This is something you either perceive and understand, or you don’t. To most people in the U.S., and virtually everyone else around the globe, this is as obvious as the sun in the sky. Yet about 40% of Americans simply can’t get this, and probably never will.
At left is what happened last night.
This from earlier today: As 46 people in Northern Texas get sick from ingesting bleach to kill COVID-19, Poison Control Center reissues warning.
A reader comments on the meme here: I think it comes from the notion that generally police are supposed to be the best of the best, the ones charged with protecting those who can not protect themselves. They have been labeled the good guys. Unfortunately that is not the case in every example.
Question: The Greenland Ice Sheet lost almost 600 billion tons of ice last year. How much sea-level rise did that cause?
The pandemic has pushed the oil industry into a position where it’s hemorrhaging money. Recently we learned that ExxonMobil, a Dow component since 1928 (then Standard Oil), has left the DJIA, replaced by something of greater relevance to today’s world.
Exxon’s (ticker XOM) stock closed at just under $41/share today, off more than 60% from its all-time high about 10 years ago. That hardly makes it a “buy” at this point, however, because the fundamentals are so poor: (more…)
If you were asked to name the single most despicable member of Trump’s cabinet, whom would you choose?
Attorney General William Barr might be an obvious choice, insofar as he’s functioning essentially as the president’s private attorney, and has no interest in upholding justice on behalf of the American people. His partnership with Trump is rapidly bringing an end to rule of law in the United States.
But then you have: (more…)
I’m very suspicious of the claim made above. Before I get into my reasoning, here’s an excerpt from an article by GreenTech Media:
Falling costs and growing project pipelines will ensure the 2020s are the “decade of hydrogen,” according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. (more…)
I have bad news for the GOP: rhetoric like this isn’t going to get the job done. It’s true that there are a few tens of millions of morons who can’t think back to 2008 – 2016, when politically equivalent Obama was in the White House, Joe Biden was VP, and none of this happened. But that’s not nearly enough to win the election.
All Gaetz did was further embarrass his party, and that takes some real work.
A whopping 65% of Americans identify as Christians. Now, 25.4% are Evangelicals, whose version of Christianity has little if anything to do with the teachings of Christ, so that leaves roughly 40% whose lives are driven, at least in part, by a religious devotion to non-violence, love, mercy, charity, tolerance, and forgiveness. (more…)
A reader sent me the blurb at left. My response:
It’s not incompetence. He’s very talented at pulling off events that cause great harm to everyone except him and those who happen to be in positions from which they can benefit. Now that he’s president, that means either a) re-election or b) further enrichment. In turn, that means appealing to amoral rich people with gratuitous tax breaks, and to white supremacists who love to see programs that harm people with brown skin. (more…)
