Editing Biden
My mom and I talk about this frequently. Apparently, as if I didn’t know. Fox News takes clips of Biden’s speaking out of context, and it really does appear that he’s losing his faculties.
Many of us have seen this digital manipulation ourselves. Many years ago, CBS’s 60 Minutes did a hatchet-job on an organization I was associated with at the time. They made the group’s spokesperson look like a complete fool. The speaker was one of the most highly trained PR professionals on the planet, but when the editors got through with him, he sounded like Charles Manson.
I suppose I could point out the obvious: it would be a better world if we treated one another fairly, but that ain’t happening.
It is said that Big Oil has entered its “Big Tobacco” phase, meaning that it needs to go to ever more obscene lengths to sew doubt into the public’s mind re: the damage its products cause.
I envy people who can press on in life without feeling the weight of living among people who readily accept complete garbage as truth. The problem, of course, is that they vote, and elect people who make the outrageous claims that these gullible fools eat with a fork and spoon.
American novelist, poet, and essayist Wendell Berry makes an excellent point here about the moral depravity of people who don’t have the courage to stand up against who destroy our natural environment.
This reminds me of a conversation between Neil deGrasse Tyson and a televangelist. Tyson was asked, “So we don’t understand dark energy. Couldn’t that be God?”
The cartoon here would be a lot funnier if it weren’t sadly 
If you don’t have a problem with obscene language, but you do have a sense of humor—and you also have at least a passing interest in what 
Americans aren’t too strong in nuanced thinking, i.e., dealing with shades of gray. It is for this reason that the word “socialism” is so terrifying to almost half of the nation.
This comes from Canadian environmental activist, campaigner and writer Tzeporah Berman.
I was lucky enough to be invited to hear Barack Obama speak at an environmental conference in Las Vegas in 2015. I was amazed to learn how much he knew about the subject, and how disappointed he was that he hadn’t been able to accomplish more during his tenure in office.
