Morals and Honesty Used to Matter
At left is a reminder that there was once a time when morals mattered.
How do you think voters at the turn of the 20th Century would have responded to Trump as a U.S. presidential candidate?
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Trump’s Threat to Invade Greenland Not Sitting Well with Denmark
Well, when the president of the country with the largest military on Earth threated to invade one of your possessions, what would you consider them to be? An ally?
Why Republicans Are Resigning
I wouldn’t say that congressional Republicans are resigning because their party has failed the American people; that’s giving them far too much credit.
I think it’s because it’s clear that this entire criminal enterprise is collapsing, and heads are going to roll. They think if they disassociate themselves from Trump they can avoid prosecution.
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Short but Excellent Video on Wind Energy
Here’s Mark Z. Jacobson, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University and director of its Atmosphere/Energy Program. He is also a co-founder of the non-profit, Solutions Project, explaining the environmental and cost-related benefits of wind energy.
Of course, virtually everything he lays out flies in the teeth of what Donald Trump says about wind, so I suppose we need to pick the one we trust to tell the truth: a 60-year-old man who’s spent his life researching renewable energy sources and sharing what he’s learned with his students, or a pathological liar who profits off his corrupt and grossly illegal relationship with the fossil fuel industry.
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MAGA Anonymous
There have been many items in the news recently that are causing Trump’s MAGA base to erode, and the cartoon here depicts one of them.
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Immigrants
To the reader whom sent me this:
I agree. I also like them. Hispanics are generally quite family oriented.
My wife and I operated a horse-breeding facility for many years in Central California which would have been difficult if not impossible to do in the absence of immigrants.
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What We Should Make of the New Mayor of New York City?
Have you ever wondered how many Americans have actually spent time in New York City on business? Do you find it interesting that the people in the Western Hemisphere’s most sophisticated city voted overwhelmingly for the new mayor?
These people aren’t the uneducated poor from the rural parts of any of the fifty states. It costs a fortune to live there, and its residents are arguably the most affluent brainiacs in our country.
Now, we all know that the right-wing “news” media wants to tell you that his election is the first step to sending our country to Soviet communism. But is it possible that the people of New York, the most successful people in the United States, know something you don’t?
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The Decline and Fall of Human Civilization
Predictably, the right-wing “news” media is having a seizure over the inauguration of the new mayor of New York City. A guy on Newsmax said, “He took his oath swearing on the Quran! He doesn’t even believe in the true God! He believes in a false God!”
In the world’s religions, there are approximately 4000 gods. You’re at liberty to believe that yours is the only one “true” god, and that the other 3999 are false. You have that freedom, but that means that you’re a moron.
If this is the level to which human society has risen (fallen), no wonder we are totally screwed. We richly deserve what is coming to us.
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On Stupidity
The ancient (pre-Socratic) Greek philosopher Heraclitus is most remembered for having written, “Change is the only constant,” or alternatively translated, “Nothing endures but change.” He wrote, “Into the same rivers we both do and do not step,” meaning that the river itself is ever-changing.
This forms a sort of harmony between Eastern and Western philosophy and is presented in Herman Hesse’s “Siddartha.”
His works are recognized in the modern world as “fragments,” since he never wrote long treatises, as did Aristotle and the folks who came later.
At left is a fragment I hadn’t come across, though I like it very much.
He did write, “Thought is quick,” though, given the quote here, one wonders if that was sarcasm.
Presenting Sir David Attenborough
An international hero.
I met a guy earlier today, and we were discussing why human civilization is losing the battle against environmental collapse. The answer, obviously, is that there are too few David Attenboroughs and too much greed, ignorance, indifference, and selfishness.
