A reader commented on the photo here as follows: I wish he (Trump) could die.
I don’t.
Sure, he richly deserves punishment, but I care far more about the fate of this country than I do about the justice that is due to one person, albeit a walking force for pure evil. (more…)
When my kids were little, they used to adore In-N-Out.
Glad to see these folks are refusing to play the “starvation wages” game, one that blends human suffering with the injustice of supplemental nutrition paid for by the taxpayer.
From the PBS News Hour: Brazil formalized a criminal investigation last week into President Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the pandemic. It could lead to his impeachment. The country just passed 400,000 total fatalities so far, with no significant slowdown in sight. (more…)
Yesterday I mentioned this piece in Bloomberg that begins: Dominion Voting Systems Inc. blasted former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell for telling a judge that her claims about a vast election-fraud conspiracy were merely opinions in order to dodge the company’s $1.3 billion defamation suit repeatedly (even though she) had repeatedly and falsely claimed in public that she had proof Dominion rigged the 2020 election against Donald Trump, saying she could “hardly wait to put forth all the evidence” and that “you would have to be a damn fool” not to believe it. (more…)
From this piece in Bloomberg:
Dominion Voting Systems Inc. blasted former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell for telling a judge that her claims about a vast election-fraud conspiracy were merely opinions in order to dodge the company’s $1.3 billion defamation suit. (more…)
From Yale Climate Connections:
The Southwest is the only region experiencing a decrease in heavy precipitation events. But even there, the intensity of rainfall during the region’s monsoon season has increased since the 1960s, according to a study in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters. (more…)
As previously discussed, I find this argument at least partially valid. Most, if not all of these hateful morons honestly believed that the President of the United States asked them to “go down to the Capitol and fight like hell to take their country back.” They’re clearly guilty of one or more crimes, but it will be interesting to see if this has any effect on the judges’ sentencing.
Carl Sagan was best known in his time as a charismatic astronomer, but will probably be remembered as a deeply committed humanitarian.
What he said here about writing is just amazing.
Travel writer Pico Iyer added, “Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”
At left we read what Liz Cheney is going through, on behalf of the United States of America.
She’s the daughter of Dick Cheney, the man who was the chief architect of the Iraq War. By spreading the lie that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction, he talked the American people into approving the launch of an aggressive war, which, according to the judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg following World War II, “Is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” (more…)
This size comparison between the Titanic and a modern day cruise ship may serve as a reminder that human impact on this planet is far larger than it’s ever been before, and the rate of growth continues to increase as the years pass.
In the early 1950s, the popular philosophers of the day were saying things like, “Man is as effective as he adapts the environment to himself,” meaning that Man was the master and the environment his slave.
That made sense at the time, 70 years ago, before it was obvious to more than a handful of people that this was heading in a very bad direction.
It’s hard to imagine anyone who wishes to be taken seriously saying that today.
