The owner of this unique contraption could have had his air conditioning fixed, but why go to all the trouble and expense when there is such an elegant alternate solution?
This reminds me of so many of the renewable energy concepts that come into and out of my inbox each week. Will this Rube Goldberg machine generate energy? Will it do so cost-effectively? Not in a million years.
I just received an invitation to comment on the following:
The United States is doing VERY WELL, thanks to President Trump’s STRONG leadership. We cannot trust the left-wing media to report the TRUTH, which is why President Trump is counting on Patriots, like YOU, to help us break through the Fake News filter. Please take the Official Trump Coronavirus Approval Poll NOW to tell us what you think.
By what possible metric is the United States doing “very well?” (more…)
Let me take a stab.
Keep in mind that Evangelicals are Christians in an extremely narrow and perverted sense of the word. These people’s behavior has nothing whatsoever to do with the life and teachings of Christ; rather, it’s defined by xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, demonization of the poor, indifference of others’ suffering, mercilessness, white supremacy, and intolerance.
Trump is the perfect exemplar.
It’s true that uneducated Republicans believe his lies, but I don’t think it’s true of those at the upper end of the scale. If I were to ask my mom, e.g., if the president is a habitual liar, I think she’d answer in the affirmative, but quickly qualify this with something like, “It’s true that he’s a bad person, but he has good ideas.” (more…)
Here’s one from the “cuts like a knife” department. Make that “cuts like a saber.”
Yesterday, President Trump spoke on familiar themes at his coronavirus briefing, before calling on S.V. Dáte, HuffPost’s White House correspondent, who asked: “Do you regret, at all, all the lying you’ve done?“
Oh my. (more…)
I’m certainly not the first to ask what precisely is meant by the phrase “make America great again.” If a typical Trump supporter were to answer that question honestly, he’d probably say things like white-dominated, Christian, heterosexual, militarily aggressive, deregulated, unsubsidized, and sink-or-swim. Of course, progressives don’t see it that way, but that’s not the issue here. (more…)
I don’t claim to have any special understanding of the sensibilities of voters in the sleepy Virginia town of Luray, but is it a good idea for its major to make a brutally racist remark about a black woman running for vice president?
Aren’t people offended by that? Doesn’t someone want to knock his teeth out?
If I lived in Luray, I’d write a letter to every official in state government explaining how incensed I was that Mayor Barry Presgraves had just disgraced my town in the national news headlines, and demanding that he be removed immediately.
Here’s a thought (at left) that ought to make you smile. Yes, (Fox News anchor) Tucker Carlson, that’s the plan indeed.
Let’s see…..America gets:
• A new tax code, reversing huge cuts for the super-rich that came at the expense of looting the Treasury
• A return to the Paris Accord and a relaunch of a policy of environmental stewardship (more…)
When I speak with my mom, life-long conservative Republican as she is, we try to keep the conversation light. Yes, after all the banter about the goings on in the family, we eventually turn to politics, but it never gets ugly.
The one thing that concerns me most about her position in support of Trump is that she shares her political sensibilities with the people shown here. Doesn’t that sound a bit unlovely for an extremely well-read Bryn Mawr graduate?
In any case, we can all hope that the worst of all this will be behind us on November 3rd.
Pictured here is a smallish rally in Tallahassee, capital city of Florida, on the opening day of “Black Voices for Trump.”
Yet there’s something curious about this photo, isn’t there?
It appears that Trump has a 14% approval rating among black voters, which is far higher than I would have guessed. If someone referred to those who oppress my race as “fine people,” I would be quite adamant that he not be re-elected President of the United States.
