As shown here, we all come into this world with an enormous capacity for love and kindness.
It’s hard to imagine that some people lose this altogether and fall prey to willful ignorance, racial hatred, and a cold indifference to the suffering of others.
Let us never forget that our roots go back to the disposition of these lovely babies with their angelic smiles.
Here’s one of these gratuitous posts that is driven only by the fact that I just happened to run across this painting by Italian artist Maurizo Rega. His impressionistic style really speaks to me, and he cranks these babies out at an amazing clip, especially considering how much detail goes into each one.
OK guys, let’s go plant some trees.
A reader notes:
While I am a huge supporter of ocean wave and tidal energy, I adamantly oppose messing with ocean currents. Water follows the path of least resistance, so it’s very easy to disrupt current patterns that have countless species relying on the stable weather patterns they produce. If Florida taps the ocean current and the warm waters don’t make it to the northern Atlantic coast anymore, then what?
Well, how much of the total ocean current do you think we’re trying to slow down? It’s infinitesimal.
There is a senator who is against wind energy because he’s worried about what slowing down the wind will do to the planet. Same deal.
Having said all this, there is no chance whatsoever that ocean current can compete on price against solar and wind; that’s an even better reason not to worry.
There is a reason that the governor and the lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, as well as the mayor of Kenosha, are all telling Trump to stay out of their state, and it’s not that they’re budding socialists. It’s that they’re decent people with humanitarian values, and the’re not onboard with inciting additional violence in an already explosive part of the world–especially for the purpose of energizing the president’s racist base.
2GreenEnergy super-supporter Cameron Atwood comments on a Japanese company called Spiber, that produces a variety of materials through a fermentation process that uses sugars and microbes, rather than petrochemical or animal-derived raw materials.
They are definitely working at the right end of the product stream. We need more beneficial handling of waste, and lots of it. We have this mistaken concept of throwing things away. There is no ‘away.’ (more…)
My wife and I may be leaving the country if Trump is re-elected, as the little missus isn’t tolerating the blossoming authoritarianism here very well.
Insofar as we have friends in New Zealand, that seemed like a reasonable choice for a new place to call home, but the realtor I contacted didn’t seem as sanguine on the idea. He was polite, but it was clear that he didn’t see how an American could possibly be unaware of the fact that he wasn’t welcome in New Zealand (nor in 99% of the rest of the world) under any circumstances.
Those living outside the U.S. are in the enviable position of not being forced to follow the breaking news in this complete wreck of a country.
Therefore, you may not be aware of conservative commentator and aspiring politician DeAnna Lorraine, nor of what she said in the meme here. Yes, she’s really saying that America would be better off with more murderers than climate activists. See four of the six charges filed against Kyle Rittenhouse below.
“The lack of trust between the federal government and the American citizens of this country is such a wide gap, we have to renew that trust for the people of this country going forward.” — Michael T. Flynn.
Flynn really did say this.
I wonder if he went on, “And the very best first step to renew that trust is to throw my perjurious ass in prison. Wait. Did I just say that?”
Funny stuff. On top of everything else, she has “there” misspelled.
While most people of science are non-religious, that’s not true of all.
There are people who say that there is no conflict between faith and reason, though, frankly, it’s hard to see how this makes sense. I would think that one either believes in a certain thing because there is empirical evidence in support of it, or one doesn’t require such evidence. Can one have it both ways?
So sorry to hear this. I had the honor of meeting him when I was at Georgetown, from 1977-79.
My advisor, who was very close with Thompson, once told me that when he’d meet each incoming class of basketball players, he’d take them first to the library, and tell them, “What happens in this building is your highest responsibility. Get a fine education, and do not make any compromises on that. If you happen to play some ball over the next four years, that’s good too.”
That’s class. That’s greatness.
A sustainable society is built by people of character.
