This might not be the best day of the year to write a post about an atheist, but there is never a bad time to note what the late Christopher Hitchens thought about people like Donald Trump.
The world isn’t the same place without Hitchens.
No one expected Trump to leave office before pardoning all his allies and mega-donor felons, so what he’s doing right now is anything but a surprise.
Clearly, we need a constitutional amendment to prevent this massive level of corruption from recurring, but what should it state? That pardons must be approved by a majority of members of the Senate? No, that wouldn’t have helped here, since the spineless, chickensh** Republicans would have been scared to death to override the president.
A suggestion: Whenever the president recommends a pardon for someone, it needs to be approved by the majority of the entire electorate in the following general election. How many Americans would vote to confirm the pardon of the fellow, now a free man, who was sentenced to 20 years for orchestrating the largest fraud in human history, bilking $1.3 billion from Medicare? 15? How about the four mass murders who massacred 14 in Iraq, under the aegis of Blackwater, one of whom was doing a life sentence? 11?
Those looking for a wonderful presentation from several top climate scientists will enjoy the video below. There is so much here about ozone depletion, ultra-violet light and the electromagnetic spectrum, water vapor in the stratosphere, changing ocean currents, ice formation, water density, sea-level rise and dozens of other issues that it’s hard to name them all. (more…)
It’s hard to know what will happen in the coming month or so. Trump will never admit that he lost the election, and tens of millions of Americans, egged on by Fox News and extremist social media, believe him. It hardly seems possible that these heavily armed people are going to sit back and let the “radical left” steal the election from their leader and bring socialism to this great nation. An uprising of some sort seems highly probable. (more…)
C. S. Lewis is now a subject of discussion primarily by virtue of his adopting Christianity, given his former position as an avowed atheist. But doesn’t this fixation on his religion seem like something of a shame, given that he was arguably the greatest writer of young people’s fiction in the entire history of the English language?
I was lucky enough to have had a 10-year-old daughter who had been assigned to read Lewis’s The Narnia Tales, which brought me the pleasure of sharing the reading duties as follows: “I’ll read a paragraph, and then you read a paragraph, and at the end of the chapter, let’s explain to each other what we’ve gotten out of it.”
We finished out on the front porch, my daughter deeply moved as the tale came to its close, me crying like a baby.
I wish every one of you the same type of fortune.
Here’s a 
video on hydrokinetics that I hope readers will check out.
We Americans live among the most scientifically illiterate people on the planet. But that’s not really the issue here. If you took 100 average five-year-olds to a slowly moving stream, and then to a hurricane knocking down houses as if they were toothpicks and asked, “Which of these has more energy in it?” every single one would have gotten this one correct.
I like to think that the blog here at 2GreenEnergy.com is a set of instructions to a world that desperately needs them. I’m not suggesting that anything here is profound, or even that it’s controversial; they are mostly ideas like: It’s a good thing to take care of one another and the planet we live on. How strenuously could anyone object to that?
Yet, when I saw this picture, I realized something that is horrifyingly simple: the world doesn’t pay too much more attention to what I’m saying than the seagull here is heeding the direction given by the subject of the statue.
My good friend Bill Moore of EVWorld fame writes: Love this, but what are the energy costs and nutrient levels?
I first ran across aeroponic (vertical) farming about the time I met Bill, perhaps 12 years ago, and I have to admit that my first reaction to it was extremely negative. I mocked the guy who first presented the idea: “You have a perfectly good sun in the sky and nutrient-rich soil, and you’re going to grow massive amounts of product indoors?” (more…)
Politicization is the watchword of our American culture as we head into 2021. If something, regardless of how cut and dried, can take on a political spin, that’s exactly what will happen–as asinine as that may seem to outsiders. (more…)
Is this real? Is it possible that we’ll have an actual educator serving as the United States Secretary of Education?
Yes, Biden had said he would choose someone who taught in public schools for this post, but it’s hard to believe he actually followed through and chose Dr. Miguel Cardona, who began his career as an elementary school teacher and then served as a school principal for 10 years. (more…)
