In reference to the meme here, someone suggests, “This creep needs to be silenced.”
No, loathsome as it is, this is protected by free speech.
What needs to happen is precisely what seems to be the case: people are disgusted, and they distance themselves from the source of that revulsion.
When Trump exits the White House, he will leave the United States to lick its wounds for many years to come. Eventually, the nation will repair its relationships with its traditional allies, put an end to the senseless trade wars, welcome the advancements being made by the Black Lives Matter movement, put the pandemic behind us, and get the country back to work and school. (more…)
As demonstrated at the left, religious extremism doesn’t fit in well in any place where science is a necessary ingredient in solving a critically important problem.
So much of this is offensive, it’s hard to know where to start.
Personally, I get a little peeved with people who try to tell me what God wants us to do. What makes this twit’s understanding of the Almighty superior to anyone else’s?
Moreover, I can’t recall a place in scripture in which God orders us to ignore learned people.
Here’s an essay from the libertarian Cato Institute, arguing that Trump is a protectionist, because of the tariffs he placed on Canada, immediately causing both a blow to U.S. manufacturers and retaliation from our northern neighbor. I haven’t read the article past its opening paragraphs, because nothing could possibly be less interesting about our president at this point than his status vis-a-vis free trade. (more…)
I hate to reprint memes that have egregious grammatical errors in them; here we have “less lawns” where it should be “fewer lawns,” because a lawn is a discrete object.
Having said that, what a great point. There are few things more enchanting than super-healthy vegetable gardens with lots of different species, fertilized with home-grown compost.
In my composting hey-day, I had a wonderful mixture of my daughter’s hamsters’ bedding, leaves, grass clippings, longhorn manure, fruits, vegetables, peelings, stale bread, coffee grounds and filters, tea leaves, tissues, paper towels, egg cartons, toilet paper rolls, nut shells, corn cobs, fruit and avocados pits and wine corks. Water and turn once a month. Rototill into garden soil every spring.
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…)
