The most internationally humiliating aspect of the “stolen election” protests is the complete lack of evidence, and all this is becoming clearer and more disgusting by the day. I hope readers will check out the discussion below about Dominion Voting Systems and their defamation law suits in this case against ultra-conservative “news” outlet American Thinker. (more…)
Gary Tulie writes something I thought I’d share, with a few brief words of my own at the bottom:
The call for national unity is actually a call to excuse a series of crimes of the grandest level imaginable. Trump and his supporters are working hard to take over the U.S. federal government, using the exact same playbook implemented by every other fascist in the history of human kind.
Americans are generally law-abiding people, and will not unify around a bald-faced coup attempt, rooted in terrorism.
From NPR:
One of the Trump administration’s biggest environmental rollbacks suffered a stunning setback Wednesday, as a decades-long push to drill for oil in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ended with a lease sale that attracted just three bidders — one of which was the state of Alaska itself. (more…)
Gary Tulie writes from his home in Buckinghamshire, England:
I think the best thing Trump could do for his remaining few days as President is to (in an open secret kind of way) quietly disappear from the spotlight, and go play golf leaving Mike Pence de-facto running the country. After Joe Biden’s inauguration, he should declare that he is retiring and will have no further involvement in politics. That way, perhaps he will do no further harm and with him no longer involved, his followers may no longer be interested in pursuing his various conspiracy theories. (more…)
Because my wife has been involved in the thoroughbred horse breeding industry for the past 30 years, I have to admit that I’ve been out to the track more than a few times. I recall, essentially out of boredom, betting on a race filled with slow, cheap horses, all with terrible past race performances and pitiful workout times, and thinking to myself: well, one of them is actually going to win this race, though it’s almost impossible to imagine. (more…)
A great number of prominent ex-Republicans have assembled something called the Lincoln Project, an ad hoc group whose purpose is to remove Donald Trump from office before he can inflict any further damage. Their core tool to bring this about is the creation and distribution of short but extremely powerful videos that provide evidence of how completely criminally insane this whole situation has become.
Readers may be interested in their most recent release. Wow.
One of the core tenets of business management is “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” That’s why data collection and usage is among the key trends when it comes to corporations’ efforts to reduce their emissions footprints.
Something struck me during my interview with Dr. V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institute in 2009, in preparation for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies: we were sitting in a room almost completely surrounded by cardboard boxes, piled to the ceiling. When I asked the good doctor what was in all those boxes, he said, “Oh it’s temperature and CO2 data from literally all over the world that goes back 40 years.”
In Western philosophy we have something called “truth theory,” of which there are essentially three:
Correspondence: For everything in the universe that is true, there is a corresponding statement to that effect. Since Santa Barbara is in California, the statement, “Santa Barbara is in California” is true.
Pragmatic: Truth is what works. Since Santa Barbara is in California, if I want to go to that city, I’ll need to go that state. (more…)
The graphic below brilliantly illustrates something we have been discussing on and off for years, i.e., that rich people will be almost completely immune to the horrific consequences of climate change–at least for the better part of a century.
This, FWIW, is why social and environmental justice are inextricably linked.
