Based on the events of the last few days, it’s possible that the next four years could be as good as the previous four were bad.
Great to see criminal morons going away for long periods (video below); our nation can use this time of tranquility to recover some of its sanity.
“Register Communists Not Firearms.” omg
Most of these people live paycheck-to-paycheck, and millions make starvation wages. Now a couple of hundred are getting carted off to prison. This hasn’t really been a bonanza, has it?
Maybe we need to rethink our position here.
It is time for the country to reunify, but around what central premise? Let’s show some real courage and wisdom here.
Iconic journalist Bill Moyers begins a recent essay:
I’ve been forced to write about Donald Trump an awful lot during the past five years and the problem I always face when writing in a limited space, like this one, is which of his countless horrific qualities to focus on. The same thing happens when I need to address the consequences of the policies of his administration. There are so many terrible ones, so many victims and so many enablers. I always found myself asking, “Who deserves a thousand words today?” (more…)
Great theatrical productions, even those based in satire, carry such thunderous emotional impact that they can make entire audiences tear up in pure joy.
Here’s James Corden et. al., in a takeoff of “One Day More” from Les Miserables.
No one knows who wrote the words at the left, but it’s most certainly a sincere statement, one that is echoed by America’s allies around the globe.
Did we go through a dark period, one characterized by dishonesty, corruption, and hate? Yes.
Did we purge that malignancy via rule of law? Indeed we did. (more…)
From Desmog, an organization whose mission is: “Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science.”
Finally, as President Joe Biden entered the White House he signed a slew of executive orders on January 20, including rejoining the Paris climate agreement and rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline. The move blocks construction of the 1,200-mile pipeline, and puts an end to a saga that has persisted for more than a decade. In a statement, Madonna Thunder Hawk of the Lakota People’s Law Project said: “We only achieve huge wins like this by speaking out together.” (more…)
Here’s an article presenting some of the drawbacks of electric vehicles.
This doesn’t explain too well why Tesla’s market cap is $806 billion.
Seriously, some of these were true 10 years ago.
The set of charts below is really cool, IMO. If nothing else, it shows what a good job the developed world is doing in phasing out coal, and bringing in renewables.
Germany is making this happen even after decommissioning their nuclear plants after Fukushima.
Croatia has hydro coming out its ears.
The UK has completely declared war on coal.
Poland is sitting on enough coal to last until the sun burns out (not really), and their hardly progressive, but even they are making some progress.
OK, the main prediction I made about the political theater surrounding Donald Trump, i.e., that he would be expelled from office before finishing his term, didn’t come to fruition.
But here’s one that can’t miss: The Republican party will do everything it can to pretend that a) he never happened, and b) they did exactly what he ordered them to do for four full years, disgracing our nation on the world stage and pushing our democracy to the brink of oblivion.
Though he has left the White House, Donald Trump will be all over the news for the foreseeable future, probably right up to the point that he either goes to prison or he flees the country to avoid prosecution.
But not the same can be said about many of the monsters who made up his entourage. At noon EST today, Stephen Miller, Trump’s senior advisor, became as irrelevant to the national political scene as I am. Soon it will be forgotten that he architected and put in place the logistics for the president’s cruel and grossly illegal policy on asylum seekers to the U.S. (more…)
