Climate Change Reports Offer Occasional Smiles



The bad news: It’s in Firebaugh, California. (more…)

FWIW, the idea of sugar-coating the cruelty against people of color that has defined U.S. history since the country’s inception is not a new one. (more…)

As I explain to my mother, “I, Craig, your son, am Antifa when I do my writing and protest in the streets. Your husband was Antifa when he was bombing German oil refineries in the 40s. It wasn’t called that then, but it is now.
“And yes, there are people looting grocery stores. They’re called ‘looters.'”

• Russia is in the process of doing its best, through whatever means, to discredit Biden.
• In democratic-dominated regions of swing states, we’ll see various voter suppression techniques like mailbox removal.
• In those same regions, we’ll see dirty tricks, like “polls closed” or “detour” signs near polling places. (more…)

What exactly is she saying, and who’s she talking to? How many people are so stupid as to believe that an ordinary citizen has any power to implement pandemic policies? My gardener has just as much authority. Everybody knows that.
There was a time not too long ago that making idiotic statements caused embarrassment. Guess those days are gone.

On his show this Wednesday, Glenn Beck railed against journalists, saying that they’re inherently untrustworthy. “If you have a degree from any school of journalism, I don’t trust you. You have lied over, and over, and over, and over again. You are pointing everyone’s direction in the wrong direction.” Beck then echoed President Trump’s critiques of the media, saying, “You are an enemy to mankind.” (more…)

If I wanted to say I got an A in quantum mechanics when I took it in college 45 years ago (which I didn’t), you’d have a very hard time proving that I fibbed. But if I said that Colorado is east of Kansas, that wouldn’t take too much work.
Perhaps the single most disturbing element of the Trump presidency is that he is still there, four years and 22,000+ blatant lies later, the most powerful person on Earth. He’s a pathological liar, and we simply don’t care.
Another point to be made here, of course, is that Trump has nothing but disdain for everyone who happens to live in a state that didn’t vote for him. As a human being, he’s an abomination.

Proponents ask, “Compared to what?” and then go on to offer a laundry list of costs associated with a dying planet, as well as the benefits of a strong economy based on all the jobs that will accrue as a result–jobs in renewable energy, efficiency solutions, energy storage, land management, smart-grid, electric transportation, energy and transportation infrastructure, etc. (more…)
