Dr. Biden

Western culture has a long tradition of respecting people with doctoral degrees in this manner; is there something about this woman that makes it necessary for us to turn this custom on its head?

Western culture has a long tradition of respecting people with doctoral degrees in this manner; is there something about this woman that makes it necessary for us to turn this custom on its head?

The fellow at the left scares me. Of course, anyone who presumes to know what “God’s work” is (and then fails to specify what that might entail) should frighten us all. It’s a good guess he’s not talking about the beatitudes (see below).
People who are armed to the teeth and believe that Trump was cheated out of the opportunity to “save Western civilization” can be counted on to erupt at some level.

Yes, we do have a problem with the slow degradation of plastics in our environment and the horrible effects this is causing our ecosystems. The person who introduced me to his work in the space pointed out that, considering that milk loses its freshness in perhaps two weeks, our milk cartons shouldn’t require 500 years to degrade in our landfills (or streams, or wherever they wind up).
Yet the plastic container certainly has to outlast its contents, or we have a real mess. If a certain plastic dissolved completely and nearly immediately in water, the moisture content in humid air would definitely cause it to fall apart.

As suggested here, he could be on his way back to Indiana, anxious to push that state back 50 years into the past.
Or, he could be the 46th President of the United States if Trump resigns or is removed by virtue of his insanity and the danger it poses to all of us.


This piece in Ecowatch truly is good news. Maybe this is the part of U.S. history where things turn for the better, whether due to luck, or, more likely, persistence on the part of a huge number of fantastic and hard-working people.



With President Donald Trump’s term soon coming to an end, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a rule that critics are calling a last-minute attempt to “sabotage” future efforts by President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration to tackle the intertwined climate and pollution crises. (more…)