The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports the first projected rise in the generation of coal-fired electricity since 2014.
It’s small, but it shows that the U.S. Congress has been unable to get anywhere with respect to the transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon energy sources.
It’s good to know that there is an occasional laugh associated with this phenomenon that seems to have taken over a significant number of Americans’ minds.
Keep in mind, however, that some conspiracy theories are true. It appears that we may soon find out the truth surrounding the JFK assassination. Will anyone be surprised to learn that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone?
by Antoine Claudet, photogravure, 1860s
I heartily recommend A.Word.A.Day from wordsmith.org. Great boost to the vocab, and lots of other insight, including “A thought for today,” from the writings of someone born on this day:
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. -Thomas Babington Macaulay (pictured), author and statesman (25 Oct 1800-1859) (more…)
Get a load of this advertisement for some slob running for governor of Nevada.
The overall political sentiments of Nevada are mixed. Biden narrowly beat Trump in 2020: 50.06% to 47.67%. Yet, to use MSNBC’s terms, this “Trump-loving, gun-toting, truck-driving” mentality is quite competitive there.
What an embarrassment it is that this level of thinking is appealing to so many Americans.
It would be easy to look at what’s going on in the United States right now and conclude that all our former sense of humor and whimsy has been replaced by racial hatred and other forms of divisiveness.
Wrong.
Where else can one find the annual “witches paddle?”
Is there a correlation between the tantrums of infants and the atrocious behavior these people display when they become adults? Probably.
This, I’m sure, is more of a joke than anything, but it does shed light on the terrible conduct of people like the anti-vaxxers, who are physically attacking those of us who would obey laws and act so as to eradicate COVID-19 as soon as possible.
This is from 1st Century BCE Latin author Publilius Syrus, a fellow who probably wouldn’t have been on anyone’s radar screens were it not for Donald Trump and the regime of hatred and corruption he has built around himself. (more…)
Imagine you’re a physicist in the late 19th Century. Everything pertaining to mechanics, electrodynamics, and the wave theory of light is already in the bag. Einstein is still working in a patent office in Switzerland. The idea that light can behave like a particle and open up an entire new realm of science has yet to be hatched. You might have made the same mistake pictured here.
125 years later, it’s clear that the gap between our understanding of the origins and nature of the universe and the actual truth is only getting wider.
On a related note, the questioning of science is in the news currently. Unfortunately, it’s being done by people who know nothing about the subject, and thus do not understand that science is an evolving matter, particularly when it comes to developing tests, vaccines and treatment options for novel diseases.
I often hear people say things like, “The scientists don’t know what they’re doing, since they’re constantly changing their minds.” Of course they are. That’s how this works.
Again, it’s best if the relevant set of scientists is doing the questioning, rather than manicurists and landscape architects.
Is Trump wanna-be Glenn Youngkin seriously a live candidate in the Virginia gubernatorial race? I doubt it.
Sure, like every state, Virginia has its rural regions and the yokels, most of whom support Trump, who inhabit them. But the state’s heavily populated regions are the towns and cities within a commute of Washington DC, and those that surround Virginia’s numerous colleges and universities. These are localities where it takes work to even find a Trump supporter. (more…)
Here’s a post from energy analyst Robert Rapier.
