How many seas must the white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand?

How may ventures in small, rooftop wind must fail before we learn that this entire concept is doomed?

The answer is blowin’ in the wind.

Seriously, we’ve seen precisely zero of these essentially identical concepts succeed.  Maybe there’s a reason? Or three?

1) Lower power generation due to the formula for the area of a circle? (Doubling the radius generates four times the energy.)

2) Lower power generation due to the formula for the power generated by the velocity of the wind? (Doubling the wind velocity produces eight times the energy.)

3) The maintenance cost of dealing with thousands of tiny turbines that are constantly falling apart, because they must be made incredibly cheaply, makes the whole idea asinine.

 

 

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I struggle to think of someone for whom I have more respect for than astrophysics PhD and lead guitarist for the rock band Queen Brian May.

Yet, with what he says at left, I’m struggling to understand precisely what he means, and why he used the word “dangerous.”

As a person, he is no more personal danger than he would have been in any previous administration.

I surmise that he means that the United States poses a danger to anyone with dark skin, or who opposes the fascist regime that America has been stricken by.

 

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As everyone except the Fox News/QAnon crowd knows, Antifa is not an organization; it’s a philosophy.  It has no leaders, headquarters, or funding/budget.

Now, is this (at left) what I voted for?

Well, I vote for honesty, logic, compassion and truth. I vote against lies and stupidity.  So, the answer is No.

 

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Irrelevant.

Unless some miracle takes place that turns around what appears be an irreversible trend, JD Vance will have an appeal to Americans that is equivalent to leprosy.  We’d rather elect a projectile vomiter.

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We’ve all heard people make the claim 20th Century French historian Michael Foucault makes at left.

Twisted, I believe.

Socrates believed that “the only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance”. I’m going with Socrates on this one.

 

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Until fairly recently, it appeared that civil rights in the United States were making solid progress.

But now, there is an entrenched population of white nationalism, all led by the president of the United States.  All this hatred and ignorance extends far beyond racial bigotry itself; in fact, it spreads into dozens of arenas that are collectively called “anti-science,” e.g., climate denial, anti-vax, etc.

The cryptic title to this post comes from an encounter I had with a guy earlier today in which he said, “Trump is institutionalizing hate.”  I replied that most of us use the verb “normalize,” but I like “institutionalize” just as well.

 

 

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As suggested at left, Rush Limbaugh made a fortune by sewing hatred into American lives, and he was incredibly good at it.  He convinced tens of millions of U.S. citizens that anything that would not make rich white males richer was communism.

Following in his footsteps certainly does appear to be an essential guarantee of wealth.

Charlie Kirk, as an example, was a college dropout who was on a conveyor belt to selling used cars until it dawned on him that selling hate was one hell of a lot easier that hiding defects from car-buyers.

 

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My main problem with it is that it’s a direct violation of the United States Constitution, a document that, until recently, was a pretty big deal here in America.

A minor problem that further kills the deal for me is that I don’t want squads of lawless goons in my quiet little town.

 

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The words at left come from late-20th Century philosopher and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna.

His observation here echoes those of many other intellectuals who have pondered how it’s possible that an extremely intelligent species can make such poor decisions when it comes to governance.

The problem, I believe, is that intelligence isn’t the only characteristic–or even the main one–that drives the way we elect our leaders and get along with others.  Our tribalism and greed are far more important to how human beings behave in groups.

 

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This could be what takes Trump (and countless others) down.

Government officials all around the world have access to the unredacted Epstein files, and the top people in, say, France couldn’t care less about protecting the criminal sociopath in the White House.

In fact, they know that by exposing him, they’ll be doing the world a huge favor.

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