This is great.
I’d like to think that the dozens of times my kids watched me do precisely this as they were growing up has helped bring two kind young adults into our world.
A sustainable civilization is a kind one; there is no way around that.
A reader sent me the meme here and comments: What if this is fake being fake and I too am fake? Life is so more confusing since the days before memes and robots, one of which I might be.
Good point. The only thing we know for certain is that we exist, as Descartes told us about 500 years ago.
That, of course is irrelevant to our lives; the fact that absolute certainty is unavailable to us does not mean that we can’t use reason and common sense to figure out what is extremely likely to be the case and to act accordingly.
Buying whatever you see on social media with out corroborating the data is a terrible idea, but using social media to share ideas and opinions is a very powerful tool.
A reader asserts: I hate to break it to you but the US is a socialist country. Shall I list all the social programs we have or are you astute enough to look them up all by yourself? Obviously the latter doesn’t apply does it?
LOL! I normally ignore comments from people with manners from hell, but this trash enables me to make a point: (more…)
George Takai, whom American baby boomers remember as Mr. Sulu on the original Star Trek, is no fan of the president, and, as illustrated here, often uses humor to express himself.
In truth, if Trump winds up in prison, it’s far more likely that he’ll become a ward of New York state rather than the federal government, since state crimes are not pardonable by the U.S. president.
Yet it’s hard to imagine that he and his family of criminals won’t leave the country and live out their lives in Mother Russia, where they will be extremely heavily protected. Hunting down Osama bin Laden will be like swatting a fly in a small bathroom compared to getting to Trump once he gets out of here.
In my recent post It’s All Happening Right Under Our Noses, I fear I may have left the impression that every single atrocity Trump commits is done in plain sight. That’s not true. The big ones are made obvious, not only because of their shock value, but also to distract public attention away from more subtle crimes.
Presented at left is a list of the major programs that our Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had put into place to protect our environment. It was actually under cover of darkness that the Trump administration either eviscerated or terminated them completely.
When it comes to the desired coverage of criminal acts, a great deal of cleverness comes into play.
As shown in the meme here, sometimes we don’t need to look too hard to see the truth.
The atrocities with which Trump bombards our country on a daily basis aren’t hidden; in fact, that’s the point. (more…)
Do I support pipelines? Like that’s a yes or no question?
Do I promote ripping up existing pipelines, just for the lack of something better to do? No.
Do I support building poorly engineered new pipelines through sacred and/or environmentally sensitive parts of the world, to pump a toxic sludge that will further enrich a heavily subsidized, eco-catastrophic industry with no real future? Uh-uh.
I’m reminded of the National Rifle Association surveys that asks questions like, “Do you support the right of a capable, law-abiding citizen to own a gun as a means of protection of himself and his family?” As if there are people who say, “No, rapists and murderers can conduct their crimes unimpeded, as I look on casually?”
I support sashimi-grade ahi tuna, but not as baby food.
The world is a nuanced place in which to live.
“Stabilized” office buildings? What does that mean?
It’s guaranteed not to take a hit in value when a huge percentage of the while collar work force never returns to physical offices?
I want something that makes more sense, like shopping malls, movie theaters, horse racing tracks, tiny islands with little elevation above sea level, and “Trump 2020” victory hats.
There are reasons that the U.S. is the epicenter of the pandemic, and that Europe, Canada, and Mexico have closed their borders to American would-be travelers.
One, of course, is that we have no positive leadership at the federal level vis-a-vis disease containment; if anything, we have negative leadership, in that our president is corrupt and incompetent; he’s at war with science, and now routinely attacks this country’s top public health physician.
The other, illustrated at left, is the tragedy that we have terrible “followership,” as well.
Natural selection weeds out life forms ill-equipped for survival; this is how species evolve. Here we have a large group of “people” who lack both the intelligence and the compassion required to deal with the current pandemic, and Darwin’s theory of evolution is going through them like crap through a goose. (more…)
