Each year we learn more about the horrific effects that human activity is having on the natural world: over-fishing, encroaching on habitats, etc.
Of course, there are examples of the reverse, i.e., the natural world encroaching’s on us. Here’s a great example.
It’s intuitively obvious that kids who spend huge amounts of time on social media become physically unfit, introverted and anti-social, and develop tendencies towards bullying. This isn’t empirically proven, at least to the best of my knowledge, but it’s hard to imagine that long-term studies are going to reveal anything else. (more…)
They say, “The future always looks like the past, until it looks like something else altogether.”
Given that, perhaps there is hope for this planet.
But if the indefinite future looks like what we have right now, and this civilization is unable to rid itself of the coal industry, we’re doomed to the extreme hardships brought about by climate catastrophe.
A mentally ill reader sent me this.
It’s true that people of reason and compassion find this hard to look at. Scarcely a day goes by without a major shooting somewhere in the U.S. Sometimes we lose random grocery store patrons; other times it’s children, their little bodies ripped apart by a weapon made specifically to kill as many people in a short period of time as possible.
It’s indeed sad that there are people who have no problem with this whatsoever.
When will this cease?
That’s not a rhetorical question. At what point will Trump knock off the stolen election narrative, and simply go away (hopefully to prison)?
I predict that at a certain point, Trump will be completely discredited, and statements like these will be disregarded. (more…)
At left we see an interesting thought. We all have images of packs of wild animals and their leaders. We remember Mufasa from Disney’s “The Lion King.” Wise, brave, selfless, and honest.
Of course, we have no way of verifying that animals have a sense of virtue in their selection of their leaders, but it seems unreasonable that they would elect a dolt like GW Bush, a shameless conman like Donald Trump, or a savage like Kim Jong-un.
I’m fairly certain corporate CEOs would not take on the entirety of the Republican Party on some minor political issue.
Overt voter suppression, however, isn’t minor; it’s an obscenity to American democracy, and every self-respecting U.S. citizen–at any level in the workplace or society at large–needs to affirm precisely that.
The GOP would do very well simply to back down here. Create some ruse by which you can quietly rescind these laws and save face. Blame it on some rogue law-making in the bowels of the state senate, then pretend none of this every happened.
Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy: Is the White House concerned that Major League Baseball is moving their All-Star Game to Colorado, where voting regulations are very similar to Georgia(‘s)?
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: (more…)
I cannot verify that Confucius actually said this, but who cares? It’s wonderfully descriptive of the United States today.
We live in a society in which almost everything of consequence happens because rich people profit from it. Perhaps this is a bit less so now that Trump is no longer in office, but it’s still very much true in the main.
Occasionally, we get a Bernie Sanders here or there, but these exceptions are so rare that they’re astounding when they come along.
News flash: Government by greed can never produce a sustainable culture.
Handling communications for the White House at this point is tricky, because, in an effort to be fair, the ultra-right-wing media, e.g., Fox, OANN, and Newsmax need to be invited to the table. But at the same time, they live in an alternate universe where Trump is the legitimate president and Biden is a Chinese operative, which gives rise to conversations like the one below, where Newsmax’s John Gizzi challenges White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki: (more…)
