. This time around, the melting was quickened by a wholly unexpected and unwelcome visitor: rain. (more…)
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The Bible Belt
Here’s a graphic on U.S. demographics that speaks loudly to the nation’s politics. This region is always fiercely Republican, and especially since Trump has gained control of the GOP; they really can’t get enough of him.
Ever since I was a boy, I’ve been foolishly expecting all this hate and ignorance to evaporate. In the early 1970s, Neil Young wrote, “Alabama, you have the rest of the union to help you along. What’s going wrong?” Made sense to me.
Well, of course, they don’t perceive that anything’s wrong, and we need to adjust our thinking and hope for slow progress over a long period of time.
Moving to Electric Transportation
Garrison Keillor began his column today:
My favorite word today is “unsubscribe” and I’ve been online clicking it on dozens of emails asking for my cash contributions to their battle in behalf of the good, the true, and the beautiful, which one wants to support, but once you do, your name is transmitted to other righteous causes and now I’m getting appeals from folks running for city council in Omaha and a group petitioning Congress to outlaw the internal combustion engine, the chance of which is less than slight, so I unsubscribe and instead I gave to a soup kitchen raising money for school supplies for indigent kids: how could I say no? (more…)
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The Left Has Fears, But They’re Not Black and White Coming Together
Is this what the left really fears? Maybe it’s more this fellow with the “Q sent me” shirt, and all the hateful nonsense that it stands for.
This country doesn’t need more anti-vax, anti-science conspiracy theories.
Moreover, Qanon is part of the extreme right, and has a great deal of overlap with the Proud Boys and the Boogaloo Boys, many of whom are white supremacists. Trust me, there is very little of black and white people coming together in QAnon.
‘A Big Win’: USPS Must Turn Over Docs About DeJoy’s Potential Conflicts of Interest
From this:
“The stench of corruption wafting up from Louis DeJoy’s office is so thick seagulls are flying in from the Jersey Shore and circling overhead.”
A leading government ethics watchdog on Wednesday cheered a federal judge’s ruling ordering the United States Postal Service to hand over documents concerning potential conflicts of interest involving embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
What on Earth is making it so difficult to expel this criminal from the U.S. Postal Service? We knew when Trump installed him to slow down mail delivery so as to screw up mail-in votes that DeJoy had an investment worth tens of millions of dollars in a direct competitor. Trump’s been gone since January. Why can’t this happen right effing now?
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What Level of Integrity Is Required To Specialize In Spreading Harmful Lies?
A reader who specializes in fabricating lies that fit his alt-right perspective sent me the meme here.
As usual, this is completely untrue. Top six countries with the largest lithium reserves in the world are:
1. Bolivia – 21 million tonnes
2. Argentina – 17 million tonnes
3. Chile – 9 million tonnes
4. United States – 6.8 million tonnes
5. Australia – 6.3 million tonnes
6. China – 4.5 million tonnes
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Putting out the Fire
What a wonderful mark English broadcaster and natural historian Sir David Attenborough has made on the world.
What he says here is something all of us should keep in mind. Explaining to a grandchild that you knew the planet was on fire but did nothing to put it out would be a very humiliating experience.
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