An old friend and business associate, Steve Vachss, is now a blogger and novelist. His current piece on political correctness and cancel-culture includes:
Professional surveys indicate that 60 to 80 percent of Americans reject PC language or cancel-culture. Most people cannot understand why news media, government leaders, and celebrities insist on accepting and promoting PC and cancel-culture. (more…)
What Jon Stewart is saying here is absolutely true, which is why it’s both stupid and insulting when the Blue Lives Matter people say that progressives hate cops.
No, we don’t. We simply want them to stop murdering unarmed black people.
I guess I’d never looked at it like what’s shown in the meme here.
One way to assess an ideology is to quantify how likely you and others are to die from it.
On average, the U.S. suffers a mass shooting more than once per day. So just who are these shooters?
Well, here’s who they are not: desperate immigrants escaping life-threatening danger, who just walked across 1500 miles of desert in Northern Mexico with their children. They’re also not educated, decent, productive, rational, loving people (i.e., progressives and moderates).
There almost all poor, uneducated, anti-science, conspiracy theorist, Trump-supporting, white racist gun nuts, who think of themselves as patriots by redressing a stolen election and the corrupt power of the liberal elites. They also, somehow, self-identify as Christians.
Today’s United States is a society that mass produces these people. This must cease.
The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson Sorkin writes, “It’s tempting to see the Gaetz affair as the last shudder of the era of Donald Trump, but the political culture that the two men represent won’t easily be swept away.”
That’s for sure. There is still a huge market for government run by brash, mean-spirited racists who have little if any regard for the truth. Fox News attracts 26 million people every week. That’s not going to change, regardless of what happens to Gaetz. (more…)
Depends on what is meant by “we.”
Most people are completely aware that what we’re doing to our environment is creating huge damage to us as individuals.
Corporate greed, on the other hand, which is completely out of control, is all but blind to environmental degradation.
Is there anything attractive about Pence as a presidential candidate? He has the charisma of a five-pound bag of fertilizer, and his views on things like gay rights are from the early/mid-20th Century, when homosexuality was punished by imprisonment or chemical castration.
Apparently, Trump’s cabinet members are facing an icy response as they try to find employment in the private sector.
What a shock. What corporation wouldn’t want a top executive with a track record of running the most corrupt and citizen-unfriendly government in living memory?
From The Economist:
Brazilian businesses rarely preach greenery. Yet last July, 20 months after Jair Bolsonaro was elected president, rampant deforestation in the Amazon roused 38 CEOs to speak up. Foreign investment was falling and trade talks were stalled.
This negative perception has an enormous potential for harm,” they wrote in a letter to the government, urging Mr. Bolsonaro to do something. He ignored them.
The pace of deforestation, as reported in November, was 1o% faster in 2020 than in 2019. Yet the president merrily slashed the budget for environmental enforcement for the third year in a row. (more…)
From this article on solar energy: A team of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) researchers has designed a ‘smart’ device to harvest daylight and relay it to underground spaces, reducing the need to draw on traditional energy sources for lighting. (more…)
From this piece by CBS News:
More frequent and intense global challenges — in the form of disease outbreaks, financial crises, or the negative effects of climate change or new technologies — are likely to stress already brittle systems of government and international organizations over the next two decades, according to a comprehensive forecast compiled by U.S. intelligence officials and released on Thursday. (more…)
