Is Politically Motivated Violence Inevitable?



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 
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.

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.

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…)


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…)

But seriously, wouldn’t we all hate to be in this position: having to admit in front of six million television viewers that we completely fabricated our reports of voter fraud in the 2020 election, and then repeated that lie every hour of every day for almost two months?
From the Washington Post:The net: Fledgling competitors to Fox News understand that being forced to pay out huge sums after losing defamation suits might turn off potential investors.
Obviously, anyone who would invest in bull**** purveyors couldn’t care less about the truth, but they really hate financial losses.